Quarter Horses
How is the Foundation Percentage in Quarter Horses figured?
I f I am buying a Poco Bueno and Leo bred mare and they say she is 97% Foundation Bred, where do they get this number and when I breed this mare to another Foundation Bred horse how do I know the precentage of her foal?
Click the link below for visual examples. It is easy, but time consuming.
The method used by Foundation Quarter Horses Association is simple. It is easy for anyone to determine their horses Foundation percentage themselves. You just need a basic working knowledge of fractions and percentages. The system is based on a single concept – Thoroughbred blood which is added into a horse’s pedigree for horses registered with AQHA in 1941 or later subtracts from that horses percentage of foundation Quarter Horse blood. It’s that simple. For an example of this system see King Fritz’s pedigree below.
For the purposes of calculating foundation blood, any horse that is AQHA registered and was foaled in 1940 or prior is 100% Foundation Quarter Horse. Repeat: All registered American Quarter Horses born in 1940 or before, are 100% Foundation. All “unknowns” or registered horses of breeds other than Thoroughbred that appear in an AQHA registered Quarters Pedigree are considered 100% Foundation. The 100% foundation allocation includes old NQHBA horses as well, though we rarely run across them.
If a Thoroughbred appears in your horse’s pedigree, that Thoroughbred’s foaling date does not matter. If he shows up as a sire or dam of a registered American Quarter Horse born in 1941 or later, that Thoroughbred will bring down that horse’s Foundation percentage.
A sire or dam contributes 50% to their offspring’s genetics. So, a horse possessing an AQHA number that was foaled in 1941 or later, which also has a Thoroughbred parent can only be a maximum of 50% foundation blood. Again: Any named Thoroughbred appearing as the sire or dam of an AQHA registered horse born in 1941 or later, WILL be counted as TB blood and will subtract from the percentage of foundation Quarter Horse blood.
To calculate any Quarter Horse’s percentage of foundation blood you would keep moving backwards in their pedigree until you arrive at a registered American Quarter Horse foaled in the year 1940 or prior (100% foundation), or a Thoroughbred (0% foundation).
American Quarter Horses
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