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Originally Posted by ontheoutside
we will use war chant for my question
war chant i would say is 24 or 25 years old,,,1st off is he still making race babies? what is the cut off if there is one?
and most stallions start there daddy job at 4 or 5 id presume
is htere a study of anykind that show what year a stallion is best at producing graded offspring? thsnk you all
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It depends on the stallion. Some get old physically sooner than others, some are fine healthwise but lose fertility (AP Indy was pensioned at 22 but died this year at 31), some keep on truckin' a long time while also being able to breed. (Mr. Prospector died in 1999 at age 29. He'd bred a crop that year that was foaled in 2000. Dynaformer died at 27 and his last crop was born that year.)
War Chant is currently makin' race babies in Australia at Yarradale Stud. I'd say you're accurate on the start time for breeding many of the commercially popular stallions as that would mean they'd be racing at 3 and 4 then retiring. As far as the year they're best at producing graded offspring, I'm sure studies have been done, but it's got some conflicting things as far as whether it's the stallion bringing their A game at a particular time vs the timing of getting good mares which depends on different factors.