Value of a mare..

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

Believe me - I have friends who advise breeders and it's like pulling teeth to get them to send their best mare, who has had a good SW by a so-called second tier stallion, back to that same stallion. They feel it's so old news; they want the hot young stallion for their mare, the one that was making headlines most recently, not the proven commodity.

I'm not talking about breeding back to Storm Cat; I'm talking about breeding the mare back to, say, Slew City Slew or Alphabet Soup or Cryptoclearance. If the mare matched up best with one of these, getting her back to them can be a battle.