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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  Not being a horse person, I was only trying to point out how the increased white may appear, and relate that to Yorkshires, and selective breeding, in general. I assume that was why you used the horses in your earlier post.
I don't think the rationale you give in the last couple sentences in the above post should carry over to the Yorkshire Terrier. Not sure it should even apply to horses, but then, I'm no horse person. |
The point to the story being, that if AMHA strictly followed and enforced the standards as they were written originally written, the breed would have died out. Justin Morgan was a 14 hand, stocky built work horse. But by allowing the genes that were already in our horses (coming from of the various different mares who were bred to this one stallion) the morgan breed is now more than just a short, little dark horse with no white.
The breed standard has changed over the years - I don't believe color is even listed in the breed standard any longer but back in the 1990's the only colors listed in the standard was black, brown, bay and chestnut with the only white being in the form of sock, stocking, star, stripe, snip.