Sell a mating
Your stallions, and the mating rights you offer on each of them.
Selling a mating means selling access to your stallion's genetics: the buyer will use it to have one of their mares covered. You part with nothing — the stallion stays yours, and you can sell again tomorrow.
Reading a line
Four columns after the horse, and the first commands the other three.
- Saleable: the quota of matings this stallion can still put on the market. If it is at zero, there is nothing to do here. Where that quota comes from and how it builds back up is explained in My stallions — and it is not worked out the same way on every world.
- Fixed price, Reserved, Auction: your sales in progress, one column per formula.
The difference from selling a horse
Three sale columns, and that is no accident: one same stallion can have several sales running at the same time, one per formula, and even several of the same. A horse has only one sale at a time.
That is what lets you work your market: three matings at a fixed price for buyers in a hurry, two at auction to see what the market is ready to pay, one reserved for a breeder you have dealings with. The total simply must not exceed the quota.
Two other differences, in the same spirit:
- a sale of matings bears on a quantity, at a price for one;
- the deadline goes up to 30 days, where a horse sale caps at 7.
The quota is consumed when it is put up for sale
That is the point to take from this screen. Putting five matings up for sale immediately takes five points off your quota, before any buyer even comes forward.
Nothing is lost for all that: if the sale is deleted, expires with no buyer, or is refused by the player it was reserved for, the quota is given back to you. But all that time, those matings are available neither for another sale, nor for your own mares.
The practical consequence: do not put all your quota up for sale at once if you mean to use it at home. Keep enough to breed your mares.
A stallion for sale does not sell matings
If the stallion himself is on the market, putting his matings up for sale is refused. And it is logical: the buyer of the stallion would get a horse whose quota had been spent by the seller.
The other way round, selling the stallion cancels the mating sales in progress. So choose: either you work the stallion, or you sell him.
The filters
The name, the speciality, the age, all the genetics, and your folders. The sort starts on the name.
In a stable that counts many stallions, it is the genetics that are of most use: they let you spot at a stroke the ones whose matings are worth offering — and forget the others, that nobody will want.
To go further
The sale window is set out in detail in Putting a mating up for sale. To set a price, go and see what the competition is worth in Buy a mating — it is the same market, seen from the other side. And for what makes a sought-after sire, see breeding.