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Like that alliteration?  Anyway, you need to go participate in our Bracket Battles. Why? Because I said so, just kidding, but Bracket Battles has some really interesting match ups and challenges that make you think about the performances of the top of the top, the cream of the crop in racing. It was nice to be forced to review history and ...

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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 ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/miavarone_large.jpg'' alt=''Mike Iavarone'' ]Mike Iavarone[/image] Mr. Iavarone (Mike), 37, founded International Equine Acquisitions Holdings (IEAH) in 2003 to take advantage of opportunities in thoroughbred horse racing. He has been a student of the sport for over 20 years. Over this period, ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston Okay it's time to stop.  No really, just stop.  I was one of those people that swore that Easy Goer was the best horse in America in 1989 and that Sunday Silence was just lucky.  I look back on that now and wonder if I had lost my marbles.  How I ever made that argument, even to myself, is a ...

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If you're not completely familiar with the basic premise of sire-line nicking, here it is in a nutshell:  Specific affinities of stallions of one male line for mares from other sire lines -- called nicks -- have made a profound impact on the development of the Thoroughbred. Today's powerful data-processing computers have now made it ...

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 ...