in horse racing why is it called a stud farm?

Answer 1

A stallion can also be reffered to as a stud (this is also where the practise of women sometimes referring to a man as "a stud" comes from).

Therefore the farm where the stallion resides and covers his mares has become known as a stud farm.

Answer 2

Racing barns are usually not stud farms. When a racehorse is finished with his career and he was a decent well known horse he'll be put out to stud which means he's retired and lives as a horse in a field and everything and his job is not breeding. Usually he'll go live on a stud farm, a place where a bunch of these stallions live and where the mares come to be bred to the stallions. Stud farms usually handle all of the preparation about the breeding process so that the mares can come be fertilized, then go back home.

So stud farms come after racing and it's a barn devoted solely to breeding and it is so named because when stallions are retired for breeding, they are said to be put out to stud.

Answer 3

It is called a stud farm in the whole of the horse industry and not just in racing......The stud farm is a horse breeding place. In England the Sire horse is called a "Stallion", but in the USA he is called a "Stud" perhaps this is where the Stud Farm got its name?

Answer 4

When intact male racehorses retire, if they are not sterile or gelded they are put out to Stud, usually bigger known race horses are located on "Stud Farms" where there are lots of other stallions. Breeding is a big industry in horse racing, I believe Storm Cat's Stud fee is half a million dollars so they deserve their own farm.

Answer 5

A STUD FARM == a horse breeding farm

A place where horses are bred

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Answer 6

"Stud farm" is somewhat of a corruption of terminology. A place where stallions are kept for breeding purposes is properly called a "stud". The word "stud," as used in the context of breeding horses, is derrived from the OE stōd; c. ON stōth; akin to "stand". The etiology of this may have come from the practice of tying the mare to be bred into a "stand" or kind of minimal enclosure to make handling the breeding process either.

Thus, a place where stallions are kept for breeding purposes can be properly called a "stud," as in Crabbet Park Stud, for example. Calling such a place a "stud farm" is redundant and actually marks the user as something of a rube among people who actually work on studs.

The corruption came about because over time, people have referred to the stallions that stand at a stud as studs. I've dealt with horse people in varying capacities since I was in my teens (I'm 50 now) and I've never, ever heard anyone who actually works with stallions closely call them "studs."

The concept of a breeding farm where a number of stallions are housed for breeding to mares that are brought in from other farms is actually something of a modern development. Until about the late 1950's, most stallions went to stud as the property of the person who owned them while racing, and spent their entire stallion careers on a farm associated with that owner. People who raced horses mostly either bred their own, or bought them privately or at a limited number of sales (e.g., Saratoga Yearling Sale). The sale of bloodstock, as Thoroughbreds used for breeding are collectively known, was much less a commercial proposition than it is now, and standing a stallion at stud was pretty much a private venture.

In the 60's things started to change, and the concept of the "stallion station" was born: a place where a number of stallions, sometimes as many as a dozen or more, stood for an advertised fee to any mare owners. Fees were raised or lowered as the stallion's progeny succeeded or failed on the track, and some people made quite a good living at standing stallions (and some went broke, too).

Nowadays the commercial stud operations are just one aspect of the Thoroughbred industry. You have farms that are nursery operations, where broodmares are kept and foaled; farms that specialize in sales preparation of breeding stock and yearlings; and pinhooking operations where horses bought at one sale as speculative investments are prepped for another sale.

Hope this helps. ;-))

Answer 7

a male horse is also reffered to as 'stud'. so, it follows that where male horses are kept is a ''stud farm''. but the point of interest in a stud farm is horse breeding.

Answer 8

stud or stud farm is a place where horses r bred n trained 4 racing.

Answer 9

Because a stallion that breeds on a mare is said to "Stud", this has come to mean any male animal that "services" the female for breeding

Answer 10

because the male horse is a stud and he studded with the female horses