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A friend accompanied me out to Keeneland today to see several mares. She noticed my marked-up catalog and commented on how I dogear the pages.  Thought it would be worth sharing. Here's a fresh catalog: I open to the hip I'm interested in: I fold the catalog page at a sharp angle, forcing the top of the page out of alignment with the ...

When I wrote a pedigree review of 2010 Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) winner Dangerous Midge (profile, pedigree) for this week's issue of The Blood-Horse, I focused my 500 words on the La Troienne female family. I looked specifically at the overall influence of the 1962 Hail to Reason mare Straight Deal, a spectacular race mare (99 ...

Crossing a speedy sire line over a stamina-oriented female family is a winning formula in American Thoroughbred racing. One permutation of the pattern that has yielded consistently good result for 150 years is to import solid South American racemares and mate them with U.S.-bred dirt sprinters. The results, when it works, are dirt milers and ...

Hip #2890 (catalog page, pedigree), a 7-year-old mare named MINADO, sells Mon., Nov. 15, 2010 at the Keeneland November mixed sale. Thoroughbred female family:  23-b Race record: Unraced. Produce record: dam of 3 foals, 2 of racing age, 1 raced, 1 winner, 0 ...

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Hip #3886 (catalog page, pedigree), an 11-year-old mare named ANNUAL DUES, sells Thurs., Nov. 18, 2010 at the Keeneland November mixed sale Thoroughbred female family:  1-c Race record: 10 starts, 2 wins, 4 seconds, 0 thirds. Earned $94,919. Produce record: dam ...

(By Scot T. Gillies) The past couple of years have not been pleasant for many commercial breeders. Rachel Pagones points out in her 2010 yearling sales review (October issue of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch) that ''the North American commercial breeding industry ... [has] suffered a 50% loss in value, in terms of yearling prices and sales receipts, ...

Ask me how much I'd be willing to pay for a Juddmonte mare--any Juddmonte mare--and I wouldn't hesitate to close out my 401k and give you the PIN to my debit card.  And I'd still be getting the better end of the deal by far. Pretty much, if she comes from Juddmonte's broodmare band, she's one of the finest mares in the world. Juddmonte has ...

Hip #1350 (catalog page, pedigree), an 8-year-old mare named SPRING, sells Fri., Nov. 12, 2010 at the Keeneland November mixed sale Thoroughbred female family:  7-a Race record:  Unraced Produce record: dam of four foals, two of racing age, two winners, one stakes-placed. Sale ...

The equine genome has been sequenced, and geneticists are starting to get a handle on how gene research might soon yield scientific reasons why one horse is faster than another. That's the basis of the inaugural Thoroughbred Pedigree and Genetics Symposium held Oct. 11 in Lexington. The seminar, presented by The Blood-Horse and Pedigree ...