Hello Fairmount,

Good information on the family. I regularly do this type of research, time permitting. I also note TG has family performance numbers when possible.

At one point maybe 2 years ago it occurred to me that the fly in the ointment is the trainer variable. It is rare to find all the siblings going to the same conditioner. To quote Tom Ainslie - "Training beats breeding". This goes against the "controlled environment" that research values.

I think the kind of information you researched is useful. I only wanted to point out this (training) factor that I didn't take into account for a long time.