Select sales lead the way by percentage of stakes winners, graded stakes winners, and grade I winners....
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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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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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Most observers would agree that we probably don't need to go back to the days when a first-year stallion who looked likely to produce flashy juveniles might serve 200 or more mares at the expense of good but not particularly fashionable sires. But the current contraction has its drawbacks, too....
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A new special report from The Blood-Horse MarkeWatch includes valuable sire statistics and pinhook information for the Keeneland September Yearling sale....
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Eleven yearlings at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select sale were purchased by buyers who have a direct tie to the farm standing the sires of the yearlings purchased. These yearlings sold for more than $7.4 million....
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