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To me it would be like breeding my mare to a lower quality stallion verses a quality stallion because the stud fee was free.


What a great analogy! I never understood why people shopped around for stallions according to their stud fees. That's the cheapest part of breeding horses! Why would anyone sacrifice breeding to a quality horse because of a few hundred dollars? Other than the few stallions whose stud fees are beyond most of our budgets, there's not a lot of difference in money between the cheap $500 stallion and a quality one with a $2500 stud fee.