Proven sires reward strong mare support with high percentages of stakes winners....
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Juveniles that breezed under 10 seconds represented only 1.1% of all 2-year-olds sold, but they easily commanded the highest average sales price....
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Keeneland November is the largest grossing breeding stock sale in North America, but Keeneland January rivals it in producing quality runners....
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What Thoroughbred dam deserves to be Broodmare of the Year?...
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As A.P. Indy is retired to the comfortable life of a much-loved pensioner, Avalyn Hunter reflects on the less fortunate fates of many other Thoroughbreds that have ended their racing or breeding careers....
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The "speed gene" identified by Irish researchers should not be seen as detrimental to Thoroughbred breeding. It should be seen as one more tool in the arsenal for the producers of top-quality horses. ...
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Bobby Franke's reign during 2003 was nothing short of astounding....
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Linda Rice captured her first training title at Saratoga this summer. Statistics tracked by The Blood-Horse MarketWatch show her star has been rising....
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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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Seven stakes winners in his first crop probably helped bring Stroll back to Kentucky from Italy....
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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....
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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....
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One slender segment of the 2-year-olds in training pinhook market significantly outperformed all the others....
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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...
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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...
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Welcome to the MarketWatch blog. This is the place to discuss, debate, and interpret the statistics published monthly in The Blood-Horse MarketWatch....
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