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I am not involved in edit warring but just commenting here because other errors exist -- see numerous references to 1999 dates which must be inaccurate because all of this happened after 1980 -- i.e., events are reported as happening in 1999 when they logically must certainly have happened in the 1980s. Source: Logic. 72.198.206.183 (talk) 19:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it's certainly not sourced in logic. The references to 1999 are because that is when Sean O'Callaghan published his autobiography and the year when the Shergar Cup was inaugurated. So it's accurate, because that happened in 1999. - SchroCat (talk) 20:42, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
User:SchroCat In British English (or Hiberno English) the term for thoroughbred stallions is covering season, not rutting season. You can see this if you google "thoroughbred" "covering season" and then google "thoroughbred" "rutting season".
Some examples of reliable sources using "covering season" [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] and so on. Nothing for "thoroughbred" and "rutting season". In British English rutting is used for deer. Southdevonian (talk) 08:43, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Both are acceptable terms, although I'll grant 'stud' is the more common (and it's wrong to claim rutting is used for deer: it can (and is) used for all animals, but is much more commonly used for deer). The reason to avoid the term here, however, is to avoid the over-use of the word 'stud' in such a concentrated space. Repeating the word quite so frequently is just bad English, thus the use of a correct but different term. As such, per [[WP:BRD] and WP:STATUS QUO I've put it back to the long-standing consensus version. - SchroCat (talk) 08:53, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Would you be able to show me some examples of the term "rutting" in the context of thoroughbred stallions? So your objection to "covering season" is that cover is already used in the sentence? And to "season at stud" is that stud already appears three times in the section - although not in this paragraph? How about a more commonly used term - "breeding" which is not already used in the section. The sentence would then read "In 1982—his only breeding season—Shergar covered 44 mares, from which 36 foals were produced: 17 colts and 19 fillies." Any objections? Southdevonian (talk) 09:56, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There are countless examples of "rutting" being applied to horses in a range of sources, from academic downwards, but I'm really not going to waste my time cutting and pasting results here: you will be able to find them using even a rudimentary search, even though it misses the point somewhat. 'Covering season' has an issue in that it's not a terribly well-known phrase outside horse-management circles (whereas 'stud' and 'rut' are far better understood). I've changed to breeding, even though it's no improvement on what was there before, to bring this to an end, if nothing else. - SchroCat (talk) 10:13, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
