10 Sep 2009 9:31 AM
Linda Rice captured her first training title at Saratoga this summer. Statistics tracked by The Blood-Horse MarketWatch show her star has been rising.
17 Aug 2009 10:14 AM
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.
14 Aug 2009 1:04 PM
Seven stakes winners in his first crop probably helped bring Stroll back to Kentucky from Italy.
01 Jul 2009 9:14 AM
The Blood-Horse MarketWatch recently published profiles of the top first-crop yearling sires to watch. We had too many to fit in the print edition of the newsletter, so we're publishing two bonus profiles here.
08 Jun 2009 10:38 AM
Whether you are a consignor, buyer, or breeder of Thoroughbred horses, your name is your brand. Here are some suggestions on managing your brand and why it's important.
26 May 2009 10:14 AM
One slender segment of the 2-year-olds in training pinhook market significantly outperformed all the others.
06 May 2009 9:02 AM
Since 2003 The Blood-Horse MarketWatch has published an annual analysis of the top 400 broodmare sires by their Average Earnings Indexes (AEI). This year's study, which is featured in the April issue, includes Smart Strike for the first time because his daughters' progeny met the minimum criteria of five North American runners in 2008 and lifetime earnings of at least $5 million. Smart Strike, the...
28 Apr 2009 1:46 PM
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...
16 Mar 2009 10:34 AM
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