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Location: My own little world :) | Do you all think Slick By Design babies will be worth very much? It just seems that there are sure a lot of them. With being said do you still think he is a good investment with so many mares being bred to him? What about studs by him? Would you keep a colt a stud that was by him? |
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Location: Texas | Yes. Mine is sale pending and she was not advertised very hard or long.
The #s of mares barrel stallions are breeding doesn't compare to the book size of most racing quarter horses and is small in terms of thoroughbred racing stallions. I don't think he is flooding the market. |
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| I personally think their value will continue to increase. Slick has obviously proven himself in the pen and I don't think it'll be long before he's a proven stallion, as well. I have no doubt that Charlie will get his foals into the right hands- I think you'll see big things from his get in the near future. |
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| I wont post what mine sold for but I don't think you can go wrong for the return on investment and his low stud fee. I still have 1 2 year old slick colt and I could have sold him 10 times now for very far over market value. I think with any stallion it is important to breed to a stallion that will compliment your mare to ensure you are getting the best individual. |
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| Will also add that they have substance, bone, and minds. |
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Location: My own little world :) | I have one too. He is going to be 2 this year and I really really like the looks of him as well as his mind. I haven't gelded him yet and he is still sweet as can be...hasn't showed any bit of a bad attitude. I was just curious of his value. He is out of a decent mare in my mind. I like how she is put together and she has some fairly decent names on her papers. Just trying to get a feel for what I should do with him. Thanks :) |
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| Zanadoo88 - 2017-02-22 8:23 AM
I have one too. He is going to be 2 this year and I really really like the looks of him as well as his mind. I haven't gelded him yet and he is still sweet as can be...hasn't showed any bit of a bad attitude. I was just curious of his value. He is out of a decent mare in my mind. I like how she is put together and she has some fairly decent names on her papers. Just trying to get a feel for what I should do with him. Thanks :)
This is only my opinion, but with the amount of quality stallions out there, I would geld one that wasn't out of a phenomenal mare with a pedigree and stats to back her up. A good stud will make a fantastic gelding. And IF you wanted to sell him, a gelding will have a wider range of buyers than a stud would. |
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| I would agree with Veteran...they shouldn't be kept a stud unless they have both an outstanding sire and dam, plus impeccable conformation. I will also agree that if you decide to sell a gelding is more marketable. I passed on two colts I would have rather had recently before buying a gelding because it would be an additional cost to geld them, some of the shippers I contacted wouldn't haul them or had an increased rate for a stud, and I would be delayed on getting right to work on them waiting for recovery time after gelding. Granted, most of those are minor inconveniences, but with so many options to buy it tipped the scale and I went another direction.
As far as value, I feel slick babies are a great value for breeding fee to market value. Slick is in the right hands, they promote correctly, they will make sure colts by him are well mounted, and therefor his babies should continue to hold their value. Just my opinion :) |
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Location: SE Missouri | rpreast - 2017-02-22 9:40 AM
Zanadoo88 - 2017-02-22 8:23 AM
I have one too. He is going to be 2 this year and I really really like the looks of him as well as his mind. I haven't gelded him yet and he is still sweet as can be...hasn't showed any bit of a bad attitude. I was just curious of his value. He is out of a decent mare in my mind. I like how she is put together and she has some fairly decent names on her papers. Just trying to get a feel for what I should do with him. Thanks :)
This is only my opinion, but with the amount of quality stallions out there, I would geld one that wasn't out of a phenomenal mare with a pedigree and stats to back her up. A good stud will make a fantastic gelding. And IF you wanted to sell him, a gelding will have a wider range of buyers than a stud would.
The other thing with a stud is you HAVE to spend money to promote them. Incentives, getting them proven, advertising costs, etc, etc...
In my opinion, lol, a decent mare doesn't cut it anymore to produce stallions. I have had two geldings that on conformation basis could have stayed studs. One was out of a stakes winning AAA and stakes producing mare and is a proven rope and barrel horse. The other was a nice individual but nothing off the charts yet he went on to be a proven barrel horse & top rope horse.
I guess my point is, I knew I couldn't promote them from an expense standpoint. So regardless of how "nice" they were, the last thing I wanted was a stud to deal with that wasn't going to the true chance they deserved to be a reputable stallion. I cut them both and have never looked back. There are so many nice stud as discussed and personally I wouldnt buy a stud colt unless he was either a rockstar top and bottom or priced to where I can budget in the gelding procedure. |
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Location: Texas | well mine is back on the market... would have been a sight unseen buy and the shipping costs pushed her out of budget so. I hope I just end up keeping her :P and my wedding will magically pay for itself. |
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| casualdust07 - 2017-03-03 1:03 PM well mine is back on the market... would have been a sight unseen buy and the shipping costs pushed her out of budget so. I hope I just end up keeping her :P and my wedding will magically pay for itself.
If I were in the market, I would be coming to see you about her! |
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Location: OH | He is 10----does he have any get competing yet ????? |
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| Mighty Broke - 2017-03-03 1:16 PM
He is 10----does he have any get competing yet ?????
His oldest filly is futurity-ing this year. I haven't kept up on how she's performing. |
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Location: OH | rpreast - 2017-03-03 3:20 PM Mighty Broke - 2017-03-03 1:16 PM He is 10----does he have any get competing yet ????? His oldest filly is futurity-ing this year. I haven't kept up on how she's performing.
I guess their value will be determined in the next couple years---something better jump up and do something. And I am not belittling him in the least----I am rooting for him. The barrel industry NEEDS him to become an outstanding sire for some outcross blood.
Some of the above statements have me scratching my head though, if we went off the above criteria for keeping a horse a stallion---Slick would have been gelded. His mama is nothing that jumps out at you, but his handlers believed in him and put a lot of blood sweat and tears into promoting him.
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Location: Texas | scwebster - 2017-03-03 1:54 PM
casualdust07 - 2017-03-03 1:03 PM well mine is back on the market... would have been a sight unseen buy and the shipping costs pushed her out of budget so. I hope I just end up keeping her :P and my wedding will magically pay for itself.
If I were in the market, I would be coming to see you about her!
:P :P I sold her dam so it makes me even more sad to think about selling the filly. Gosh I still can't believe I let go of her mother :(. I hate growing up. ugh. I could let go of the gelding because he can't reproduce but knowing if i sell the filly the whole bloodline is gone from my life makes me sad :/ .
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