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bare it all wrote:Report of mares bred is up!

Over 200 Club
Into Mischief - 235
Dialed In - 231
American Pharoah - 214
Uncle Mo - 204


Tapit at 127, tied with Pioneerof the Nile and ... Runhappy?

Jess's Dream got 122 in Florida!

Giants Causeway, Tale of the Cat - 31

Good ol Prayer for Relief saw 22 mares in FL

Honorable Dillon only saw 17 up in NY

Bullet Train, To Honor and Serve - 14

Point Given - 7

Eye of the Leopard, Domestic Dispute, King of the Roxy, Line of David - 1

Flanders wrote:Why isn't Mr. Speaker on the list? I guess he was sold at some point? He has an export on file but no return.
But he is still listed at Lane's End for 2018. I thought stallions at Lane's End didn't shuttle?

mariasmon wrote:

Flanders wrote:Why isn't Mr. Speaker on the list? I guess he was sold at some point? He has an export on file but no return.
But he is still listed at Lane's End for 2018. I thought stallions at Lane's End didn't shuttle?

Mr Speaker shuttled to South America last year and supposedly returned. He was on Lane's End's roster for 2017. They have shuttled other stallions (like The Factor, most recently). Mr Speaker may possibly be at Haras Cordillera in Chile again this SH season. He is on their website, although that doesn't always mean anything. El Turf's stallion directory shows him there and that would be more reliable. It is odd he isn't in the RMB. I noticed that, too. Hopefully it's just a glitch.

Flanders wrote:

mariasmon wrote:

Flanders wrote:Why isn't Mr. Speaker on the list? I guess he was sold at some point? He has an export on file but no return.
But he is still listed at Lane's End for 2018. I thought stallions at Lane's End didn't shuttle?

Mr Speaker shuttled to South America last year and supposedly returned. He was on Lane's End's roster for 2017. They have shuttled other stallions (like The Factor, most recently). Mr Speaker may possibly be at Haras Cordillera in Chile again this SH season. He is on their website, although that doesn't always mean anything. El Turf's stallion directory shows him there and that would be more reliable. It is odd he isn't in the RMB. I noticed that, too. Hopefully it's just a glitch.

I could see a stallion getting missed on the RMB list but combining that and that he doesn't have a Return, he never came back to the US.

mariasmon wrote:It is extremely odd that they never took him off their roster. He is on the 2018 roster, too. Perhaps the most likely explanation is that he was unable to return from Chile for 2017 due to a health concern, so he remained there, but will be coming back to KY after the 2017 SH season?

Summer Bird wrote:Mr Speaker did not pass quarantine and was sent back to South America. He should be back next season.

mariasmon wrote:

Summer Bird wrote:Mr Speaker did not pass quarantine and was sent back to South America. He should be back next season.

Thanks. Curious as to why there was apparently no announcement.

Summer Bird wrote:Mr Speaker did not pass quarantine and was sent back to South America. He should be back next season.

serenassong wrote:

Summer Bird wrote:Mr Speaker did not pass quarantine and was sent back to South America. He should be back next season.

What would cause a horse not to pass quarantine- picked up some type of bug?

Psychotic Parakeet wrote:I guess the novelty of having a Giant's Causeway worth off. Only 31 mares this year?

Psychotic Parakeet wrote:I guess the novelty of having a Giant's Causeway worth off. Only 31 mares this year?

For the third consecutive year, and for the 11th time in 12 years, the number of reported mares bred (RMB) in North America has declined, according to year-to-date statistics through Oct. 17 released by The Jockey Club Wednesday.

The 31,863 covers reported thus far in 2017 represent a drop of 5.6% from the 33,746 RMBs received through the same calendar date last year.

For a broader historical perspective, using statistics contained in The Jockey Club’s online fact book, the number of mares bred is now nearly half of what the year-end report was for 1991 (the oldest date for which The Jockey Club has published online statistics), when 63,479 mares were bred.

The number of active stallions on the continent continues to fall, having dropped in every single year since at least 1991, according to the online fact book.

To date for 2017, 1,342 stallions have been reported active, versus 1,423 reported at this time in 2016 (-5.7%).

In 1991, The Jockey Club reported 6,696 active stallions, nearly five times the current number.

The number of North American stallions covering 100 or more mares has also continued to decrease (105 in 2015; 100 in 2016; 91 in 2017).