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Hi all! I've recently had the good fortune of breeding a potential LB stallion. This year is his freshman year, but I've noticed I don't really know how to attract stables with good mares who might like to breed to him.
Now, his stats are pretty decent: 4- 222221
5- 2 all
8- 333332
9- 3 all
11- 343333
12- 344443
I don't have enough good matching mares to breed him to my own mares, so I need to go public stud. The vast majority of his matches this year have been... well, not particularly well-matched, and as a result most of his foals have been PPP. Of course he could just be a poor producer, but how will I know if he rarely gets good matches?
I suppose my question is this: how do you attract attention for your new freshman stud when you're not a particularly established stable?
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Honestly good luck. Even as an established stable I have a hard time drawing people to my horses to help testing. . I do think something that would help you in the future is paying attention to the leveling on wk7/8/9. Wk7 leveling unless SD is new/rare so that could bring attention but leveling up all wk8 is also a good sign.
. some of it could be breed too. Breeds like KNN I've had decent luck finding people to help test because of training and genetics since they're aren't many LpLp studs in the top 15 or so. . ive practically completely given up on trying to get testing for my AA boys since there's a lot of currently goof AA and TB studs out there. I just breed to my mares and use public mares for the rest and if they land well enough I keep them and hope for better luck the next season and it usually works out alright. . FR the PPP right away, hope that someone uses him and gets a PEP and it should help him jump a little bit 🤷🏼♀️ |
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Thanks for replying!
I do track all training weeks, but this particular boy didn't go up in wk 7. I've only ever had the one horse go all up in wk8 (his grandmother) but from what I gather that's pretty rare overall. That's a breeding goal for me for sure.
I only own one of his foals (EEE) so fr'ing the others isn't an option. He's doing okay-ish on the ablb (top 20 freshies) but I think he could have done better.
Do you think creating forum posts helps? I get the impression the stud forum isn't used a lot...
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Not training.. leveling. Eventing dressage cross country and jumping. So if it's like 1211 on wk7 and 2222 on wk8 that's hot shit. Start tracking that too on top of training . FR is totally an option, there's tons of broods out there that can be used and the brood market is so crap you can get really good mares for really cheap. I'm just trying to help you out with his placement on the breed LB. . Honestly I don't bother with the freshman boards unless they're in the top 3, keep checking the breed lb . the stud forums are used but you won't be able to force people to get someone they don't want to get so it's really just hoping. I'd say that the sales chat is more likely to gain the attention than the forums |
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Nordic Designs said:
Not training.. leveling. Eventing dressage cross country and jumping. So if it's like 1211 on wk7 and 2222 on wk8 that's hot shit. Start tracking that too on top of training . FR is totally an option, there's tons of broods out there that can be used and the brood market is so crap you can get really good mares for really cheap. I'm just trying to help you out with his placement on the breed LB. . Honestly I don't bother with the freshman boards unless they're in the top 3, keep checking the breed lb . the stud forums are used but you won't be able to force people to get someone they don't want to get so it's really just hoping. I'd say that the sales chat is more likely to gain the attention than the forums
Ooh, gotcha. That's a kind of tracking I hadn't seen mentioned before. I'll start watching, and see if I can find a guide on it. I think he did level on wk8 but there's no point mentioning that without being sure. I'll check out broods again. I was under the impression most were poor quality, but maybe I haven't searched enough. Again, thanks. This is helpful <3 |
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Best chances for better broods are in the forums :) |
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