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...
The former racehorses Hart and Grenier buy are often thoroughbreds who were not expected to win or runners who were injured beyond recovery. And because the meat buyers can only use live animals, there is incentive to keep horses alive until they go to the slaughterhouse. Injured animals that...
At the time that Lester Piggott began to ride racehorses for a living, jockeys were regarded as lower-status servants, small men whose job it was to ride the horses, preferably win riding them, and to doff their caps and be suitably grateful for the privilege of riding Their Horses, and ...
It is now the Hungarian National Stud with over 250 horses stabled there, including 19 breeding stallions. It would have been great to see but we were 10km down the road before we realised we had missed it. Andy clicked over 2000 kilometres today so we marked it out with some wild ...