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You don't typically see pinhookers banging heads with big-spending buyers likeSheikh Mohammed's bloodstock manager John Ferguson and Demi O'Byrne for thevery best horses at the yearling sales. But their participation is important tothe health of the market. Pinhookers provide new homes for many young horsesthat don't have the very best pedigrees ...

Trinniberg is one of the the biggest auction bargains among the horses entered in the May 5 Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands (gr. I).   In 2010, M&H Training and Sales bought the dark bay or brown colt for only $1,500 from Beau Lane Bloodstock, agent, at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale. The following year, ...

The select selling season for 2-year-olds in training has come to an end and, as usual, I've ended up with a lot interview material from sale coverage that I never was able to use in my stories. There's also stuff that I've gathered for features that never saw the light of day. This blog gives me a chance to pass some of it along. Read and ...

Majestic Warrior, whose first crop of offspring will race this year, was the leading sire at the Keeneland sale of 2-year-olds in training April 9 in Lexington. His three offspring that sold averaged $385,667. The trio included the $700,000 sale-topper, a colt produced from the unraced Hennessy mare Counter Cat, and the auction's ...

The most expensive yearling sold at public auction in 2011 has been named Powerful. His new owners need to be commended for making a choice that is fitting for a majestic-looking $1.4-million A.P. Indy colt. It doesn't always happen. There have been times when people, who have gone out and spent seven figures, inexplicably choose a name so bad ...

Optimism outweighs pessimism heading into the selling season for select 2-year-olds in training, which begins with the Barretts auction in Southern California March 5. Sale company officials and consignors are feeling good for several reasons. No. 1, the American economy, while still far below where it used to be, is doing better. No. 2, purses ...

Dr. Barry Eisaman and his wife, Shari, had a big day Santa Anita Park earlier this month when two horses they had sold captured graded events. I'll Have Another triumphed by 2 ¾ lengths in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (gr. II) in Feb. 4's sixth race. Two races later, Ultimate Eagle, who was a grade I winner last year on grass, rolled to a 7 ¼-length ...

Where are we in the recovery phase of the Thoroughbred marketplace? According to Bayne Welker, vice president of sales for Fasig-Tipton, we are in the replenishment period of the process. ''What you see in the Thoroughbred industry is that when things are really good, people jump in with both feet, so there is an excess on that side,'' he said. ...

A.P. Indy was a dominant force in the commercialsire ranks in 2011 as his career as a stallion was coming to an end. He was theleading sire of sale yearlings for the second year in a row and he also was thetop sire of sale weanlings. In addition, one of A.P. Indy's sons, Bernardini,was the leading covering sire.The 10 A.P. Indy yearlings that were ...

Rachel Alexandra's newborn foal by Curlin is a primeexample of breeding the best to the best. The colt's dam was the 2009 Horse ofthe Year and his sire was the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year. Male Horses of the Year are much more common thanfemale winners of the honor -- at least until the last three years -- so theopportunities to pair them up ...