More than 1,900 broodmares will be offered in-foal at this year's Keeneland November breeding stock sale....
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Keeneland September yearlings by third-crop sires have posted the best ROI from 2002-11....
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Buyers at 2-year-olds in training sales have at least one distinct advantage over yearling buyers: they get to see the horses perform....
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The full chart of prices by hip number shows how the 2013 sale started strong and had enough momentum to improve on the 2012 median....
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Comparing charts of sales prices during the past five Keeneland September sales shows how much the yearling market has strengthened....
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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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Commercial breeders took a bath from 2008 to 2010. Stud fee cuts in 2009 and 2010 have reflected the distressed sales environment. Will stud fees in 2011 drop even further--or are stallion farms preparing to hold fast or even increase fees for the coming breeding season?...
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The first two books of the 2010 Keeneland September sale have seen 28 hips sold for $500,000 or more. Tammy Curlin reviews the top-dollar yearlings in the first half of Keeneland's new sale format--including a few statistics that might surprise you....
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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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