Breeding

[Danzig]

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.

....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.