This Lab is my very first dog, so I'm really just applying what I learned as a Siamese breeder in the dog world. The basic principles are the same, and it appears to be the same for the horses. I've never been involved in horse breeding although I've studied a lot of racing pedigrees . . . I would love to breed Gracie but she's a little on the old side (19).
I still think those cross-eyed siamese cats are cute. :)
The horse racing industry would be a BLAST to be involved in and I would love to do it. My horse dentist, Mike Robbins, used to be a racehorse trainer but he sticks to buying weanlings and yearlings at the Fasig-Tipton sales, mostly in Kentucky, brings them home, takes care of them and resells them as 2 year olds. He's buying really high dollar thoroughbreds, though, in the $25,000 range, and I'm not willing to blow that kind of money on something I'm not totally familiar with. And he buys a bunch, he never puts all of his money into one horse.
If you Google "mike robbins" you'll see lots of stuff on him. He even has training videotapes that you can buy off the internet. I didn't find all of this stuff out until after I'd known him for awhile. I was shocked when I found out this stuff, he seems like your regular, run of the mill cowboy.