FOLLOWING the very successful ITM stallion trail last weekend, and after some conversations I had with people on it, I was reminded that you will often hear the phrase “most stallion careers end in failure”.

While this is not something that anyone would wish to dwell on, and much of the excitement is in trying to predict the future when it comes to mating, I took to wondering how true this is in fact. The first thing to say, of course, is that one man’s or woman’s definition of success will be another’s failure.