Quote:
|
Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
If you have a horse breeding say, 100 mares, at $10,000 each, that's a million dollars per year. How many horses earn that in a year?
Figure the Derby winner or BCC winner can get $30,000 to $50,000, and that's three to five million for the year. He'd pretty much have to win the Dubai World Cup or the BCC every year to approach that.
If racing was serious about keeping horses on the track, they'd limit the number of mares each stallion could breed (they already do to some extent, by requiring it be natural cover, so it's not impossible), but that's not likely.
Or require them to be five or six before they can breed. Again, na gan hapen.
On the bright side, two of the last ten Derby winners were geldings.
|
But what you dont know (but you will now) is that of those 100 mares there are a whole lot who arent paying that fee. Most bigtime stallions are syndicated. I would guess most are 50 shares now though some are still 40 and others are 60. Each share holder gets a breeding season for his share and for lesser stallions 2 breeding seasons for years 2 and 3. Those people arent paying. A certain number of clients will want to do a foal share which a few years ago was unheard of for a high profile, first year stallion but times are changing. Some people connected to the horse like the trainer get a comp breeding right. Virtually all stallions are stands and nurses so you dont get paid for a year and nor at all if the mare aborts or the foal is born dead (or in bad shape or is crooked because they are often reported as dead)
The restrictions would fly in the face of the realities of the stallion business and would serve to further punish owners of sucessful horses. We need to do what we can to get and keep owners, not restrict their ability to make a windfall profit which will not only help them recover losses but keep them in the game.