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> Please Reply to: maz kate.kearby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ========================================my question has always been why
> stud fees???  there are mares out there superior to stallions, mares i
> believe contribute at least as much if not more to the quality of the
> foal...  shouldn't stallion owners be paying and courting to breed to
> these superior mares...  ( i know partially private treaty allows for
> this) but really the few foals a mare could have should be more valuable
> than the thousands a stallion could ...  the whole stud fee thing is
> sexist, don't you think?
You're right, a good mare's few foals ARE valuable--not always in terms of
dollars, but in terms of what the owner ends up with.  And that's why the
mare owner pays a stud fee--because it is the mare owner who ends up with
that valuable foal.  The stallion owner has no claims on the resulting
foal whatsoever--so the stud fee is the way that the mare owner pays for
the stallion's contribution to that foal.  Not sexist at all--just a
simple matter of who owns the foal at the end of the process.

If I lease mares to breed to my stallions so that *I* get the foal, then I
pay the mare's keep while she is pregnant and nursing the foal--which is
far more money than the stud fee.  But if I pay that expense, then *I* own
the foal.

Heidi



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