Prices for Storm Cat yearlings could increase this year now that the stallion has been pensioned.

There's been a lot of hard work, but more needs to be done in the effort to improve sales integrity.

Coolmore Stud's Demi O'Byrne and Paul Shanahan attended the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select yearling auction, but their names didn't appear on a sale ticket. That can't be interpreted as a buying boycott because the auction traditionally doesn't offer the colts with fancy pedigrees that Coolmore craves.

When will America's suffering economy have the most effect on the Thoroughbred marketplace this year?