Looking at a mare for sale - won over $100,000

vallygirl927 · Postby **vallygirl927** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:13 pm

I need someone to tell me why this mare, La Ballador by thunder gulch, won 100,000 on the track and is being used as a regular riding horse. I am going to see her this weekend and possibly trading for my mare...but why would a mare who was fairly successful on the track is not being bred right now...could she be infertile? Would you guys pick this mare up?

zinn21 · Postby **zinn21** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:39 pm

You might want to ask the current owners in a non third degree manner what is her story; how she became a riding horse rather than a broodmare. If you have fertility concerns I would suggest a vet reproductive examination.

Additionally, I find no "La Ballador" in our pedigree database.

Hold Your Peace · Postby **Hold Your Peace** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:57 pm

The correct name is La Balladar.

From the information I have available the catalog page for a foal out of her would be a complete blank (no black type in the first four dams) and her family is European and unfamiliar to the marketplace here. She would not be at all commercial. If someone were planning to breed her to race all of her foals (preferably on grass or poly) she might do okay. Otherwise a riding horse is probably the best use for her.

vallygirl927 · Postby **vallygirl927** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:26 pm

Yeah, her owner said she bought her 5 months ago from a hunter/jumper barn nearby. I'm wondering why a mare who won over 100,000 even though she is void of blacktype wouldn't get used as a broodmare. I would think reproductive issues.....hmm and yes her family is european so she would have no commercial appeal. That could explain why she didn't become a broodmare. But a reproductive exam would be in order if I were to purchase her.

vallygirl927 · Postby **vallygirl927** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:08 pm

Which would you prefer? A mare with blacktype in all her generations but the mare was unraced, a mare with winnings of 100,000 and sound in 19 starts but void of blacktype and her femaly family was from europe, or neither?

st. louis kid · Postby **st. louis kid** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:16 pm

If you were going to sell the foals, it is an easy decision, the market would be 10 times better for foals from a mare full with black type and unraced. She was a hard knocking horse it sounds like, but winning $100,000 in a career is not an uncommon thing for a horse today, particularly at places like Pa, WV. or Woodbine. Her breeding on the bottom is very obscure also. If you want her to breed to race, follow your heart.

vallygirl927 · Postby **vallygirl927** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:29 pm

You're right.....for some reason I'm trying to convince myself, which means I don't really have the right feeling about it so back to the drawing board. Thanks! There is a filly I have hopes for that I posted a week back names honor marks. Can you take a look at her? I just have that feeling about her.....