RE: stallion owners/vets

["Flemmer, Linda" <flemmerl@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>]

This sounds like a good way to discourage the stallion from ever wanting to breed AT ALL!  Even when intended.  I'd also be concerned over irritation in the sheath when the horse was retracted.  I think that the stallion's respect for the handler is paramount.  Keep his mind busy on his job does the trick - no matter WHAT the job.  Breeding, riding, lounging, driving...

 

I never saw this at the race barns in FL, but they were good quality barns that didn't go in for "gimmicks".  My Dad still raises & races TB's on the track, and I know he's never used this ring either.  So far, no studdy, uncontrollable stallions that he can remember.

 

Linda Flemmer

-----Original Message-----
From: Teddy Lancaster [mailto:Teddy@runningbear.com] 

 

I have heard of it...it sounds cruel...it means that when the stallions penus becomes erect, the ring on his penus will constrict his penus, causing pain and making him retract it.

At the racetrack, I saw people hang wire brushes under a stud's belly...when the stud "played" with himself, his penus would hit the wire brush...painful, I guess!!

teddy