Darby Dan Farm will utilize the Share The Upside concept for breeders in 2012 with its new stallion American Lion.
The Share The Upside concept was introduced as a program by Spendthrift Farm's B. Wayne Hughes in 2010 in an effort to give breeders a vested interest in a new stallion as a bonus for the breeders' support of that particular horse during its initial couple of books at stud. It allows breeders to earn a lifetime breeding right in the stallion by breeding one mare on a stands and nurses basis each of the stallion's first two years at stud, with no bills or obligations going forward.
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