JACQUES Remijnse, who runs the company Horse Genetics, is an advisor to many trend-setting breeders across Europe including the Zangersheide Stud and offered a presentation on the value of male and female lines in sport horse breeding.

Reiterating the same message as the other conference speakers, Remijnse stressed that breeders needed to give much more consideration to selecting the correct mare rather than the stallion and his study gave breeders scientific evidence to support this conclusion.