Even if they were the same price, I would definitely breed to AH over Bandini. I'm not a FuPeg fan but AH has beautiful conformation, he can run all day and he stays sound. I hope some breeders think $12,500 isn't too much to shell out to (hopefully) breed some soundness into the offspring. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm kinda curious to see what AH produces. In fact, the more I think about it, if I was a person who threw around hundreds of thousands of $$$$$$ breeding racehorses, I would send him a few nice mares.
So there. I'd pay it.
But I also wouldn't pay 1.98¢ to breed to a stallion with major soundness questions.