READING an article reporting on the Asian Racing Conference last week I was struck by one of the speakers who was making the point that they were “ fortunate to be able to take our breeding decisions purely on the ‘fit’ between the mare and the stallion, and not based on the eventual sales value of the yearling or the foal”.

Unfortunately most of us, commercial breeders, do not have this luxury and trying to find a happy medium between ‘fit’ and commercial reality is possibly what we should be striving for.