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April 2009 - Posts

A Stroll to the Top

• 28 Apr 2009 1:46 PM
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It was Tax Day, and I was finishing up the MarketWatch Index calculations for the 2008 freshman sires. I re-sorted the spreadsheet so the sires would rank from highest to lowest by their MWIs, expecting to see Tapit rise to the top. But he didn't. Tapit was second to Stroll , the grade I-winning son of Pulpit who was bred and raced by Claiborne Farm. Stroll is not only the leading freshman sire, he... Read More

Sir Harry Lewis: Last In a Line of Great Damsires -- by Scot T. Gillies

• 21 Apr 2009 9:32 PM
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Sir Harry Lewis descends from a line of stallions that are best known as broodmare sires. It's no wonder, then, that he has spent the past five years as a leader by Broodmare Sire AEI, as seen in the April issue of TBH MarketWatch.... Read More

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