STUD FEE

maryvet · Postby **maryvet** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:23 am

Anyone able to negotiate stud fee's in KY. Tried Arch, Sky Mesa, Pulpit, Rock Hard Ten, Dixie Union all Non-Negotiable.

madelyn · Postby **madelyn** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:55 am

Those are ones that are non-negotiable. In fact, you could consider yourself fortunate if you had a mare that could get into those books. You could try to locate a season holder who is not using their season and might move on the price. However, if I owned a season to one of these I wouldn't budge. I also heard elsewhere that those horses' books are all full for 2010.

LB · Postby LB » Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:07 am

The stallions that people really want to breed to--and all the ones you've mentioned qualify--are non-negotiable. The only stallions that farms are offering deals on are the ones that have "holes" and whose books aren't filling.

As Madelyn said, I know that 4 of those 5 stallions are already closed for 2010 anyway. The only one whose status I'm not sure of is Rock Hard Ten.

ASB · Postby **ASB** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:50 pm

Arch isn't closed yet. Sams is still accepting mares that qualify as of two days ago. There was no mention of his book being close to full, so I can't imagine it filled up in 48 hours. But who knows. The decision making for that stallion is always a head scratcher.

casper10 · Postby **casper10** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:45 am

Has anybody heard how the booking is going with Discreet Cat?