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Location: Texas! | I have seen quite a few for sale in the last couple months and I just wondered if they were bred with the intent to market for sale or if there is a reason so many are for sale right now? |
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| Many of them are priced high and I don't see some of them going anywhere anytime soon. The ppl who bred them, if bred for marketing, sure think highly of them. But to answer your question most are probably for sale because it's time to sell. Most large yearling sales are this time of year, it's a great time to move weanlings, and it is usually the time ppl buy their 2yr or 3yr prospects. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | They kept his fee low and bred a ton of mares. On one hand it helps get them out there, out of that big of a foal crop there should be some nice ones...on the other hand they aren't hard to find so it might make it hard to sell average ones. |
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| They breed well over 100 mares to him each year. There are going to be lots around.
2013 Crop Year 5
2014 Crop Year 24
2015 Crop Year 153
2016 Crop Year 109
2017 Crop Year 149
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| One thing about Slick that I've noticed is that he doesn't "stamp" his babies. Slye might be an exception, but I haven't seem Kellies Chick conformationally so I am not sure. They all look so different, depending on dam. Please correct me if I am wrong, but that's what I've seen so far. |
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Location: OH | WYOracer - 2018-07-09 3:39 PM I have seen quite a few for sale in the last couple months and I just wondered if they were bred with the intent to market for sale or if there is a reason so many are for sale right now?
People want to strike(sell) while the iron is still hot---with the numbers he bred if something doesn't jump up and win big, their value is going to drop dramatically. IMO. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | As a casual observer, because I don't buy prospects, one reason there are many is they bred a lot of mares. Many of those will be for sale. Not many times in the horse industry can you actually make a profit or break even on a horse, especially anything not patterned and ready for a job. Some will be for sale every year. Just a fact. The ones I've seen pictures of have been outstanding looking. Very balanced and just great looking horses. If they ride like they look, they will be worth a pretty penny in the future. I have one friend that has one o/o a daughter of my stud. She's over the moon about that young horse. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| The only one I've seen run was at the BFA and he looked really good. He still clocked even with a stumble. |
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| I bred to Slick the first year they stood him to the public. I loved him, conformation & especially his temperament when I met him at Ft Smith. I bred him to one of my driftwood mares, Miss Cowboy Drift. I really liked his breeding & have always loved Designer Red. I did this breeding to sell, but after he was started, my trainer's told me he was an exceptional colt. Then the following year I sent him to my trainer's to start on barrels. Again they said, he was wonderful & watching him work, he is fluint & easy. Very smooth to ride. I was still going to sell him, but the more I was around him, the more I fell in love with him. Now I won't sell him. He is a kind & gentle soul, never once has bucked, very athletic & honest.Not spooky, a go with the flow type guy. He looks a lot like Slick, same head & kind eye & body style. I hope I can ride him to the best of his ability, but if not, I will get someone I know who can. This is Slyder, LR Slick Wood
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | I think a lot are on the market also because of the Pink Buckle eligibility. And that’s affecting their price also. |
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Location: Texas | Everything I breed, I breed with intentions to sell. I choose crosses that I personally like because I want to be proud of what I make... but everything has to be marketable. I bred a mare to Slick and got a homozygous black filly in 2016. She was easy to sell and I got what I wanted for her. A lot of people breed with intentions to sell. |
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Location: Texas! | I’d have to say I came across one last night that wow if I had to money would snatch up. |
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | I have a homozygous black filly by slick out of my AAAT Pritzi Dash daughter that i've had posted for sale. and I bred with intent to sell if i didnt get what i want. I rebred to him this year on the same mare. I really like this filly and would keep her but i cant keep them all.
I already have this half sister to the slick filly who is by ASOF. I just got her back from the trainer and I LOVE her |
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| lopnaround - 2018-07-10 8:34 AM
One thing about Slick that I've noticed is that he doesn't "stamp" his babies. Slye might be an exception, but I haven't seem Kellies Chick conformationally so I am not sure. They all look so different, depending on dam. Please correct me if I am wrong, but that's what I've seen so far.Â
Slick sure stamped my colt. He is out of a driftwood bred mare
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Location: sunny california | okhorselover - 2018-07-11 2:08 PM I bred to Slick the first year they stood him to the public. I loved him, conformation & especially his temperament when I met him at Ft Smith. I bred him to one of my driftwood mares, Miss Cowboy Drift. I really liked his breeding & have always loved Designer Red. I did this breeding to sell, but after he was started, my trainer's told me he was an exceptional colt. Then the following year I sent him to my trainer's to start on barrels. Again they said, he was wonderful & watching him work, he is fluint & easy. Very smooth to ride. I was still going to sell him, but the more I was around him, the more I fell in love with him. Now I won't sell him. He is a kind & gentle soul, never once has bucked, very athletic & honest.Not spooky, a go with the flow type guy. He looks a lot like Slick, same head & kind eye & body style. I hope I can ride him to the best of his ability, but if not, I will get someone I know who can. This is Slyder, LR Slick Wood
Is that colt out of the same mare you sold a colt and it turned out to be a pretty big winner years ago? |
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| I am curios to see how he turns out as a sire, I mean he will produce winners with some of the mares he has been breed to, but I am sure interested in seeing what happens with the foal crops on the whole. How many are going to run .... Or not .... What will his % of foals be to win at a top level. |
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| kwanatha - 2018-07-13 7:10 PM
okhorselover - 2018-07-11 2:08 PM I bred to Slick the first year they stood him to the public. I loved him, conformation & especially his temperament when I met him at Ft Smith. I bred him to one of my driftwood mares, Miss Cowboy Drift. I really liked his breeding & have always loved Designer Red. I did this breeding to sell, but after he was started, my trainer's told me he was an exceptional colt. Then the following year I sent him to my trainer's to start on barrels. Again they said, he was wonderful & watching him work, he is fluint & easy. Very smooth to ride. I was still going to sell him, but the more I was around him, the more I fell in love with him. Now I won't sell him. He is a kind & gentle soul, never once has bucked, very athletic & honest.Not spooky, a go with the flow type guy. He looks a lot like Slick, same head & kind eye & body style. I hope I can ride him to the best of his ability, but if not, I will get someone I know who can. This is Slyder, LR Slick Wood
 Is that colt out of the same mare you sold a colt and it turned out to be a pretty big winner  years ago?
No, He is out of a 1/2 sister to the mare your thinking about. Your probably thinking of LR Designerwoods dam, Miss Cowboy Lady. Slyders dam is Miss Cowboy Drift. |
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Location: Texas! | della - 2018-07-13 9:48 PM
I am curios to see how he turns out as a sire, I mean he will produce winners with some of the mares he has been breed to, but I am sure interested in seeing what happens with the foal crops on the whole. How many are going to run .... Or not .... What will his % of foals be to win at a top level.
Curious as well. Saw him in person once at a rodeo and he sure is a handsome stallion. I agree with the not quite stamping all his babies. I have seen some where I see the resemblance but not in like a oh that’s a Fame for sure kind of way. If that makes sense? |
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| One of the best things you can hope for when owning and breeding a stallion is repeat customers. Almost 1/2 of Slicks book this season was to repeat breeders that likes their previous foals. There is a reason that Dash Ta Fame is the number one stallion of all times. One because he is awesome and two is he has 3000+ foals on the ground. Interesting enough the number #2 stallion of all times has over 1600 foals and the number #3 of all time has over 1500 foals. There is ZERO chance anyof them would be where they are at today if their owners decided to only breed 25 mares a year.
We have kept Slicks breeding fee at an affordable price so people could afford to breed to him and not have to get a huge price for their foals if they want to sell as a weanling or yearling.
Slicks 3 year old crop will be his first big crop to hit the arena in December.. He was bred to GREAt mares that are in the hands of GREAt owners and trainers.
Time will tell if he will become a great sire.
We have done everything in our power to promote him and his offspring. The new Pink Buckle program is going to pay like a slot machine. In my opinion this program has the chance of becoming a multiple million dollar program and people are going to have the added bonus of running for big bucks all the way to the 4 D that will pay out $100,000 in just the 4 D. It will pay to breed to a Pink Buckle Stallion!
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