The ability to breed a mare on the West Coast to a stallion on the East Coast without either horse stepping hoof off the property has expanded a breeder's options by leaps and bounds. With cooled or frozen semen that has been transported to the breeder, a mare can avoid the pains and perils of travel. Stallions of exceptional quality are available to more mares.
Breeders have more choices in their quest to produce the perfect horse.
For eight years now, the Registry has been recording if a horse was conceived using transported semen. Since the program was introduced in 1991, an average of 10 percent of the foals born in a year were bred using shipped semen. Of the registered horses from the 1998 foal crop, nearly 23 percent of their sires held transported semen permits. Over 7,600 registered Arabians have been bred using transported semen. If you plan to register a foal produced by transported semen or ship semen as a part of a stallion's services, you need to be aware of the Registry's rules and procedures.