He is not what he was. He is at best a 35 claimer on the turf, maybe. Plus he was always a horse that had lots of spacing between races, rarely running more than a few times a year. His stud value is close to zero.

Kind of like getting a defensive penalty when the offense is on your one inch line?

Yeah, doesnt hurt too much.

You think you could get 20 mares at $1,000 a pop for him? Is there a market for a son of Slew that is at least stakes placed? Seems like a few Slew lovers out there would take a shot.

he was 3rd in an off the turf stake 3 years ago....and has shown that he is not stakes caliber.....zero stud value

You just want to geld him.

You need to get way more than that at a much higher rate to even come close to breaking even. You have the expense of keeping the horse which includes general boarding and food, nominatation fees, advertising, lab costs, etc. Plus a horse like this is going to be live foal, stands and nurses which means even if his conception rate is high you wont get paid for at least a year and you will be lucky if you collect on 80% of the total mares. As far as I can tell there is no demand for a horse like this nor should there be. Plus he is neither very correct nor fast.

Yeah, that makes sense although I imagine some of those costs are going to exist for whoever has the horse whether they breed or not.

There is a possibility that they will stand him in AZ or somewhere out West but the number of stallions that actually make any money that stand there is probably zero. At least if they are running him they have a chance to get their money back.

Hes getting a trainer upgrade. He has enough class to be useful out there and certainly pay for himself.

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