what to look for in breeding consultant?

3nutmeg · Weanling Joined: 21 May 2012 Posts: 36

How do you pick a breeding consultant, or a Bloodstock agent?

sulphurfire · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:18 am Post subject:

Reputation and history, George Smith on this board came up with a good system of weighting pedigrees
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Barcaldine · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:31 am Post subject:

Casual interviews with people who have been recommended by successful breeders.

Important factors: EXPERIENCE IN HANDS-ON BREEDING DECISIONS; Thorough knowledge of pedigrees, conformation, markets, and stallion selection; integrity and full disclosure policy. Practical horsemen are far more preferable than armchair quarterbacks.

You will need someone you trust and feel comfortable with, too.

Good luck.

Jeff · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:29 pm Post subject:

Bloodstock Agents do advertise. Look at the sales catalogs pages on the thoroughbred auction sites and you will see listed the Bloodstock Agents who have acted on behalf of clients in the sales. Pick one or several and give them a call and see what they have to say. That's what I did. They're more than happy to talk.
Be sure to do a google search
Jeff

"Due Diligence" is the term. Edited by moderator

griff · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:50 pm Post subject:

my criteria is one that has done something besides advise

griff
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Jeff · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 1:01 pm Post subject:

A breeding consultant is one thing, a Bloodstock Agent is another.

I can think of a few professional breeding consultants, Anne Peters, Les Brinsfield, Ellen Parker.
I see on Ellen Parker's website that a full mare report is $650.00, so I would imagine that the other two are somewhere in the same ballpark figure. I prefer the opinions of Anne, or Les.

http://www.reines-de-course.com/mating_services.htm

http://www.pedigreegoddess.com/rates.html

http://www.i-announce.net/IAN/load.phtml?id=pedigree

And also remember, these professional breeding consultants charge you $650.00 to recommend you take your mare to a Kentucky stallion, and then they also get about a 5 or 10% commission from the stud farm for steering you in the direction of their stallion. That could add up to some Cool

bucks on a $100,000 stud fee.

I see over on Werk's pedigree consultants, they charge anywhere from $195.00 to $495 for a mare report, and you can get an annual refresher for $250.00 http://werkhorse.com/products_and_services/broodmare_reports/broodmare_products_chart.shtml

OR Very Happy

There are always pedigree geeks like me who would love to give a friendly opinion on which stallion would be a nice match for a mare.

I wouldn't ask for mating advice on this Mating Advice forum, I'd go over to the Pedigree Analysis forum and ask there, keep it strictly what pedigree would look good, nicks, linebreeding and the like.

Jeff