Bargains to big name farms/stallions

[magic code]

http://www.oregontoba.com/images/2009_S ... UCTION.pdf

Low reserves (not sure what that means) on Giacomo, Sun King, Nobiz Like Shobiz, Showing Up, Singing Saint, Run Away and Hide. Looks like if you want any of the stallions listed, it's yours.

http://www.washingtonthoroughbred.com/S ... n_2010.htm

This one ends 2/1, not sure what they do after that.

Atticus & Decarchy - $2k each, Good Journey, $2,500, Trickey Trevor $500,

[erins isle]

Approved mares, so these must have won themselves or produced anything decent? Or a membner of an exccellent family?
How is this in the States, same as in certain parts of Europe? I am curious.

[Crystal]

Low reserves means the farm it's self has set a min. of what they believe the NG season is worth. These are charity breedings, meaning the farm receives NO money for their time or effort. They get one more mare to a stallion, but thats all. They collect no stud fee and do not get paid for their time in the breeding shed.

Mare approval is a farms way of protecting their stallion from umm.. (I'll just say it).. any garbage mare that the owner got a deal to a stallion that may not have excepted her into his book otherwise. Pedigree and produce record are the deal breakers when it comes to mare approval. The 20 year old barren mare that never produced a winner may not have as good of a chance as being excepted as the 10 year old who has already produced winning offspring and comes from a good family.

Some may argue that what does it matter if the farm isnt collecting a stud fee anyway?? It matters in the longrun because it is/is not going to be one more Live Foal out there for the stallion, possibly one more starter, one more winner, and maybe even one more stake horse.

Happy Shopping!!!

p.s. NYTB Closes tonight 8pm EST!!!!

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[ElPrado]

There's a difference between excepted and accepted. Excepted means the opposite of accepted. You want the mare accepted if you want the breeding.