With Proud Citizen as hot as he is, its interesting to look at the looks of Went the Day Well, Believe You Can, and Mark Valeski side by side. Might be instructive if you're going after one of his offspring. I've owned two, a chestnut and a black, and you can guess that their performance doesn't approximate these. Its better to learn late than not at all I suppose.
Extending this, if you have a young mare that tends to throw to herself rather than to the stud, why bother to spend a lot on the fee?
Stamping their foals
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well it would (to me) depend then if the mare was worth breeding. I do agree if she wasn't much of a racehorse and seems to be reproducing herself why bother on a high end stud fee. If she was a useful runner and is producing check getters and/or black type and no matter what you go to she is producing her same traits over and over it wouldn't matter much.
That would depend on if you plan to eventually breed the offspring or sell.. if your mating result is going to be a dead end road horse, just to have the ability of the dam with no other purpose, then I guess you could breed to any old stallion hanging around. But even though a mare may throw herself, the offspring still gets 50% genetic material from the sire, and that offspring might not throw himself or herself.
So Run for the Roses, as fast as you can.....