Review of the 2010 Stud Season
Since 2008 the UK horse breeding industry has had to weather the economic storm. After a cold February we had a good start, breeding more mares by the end of April than the previous year. The upward trend flattened off and we ended the season with ten more mares than in 2009. We hope we will see a recovery in the industry in 2011.
This year we have used semen from 135 different stallions. Our thanks to all those involved with sending us prompt deliveries of good quality chilled and frozen semen. We have Stallion AI Services (SAIS) next door, where we have easy access to fresh semen from a wide variety of quality stallions. We find that working closely with SAIS and using new techniques for optimising semen quality, we have had greater success in breeding even the most difficult of ‘problem breeders’.
We had exclusivity on all mares for AI in the UK to use the frozen semen from the Gold Medal winning stallion, ‘Moorlands Totilas’. Noelle Lowry our resident vet achieved excellent pregnancy results from the mares that arrived from all over the UK.
This year we have had many top competition mares fitting ET into their busy schedule, including King’s Temptress ridden by Mary King, Limelight de Breve and Beluga ridden by Laura Renwick, and Woodlander Farouche who is ridden by Michael Eilberg.
We have had an increase in the use of our ‘Transported Embryo Service’ this year, and have been delighted to work with the referral vets who carried out the flushes and sent the embryos for us to transfer into our recipient mares. We also had success with several ‘walk in flushes’ for those who want to breed the mare at home and then bring her to us to be flushed and transferred to one of our recipient mares. In 2011 we will continue to provide a flexible service with good results for both owners and referring vets.
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