MAKING THE GRADE

THT's EthoGrade—Emotional Conformation Grading Scale.

Your equine's overall grade will be defined with a P-Type, or equine personality propensity typing. The information provided within the grade and the accompanying report, has a great deal of value in advancing the welfare of your investment, the horse. This added information will assist in the way you breed and select mating prospects, purchase, sell, train and even adopt your horse.

The Grade
Emotional Conformation is graded on two levels; Personality Propensity Type and Potential Level.

Personality Propensity Type reveals both the mental foundation and inner strengths of the individual horse, and how those can best be used to train forward, expanding the potential.

• A Indicates the primary focus ability is strongest over a short time in motion; i.e., Short distance focus requirements such as sprinting.
• B Indicates the primary focus ability develops over a more protracted time in motion; i.e., distance focus ability as in routing.
• a Used only in conjunction with A, indicates the dual propensity of both the short to medium focus ability. i.e., Primary sprinter that may be advanced to middle distances.
• b Used only in conjunction with B, indicates the dual propensity of protracted time in motion focus and medium focus ability. i.e., Primary router with ability for middle distance.
• +/- Indicates above, or below average.

Potential Level represents the individual horse's overall potential to improve in a given area, be the horse evaluated for training, breeding or even adopting.

• (#) Numbers from 1 through 5 indicate the degree of potential; 1 being lowest degree.
• (d) Indicates the potential is a developmental prospect, such as a foal/weanling.
• (f) Indicates the horse is a foundation prospect, either Stallion or Mare.
• +/- Indicates above, or below average.

Examples
P-Type A(3+) is a horse with a sprinter's mental capacity and focus level with an average ability to be elevated. (Potential of 3+ means that the horse has a basic to good ability to be trained forward)

P-Type B(3+) is the horse with a distance athletes mental capacity and focus level. The 3+ potential has the exact same meaning for either P-Typing indicator.

P-Type B(f) foundation/breeding prospect that has strong protracted focus ability.

P-Type Aa(d) the developmental prospect suitable for training according to the P-Type indicator.

P-Type ab(3) this indicates an athlete with moderate focus ability with average potential to be trained forward; i.e., classic miler.

For What It's Worth
P-Type has a lot to do with everything your horse will deal with and encounter in his or her life, however one is not necessarily better than or has higher leadership qualities than the other; they are simply manifested in different ways. P-Type A horses are generally faster to mature mentally, and also reach their mental capacity faster, where P-Type B horses are in general slower to develop mentally, yet have the ability to focus with confidence over a longer period of time in motion.

Maintain focus, you maintain pace. Knowing how to expand on what is inherent means getting the most from your horse without compromising your goals, or the welfare of the horse.

The economics of behavior, it makes sense.