WHY CHOOSE AN IRISH STALLION?

Ireland with its moderate climate and year-round pastures has been a natural habitat for Celtic horses for some 2,500 years. Originally tribes and their animals crossed the land bridges  to Ireland from England and Continental Europe which remained after the last Ice Age retreated and before the oceans rose by some 300 feet. Then about 2,500 years ago Bronze Age people in Ireland began trading with Celts in both England's Cornwall and France's Brittany.  The Bretons traded with the peoples of the Mediterranean, including North Africa.  Their "foreign" horses found their way to Ireland where they bred with the native and indigenous stock. Then as  the Crusades, European armies as well as the British Empire required remounts, Ireland exported millions of horses, so they became interwined with all the native local European breeds.  No European breed registry or society can claim that it does not have the Irish horse among its foundation stock.  The Thoroughbred developed differently and more recently within the past three hundred years.  Now that the Thoroughbred is the predominant type of horse in North America which is available for breeding by the sheer availability of its numbers,  it makes the best sense to breed her to foundation stock Irish stallions so as to promote soundness and substance in the offspring.

WHY CHOOSE AN IRISH STALLION WITH OUTCROSS BLOODLINES?

Diversification of the gene pool is believed to be a desirable goal among terrestials, including humankind as well as equines.   Too intense inbreeding and linebreding are scientifically on record as perpetuating undesirable traits in the long term. The long-term effects significantly outweigh the short-term achievements of such practices.   Heritability in horses is gauged at approximately sixty percent.   So if you are a horse breeder in the business for the long haul, you should be more concerned with bringing in outcross bloodlines than the one shot breeder who may be concerned only with the immediate offspring.