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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 ...

Last week it was announced that Churchill Downs and Great Britain's Kempton Park created a new 3-year-old race that will provide the winner a berth in the 2009 Kentucky Derby. The race, named the Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes, not only guarantees the winner a spot in the starting gate next May, but will earn the connections a $100,000 bonus if ...

Financier Warren Buffett once said there is only one certainty about the stock market: It will fluctuate.In fact, all markets vacillate, and the business trends of buying and selling Thoroughbreds are certainly among them. The difference is the stock market tends to react quickly to news while the Thoroughbred market, by its sheer nature, often ...