from the USTA Communications Department

Columbus, OH — TheStable.ca, the innovative fractional ownership group and exchange based in Ontario, is reminding breeders and yearling owners that there is a new option for getting full value for the yearlings that they market.

Under the TheStable.ca system, yearling owners turn their horses over to trainer Anthony MacDonald and name the full price of the horse. MacDonald and his team then divide the horse into 100 equal shares and sell them to investors. The original owners have the option to retain any portion of the horse that they wish.

As the horses are trained down at Baycairn Training Center in Campbellville, Ont., MacDonald and his staff will provide regular online updates and drone camera footage of the horses. Investors can sell their shares in the horses at any time — at a price that they name — on the secondary share market on TheStable.ca. The training fee is C$2,000 per month, which comes to 74 cents per day per share.

“In our first year in business, TheStable.ca sold all available shares in its group of yearlings,” said MacDonald. “Of the 25 yearlings we started with, three were sold outright: one filly sold in July for C$140,000, which was substantially more than her C$6,000 purchase price just seven months earlier. Three were turned out to mature and the remainder all qualified.”

TheStable.ca has also prepared an information packet that shows the success of this concept in its first year. To request a copy, visit http://thestable.ca/investor/.

“TheStable.ca gives you, the breeder, a financially sound and viable way to sell any percentage of your youngster for whatever the market will allow — any time — without having to send them through the sales ring,” said MacDonald. “We offer you an easy, cost-effective way to showcase and sell shares in your horse through access to our ever-expanding global roster of owners.

“And if you decide to retain full or part ownership in your horse, we will do all the heavy lifting for you to make your youngster race-ready, right down to breaking, training and marketing your yearling for you.”