Live Foal Report: Foal Crop Steady at 22,500
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The Jockey Club released its annual Live Foal Report Sept. 22 and the figures show the reported number of live foals is down just 0.5% from last year’s number and the crop of 2016 should reach 22,500.
With reports received through Sept. 15, 2016, The Jockey Club states 21,991 live foals of 2016 based on 1,923 stallions covering 36,964 mares. As always, The Jockey Club estimates the number of live foals reported so far is approximately 90% complete at this stage of the year.
The reporting of live foals of 2016 is down less than 1% from the number at the same stage last year when The Jockey Club had received reports for 22,104 live foals of 2015.
Kentucky-based stallions accounted for 47.6% of the mares reported bred in North America in 2015 and 55.4% of the live foals reported for 2016.
The 17,598 mares reported bred to 221 Kentucky stallions in 2015 have produced 12,184 live foals, a 2.8% increase on the 11,853 Kentucky-sired live foals of 2015 reported at this time last year. The number of mares reported bred to Kentucky stallions in 2015 increased 3.0% compared to the 17,088 reported for 2014 at this time last year.
Among the 10 states and provinces with the most mares covered in 2015, only three produced more live foals in 2016 than in 2015 as reported at this time last year: Kentucky, Ontario, and Texas.
The number of stallions declined 8.6% from the 2,103 reported for 2014 at this time last year, while the number of mares bred declined 0.7% from the 37,244 reported for 2014.
“It is important to note the live foals reported in The Jockey Club breeding statistics are by conception area and do not represent the state in which a foal was born,” said Matt Iuliano, executive vice president and executive director of The Jockey Club. “Breeding statistics also are not a representation of a stallion’s fertility record.”
The 2015 breeding statistics are available alphabetically by stallion name through the Resources—Fact Book link on The Jockey Club homepage at jockeyclub.com.
The following table shows the 10 states and provinces, ranked by number of state/province-sired live foals of 2016 reported through Sept. 15.
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2015 Mares Bred
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2015 Live Foals
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2016 Live Foals
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Percent Change
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| Kentucky |
17,598
|
11,853
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12,184
|
2.79%
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| California |
2,716
|
1,767
|
1,720
|
-2.66%
|
| Florida |
3,013
|
1,629
|
1,577
|
-3.19%
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| New York |
1,594
|
975
|
940
|
-3.59%
|
| Louisiana |
1,721
|
955
|
893
|
-6.49%
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| New Mexico |
690
|
506
|
452
|
-10.67%
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| Ontario |
897
|
367
|
447
|
21.80%
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| Maryland |
797
|
433
|
411
|
-5.08%
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| Texas |
761
|
369
|
383
|
3.79%
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| Oklahoma |
859
|
401
|
361
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-9.98%
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| The statistics include 439 progeny of stallions standing in North America but foaled abroad, as reported by foreign stud book authorities at the time of publication. | ||||