Purchase of a mating

The purchase of mating rights on a stallion. The window recalls the batch, asks how many you want, and works out the total.

The quantity

It is the only field, and the only real choice: from 1 up to the number of matings in the batch, which the label recalls for you. The price displayed is for one, so the total follows your quantity.

Taking part of the batch is normal and has no drawback. What you leave goes straight back on the market for the other players — the seller loses nothing, and you do not tie your money up in eight matings from the same stallion when one is enough for your mare.

The total is recalculated before your eyes. Read it over: on a sought-after stallion, the difference between one and three matings runs into hundreds of thousands.

What the purchase produces

As many rights as matings bought, poured into your Matings available. Each carries the stallion's birth genetics and is good for 90 days.

The seller takes the price less the 10 % commission, and his stallion's quota is definitively consumed for those matings.

The refusals

As for a horse, each line is checked again at the moment of paying, and one that fails does not stop the others:

  • the mating is no longer for sale — sold in the meantime, withdrawn, or come to its deadline;
  • the price or the quantity have changed since the display: the game refuses rather than debit you an amount you have not seen;
  • the sale is reserved for somebody else;
  • you do not have the sulkies for the quantity asked for;
  • it is your own sale.

At the end, a summary tells you how many matings from which stallion have been added to your stock, and for what amount. It is that summary that counts.

Before buying

Two checks that save you from throwing your money away.

The speciality. A mating serves only a mare of the same speciality. It is the silliest and the most frequent mistake, and the right is not refundable.

Having a mare to use it on. The 90 days run from the purchase, not from the birth. And nothing obliges the mare to be of foaling age: you can use the right immediately on a one-year-old filly, the foal's date of birth being worked out accordingly. See My mares.

In other words, buy when you already know who it is meant for. A right bought “because it was a bargain” often ends up expiring.

To go back to the market, see Buy a mating.

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