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Originally Posted by oracle80
The NY breeding market has so much potential but the same folks have been "running it" for years and its a shame.
Ny needs one of the players with REAL money from Kentucky to set up a satellite breeding operation in NY. There is plenty of farmland available in NY, and the breeding program is great. If one of the Kentucky operations were to set up a satellite program in NY, they could shuffle up some stallions who arent quite making it the way they expected them to, but that they don't want to sell and give up on.
Noone involved in the NY breeding program up here seems to understand this. They just hired a new guy(whose main qualification appears to be that his Dad was a big player, Dragone) and before that Dennis Brida ran the thing(LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I'm the cult of personality).
I mean, how difficult could it be to approach one of the major players down there, and ask them about interest in setting up a satellite farm up here?
They don't wanna do that because there are only 2-3 players up here and they don't wanna disrupt their little monopoly.
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The biggest problem that I have with the NY bred program is that the ny breeders have given no incentive for anyone to bring in better sires. By loosening up the breed back requirements they have made it possible for the big KY farms to breed mares to their stallions and drop the foals in NY and have them be full fledged NY breds. The bigger KY farms use this as a marketing tool as their horses are almost always the sale toppers at the NY bred sale and it makes less desirable horses as KY breds more desirable as NY breds because they are eligible for the easy money and they look much better when compared to most of the NY stallions. Hence there is no real incentive for a guy with a good mare that wants a NY bred to breed to a NY stallion. Also the gap between the normal NY breeder and the upper level NY breeder is widening. Most people breeding NY breds are on a limited budget, have so-so mares and are looking for a relatively cheap stallion. The upper level NY breeder is breeding his mares to AP Indy, Giants Causeway, etc. There is no middle market where a $15000 sire could thrive. Not that AH should be a $15000 sire, I would think that at $5000 in NY he could be bred to a much larger book than he will get where he is at.But look what that farm has done for Richter Scale!!!
