Nearly as important as a mare having a foal is getting her bred back to have next year’s baby. Breeding on foal heat is an old management strategy aimed at doing just that. It is the first heat cycle ...

Breeding season for horses usually occurs in the spring. This makes winter a good time for breeders to plan for the upcoming season. Although people have many reasons for breeding a horse, there are ...

Making an informed decision to breed a mare is an exciting time in an owner's life. There are so many things to do: pick a stallion, prepare a foaling location, and dream big about the foal's ...

Equine breeding veterinary specialist Emma Houghton MRCVS from Bell Equine in Kent, explains what owners need to know before attempting to breed from older mares, while Selene Scarsi speaks to ...

My mare is difficult/chronically lame, should I put her in foal? You should discuss this carefully with your vet. Difficult behaviour and chronic lameness may be due to your mare’s genetics, in which ...

As a self-confessed "little guy in the breeding game" Wai Eyre Farm principal Darryl Brown is proud of what he and his team ...

In the wild, a stallion covers a small herd of mares when Mother Nature suggests the timing is right. In today’s horse breeding business, though, the only time Mintse and the other stallions interact ...

Newgate Stud boss Henry Field has hailed Extreme Choice “a phenomenon” and raised the prospect of the superstar stallion covering more northern hemisphere mares by stating that “every major ...