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If anybody has any money left after the global financial meltdown, there are some top prospects among the weanlings, broodmares, stallion prospects, and the racing and/or broodmare prospects in the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Following is a list based on a quick scan of first book in the catalog, which has information about the horses ...

  If you haven't said bye, bye, bye to your money during the recent financial turmoil sweeping the nation and spreading around the world, then November should be a good time to buy, buy, buy broodmares.   There will be a huge quantity of horses on the market during the November breeding stock sales in Kentucky, and there also ...

After the hideous day on Wall Street Sept. 15, somehow the downturns at the Keeneland September yearling sale don't seem so bad. Actually, nobody complained much during the first week of the sale. The setbacks were expected and just about in the range that had been predicted by many people. The top of the market took the biggest hits. The number ...

Hidden Brook is consigning 173 Adena Springs horses to the Keeneland September yearling sale. The huge consignment is one of the results of Adena Springs owner Frank Stronach's decision to cancel  his sale of 2-year-olds in training in Florida for 2009 and concentrate instead on selling the young horses he breeds as ...

  David Mullins wasn't the most successful or the most famous person in the Thoroughbred business. But he made a good living in his chosen profession, and he probably enjoyed it more than anybody I have ever met.   Just about anywhere I went in Central Kentucky, if it had something to do with Thoroughbreds, David was there. If there ...

The introduction of exogenous anabolic steroid testing at a number of Thoroughbred auctions has been a positive development. It addresses an issue that has become a major controversy in sports and it also discourages sellers from attempting to artificially enhance the appearance of a young horse beyond what is natural. But on the horizon is a ...

People often complain that journalists only want to write about negative things. But in this post, the focus is on the positive, in particular what was good about the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling auction. 1. The sale confirmed that even with a sagging American economy there is still demand for quality horses, something the that also ...

Storm Cat's five-year reign as the leading sire of sale yearlings ended in 2006, when he dropped to second on the list with an average price for his progeny of $1,255,038. In 2007, he ranked third, when the average dropped to $544,038, suggesting buyer enthusiasm for his offspring was waning. But prices for Storm Cat's yearlings could rise again ...

Representatives of the Sales Integrity Program Monitoring Committee and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association have been making the rounds recently, talking to members of the media about the past and future efforts to make public auction transactions involving horses more transparent. It's clear that a lot of thought and debate have gone ...

  The buying patterns of Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock manager John Ferguson and the Demi O'Byrne/Coolmore Stud team in recent years have indicated each has avoided young horses with ties to the other camp. So when Fasig-Tipton was sold earlier this year to a Dubai-based company headed by one of Sheikh Mohammed's close associates, there was ...