stud fee
Americannoun
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His retirement home has been picked out, his stud fee has been set and he’s in the relatively small club of thoroughbreds with multiple Breeders’ Cup race victories including last year’s Classic.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
Express Train was sired by Union Rags, whose stud fee is $30,000, compared to Essential Quality, who was sired by Tapit, whose fee is $185,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
A stud fee is defined as a price paid by the owner of a female animal to the owner of a male animal for the right to breed.
From Fox News ● Nov. 1, 2021
Boden recommends taking a stud fee and multiplying it by 300 to ascertain a horse’s overall market value.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2019
No one was foolish enough to pay a stud fee to breed a mare to him.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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