unwanted horses

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by Thoroughbred Fan

I think the percentages would prove you to be completely incorrect. Yes, terrible no-race record, no-pedigree broodmares have produced good offspring, but how often? Your logic is very flawed and the reason why there are unwanted horses. People keep breeding horses who can not have a chance of "paying their way" and don't have anything to offer to the future of the breed.

I see it differently because in my opinion, just because a stallion is less than 5k doesn't mean he's a piece of crap. Somethingroyal was obviously bred nice, but she didn't do anything on the track.

So in your mind, a foal by Storm Cat (for example) is going to "pay its way" because of its breeding? How many of those foals are actually going to win over 500k on the track to pay their way and pay for that stud fee?