Originally Posted by
mango
Looking at the prices from all of the sale's i do wonder why i breed. You send a mare to a $5,000 stallion and then just say the working fee is $1,000 and then agistment for the year say $2,000 race payments and registration say $500 prep for the sale say $500 then there are extra's such as trims, wormings, handling the foal at weaning time $300. So there's over $9,000 before you make any money and the thing is if it doesn't make $9,000 you by it back and it costs you another $900 in commission. So realistically you could save yourself all the worry and just go pick one out on sale day. But there is know fun in that so i keep breeding lol.