Metaphor can bridge the gap, though, and when it tells us that the instrument's "call is the call of the stallion to the mare" there's a factual base: the fiddle's strings were traditionally "male" and "female", one using stallion hair, the other, that of a mare.
Although the Piber Stud trains mares for driving and under saddle, the Spanish Riding School exclusively uses stallions in its performances.
Some estates, especially in southern regions of Finland, were known to have used stallions of several light and hot-blooded breeds; for example, an officer in Pernaja bred Arabians.
Mares were teased every other day using a stallion.
The Kenney's extender was used for stallions F, Y, T, A, R and K, while Nørlund medium was used for stallions H and W. Note: the stud personnel had recognized low pregnancy rates following AI with cooled, transported sperm doses for these two stallions from previous years, and were testing a different extender for these stallions in an attempt to rectify this situation.
Brown won again in 1923 with an Anglo-Arabian named Gouya, thus retiring the U.S. Mounted Service Cup. Brown used Arabian stallions owned by the remount service as breeding animals, and over time he also provided 32 of his own stallions to sire remounts.
Between World War I and World War II, the U.S. Army used Thoroughbred stallions as part of their Remount Service, which was designed to improve the stock of cavalry mounts.
In 1896, Randolph leased Leopard and Linden Tree to a friend of Grant's, named General Colby, who used to stallions to breed a number of mares on his ranch in Nebraska.
It was very much German inbreeding: use the stallion of your friend next door and vice versa".
Instead of restricting covers by a stallion to shareholders in a syndicate, Coolmore adopts a much more commercial approach, buying and standing potential stallions and, for the most part, allowing any breeder with a mare and the money to pay for a cover to use the stallion of their choice.
