wishes4kissez - 2015-08-09 3:01 PM I am not a breeder but in my opinion bloodlines are important in giving an idea of what the offspring would be capable of. Your mares accomplishments prove more of what she is capable of then what's on the papers. Proven achievement vs potential acheivment. I'll take proven any day lol. I don't have any suggestion of who to breed to but I just read an article ( wish I had a link) where they did a study with race horses that showed that a foals future athletic acheivment was strongly correlated with the dams achievement on the track but there was little difference in the achievement attained by foals from either elite sires or sires that were poor performers themselves. they also mentioned that many stallions considered elite have a poor percentage of elite foals where dams tend to have a much much higher percentage of elite foals. And also that elite siires with elite dams tended to produce more elite foals when in the hands of elite trainers. Just thought that was interesting because many put so much emphasis on sire and don't think much about the dam too much.