When there is over-production of geld, prices of commodities—primary commodities first—go soaring up.
Each party will have a strong incentive to press for good, sound, quiet horses which have been gelded, respond well to the bit and will not kick over the traces.
Steppenwolfer was gelded in 2009 and was retrained for steeplechasing.
There are 24 hides paying geld, 5 of these are waste.
For taxation purposes, the whole was assessed at two geld units.
The others are either gelded or sold out of the region.
In other places, most males are gelded and only a few stallions are kept as breeding stock.
Late in his two year-old season, he was very hard to handle, so his owners had him gelded.
