Should stallions meet a criteria before going to stud?

Joe Foley felt it was a good ambition to have, but too hard to police, given the number of wind operations available and differentiating between genetic faults and those not passed on. Mark Johnston questioned whether wind operations should just be banned altogether: “If they don’t work, why bother, and if they do work, we shouldn’t do it!” He was not in favour of going down the German route of setting criteria but did wonder why we have a closed stud book. “If anyone’s got something fast they should breed from it!”