A horse's pedigree . . .

[wolf63]

I am waiting for a delivery and am getting fed up. To waste time I went to wiki for a look around.

I found a story about a horse and it shows its pedigree. ( I know nothing about horses) This question may be silly, but -

Is the first column the horse's parents
second its siblings
and
then offspring?

http://en.wikipedia.o..._%28horse%29#Pedigree

Family trees confuse me too !

[icemaiden]

First column-the horses parents

second column-Horses grandparents on both sides. ie Sire and Dam. (Father and Mother)

Third column- Horses great grandparents on both sides. ie Sire and Dam

And so on and so forth.

Not much different to a humans family tree but without siblings.

[wolf63]

Right - I wasn't going backwards but forwards when I tried to work it out. I thought that it showed all the offspring of the original horse.

Thanks for that.

[icemaiden]

No problem.
Easy mistake to make.

[FredPuli43]

Reading from left, for a standard pedigree: The horse's parents (sire, father, first, dam second) then each parent's parents (its grandparents) then each grandparent's parents, and so on.

Family trees for horses exist too and are used a lot in racing. One form starts with the name of a great horse, such as a Nijinksy, whose descendants have been very successful. it simply traces the line of his principal descendants down to the present. The purpose is usually to show that owner's horse is directly descended from a great one and has other close relatives which have been winners. Racing conveniently forgets descendants that win nothing (and there always plenty of those, whatever their sire achieved) .

[andrew1707]

>Family trees confuse me too !

I have an entry on my family tree that confuses me............every time she phones me!!!

[andrew1707]

Don't even think about getting a pony!!

[wolf63]

fredpuli - thanks. Are you the original fredpuli or a new fredpuli?

Andrew - my calls to you shouldn't cause much confusion, it is not as if you stop what you are doing and actually pay attention. ;-)

[FredPuli43]

wolf63, I am the original fredpuli, thanks for asking. ( it was easier, having been offline for a while, and moving too , to open a new fredpuli account rather than try to revive the old one).

[wolf63]

Well - welcome back to the crazy world of AB. ;-)