A few post-sale statistics now that the Keeneland September yearling auction has concluded.

So I'm wondering what the season will bring this year. It's been a wet, cool year from spring to autumn... does that translate to a snowy, cold winter? I like to think of the first nine months of 2009 as "mild" in hopes that the winter before us is mild, too.

A bit of research on Thoroughbred sire-line descent becomes a trip down memory lane as I consult the 1982 Stallion Register.

... buy, buy again! Or, that's what Keeneland is hoping you'll do, at least. The Thoroughbred sales company has opened up RNAs from its premier yearling sale to an electronic re-bid program.

I've always thought bidders had a prejudice against "named" yearlings at Thoroughbred sales. The numbers seem to indicate I'm wrong.

Do you watch for the Breeders' Cup Classic winner to go on to a successful stallion career? The Travers, maybe? Or is it one of the juvenile races that "makes" a stallion for you?

Only six stallions have at least eight sons represented by hips at Keeneland's yearling sale later this month. We look at the sale's count by sire-of-sire as well as by larger sire lines.