[FatCatFarm]

http://www.canterusa.org/index.php?o...ainer-listings

I'm considering picking up this guy to do a little crossbreeding with on the very nice Percheron mare I have. He's just three, unraced but did crack an ankle in training which is said to be healing up nicely. He priced low enough to make me willing to take the chance. Any thoughts?

[Laurierace]

Not real crazy about the first part of your plan but he looks like he would make a very nice gelding. Those fractures tend to do well.

[judybigredpony]

Laurie I agree with you on that...maybe it will snow tomorrow

[luvmytbs]

he looks like he would make a very nice gelding.

^^ This.

[EM EL]

Very cute as a gelding!

[anon123456]

I don't think you are crazy. He is a cutie and if he crosses well with your mare and you have a plan in place for the foal why not? There have been tons of stallions gelded after siring a few foals who turned out to be nice.

[FatCatFarm]

I don't think you are crazy. He is a cutie and if he crosses well with your mare and you have a plan in place for the foal why not? There have been tons of stallions gelded after siring a few foals who turned out to be nice.

Thank you. Exactly my point, but the drama queens are off and running. Ah well, if I had to ask then I really had my answer right there and my heart isn't really in it. I have had stallions before and either sold or gelded them all because they are a lot of trouble.

[danceronice]

Why would you want a riding gelding who'd already broken an ankle? Geldings are only good for riding, so there's not much point in starting with a problem. You'll end up with a pricey pasture pet. (And if I wanted one I meant to train to ride AND had to geld I'd want to pay way less than $750 when he's already injured. Bloodlines and being gray are about all he has.)

I wouldn't object to breeding a racing flop when you're just outcrossing for a sport horse and don't have to worry about holding up for racing or the mare's bloodlines for sale purposes. (And I don't care if you breed twenty horses. Your horse, your money.) I just wouldn't pick a three-year-old who isn't even done growing (and I'd want to know how he broke the ankle.) He still looks butt-high unless he's standing on a hill so he's not done growing, and he's not loaded down with sports names close in, though he is refreshingly free of linebreeding.

[Linny]

Since there are so many stallions out there with some sort of performance record and with foals on the ground, possibly with records of their own, why him? Yes, he's cute, but he's not exceptional, has no performance or stud record and what will you do with him afterward? You don't nee to buy a stallion to be a breeder. You just need to order a little frozen package!

[bt]

hmmmmmmm if I got him and he happened to get loose to my lil mare before he was gelded. .. . . . .

[grayarabpony]

Oh brother.

Yes OP, I think you're crazy to even be thinking of this scheme of yours.

[FatCatFarm]

You don't nee to buy a stallion to be a breeder. You just need to order a little frozen package!

LOL! Oh I know. Frankly, given my luck (or rather lack thereof) with fresh this year, I'm too skeered to try frozen! I should stop whining though. Yeah, I'm out $2k but I know some of you have spent more. Of course, you could probably afford it better than me though too. I'm going to be good, send the mare out to be started for my husband to ride and try again next year. Thanks for putting up with my flight of fancy as it were.