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Several weeks ago, I started a poll asking whether it's a good time to be buying bloodstock.  Over 61% of you said that you would at least consider purchasing a broodmare if you could find a good deal -- and only 16% said that you're trying to sell off some of your current herd.  See the full poll results here. Sounds to me like there ...

 Lexington, Ky - BloodHorse.com  and TheHorse.com  are teaming up to bring Thoroughbreds in need of homes to the attention of hundreds of thousands of horse owners across the United States. Creating this database was the brainchild of Antony Beck of Gainesway Farm in Lexington. With the Thoroughbred Adoption Services, any ...

By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable  Sometime Tuesday night - or perhaps Wednesday morning - our nation will have a new president-elect. And Maryland racing will have a future.  Or not. Maryland voters will decide Tuesday on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow slot machines in the state for the ...

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Lexington, Ky. - The Horse announces the launch of the most recent addition to its electronic newsletter stable, an informative weekly Equine Nutrition e-newsletter, which is available free to registered users on TheHorse.com, courtesy of OCD Pellets. To view the inaugural edition of the e-newsletter, visit ...

Looking for some festivities for Halloween? Then you need to look at the Meadowlands. Last year I could not believe they had festive races, and a stakes at that, for Halloween. The most amazing, for me, was watching The Grey Ghost. I was working nights at that time and was able to pause and enjoy this beautiful race. The night was slightly ...

By Frank Vespe When Frankie Dettori flyingly dismounted from Raven's Pass last Saturday, it marked, in a sense, the end of a decade-long journey for the colorful jockey.  It also marked, from my perspective, another link in the chain of interconnectedness that is one of racing's signal charms. Ten years ago, Dettori had the mount ...

Since the launch of TrueNicks less than a year ago, we've been delighted with the reception from both breeders and stallion farms. However, with the season for mating plans about to get into full swing, farms subscribing to the stallion service are coming in thick and fast. This week, TrueNicks hit a milestone when the the number of subscribing ...

Byron and I -- along with the rest of the team at TrueNicks and with the help of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch -- combed through the data and developed a special report titled Top 10 Emerging Thoroughbred Broodmare Sires at the Keeneland November Sale. It was a very interesting white paper to develop -- and there are some good opportunities ...

Whether you use ''damsire'' or ''broodmare sire'' or ''maternal grandsire'' or ''family sire'' -- and each term holds shades of meaning -- the goal of bloodstock buyers is to find mares by stallions that shine in this role.  We all can name stallions whose names we love to see in that spot on a five-cross pedigree.  Secretariat, Deputy ...