Remember also that even when a requirement, for example in hip scoring, there is nothing to say that poor scores should be excluded from the breeding programme. This is why Professor Bateson ruled that this current accreditation scheme is wholly inadequate. His mantra is “test and apply”, “test and apply”. In other words pointing out that very often breeders don’t test because these are afterall just recommendations by and large, and even when they test they don’t always apply the results to their breeding programmes. What’s the result of all this? – little or no progress.