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Before we begin, I wanted to let you know that we've got a new poll up and running:  Time to Buy a Broodmare?  The Thoroughbred breeding industry is in flux -- please take 30 seconds to have your vote counted. .......... And now, back to our regularly-scheduled event.  With the long weekend coming up, I thought I'd shake up ...

So many mares, so little time.  Today's selection has a definite slant towards grass bloodlines.  Overall, there's a lot to like, and some downsides to consider as well, in this world-traveling mare that spent time in the U.S., France, Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia. Hip #898 (catalog page, pedigree), an ...

I could talk about broodmares all day, every day -- okay, okay, I DO talk about broodmares a lot! -- but that's only part of the picture when it comes to Thoroughbred racehorses.  With all the recent interest in all-weather tracks, I thought I'd do a quick study of the Thoroughbred stallions that are having notable success on ...

Before we hit the sales catalog for today's broodmare pick, I have some recommended reading.  Here's something you don't find every day:  one of the best minds in Thoroughbred auctions is offering a free peek at her Cheat Sheet for the Keeneland November sale.  If you follow Thoroughbred sales news, you ...

The Keeneland November sale will have a close link to the tragic filly Eight Belles (pedigree) as her dam is being offered, carrying a full sibling to the runner-up in this year's Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).  (Full story here.) Some numbers on this newsworthy Keeneland November ...

We're back in Ocala for today's broodmare pedigree review pick.  Lisa the Great is one of the first hips through the ring during the Consignor Preferred listings (Day 1) part of the sale. Some stats on this broodmare: Hip #3 (catalog page, pedigree), a 6-year-old mare named Lisa the Great, sells Mon., Oct. 6, ...

For today's Thoroughbred broodmare sales catalog offering, let's travel about 750 miles down I-75 South from Lexington's Keeneland sales pavilion to the Ocala Breeders' Sales complex in Ocala.  Better remind me to stop though -- I'm liable to want to make it an even 1,000 miles and wind up on the Gulf Coast for a bit of beach time. OBS is ...

It's not every day that the oppotunity arises to purchase a daughter of the incomparable Personal Ensign.  At the Keeneland November sale, though, it happens twice. Personal Ensign (pedigree) is one of the rare Thoroughbreds about whom the mantle of greatness is unarguable.  Her perfect racing career (13-for-13 on the track, including ...

It's no secret that Thoroughbred sales have seen a down market in 2008, and I expect that the autumn breeding stock season will experience a similar trend.  I plan to benefit from the situation by adding to my small broodmare herd this fall -- with the hope of obtaining, at a bargain, a mare that might otherwise be out of my modest price ...