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Live foal guarantee is a common provision in horse breeding contracts.It is a form of a warranty offered to the mare owner by the stallion owner. Basically, it says that if the mare fails to produce a live foal from the breeding, the stallion owner will breed the same mare again without charging another stud fee.
A foal at about weaning age. A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a "suckling".
A broodmare. Note slight distension of belly, indicating either early pregnancy or recent foaling. A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. [1] In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more
The horse won the 2009 Welsh National by three-quarters of a length, ridden by Tom O'Brien. [5] As a result of his humble background and the successful treatment, the horse received significant media coverage in the run-up to the 2010 Grand National. [6] He failed to complete that race, [1] being pulled up after the seventh fence.
Horses were known to humans on what is now the Iberian Peninsula as far back as 25,000 to 20,000 BC, as shown by cave paintings in the area. [1] Among the local wild horses originally used by humans were the probable ancestors of the modern Lusitano, as studies comparing ancient and modern horse DNA indicate that the modern "Lusitano C" group contains maternal lineages also present in wild ...
It is thought that the "switch" that changes these neurosteroids occurs during birth. While the foal is moving through the birth canal, the pressure exerted on the foal's body acts as that switch. Most live births take between 20 and 40 minutes. It is during this time that the sedative neurosteroids stop production, signalling the foal to "wake ...
Makybe Diva had a colt on 28 August 2009 by Encosta De Lago and was covered by More Than Ready for the 2010 season, but she did not produce a foal in 2010. [17] [18] [19] Makybe Diva gave birth to her fourth foal, a bay colt by Lonhro, on 16 August 2011 in Victoria. [15] Her fifth foal, born in September 2012, is a colt sired by High Chaparral ...
Honeysuckle is a bay mare with no white markings bred in England by Dr Geoffrey Guy. She was sold to Mark O'Hare as a three-year-old at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale. At the Goffs Punchestown Sale in 2018, having won a Point-to-point maiden race for four-year-old mares at Dromahane, she was purchased for €100,000 by Peter Molony of Rathmore Stu