but the old #$%$ ( The woman not the poodle ) was not happy!! No pleasing some people. An absolute absurdity, due to the fact there are no guarantees whatsoever regarding the foals. They may or may not be any good ! Probably a better chance puting 125,000 on red or black at the casino ! Think this is an expensive risk for Breeders. There is no guarantee his off spring will be any good, anybody who has a top mare might be best to use Galileo who is already proven and by the sounds of it cheaper. a boy missed one day of school , next day his teacher asked him why he missed the school the other day ,the boy's answer went like this - I had to take our mare to a stallion . Couldn't your dad do that ? asked the teacher . Well , maybe he could but the stallion does it better answered the boy . the story doesn't mention the level of the fee however .