Will Less Stud Income Help Keep Horses Racing

[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.