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Originally Posted by Cajungator26

To be completely honest, I don't know enough about the breeding business to determine what makes a quality broodmare. Do you know? How much blacktype makes a mare "quality?" I doubt they would breed a mare like Ashado (for example) to a "cheap" stallion, which I would consider $5,000 or below. I've seen a ton of nice stallions for under $5,000, but the offspring just doesn't sell for a whole lot. I know that Elusive Quality was considered "cheap" before Smarty. Now he goes for $100,000. Wasn't he like $10k before Smarty?

He was not considered cheap by any means. I believe that he was in the 40-50k range.
Ashado would be considered to be a bit better than "quality".
Generally if a mare is a stakes winner, or graded stakes placed or has foaled a runner or runners that are the same they would be considered quality in my book.