I’m Bill Black, and I’ve spent the last 30 + years as a Pedigree & Breeding Consultant for thoroughbred racehorses. In that time I’ve worked with pedigree analysts, managers, owners, breeders, trainers, all over the world etc, all of them expressed a desire for a dynamic, flexible software package that could provide them with a wide range of data, based on genetic science.  But beyond the need for data is the need to understand how best to use it.  Therein is the biggest little secret in the breeding industry.

All you need is the right information based on genetic realities, and a way of making that information work for you.

You cannot rely on the reputation of ancestors alone to carry a horse first across the finish line.  Utilizing the lessons learned from over three decades of hard-won insights and adhering to the simple truth that the genetic realities of a racehorse determine its success, I developed the UltiMate 2000^© breeding software to meet that need.

Because, like you, I am a horse person, not a computer person, I’ve had this program designed for breeders, not computer gurus. With an easy Point & Click interface. UltiMate 2000^© gives the user a multi-dimensional genetic vision that incorporates the many facets of Homozygosity, Heterozygosity, Phenotype, and Genotype into a friendly, flexible, powerhouse of breeding information and methodology.  This system offers you more tools and methods of genetic measurements that have ever been assembled before in one software program.  It not only gives you the information you need, it makes that information work for you.

Combine this ease of use with UltiMate 2000^©’s superior report production and you have the only software package that consistently puts a winning racehorse right at your fingertips. This is the nearest thing you can get to Mother Nature.

Go ahead and take a tour of the site and see just how much this system can do for you.  While there may seem like a lot of reading, don’t be fooled!  This site really is designed to offer you, the ambitious breeder, an overview of breeding methods and show you how UltiMate 2000^© can help you apply these genetic principles to produce a superior racing animal.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to learn more about this powerful program and what it can do for your breeding success rate.

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The basic measure of relationship is termed kinship. Kinship is essentially the proportion of the total genome of a common ancestor (or ancestors) expected to be shared by two individual descendants of the ancestor (ancestors). A parent contributes half of its genome to its offspring; thus a parent and offspring share half a genome or 0.5. (In actual usage the kinship coefficient is half the amount of genome shared). The amount of genome received from an ancestor by a descendant is halved each generation back in the pedigree from the descendant. This means the percent shared genome is .5 with a parent, .25 with a grandparent, .125 with a great-grandparent, etc. Note that I make no distinction between male and female relatives because there is none from a general standpoint. The same principal applies when calculating the kinship between two individuals that are not direct ancestor/descendant. Two full siblings (share both parents) would share half their genomes. Note here that although each parent gives half of its genome to an offspring it is not necessarily the same half to each offspring so that, on average, siblings share ¼ (0.25) of the genome of each parent for a total of  ½  (0.5). This brings up the point that the contribution of each shared ancestor is summed to determine the total kinship of all common ancestors in the pedigree. Thus, the offspring of full sibs would share 75% (percent) of their genomes.

* Ernest G Cothran, University of Kentucky, Director of Equine Parentage Verification and Research Lab, Equine Blood Typing.