Hennessy dead

Cajungator26 · #1 08-09-2007, 04:16 PM

OMG, that is awful. RIP.

mclem10011 · #2 08-09-2007, 04:19 PM

2 Dollar Bill · #3 08-09-2007, 04:32 PM

Such a shame , Sorry to hear about this

my miss storm cat · #4 08-09-2007, 04:58 PM

Oh God..... stunned.

Run in peace forever.

Danzig · #5 08-09-2007, 05:21 PM

oh no. still fairly young, wasn't he? shame they shuttle these guys, i still think it sucks.
money...always about the money.

sumitas · #6 08-09-2007, 05:22 PM

Sad news but now he will be at peace. He won't be pushed by his owners to produce in 2 hemispheres every year.

Scav · #7 08-09-2007, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sumitas

Sad news but now he will be at peace. He won't be pushed by his owners to produce in 2 hemispheres every year.

Did you fall off the apple truck or whatever the saying is?

What MALE in their right mind is being PUSHED to bang on a daily basis. These stallions live better then 50% of America

Danzig · #8 08-09-2007, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Scav

Did you fall off the apple truck or whatever the saying is?

What MALE in their right mind is being PUSHED to bang on a daily basis. These stallions live better then 50% of America

not only is it unnatural, but it's unhealthy for a horse to cover the amount of mares in a year that some of these stallions are made to cover. you can't equate male sexual drive in a human to what these stallions go thru.

Riot · #9 08-09-2007, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Scav

Did you fall off the apple truck or whatever the saying is?

What MALE in their right mind is being PUSHED to bang on a daily basis. These stallions live better then 50% of America

There's plenty of stallions who want nothing to do with it towards the end of a busy season, Scavs, or if they are overbooked from the start. Not a rare problem at all. One of the biggest concerns in stallion management is keeping him happy and wanting to do his job.

Realize that some stallions cover 2 or 3 mares a day, seven days a week, from mid-February to mid-June. Then ship them to a new country, where summer is winter/spring, and ask them to repeat that - it's difficult.

Stallions used to cover 30-40 mares a season, then we got ultrasound (so we could breed within hours of ovulation to maximize fertilization rate, and they didn't have to wait to see if a mare came back in estrus and needed to return to the shed to try again), so that increased bookings; and then stallions became more "public" rather than tradeoffs between fellow horse breeders; so folks wanted money back on stallion investments and they started selling 60-70-110 shares in a stallion a year to recover the stallions inflated cost over a few years ....

Go to BloodHorse and look up the numbers of foals some stallions put on the ground every year.

I'm exhausted just thinking about it

slotdirt · #10 08-10-2007, 08:10 AM

I hate the southern hemisphere shuttling, hate it. That has to absolutely wear on a guy. As good a Storm Cat at stud as there was.