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Re: [RC] Arabian Stud Fees are just too high - rides2far@xxxxxxxxUnless people know of your stallion, they can't breed to him. You forgot to mention that every dollar you spend advertising or campaigning your stallion is going to help me if I decide to sell his foal. :-) Telling the buyer "His sire had the cheapest stud fee around" isn't quite like, "He's an own son of...(well known competitor). I think we're slowly moving towards having "endurance blood lines". It just takes a while to have the few mares & stallions who compete have a career, retire, reproduce and wait for the babies to compete. Problem is they last so long! A good endurance mare is able to compete until she's practically too old to breed, unlike race mares who retire at 4 and are bred. It would be hard to want to give a really good endurance mare a year off to havea foal. We may have to spend more time dealing with the "she's a full sister to this successful gelding" type descriptions and get our foals from the mares bred to do endurance who never get to. Angie Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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