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thoroughbred racehorse stud fees?

whats the average stud fee from a champion thoroughbred race horse? (or embryo fee for champion racehorse mare) and whats the average wins a champion makes (money) during his or her lifetime of racing? oh shut up racing is not cruel!! these horses are born and bred to race, and they love it! just because some horses get injured or killed in a race doesn't mean it's cruel. accidents happen! even off of the track, to everyday horses!

Public Comments

1. about $50k starting out. more if foals do good. $500k
2. They don't last long enough with there horrible job to make any money.. ADD: They gallop horses as hard as they can, some before they turn two years old, there not ready for it, metally and physcally, how is that not cruel? They do not have time to be foals, they start extensive training (being ridden) at around fourteen months old.. TOO YOUNG! I don't care what you say, it's CRUEL.
3. The fees range. When a sensational stallion 1st goes to stud breeders will pay top dollar for they mares to be mated without really knowing what his progeny are like. With thoroughbreds there are strict regulations that don't allow artificial insemination its live covering only (well in Australia it is) so then you have boarding fees. Most studs will give you the option of Live Foal Guarantee for an extra price. For a comparison I found some stallions I would love to breed a nice mare to the 1st is Octagonal http://www.stallions.com.au/news/2009/07/octagonal-not-commercial-but-a-excellent-resource/ his fee was approx $30000 at his 1st season at stud and is now just over $5000 the 2nd Lonhro http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/01/1080544634970.html?from=storyrhs I wonder how much cheaper his fee will get!
4. Could be anything from $16,000 to over $100,000, but if the horse has Danehill in it's bloodlines, it's value is over-the-top. Here in Australia we are slowly breeding out our own staying bloodlines (we barely have any races here longer than a mile, sadly), and breeders are breeding Danehill daughters to Danehill sons and think that it's a wonderful thing to do. I personally think that is sick and wrong. What is an embryo fee? If by that you mean selling the mare's embryo for fertilisation and putting the embryo in another mare, that practise is illegal here, but i am unsure about the rules for other countries. Oh, and artificial insemination is also illegeal here. Some 'champion' stallions can earn well over $2,000,000, but most here (I'm talking about the Danehill relatives) only earn about $500,000 and win just one group 1 race in it's career. I agree with you, racing is not cruel, and that goes for jumps racing, which people here are trying to ban as some horses fall (they don't fall, they just gallop through the fence and don't jump) and one or two tragically die. These people think the jockeys force the horses to risk their lives over the jumps. A jockey weighing les sthan 60 kilograms and riding with short stirrups is unlikely to be able to force a horse to jump if it doesn't want to. Horses are competitive animals and love to run, and jump. When jumps racing here is banned, show jumping and cross country will soon be targetted. I only wish they'd ban the really dangerous form of racing- two year old racing. Those horses are still babies and a large number of them are seriously injured in training and never step foot on the track. It is sad and tragically accepted here. I love the stallions Caz mentioned, they are both black, father and son, and come from the Zabeel/Sir tristram line, famous for producing stayers.
5. As others have said, it depends on what the horse won himself and how well his progeny is doing on the track. You can pay anything from a couple of thousand to hundreds of. You cannot register a TB foal that is an embryo transfer nor one that is covered by A.I. - it has to be live cover.
6. It's anything from 10 grand and up, the stud for "Sea the Stars" was 60 grand last year, it really depends on the stallion. Tango: Not all horses are raced a 2, some such as chasers and point to point horses are raced much later and are allowed to develop, it's mainly flat horses that are raced at a younger age, not saying it's right to run such young horses but don't tar the whole industry. Look at other sports as well before criticising.