BREEDING FORUM

Posted: **Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:28 am**

I came across this paragraph in an article....
To determine if hospitalized foals presented for public auction sell for a comparable price to controls, a pair of Irish researchers evaluated 63 foals hospitalized before reaching 125 days of age (roughly four months). Of those horses, 19 were presented to be sold as weanlings, 39 as yearlings, and five as 2-year-olds. Using other sales horses (the three horses presented to the same sale immediately before and immediately after the subject) as controls, the team found that hospitalization as a foal does not appear to affect sales price or buy-back rate at auction."

Any comments. Wouldn't you just love to follow the racing career of those 63 foals?