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Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann
Mares can only have one foal a year (twins generally aren't much good and everybody knows it). Stallions can have dozens, nay, hundreds, and the fee is up front, before the foal is born, comes up with a birth defect, been stepped on my his mom, kicked by a pasture-mate, or anything else that makes it less saleable. A single mare, even a great race mare, just doesn't have the value in the breeding business that the guys do.
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....a top stallion obviously is worth his weight in gold. BUT the odds of making a good stallion are slim, very slim. i'd rather own fillies, because win or lose, with a good pedigree, they have value as a mare. not so with a colt.
and i know there is the perception that bernardini will be a heck of a stallion. he's impeccably bred, and has a great race record. will get the best mares. but it's still a crapshoot whether he becomes a good stallion. only 1 in 10 makes it.