Horse Funds

For a new or current horse owner, perhaps the safest and least expensive way to get involved in horse ownership is to become owner of a syndicate or partnership. Basically that means that ownership of a horse (or group of horses) is split among more than one party. This decreases the cost for each party, but will still give the full experience and enjoyment of owning a horse.

One thing to always keep in mind is the risk involved with owning a horse, or even a part ownership. Yearlings and foals are especially susceptible to disease and injury in the first two years of life. With that being said, the following is a loose definition of horse ownership syndicates.

A syndicate is a formal business agreement between a general partner and some number of limited partners that creates a group ownership of a horse or horses. A written agreement details what the syndicate activities will be and what will be the responsibilities, investments and returns for each partner.

Those returns come from breeding fees from a stallion standing at stud, or, in the case of syndicated broodmares, from selling foals.

Syndications are not limited to ownership of breeding stallions, however. Top mares bring top dollar.