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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Forget the gate...where you gonna get the horses from?
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Bingo. I checked stats on live foals.
In the 1990s there began a downward trend in live foals. Typically, the count was in the upper 30 thousands. Today, the number of live goals is closer to 20k
https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.co...-foal-reports/
Here is a news release reporting foal count and number of mares covered from the Jockey Club dated 2003.
https://www.jockeyclub.com/default.a...show&story=125
These two reports illustrate the significant drop in the number of live foals over the last 20 years.
