Sport Horse Mare Retirement

Retire your top sport mares to Virginia's green pastures under the watchful eye of Dr. William B. Ley DVM MS DACT, a board certified theriogenelogist (reproduction specialist) of over 40 years. When mares retire from jumping, dressage, eventing or other strenuous sport, it can take a year or more for their bodies to transition to be breeding viable. Often mare owners are attempting to breed these mares in that first season off showing and are not successful. If the mare had a catastrophic injury and has not caught in foal easily, she is turned out on a retirement farm and her career and value is forgotten to some extent. Cloverlone extends a new opportunity to retire these special mares under watchful eye of lifelong breeders. When she is finally ready, we will know. Allowing the mare to stay in one place to relax, come into season and be bred will give mare owners their absolute best chance at pregnancy in optimal time and expense. Cloverlone can also offer fresh semen to top quality pedigree stallions in house for that first pregnancy to get the mare started in her new career as a broodmare. Once she has had a foal expensive frozen semen can be used with greater success.