The Jockey
Club today reported that 2,392 stallions covered 37,908 mares in North
America during 2012, according to statistics compiled through Sept. 9,
2013. These breedings have resulted
in 22,001 live foals of 2013 being reported to The Jockey Club on Live
Foal Reports received as of Sept. 9, 2013.
The Jockey
Club estimates that the number of live foals reported so far is
approximately 90 percent complete. The reporting of live foals of 2013
is down 2.2 percent from last year at this
time when The Jockey Club had received reports for 22,500 live foals of
2012.
In addition
to the 22,001 live foals of 2013 reported through Sept. 9, The Jockey
Club had also received 2,891 No Foal Reports for the 2013 foaling
season. Ultimately, the 2013 registered
foal crop is projected to reach 23,000.
The number of
stallions declined 8.7 percent from the 2,620 reported for 2011 at this
time last year, while the number of mares bred decreased 4.8 percent
from the 39,838 reported for 2011.
The 2012
breeding statistics are available alphabetically by stallion name
through the Publications and Resources link on The Jockey Club homepage
at
www.jockeyclub.com.
Matt Iuliano,
The Jockey Club’s executive vice president and executive director,
stated that the breeding statistics are not a measurement of the live
foals born in each state or province,
but are a count of live foals by conception area, regardless of where
the foals were born. He also reiterated that the statistics should not
be taken to represent the final fertility record of any single stallion
or conception area.
Kentucky
annually leads all states and provinces in terms of Thoroughbred
breeding activity. Kentucky-based stallions accounted for 41.1 percent
of the mares reported bred
in North America in 2012 and 48.8 percent of the live foals reported
for 2013.
The
15,569 mares reported bred to 249 Kentucky stallions in 2012 have
produced 10,726 live foals, a 2.1 percent decrease on the 10,960
Kentucky-sired live foals of 2012 reported
at this time last year. The number of mares reported bred to Kentucky
stallions in 2012 declined 2.2 percent against the 15,918 reported for
2011 at this time last year.
Among
the 10 states and provinces in which stallions covered at least 1,000
mares in 2012, only Florida and New York stallions produced more live
foals in 2013 than in 2012
as reported at this time last year. The following table shows the 10
states and provinces, ranked by number of state/province-sired live
foals of 2013 reported through Sept. 9, 2013.
2012 Mares Bred
|
2012 Live Foals
|
2013 Live Foals
|
Percent Change
|
|
Kentucky
|
15,569
|
10,960
|
10,726
|
-2.1%
|
Florida
|
3,187
|
1,642
|
1,751
|
6.6%
|
California
|
2,475
|
1,600
|
1,582
|
-1.1%
|
Louisiana
|
2,306
|
1,344
|
1,172
|
-12.8%
|
New York
|
1,664
|
713
|
971
|
36.2%
|
Ontario
|
1,350
|
700
|
684
|
-2.3%
|
Pennsylvania
|
1,124
|
628
|
608
|
-3.2%
|
New Mexico
|
1,127
|
585
|
503
|
-14.0%
|
Oklahoma
|
1,124
|
509
|
470
|
-7.7%
|
Texas
|
1,014
|
444
|
417
|
-6.1%
|
The
report also includes 75 mares bred to 30 stallions in North America on
Southern Hemisphere time. The majority of these mares have not foaled.