Quotes about Horse Genetics

Sam Shepard

I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

Alain Wertheimer

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

Alexander Graham Bell

… human thoroughbreds

He was in favor of selective breeding of humans to develop the human race.

Edward VII

My brood mare.

She was pregnant 6 times before the age of 26. “Bertie” as he was called by his family, was the least favorite child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. When Prince of Wales, he ran around with women and was involved with many scandals. His parents forced him to marry Alexandra, a respectable German princess. However, he had little respect for her, as this quotation demonstrates.

Theophile Gautier

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

James Russell Lowell

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

John Fusco

I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.

Horse Genetics Quotes