She’s not bred, why can’t they retire her and let her live in a pasture somewhere? Someone will buy her cheap, try to get her in foal and if/when that doesn’t happen probably dump her at a cheap auction or worse. This isn’t all used up broodmares’ fates but it is for too many of them. There are a bunch of other old broodmares in there but they are at least bred.
https://catalog.keeneland.com/november-breeding/catalog/hip/3328/?103
She’s 14. Am I missing something here?
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Her foal this year was born mid May, which is getting a little late in the year for thoroughbreds. It’s not surprising they gave her a year off, and just based on this there doesn’t look to be any red flags that she can’t keep producing. She’s 14, not 24.
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No just that I can’t add or subtract.
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What’s your definition of cheap? She’s going to sell for more than I can afford, I promise you that.
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DH and I comb the sales for old or open mares that we otherwise might not be able to afford. This mare didn’t even make our list of possibilities, lol.
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Her 2023 filly by Maclean’s Music brought $260,000 at Keeneland September 2024. Her 2017 foal brought $750,000, and her 2021 colt brought $500,000, both also at Keeneland September
With her race and produce record, you could legitimately submit this mare for a season to just about any top Kentucky stallion. Like Arzny, I wish I could afford to buy her.
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I don’t have an opinion about the horse, but that is a fantastic name.
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Sold for $42,000 to Korea.
Thanks for the update. Hate seeing horses go to S. Korea, a country whose retirement plan is unapologetically slaughter for 98% of their TBs.
