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Location: Harrisonville, Missouri | I have the opportunity to sell two yearlings for racing in Mexico. I am told it won't be match racing, that this guy has a trainer and runs at the Hippodromo in Mexico City. Anyone here have any direct knowledge or experience with how things are down there? PMs are welcome or you can post here. Thanks! |
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| I have no personal knowledge but if you want to sell, want the money, then don't look back after you hand the leadrope over. Once they get to Mexico you have no control over what happens to the horses. One thing I do have knowledge of is the culture of the horse racing people there. It would not surprise me that if the horse didnt make the cut at the " Real" track, then they most likely will end up at bush tracks, hyped up on drugs, and whatever else you can imagine. That culture of people see the value of horses a little differently than we do here. Just as an example. I have a quite a few students here ( I teach High School) who's families race horses in match races and mexican rodeos here in southern CA. All male horses are usually studs, they rarely geld. Once the horse loses in whatever competition it does be it racing, roping, etc, they are immediately castrated, on the spot, sometimes with saddle still on. ANd lets just say a vet is not called and sometimes the horses may be quite aged before they "Lose" and therefore castration carries a really high risk of death due to bleeding an infection. My point, if you want the money, go for it. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Harrisonville, Missouri | Not that it matters, but they are both fillies. |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | If I am not misstakened, that is an approved QH track with drug testing and everything. |
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Location: Harrisonville, Missouri | Yes, I believe you are correct. |
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| It is an AQHA approved track. You can probably look it up on Equibase. But make no mistake...if your horse goes to Mexico, it WILL be matches raced too. That is simply the nature of the beast in that country. |
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| We sold a two year old stud colt that ended up going to Mexico to race and now standing at Stud. Is it where I would have wanted him to end up? No, but he ended in a pretty good situation. The culture down there horses are disposable. The track may be regulated but if your worried about their future afterward I wouldn't. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Harrisonville, Missouri | And therein lies the problem. I am worried about their future. I'm told that they will be raced and then go in to the broodmare band . . . . |
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Nut Case Expert
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | It is just like any other sale, once you take the money and hand over the lead rope, the horse (its future) is out of your control. |
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 Warrior Mom
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| FLITASTIC - 2015-05-29 9:33 AM
I have no personal knowledge but if you want to sell, want the money, then don't look back after you hand the leadrope over. Once they get to Mexico you have no control over what happens to the horses. One thing I do have knowledge of is the culture of the horse racing people there. It would not surprise me that if the horse didnt make the cut at the " Real" track, then they most likely will end up at bush tracks, hyped up on drugs, and whatever else you can imagine. That culture of people see the value of horses a little differently than we do here. Just as an example. I have a quite a few students here ( I teach High School) who's families race horses in match races and mexican rodeos here in southern CA. All male horses are usually studs, they rarely geld. Once the horse loses in whatever competition it does be it racing, roping, etc, they are immediately castrated, on the spot, sometimes with saddle still on. ANd lets just say a vet is not called and sometimes the horses may be quite aged before they "Lose" and therefore castration carries a really high risk of death due to bleeding an infection. My point, if you want the money, go for it.
That's kinda sad. I live in NM. and this is a pretty big race area there's a track here too. But also match races. One match race facility right across the road from me. Before we moved to out to the country I boarded my horses and the place next door to that was a race horse factory... meaning a bunch of broodmares stuffed in little pens and their only purpose was to have babies... .. they had one stud they kept isolated ... his pen was off to the side and he couldn't even look out because his pen was walled up with tin.. they only brought him out when it was time to breed. These folks didn't ride ... just pure breeding. Lots of Mexicans looking for prospects would come over to where I had my horses thinking we were part of that place. Glad I don't have to look at that place anymore. |
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