I guess the point would be to let mare owners make choices for themselves. Basically they already do this and haven't been too picky on which classification a stallion has been in. I haven't registered any of my homebred warmbloods with the IHB and obviously will continue in the same way.
One thing I took from the article in the week's Irish Field was how breeders of racehorses pick stallions based on the mares they have and not classifications. To me, as a TB breeder as well, its like comparing apples and oarnges. And that's not to say I breed TB's willy nilly, far from it, but producing sporthorses and racehorses are differnet so I'm not quite understanding the IHB's logic here. And really they only need to look at the bottom end of the TB market to know it's probably not a good idea.
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