elijahasgal
Well-Known Member
Excuse me for typing this, many conflicting thoughts crossing my mind, and seeing what other people think, see if I can get resoloution. I am leaning more one way than the other at mo.
I have been quietly breeding one or two youngsters a year for the last 11 years.
I am awful at being very very attached to some, planning to keep them, and knowing where all bar two that I bred are now. (At mo I still own 4(!) but two are for sale)
That said, I bred my best mare to a prooven stallion (Has produced many really good horses, but isnt widly known) The resultant filly was so stunning, I used the same one again twice, with two cracking colts.
I always planned on keeping my girl, and her to be next generation broodmare. She has been out with youngsters, and is super with the babies......actually a magnet for them.
I took her to the futurity as a 2yo, along with her younger full brother.
She got a high first, he got elite. (3rd full sibling has gone as potential stallion to a professional home)
So I have invested a lot, and she has gone off to proove herself. not yet been to a show, but really good at home and getting ready to go out. The yard are saying they think she may well have international potential.
So I went down to see her. They all know my love for her, and that she is there to proove herself and no more.
She is loving the work, and my plan was to cover her with one of their stallions next year (Or for first foal do I get a late covering this?!!) and bring her home and use her as a broodie with some cracking stallions.
So that said, when I go see her, they mention in passing that there has been a rather decent offer on her. they didnt tell me at the time, as they know what she means to me. That said if I decide to sell, I am sure that they would find someone easily, as she wasnt even for sale!
Now the do I dont I sell.
I want to breed on in the future. If I accept the offer, I could buy a decently bred mare in, pay off everything I owe, and still have change.
People keep saying to me that I could always cross mare to stallion again, and get another filly. But it wouldnt be 1)her, 2) guaranteed filly (I seem to breed more colts than fillys, (ratio 4:8) My foal this year would be staying if it was a filly.
down side of keeping her, debts not clear this year (I have a VERY nice colt who should clear them on sale in next year or two) No guarantee that she will pass on the right stuff, unlike her dam. She wont be able to go out and proove herself as well as she could, as she seems to be loving.
Plus side for me, is heart, mare I know can do the job, debt free. I can buy something with good bloodlines, but it may not be able to do the job. May not pass on the right stuff.
Alternatly I have the thought of well, I could syndicate her, and keep her competing.
Or that I could do an embryo transfer from her, so keep her line going. and sell her (But would want a filly again, and with my luck.......)
Any ideas people, how do you all see it?
I have been quietly breeding one or two youngsters a year for the last 11 years.
I am awful at being very very attached to some, planning to keep them, and knowing where all bar two that I bred are now. (At mo I still own 4(!) but two are for sale)
That said, I bred my best mare to a prooven stallion (Has produced many really good horses, but isnt widly known) The resultant filly was so stunning, I used the same one again twice, with two cracking colts.
I always planned on keeping my girl, and her to be next generation broodmare. She has been out with youngsters, and is super with the babies......actually a magnet for them.
I took her to the futurity as a 2yo, along with her younger full brother.
She got a high first, he got elite. (3rd full sibling has gone as potential stallion to a professional home)
So I have invested a lot, and she has gone off to proove herself. not yet been to a show, but really good at home and getting ready to go out. The yard are saying they think she may well have international potential.
So I went down to see her. They all know my love for her, and that she is there to proove herself and no more.
She is loving the work, and my plan was to cover her with one of their stallions next year (Or for first foal do I get a late covering this?!!) and bring her home and use her as a broodie with some cracking stallions.
So that said, when I go see her, they mention in passing that there has been a rather decent offer on her. they didnt tell me at the time, as they know what she means to me. That said if I decide to sell, I am sure that they would find someone easily, as she wasnt even for sale!
Now the do I dont I sell.
I want to breed on in the future. If I accept the offer, I could buy a decently bred mare in, pay off everything I owe, and still have change.
People keep saying to me that I could always cross mare to stallion again, and get another filly. But it wouldnt be 1)her, 2) guaranteed filly (I seem to breed more colts than fillys, (ratio 4:8) My foal this year would be staying if it was a filly.
down side of keeping her, debts not clear this year (I have a VERY nice colt who should clear them on sale in next year or two) No guarantee that she will pass on the right stuff, unlike her dam. She wont be able to go out and proove herself as well as she could, as she seems to be loving.
Plus side for me, is heart, mare I know can do the job, debt free. I can buy something with good bloodlines, but it may not be able to do the job. May not pass on the right stuff.
Alternatly I have the thought of well, I could syndicate her, and keep her competing.
Or that I could do an embryo transfer from her, so keep her line going. and sell her (But would want a filly again, and with my luck.......)
Any ideas people, how do you all see it?
