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I Want Revenge could have been bought for $100,000 when he was offered in the 2008 Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in training, according to Dave Showalter, who had the colt in his NexStar consignment. But the dark bay or brown son of Stephen Got Even ended up being bought back for $95,000 and returned to his breeder, David Lanzman, who has seen ...

The Pamplemousse, a Triple Crown candidate and the winner of the Sham (gr. III) and San Rafael (gr. III) Stakes, wasn't the star of the show at last year's Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March select sale of 2-year-olds in training. While his $150,000 price was above the auction's all-time-high average of $143,262, it didn't come close to sale peak for ...

If you raise horses to be sold, and even if you don't, you're probably trying to find ways to cut your veterinary bills. The Blood-Horse spoke to several top veterinarians in Kentucky about reducing veterinary expenses, and here's what they had to say: Dr. Andrew Clark, CEO of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, Lexington: ''When optimism is in ...

Just prior to its March 3 Florida select sale of 2-year-olds in training, Fasig-Tipton officials announced they were going to include private sales in the auction's results. The private sales had to take place before the auction ended and had to be reported to the sale office to be included.   Cynics might say  that Fasig-Tipton made ...

Following the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. February select sale of 2-year-olds in training, OBS general manager and director of sales Tom  Ventura warned not to look at the sales results and assume they will be the  trends for the rest of the juvenile selling season. He did have a good point because only 154 horses were offered at the ...

Leprechaun Racing's Mike Mulligan, the president of the National Association of Two-Year-Old Consignors, talked about his outlook for the upcoming juvenile selling season and the pinhooking business recently with The Blood-Horse. Read what he had to say:   The Blood-Horse: How do you think this year's juvenile auctions will perform in this ...

Everything points to the market being tough during the selling season for select 2-year-olds in training, which begins with the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. auction slated for Feb. 17. But following are four reasons why it might not be as bad as the market for mixed stock, where downturns of 40% or more have been common since late last year. 1. ...

The Keeneland January horses of all ages auction is not a sale regarded as a trend-setter or a barometer of the commercial marketplace. Traditionally, it is an auction of mostly odds and ends, and most people don't point horses specifically for it. They sell there because they need the money or a horse wasn't ready for another auction. The catalog ...

Street Sense and Hard Spun were rivals on the racetrack, and Street Sense got most of the glory. He was the champion 2-year-old colt of 2006, and he defeated Hard Spun by 2 ¼ lengths in the 2007 Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands (gr. I). Street Sense also finished second to Hard Spun's third in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I). The two ...

It will be a challenging year in the Thoroughbred marketplace in 2009. While the trend of cutting stallion fees that developed this fall is good news, sellers of young horses won't be benefiting from the reductions in the short term. Consignors of weanlings and yearlings face the daunting prospect of trying to make money with horses that were ...