This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, but a higher stud fee does not always equate to a higher intrinsic value. Proof of intrinsic value comes from positive evaluations, success in performance events, and evaluation of the offspring, not what the stud fee is set at. There are stallions of undisputably high credentials standing for less money. The lower stud fee does not mean they are lesser horses, or that mare owners who send their mares to that stallion are cutting corners or something. Rather the stallion owner is doing the breed a service by keeping costs reasonable, IMHO.
Lori > Hi! from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm in Nova Scotia - > > Re: Mike Cook's comments about choosing a stallion for your mare based on > quality rather than the stud fee. He's absolutely right, of course. It's > always been amazing to me that people would actually consider a few hundred > dollars, more or less, in their deliberations. What an example of > shortsightedness! And yet, I guess mare owners do consider the difference > between a $750 stallion, and a $1,000 stallion,or at least stallion owners > think they do. I've been consulted several times by stallion owners > deliberating whether to charge $800 or $950 or $1000. I don't get it.
