Pedigree Query

when they start taking in any old race horse I'll be impressed, until then I have to just be amazed at their facility and how it gets paid for.

I am currently reading my way through a lot of cheap horseracing books -- currently reading Wink, about Jimmy Winkfield, which is a great read. Just finished The Gambler and the Bug Boy, another good story. Bedouwia http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/titles/7/0/5/7054491.html you might be interested in...

I am with Tom Fool on Hesabull. Very Impressive animal in the flesh. This horse along with some other stallions was in the numbers with the Diamond Legends Farm abuse case and he basically didnt have much progeny for a couple of years. Funontherun is the best $500 dollar investment in the state. Not...

it doesnt really matter what I think. I am too small to matter and will be selling out once this foaling and breeding season is over. I may change my mind later on, but tax season has a way of putting thoroughbreds in perspective like nothing else can.

I have no problem with state programs propping up local stallions with state monies, but breed back rules dont do that. Breed back rules prop up local stallions with my money from my checkbook. That is not fair. I wont pretend to know all the rules for each program out there, or who gets what monies...

I don't disagree with your logic and if someone has a quality mare, they should breed her to best horse in their price range. Can't do it. The programs are set in such a way that the only way to breed to a commerical stallion year after year is to move the mare to Kentucky. State-bred programs (in ...

Owning a stallion in a state bred program is like Obama's spread the wealth programs. It costs more to breed out of state and there are many more risks inherent. These are the factors that should encourage a mare owner to stay home and breed locally. Not some mandate that says if you want to run the...

I would put a mare to Black Moonshine
I would put another to Private Lap
and I would consider Century City for the other. Maybe try and get a multiple mare discount to one of the two above.

solid choice.

wish I would have bred a mare to him before he left.

some very nice season that are still left.

I wish AI was an an option!

Brendan, not knocking Northern Afleet as a sire. At 20K I would expect a sire to be commercial. You can bet Northern's auction prices will reflect his new 7.5K fee. At 20k I expect a potentially commercial foal. At his current fee your 2006 breeding is probably a breed to race yearling or maybe a tw...

the number that matters is his 2006 fee was 20K, his 2009 fee is 7.5K

I avoid stallions with fall fees due. Just doesnt fit my schedule. Seems I just finished paying for mare boarding fees and I am not ready to pay for stallion fees when the foal may not even come to fruition. too many things can happen between september and march/april.

I agree with the comments that you can be proved wrong basing a horse's future success on its pature personality, but this thread has me thinking that based on pasture personality which trainer could get the best out of the horse.

I hope the status of this never gets lost. Now that the abuse part is out of the way I hope that the State is considering criminal charges of some kind for the business transactions that took place with no services rendered. And I hope that the injured parties start lining up with civil suits.