stud horses
Sires for hire
Stud horses are male horses kept for breeding.
A stud is an uncastrated stallion whose primary purpose is to sire offspring, typically selected for desirable traits like speed, strength, or conformation.
The term extends to the breeding operation itself—a stud farm or simply a stud is where such horses are kept and mated with mares.
- stallionIntact male breeding horse
- sireMale animal parent
- equineOf the horse family
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- thoroughbredOf pure ancestral line
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