And the growing steroid problem is further eroding public confidence in the sport and the lucrative breeding industry.

Wouldn't the size of the foal crop shrink with a demand for fewer horses, crippling an already shaky American breeding industry?

Babamist was a stallion that had a profound impact on the American breeding industry, especially in the sport of eventing.

It is now estimated that the state's breeding industry may suffer more than a 30 percent reduction in the number of horses born in 2002.

The thoroughbred breeding industry is apt to keep this kind of savagery very quiet.

Thoroughbred racing is now the feeder system for a multibillion-dollar breeding industry.

The breeding industry has never been an economically sound investment, and never will be.

More than anything else, though, Northern Dancer fueled the explosive growth of the commercial breeding industry earlier in the decade.

The breeding industry uses descendants of animals imported before 1975.

To meet this demand a captive breeding industry has developed.