I’m planning a broodmare auction some time soon, so I’ll post here which mares are going to be included. Most of them are young mares with only a few, or no foals on the ground. All are in foal for 2017.
Hilda (Shanthi - Maybe you are the better person to answer this)
Just wanted to check whether, if we win the auction for one (or more) of these mares, when the mare foals, does the foal revert back to you or does it belong to the new owner?
I thought that was the case, but have a vague memory of seeing a discussion on the Forum recently (can’t remember for sure and can’t find the discussion now), the upshot of which was that the foal would revert back to the Selling stable at the time of it’s birth.
Don’t remember if that was to do with Broodmares for Sale/Auction, Broodnares for Lease, or both, or if I dreamed the discussion.
Lewis - when a mare is sold in foal the unborn foal’s ownership follows the mare’s, but only if the mare’s old owner and the foal’s breeder are the same. (As imagine said, if the unborn foal was bred thanks to a lease and the mare’s owner has no claim on the foal, the new owner also has no claim on the foal.)