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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The story of Raven's Pass includes several parallels to Giant's Causeway—certainly a welcome comparison given the latter's current two-year reign atop the general sires list....
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Animal Kingdom offers a gleam of hope that new bloodlines can be incorporated into the American breeding industry with success. Plus, download a FREE special report on the recent history of South American sires in North America....
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The very same stallion at some point in his career may be defined as a failure by one standard and a success by another.
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Moderated under tack times during the OBS February sale was welcome news....
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Will stud fees hold or rise for 2010, or are lowered rates expected? ...
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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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Participate in The Blood-Horse MarketWatch's online poll to help identify whether the winners of certain races go on to become successful sires....
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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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Excluding out-of-the-ring transactions would have made the final Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July statistics look better, but these transactions are important to the industry. ...
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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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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....
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