The earning disparity between retired stallions and mares is vast. Another reason owners prefer male racehorses is their inherent belief that colts and geldings
It would be interesting to see what others have to say. In the horseworld it’s mostly always the stallions who impress the audience most. When they are brilliant, they are unbeatable. If you look at successful performance horses – most of them are male. Isn’t it the same in the d...
Stallions obviously, can start much younger, but again it is better for all concerned if he waits until his body is mature – in the wild a colt wouldn’t have a chance to reproduce as the dominant stallion would not allow it; in domesticated horses young male horses can breed more easil...
Interestingly, the decrease in the SEBR under food condition in Cluster 2 suggested that the carrot alone did not induce a reward effect. This result is consistent with the fact that the horses’ attention was more strongly oriented towards the outside of the experimenter than towards the carrot...
In contrast, the activities of these four enzymes were not correlated with sperm quality parameters in stallions. Finally, while SOD, CAT, and GPX activities but not those of GSR were correlated in jackasses, the activities of all four enzymes were correlated each other in stallions. We can ...
Semen was collected from two Welsh pony stallions (A and B) from our experimental stud using an artificial vagina. Sperm cells from each stallion were prepared separately as previously described by Palmer et al. [24]. Briefly, sperm was collected, filtered, diluted to 25 × 106 spermatozoa ml...
By 1966, he had been riding as the stable jockey for Noel Murless for over 10 years. During that time, Piggott had won a number of big races on horses trained by Murless. However, in return for a rather modest retainer, he was obliged to ride whatever horse Murless told him to ride...