As stallions age, they seem to fall out of favor and, in their last years, their stud fees start to drop into the realm where less, deep-pocketed breeders actually have a shot. On the Country Life Farm's website (http://www.countrylifefarm.com), they have a tool in their training section which enables one to determine what price a horse needs to bring in order to turn a profit (foaling to weanling sales, weanling to yearling, etc.). basicaaly, their formula is (from foaling to weanling sales) 2 times the stud fee plus $5000 and (from weanling sale to yearling sale) it is the weanling sale price plus $6000. Therefore from foaling to yearling sale the formula would be 2 X Stud Fee plus $11,000.
Using this formula, can anyone name a stallion ($25,000 or less stud fee) that has a yearling average (over the last three years) that would show a profit?
Royal Academy is one that I can think of (2 X $15,000 $11,000 = $41,000 vs. average yearling sale of $53,453).
Oldies but goodies...
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