According to a saying in the horseracing world, horses do not recognise their value. Many owners will only buy horses with a specific lineage, while others will only buy a racer. The excitement of owning a horse always surpasses the bloodline, no matter how strongly the owners feel about one or the other. If the horse wins races and becomes an equestrian superstar, the excitement of all those victories will be unlike anything an owner has ever experienced. Of course, the benefit of owning a thoroughbred superstar is that after their racing career is over, a Stud Farm will acquire that superstar and breed with them, completing the cycle.
What Happens When a Racehorse Retires? A racehorse’s life is thrilling and fast-paced. They are taught to run from a young age, and their only function is to participate in races against other horses. However, when the horses retire from racing, they may not necessarily have the necessary abilities for a new job. Some retired racehorses find work at stud farms, where breeders breed horses together to produce foals that will be raced in the future. The mares or female horses spend their time reproducing with the horses. Other ex-racehorses go on to become show jumpers. Show Jumpers are used to jump obstacles in events such as horse shows or competitions where riders may demonstrate their ability to ride over challenging courses built up on the ground by course designers. Showjumpers employ their athletic talents to leap over obstacles while doing complex maneuvers such as side passes or flying changes, which are made possible by the horse’s ability to shift lead legs (changing which leg is on the ground).
The horse racing industry is a booming business. It’s estimated that Billions of currency are wagered on horse races annually, and the number of horses competing in races continues to rise. While some racehorses retire after their careers are over and become beloved pets or showjumpers, many others are retired to stud farms, where they will spend the rest of their lives breeding with other horses.
The horses sold to the stud farms are stallions responsible for producing foals that grow to be racehorses. Stallions can live between ten to twenty years, depending on how many times they’ve raced and how much stress they’ve been subjected to during their careers.
Racehorses who retire to Stud Farms
When a racehorse retires from racing, it can be sent to a stud farm. A stud farm is a place where racehorses are bred with mares. The mare is pregnant for about 11 months and gives birth to a foal, which is a baby horse. The average life of a racehorse is four to six years. They start training as a yearling and usually start racing as a late two or three-year-old.
When they retire from racing, they become breeding stock at stud farms. There are different schools of thought with regard to the retirement of racehorses to stud farms. However, the horse has many advantages in being retired from racing and sent to a stud farm to breed and continue the stallion’s lineage.
They get more exercise than if they were kept on pasture alone because they are ridden by riders almost every day all year round. This keeps them fit and healthy, and they can produce more offspring annually than those kept on pasture alone would produce without being ridden regularly.
Retirement and the Psyche of the Racehorse
On the one hand, they’ve made it; retirement. They have won their final races and are now being retired to a Stud Farm, with gentle gallops and reproducing regularly. They will never again have to face the brutal training, the long days of racing that wind up with a loss, or the physical damage that comes with the sport.
On the other hand, they won’t be able to run anymore. They will never again feel the thrill of victory or taste the adrenaline rush from competing at breakneck speed around an oval track.
Historical Form of the Parents of a Yearling
Horse racing is conducted daily using records of a horse’s performance in prior races and is often seen as a reliable forecast of a horse’s future success. However, the finest racehorses do not necessarily produce the best offspring, and Stud Farms will go through data regularly to locate that elusive recipe for breeding the ideal champion.
The history form of a racehorse may seem to the uninitiated eye to be a random collection of data, yet here is the portion of the racecard where most horse racing tipsters and analysts at Stud Farms spend the most attention. A horse’s official Rating determines the handicap mark. With handicaps, this mark specifies how much weight a horse may carry.
Primary Duties of a Stud Farm’s Horse Racing Analyst
- Preparation of historical ratings for international thoroughbred racing, as well as pre-and post-race rating evaluations
- Racing studies and racing history analyses for horses being evaluated for purchase.
- Access to historical data and form/rating analysis for horses’ form and ratings in a race.
- The preparation of race perspectives is concerned with pace and pacemakers, as well as related analysis.
- Race form analysis, including pre-and post-race analysis, as well as the accompanying analytical skills to “read a race,” such as analyzing race recordings and composing horse remarks/race summaries and video comments, are all required.
- The application of sectional time analysis. Sectional Timing gives in-race speed information per runner during a race, allowing exciting narratives to develop even before the horses cross the finish line, with the data analyzing how a race is conducted rather than just the conclusion.
Purchasing a Yearling has gone Digital
Social networking has significantly simplified the lives of punters. Yearling research is now available to seasoned bettors and horse racing professionals thanks to many online form study publications. The usefulness of the information lies in its breadth and complexity, which enables punters to consider several elements and determine whether or not a good purchase opportunity exists.
Stud Forms will supply this information and form studies for horses who have retired from horse racing but that a specific Stud Farm would wish to acquire to breed with their Mares on the Farm. The horse’s performance on the racetrack will be a significant factor in determining if that Stud Farm will purchase the retired horse from its owner.