> I have heard it said that todays racehorse industry can trace the ancestry
> of most of the succesful horses to a single sire. I have no idea if this
> is true but maybe it is close? Is beekeeping in the western world any
> different?
Both Australian and American stocks are imports, and as such must be limited
genetically to the imported genes, I should think. Efforts have been made
in recent years, both legally and surreptitiously, to augment that perceived
deficiency.
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