Inspections -- pearls of wisdom

I’ve been thinking about posting something new while not actually sitting down to entering the data. So here I go.

A friend passed something from the Irish Draught Horse Society of Canada on to me. She knew I would love to see the write up that included the inspection of our spectacular gelding Padi’s Granite Summit aka Liam. She was right about that and he does indeed have a “ nice step”. (You'll need to read the report to understand that). I was also interested in the report of inspections because it included some wise words.

“Over the week the inspectors found they were repeating a few comments. I too found I was saying a few things over and over again, so here is some food for thought for members, particularly for those planning to present horses for inspection in the future:
1) Inspections are about suitability for breeding Irish, and not necessarily about suitability for competition.

2) Inspections are about what is seen on that day

3) Breeding is about matching the best to the best and hoping for the best.”

Here’s the link:
http://content.breederoo.com/users/IDHS/files/Inspection-Tour-2009-report-to-members.pdf

It does make me ponder once again, the advisability of inspecting sport horses and geldings. If the inspections are about “breeding Irish” and not suitability for competition, why does the IDHSNA include these?