What if the Jockey Club allowed AI?

[LARHAGE]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

It would have been very tough (if not nearly impossible) for them to obtain semen from Barbaro. It requires this...



I worked on a Trahehner farm one summer, breeding stallions to one of those things, and let me tell you, it's just as tough on a stallion's hind legs. They get really into it. LOL

Stallions can actually be trained to allow manual collection while they are standing, it's done with older, arthritic stallions all the time. They don't have to mount.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by LARHAGE

Stallions can actually be trained to allow manual collection while they are standing, it's done with older, arthritic stallions all the time. They don't have to mount.

Tough to train a horse that was in Barbaro's situation... wouldn't you agree?