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stud fee

American  

noun

  1. the charge for the service of a male animal, as a horse, in breeding.


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Flightline will begin his breeding career next year at Lane’s End Farms in Versailles, Kentucky, but a stud fee has yet to be determined.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 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

For reference, Blood Horse reported that horse racing triple crown winner American Pharoah’s stud fee was around $175,000 in 2020.

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