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The results are in and quite a few astute readers scored perfectly in this round of Name That Thoroughbred! These first two images are from various collections at The Blood-Horse Building:.   When the contest started, the text next to REAL QUIET's image incorrectly asserted that he was Horse of the Year as a 3-year-old  ...

October is less than two days away, and with the change of month comes the release of the Keeneland November sales catalog.  For a Thoroughbred pedigree geek like me, the autumn breeding stock sales season easily beats the excitement of yearling auctions or horses-in-training sales.  (If pressed, I might even say the ...

It's been six weeks since our most recent ''Name That Thoroughbred!'' contest -- it's about time for another challenge Once again, the winner (randomly selected from the best responses) will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Blood-Horse Photo Store. Below are four images.  Identify as many of the horses as you can and ...

Yesterday, I played around with the final data from the Keeneland September yearling sale that concluded Tuesday afternoon.  BloodHorse.com has a nice, succinct statistical review of the sale available free to all readers:  download the 2008 KEESEP Thoroughbred Sales Data Digest results edition. If you look through the numbers, you'll ...

In posts past, we've looked at pedigrees of all types of horses:  mares for sale, new and established sires, and a few Thoroughbred race horses that I've identified as having interesting breeding.  A frequent commenter thought it would be fun to ''analyze'' the horses owned by other blog contributors.  I like the idea and would ...

The headlines on BloodHorse.com have told the same story every night for the past two weeks:  with a few exceptions at the top of the market, it's a bad time to be selling yearlings. I've been crunching numbers from the Keeneland September yearling sale every evening these past couple of weeks -- I review data for the daily Auctions ...

Say it ain't so. The Broad Brush sire line suffered a setback today when it was announced that his son Mongoose (SRO) has been sold to stand in Peru. (Full story.) Don't get me wrong --  I hope Mongoose goes down there and wins every sire title for the next 15 years.  It's great to see interest in American bloodlines from other ...

I ducked out of work this afternoon and drove the 2.2 miles to Keeneland for a bit of horse-watching.  There were two ''Day Nine'' hips that had caught my attention when I went through the catalog way back when it came out, and I wanted to see them. Hip #3086 (catalog page) was a bay filly by Yes It's True (SRO).  Her ...

Watch out -- what seems to be a lot of discordant topics will merge by the end of the post -- I promise! AIRDRIE STALLIONS Airdrie Stud stands a large roster of stallions that offer value to breed-to-race operations, including several commercially attractive studs.  It's easy to appreciate a farm that stands sons of both Holy Bull (SRO) and ...

The Jockey Club released the 2008 report of live foals (BloodHorse.com offers a free download here).  This report is important because it reveals some hard indicators of how the Thoroughbred industry is faring, with statistics that can be compared to previous years'.  Couple of interesting observations: Thoroughbred foal ...