THE PHILOSOPHY

OKANAGAN SHOW JUMPING STABLES and former the Bahle family is selecting and building up it's breeding stock since decades following the strict rule, that only the very best horses are worth to be in breeding. So no compromises are to be made by selecting breeding material under the goal of this dedication of breeding for high performance. The following factors are of essential importance for the genetic evaluation:

1.The female line has a surplus value:
There is extensive scientific proof, that genetically the influence of the dam line is higher than the influence of the stallion! So the dam- granddam- grandgranddam-( a. s. o.) line is usually carrying the most important genetic power. When selecting the right stallion for a mare, the same rule has to be followed: he has to be out of the best and most proven mare families, too.

2. The performance record of the whole family (and again especially of the damlines in it) is most important in genetic view:
Top performance on the base of a family tradition promises genetic security. Top performance as an exemption in only one horse of the whole family does not say really much about its breeding value. So only proven families (and not proven single horses) supply the necessary genetically high breeding value. So we select for breeding only those mares, which show in their whole family and over more than one generation high performance records as a tradition.