Where a horse is born....

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

The funny thing is you always hear about this great Bluegrass in Kentucky yet the horses bred in NY race every two weeks while the KY breds race every 5 to 8 weeks until they get injured. I don't understand why anyone still drops their mares in KY with all the statebred incentives out there in CA, FL, NY, MD, LA, PA, etc.

Because when you are breeding top quality mares to high dollar stallions you are hoping not to have to resort to state bred incentives. Plus some of these states have breed back requirements where for the foal to be considered a state bred the mare must be bred back to a stallion standing in that state. One of the reasons you dont see any LA breds by good stallions out of good mares.