BloodHorse.com

We posted a story over the weekend regarding the outstanding matriarch Best in Show and it happened to be the weekend that another great mare in Lassie Dear stepped up and showed her wares! The ''Lassie Dear Weekend'' started when Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor's Duke of Marmalade (Ire) (TrueNicks A+) made it four group Is in a row in Ascot's ...

Many guys will admit, if pressed, that within 30 seconds of meeting a new girl, they place her in one of two categories: a potential date or a possible friend. I think most pedigree geeks do something similar when first encountering a new mare.  Is this a potential broodmare prospect?  Or is she better off in another ...

Over the years, I've picked up on a rather common opinion amongst the race crowd that performance is closely tied to attitude. Specifically, there's a widespread belief that the unrestrained behavior of a fiery young colt or a feisty little filly somehow presages racing potential. I see the logic -- the unruly foal is likely to be an energetic ...

The conference rooms in the Blood-Horse building are all named for famous racehorses.  If you've watched ''Part I'' of the Losing the Iron Horse? video, you know that the Breeders' Roundtable was held in one of these meeting rooms.  Several times throughout the 14-minute show, you'll see a painting of a stallion (the first glimpse comes ...

In this week's edition of The Blood-Horse we present a study that will clear up some facts regarding a question frequently debated in Thoroughbred circles: Is the breed getting weaker? The full report -- all 232 pages of it -- is available for download on BloodHorse.com. If you haven't already done so, review Losing the Iron ...

About a month ago, we were discussing sire-line outcrossing and a reader suggested looking into the German stallion Monsun (GER) (pedigree). At the time, the 3-year-old Monsun grandson Kamsin (GER) (pedigree) was a group III winner -- a solid runner but perhaps not one who had yet earned international acclaim.  He was still several ...

From Fox Tale Stud, we got the news Thursday afternoon that Request for Parole (SRO, TrueNicks) will stand the Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Estacion de Monta Don Petiso in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fox Tale pointed out that the son of Judge T C will be the first Pennsylvania stallion to shuttle south. Full story here. Since he's one of ...

You've used the Stallion Register Online. You know the basics. It's a free service... you can do a multi-criteria search from the home page...  stallion pages have tabs for easy navigation... there are a bunch of state and national sire lists... the annual Report of Mares Bred is linked directly from the home page. Those are some of ...

When the hammer fell following hip #568 at yesterday's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale, it marked the closing of the first major yearling auction in 2008. Many breeders were holding their breaths throughout the last couple of weeks, knowing that the July sale is the first test of the strength of the yearling market. ...

Young Mares Looking over the results of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale, it struck me that foals out of new broodmares were underperforming. The overall sale average was $92,298, and the median was $75,000. I looked at ''birth order'' figures and saw that the yearlings sold included birth orders from first to thirteenth, with ...