Matings available
The mating rights you have bought from other players, waiting to be used. You find them on the market, and each one lets you have one of your mares covered by a stallion that is not yours.
That is what makes breeding accessible without owning a great stallion: you buy access to the genetics you lack.
Reading the list
- Stallion and his description: who it is about.
- Purchase price: what you paid for it. Keep it in mind when the foal is born — that is how one learns what a right is really worth.
- Use deadline: the date beyond which the right disappears. You have 90 days from the purchase.
That date is the only thing to watch on this screen. Past the term, the right is deleted automatically and nothing is given back to you. A right bought and forgotten is money lost.
Using a right
The Breed button chooses the mare to cover. The rules and the possible refusals are the same as for a mating by one of your own stallions: see My mares.
Do not wait for your mare to grow up. That is the mistake to avoid here: nothing obliges the mare to be of foaling age. You can use the right straight away on a one-year-old mare — the foal is created at once, with a date of birth calculated for the moment when its mother will be ready. The 90-day limit bears on the use of the right, not on the birth.
In other words: as soon as you know which mare is to receive this right, use it. Nothing is gained by being patient, and the clock is running.
Deleting a right
The wastebasket removes a right you no longer want, after confirmation. To be handled with care: the deletion is final and without refund. It serves only to make room in a cluttered list, never to get anything back.
If the right no longer interests you, it is better to use it on any one of your mares than to throw it away: a foal, even an imperfect one, sells.
The other side of the market
To put your own stallions at the disposal of other players, and to understand where the quota of matings comes from, see My stallions. And to choose who to buy from, breeding explains what makes a good sire — it is not always the most decorated one.