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Originally Posted by paisjpq
in her first couple of years as a broodmare she will have the best mating opportunities (assuming she is halfway decent herself) because she is an unknown in the shed....unless her foal run well those opportunities dry up, and the quality of the runner drops off.
even crappy broodmares usually got the best chance for a good runner early on.
I realize that isn't a biological explanation...but I don't really buy the whole 'dried up uterus' deal.
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It works both ways....the broodmares who gets production from low-profile sires early on....will get mated to much classier stallions later on...and those foals often tend to be extreme busts.
Just from the expierence of betting so many races with unraced maidens, I really prefer to bet against foals who dropped from old dams. The ones whos dams have produced a long list of winners from a long list of foals are notoriously bad bets.