Moderated under tack times during the OBS February sale was welcome news....
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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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Glencrest Farm's relocation announcement came with a political commentary about the state of breeding and racing in Kentucky....
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Bobby Franke's reign during 2003 was nothing short of astounding....
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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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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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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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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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A video published May 8 of Curlin's full brother sparked a lot of comments because the foal is seen romping in a paddock with a black and white paint mare that is obviously not his mother, Sherriff's Deputy (who is seen at the beginning of the video). Yes, the foal is being raised on a nurse mare.
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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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Calvin Borel's unbridled joy as he paraded his 50-1 shot Mine That Bird toward the winner's circle at Churchill Downs today is the elixir that could help revive horse racing. ...
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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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The Blood-Horse MarketWatch has pared down a field of 1,343 graded stakes-producing mares to a slate of 10 Broodmare of the Year candidates. Now it's time for you to vote!...
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Two stories about leading sires of all-weather performers, and I never used the "P" word....
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The Blood-Horse MarketWatch released its annual trainer's issue in March. Unfortunately, the top three trainers by earnings also had drug positives in 2008....
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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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