State of the Breeding Industry...

[Cannon Shell]

Balletto
What are you going to do with the mare? Breed commercially or keep the foal to race? If you are breeding commercially I would not let polytrack affect your decision making process. However if you are going to race the foal/foals, depending on the curcuit, polytrack may be a factor.

Unless the mare you purchase has top flight pedigree the Coolmore/Arab feud probably wont affect you greatly. Maybe you wont be a player in the 7 figure range but the market is still very strong in the $100000 to $500000 range.

I guess that with a small operation all the factors that you talked about wont be nearly as important as it would be if you were buying 20 mares and were trying to position yourself for the future. My advise would be to find the best mare you can find in your price range and forget about all the other things.

[DiscreetCat=Monster]

Breeders and Pinhookers = $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

Originally Posted by DiscreetCat=Monster

Breeders and Pinhookers = $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

Bull.

Auctioning them to the fickle Market = $$$$$

These are the guys that rarely lose a dime and rip off both ends.

[DiscreetCat=Monster]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Bull.

Auctioning them to the fickle Market = $$$$$

These are the guys that rarely lose a dime and rip off both ends.

Thats their Bad, it doesn't take much talent to go to the sale and by a 50K horse take em, brake em, put some meat on em, and back to the sale they go and for a mad profit. It takes money a place to do it and some know how.

[sumitas]

the broodmare i partner in is from the same family as High Cotton, stakes winner on poly and dirt. that was a factor in my decision to partner in this girl and our expected foal.

Thanks for the comments.

I posted this on another forum and a well informed poster said she doesnt allow it to bother her or influence any of her decisions.

Maybe its my nature to try and take in all variables and compute all possibilities, but I think sooner, rather than later, we will need to include polytrack efficiency into our breeding practices.

[Thoroughbred Fan]

Originally Posted by sumitas

the broodmare i partner in is from the same family as High Cotton, stakes winner on poly and dirt. that was a factor in my decision to partner in this girl and our expected foal.

Sumitas PM me. I also am in a partnership with a mare from that family. Interested to find out who you are breeding to.

-TF