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Approximately how many mares would be sent from Europe each year to be served and foal down in America ?
The figures aren’t compiled anywhere – to get them you would have to plough through all the individual stud books.
I’m also not quite sure of your exact question – do you mean sent to the US to foal and be covered and then sent home again (in the same year)? That would be very few – to be cost effective most would have at least two years of coverings out there. More often newly retired fillies (such as Ouija Board) would be covered for the first time in the States and then sent straight home, but it is more difficult with an established mare as you have the foals to consider too.
If you mean generally, how many mares are exported from Europe to the US every year and not returning the same year, published figures can give you some idea. In recent years, the number of fillies exported from Britain to the US has been between 60-70 each year. Only about half of that would be mares, the rest would be yearlings or fillies in training. About the same again (maybe a few more) would go from Ireland, about the same or less from France, and only a handful from other European countries. So in total, I would estimate at about 100 mares maximum being exported from Europe every year to continue their breeding careers in the US.
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