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Airdrie Stud owner Brereton Jones has often said he looks for a good miler when prospecting for a new stallion. While certainly not his only criteria, a quick glance down Airdire's current stallion roster shows a number of horses whose resumes include victories or good placings in one-mile stakes — Divine Park (grade I ...

The Blood-Horse MarketWatch has just released a special report packed with sire statistics and prospective pinhook information for the upcoming Keeneland September Yearling sale marathon. The special report is available free to MarketWatch subscribers on the MarketWatch Web site. Any subscriber who has not registered on the Web site ...

Stallion owners are typically active at public auction. The tremendous influence of the commercial market on breeding nowadays requires it. Nothing can damage a sire’s value more than letting a few low-priced horses slip through, driving down the average yearling price. To what extent this price protection occurs is speculation, but it does ...

I am glad to see Stroll returning to Claiborne Farm after having spent a couple years in Italy. The grade I turf star and a son of Claiborne's hot sire Pulpit has seven stakes winners in his first crop, which were 2-year-olds of 2008. As a second-crop sire he is currently co-ranked ninth by number of stakes winners (3) along with Congaree, ...

No one could have blamed Fasig-Tipton executives for not including private sales in the results for the recent Kentucky July yearling sale. By excluding the out-of-the-ring transactions, the final numbers would have looked a bit brighter. The average price for 241 horses would have been $81,216 instead of $77,716 (down 12% instead of 15.8%) and ...

The June issue of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch includes 10 profiles of 2009's leading first-crop yearling sires to watch, based on their 2008 weanling medians. These insightful profiles were written by pedigree expert Alan Porter and international bloodstock consultant Michael Youngs. We actually had 12 profiles to run but wound up with ...

Your name is your brand. This is particularly true for the consignors, buyers, and breeders of Thoroughbred horses, but a relatively small percentage of industry professionals recognize it. I know this because I’ve just spent three days matching up buyer and consignor names for The Blood-Horse MarketWatch’s annual yearling season preview study. ...

The Blood-Horse MarketWatch’s May issue includes a review of the select 2-year-olds in training season, which fared worse than expected with an overall drop in rate of return for pinhooked horses. The ROR fell to 30% from 82% in the 2008. Now these statistics apply only to pinhooked horses, meaning those purchased previously at public auction as ...

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. ''[Sherriff’s Deputy] is simply not capable of ...

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 ...