Breeding and Bloodstock Sales

Mares in foal can travel quite late, some at the December sale in Newmarket only have 4-6 weeks to go according to their covering date. I would say may depend on temperament of the mare, if they are normally a good traveller or not and how long the journey? My mare is a stressy traveller/doesn't like change and she got in a tizz when we moved her half a mile down the road two weeks before her foaling date and started leaking milk there and then, and the foal was 8 days late so didn't help. Friends who have mares move them within 3 weeks of foaling date to a stud 3 -4 hours away on a trailer to foal down at a stud where the stallion is based for the next covering, and they have always been fine.
 
I try to have them in situ 6 weeks before foaling so they have a chance to produce antibodies to whatever is floating around in that barn/stud and thus produce them in the colostrum so the foal is protected.
 
It's declared as private which apparently means 'depends who it's for' but I'd be budgeting about £10k or a little more.
 
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I don't think we have a 2017 thread, DG please can we amend the title of this to get rid of the year? Be nice to look back and see them all in one place ( in my humble opinion!)

Behold the cuteness that is my foal - born on Feb 8th. Black Sam Bellamy x Frosted Grape - good job she's not staying really, with that spade shape on her head she was destined to be called snow shovel [emoji23]
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