From Loucky

What a good idea and plan to start this great idea.

In the region Zeeland we started 2 years ago with a similar plan, we bought a colt and it was a disaster- not tall enough and a colt was lacking the great movements. The colt had an excellent pedigree and all the horses out of this bloodline were great movers and good performers. We sold the colt and had a loss.Now we bought another colt via a foal auction with the remaining money and additional funds from our members ( 18 in total).We are happy with this colt and he is now in a opfokbedrijf. (farm that raises colts)

Every 2 months we do a kind of evaluation, very nice because it is also a social event with all those breeders.

We had also an other obstacle, 2 members wanted to quit and wanted their part of the money in return( was in the bylaws mentioned). Now we had this changed in our bylaws.

Also another point of attention is that many foal auction require an amount of money, sometimes Euro 10.000 when the colt is approved by the KWPN. Some breeders have the same policy,so be aware with the budget.