Real-Life Communication
Pedigree analysts must be good communicators. "You need to be articulate
and write well, so that your knowledge can be of some use to others," says
Loren Bolinger, a pedigree analyst.
Pedigree analyst Kelly Allen agrees.
"We organize trips and have potential owners fly in from all over. We need
to guide them through the process and explain the different pedigrees to them."
Right now, a client is interested in breeding her mare to one of your
stallions named Coeur de Lion. You go over the pedigree chart with them, explaining
this stallion's pedigree and the qualities that he displays.
This
is what the pedigree chart looks like:
(Remember that the sire is
always printed at the top of the chart and the dam at the bottom. In this
example, that means that Cor de la Bryere is Coeur de Lion's father and Falke
is his mother.)
Coeur de Lion. This imported Holstein stallion
was born in 1981. His coloring is called dark bay.
Cor de la Bryere | Rantzau xx | Foxlight xx | Foxhunter xx |
Chonia xx |
 Rancune xx | Cavaliere d' Arpino xx |
Rockella  xx |
QuennotteAus | Lurioso A.NÂ | Furioso xx |
Riquette xx |
Vestale du Bois(Margot A.N) | Landau |
Kristine du Bois |
Falke   Ho | *FarneseHol | Faehnrich
Hol | Fachmann |
Fera |
Annelies Hol | Loretto Hol |
- |
Bajanga | Nautilus xx | Alizier xx |
Nixe xx |
Rubine Hol | - |
- |
(This pedigree chart was used courtesy of Kelly Allen, the stallion's
owner.)
The client looks at the charts and asks you for clarification.
This is what she asks:
- Who is Cor de la Bryere's father?
- Who is Falke's mother?
- What are the names of Coeur de Lion's grand dam and grand sire on his
mother's side?
- Make sure you look at all the information. What year was Coeur de Lion
born?
How do you answer?