Ghostzapper made history entering stud for $200,000 in 2006 but enters his ninth season at $50,000. How have other high-priced stallions fared since their first year?...
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Newly announced stud fees show the changing market opinion of our 2013 undervalued sires. ...
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This year’s Keeneland November sale realized significant gains in all categories, following the trend of growth seen in almost every major North American auction in 2013....
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The reduced number of mares bred and live foals may help drive prices upward at Keeneland November....
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Looking at the past 15 years, the Keeneland September yearling average and Dow Jones Industrial Average have tracked similarly....
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The full chart of prices by hip number shows how the 2013 sale started strong and had enough momentum to improve on the 2012 median....
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Tiznow entered his stud career as the only horse to win two Breeders' Cup Classics, but there's only so long a stallion can ride his racing laurels before the commercial market decides his fate....
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Comparing charts of sales prices during the past five Keeneland September sales shows how much the yearling market has strengthened....
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Buying yearlings by young stallions is always a high-risk investment. Young stallions are largely unproven as sires, which means that the market is less accurate in its valuation of their progeny....
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Over the past three years (2010-12), 458 yearlings have been sold through the Keeneland September sale that were the produce of either grade I-winning or grade I-producing dams, or the rare dams that are both....
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Comparing Florida's Bridlewood Farm to Kentucky's Claiborne, Avalyn Hunter celebrates the good news of new prospects for the Sunshine State's stud farm....
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Taylor Made's son of Unbridled died at 20--but the gray stallion leaves a slew of stallion sons and producing daughters to carry his blood into future generations....
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If any proof were needed that a Thoroughbred can be quite a volatile asset, one need look no further than Starship Truffles....
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Some thoughts on Estimate and No Nay Never at Royal Ascot....
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Animal Kingdom left Royal Ascot without the historic win he sought, but his mere presence was somewhat out of the ordinary for American-based runners. Avalyn Hunter reviews the phenomenon of U.S. horses competing abroad....
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Not impressed by recent Belmont Stakes (gr. I) efforts? ...
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With the confirmation that Unlimited Budget is a go for the 2013 Belmont Stakes (gr. I), Avalyn Hunter identifies several advantages available to top-flight fillies who take on the colts in big races....
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In Excess was a great success story--one of those horses lacking a remarkable pedigree or influential connections who nevertheless prospered. Stories like his keep the hope alive wherever Thoroughbreds are raised....
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Oxbow's Preakness Stakes (gr. I) upset may mean we're not heading into June with a Triple Crown on the line--but it introduced its own touching story line....
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Hollywood Park is now more valuable for its acreage than for the revenue it can bring in as an operating track. And so the memories of Citation and Noor, Swaps and Round Table, will fade away beneath housing, office space, and asphalt. ...
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For many Thoroughbred owners, the horse comes first. Avalyn Hunter uses Orb's classic victory as an opportunity to celebrate the human connections who still view horseracing as a sport....
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While best known as the sire of the popular and versatile California-based gelding Lava Man-the first horse to win grade I races on dirt, turf, and synthetic surfaces-Slew City Slew was a stallion for Everyman. ...
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Competition for MarketWatch Broodmare of the Year is always fierce, and 2012's contest is no exception. ...
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The powers that be in Thoroughbred racing should capitalize on homerun sales--like the $1,000 hip that earns six figures on the track--to attract a new group of everyman owners to the Sport of Kings....
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A few surprises might greet you when you read through MarketWatch's 2013 renewal of "Freshman Sires to Watch."...
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