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Coolmore Stud is one of the most powerful breedingand racing operations in the world. One way the farm stays that way is by goingafter top racing prospects to stand as stallions. In the week leading up to the Breeders; Cup WorldChampionships, Coolmore and its associates acquired a 50% interest in ShanghaiBobby, who then captured the Grey Goose ...

Barbara Banke of Stonestreet Stables and Kentucky-based bloodstockconsultant John Moynihan tried to buy Darwin (by Big Brown) at the Fasig-TiptonFlorida select sale of 2-year-olds in training earlier this year. But Demi O'Byrnewon the bidding battle, getting the handsome colt for the sale-topping price of$1.3 million. Darwin made his career debut ...

You can spin the profitability results for the Keeneland September yearling sale two ways. You can say, ''Wow, commercial breeders are making more money, so that's a good thing.'' Or you can say, ''Damn, it may be getting better, but how can a lot of these people hack it financially?'' The Blood-Horse analyzes the results of yearling auctions ...

Colonel John was last year's leading first crop sireof sale weanlings in North America. His 10 offspring that were sold averaged$105,900, and they ranged in price from $40,000 to $170,000. The 7-year-old bay horse also is prominent againthis year at Thoroughbred auctions. He was the leading first-crop sire at theFasig-Tipton Kentucky July select ...

All sorts of factors will contribute to the trendsfor this year's yearling selling season, which is still in its early stages. The American economy will be an influence and sowill the financial health of other countries. Growing purses in New York andother states with alternative gaming will have an effect along with the qualityof the horses on ...

The recent  Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select sale was ofgreat interest to horsemen because it provided the first glimpse of the healthof 2012's yearling market. The auction also gave people a chance to see how thefirst offspring of young stallions would be received in the sale ring asyearlings. Colonel John ranked second overall (among ...

The slump in the North American yearling market finally came to an end in 2011. Now, the bigquestion is this: How long will the rebound last? Well, as the Pitbull song from the movie ''Men in Black 3'' tells us: To understand the future we have to go back in time. By tracking the public auction yearling average for more than 60 years, we can see ...

During the summer, racing for 2-year-olds starts toheat up. That's exciting for auction participants because everyone gets achance to see if the juvenile stars in the sale ring will be stars on theracetrack. Executiveprivilege, who topped the Ocala Breeders'Sales Co. spring sale of 2-year-olds in training in April, is entered in theeighth race at ...

I'll Have Another's history as a sale horse has been chronicled extensively during his bid to sweep the Triple Crown. It's a good story because the 3-year-old son of Flower Alley sold for modest prices in an era when the best young horses bring seven-figure or high six-figure amounts. Victor Davila, who is the head exercise rider for and an ...

I'll Have Another could become the first Thoroughbred to complete a sweep of the Triple Crown since 1978 when he runs in the June 9 Belmont Stakes (gr. I). But when he was younger, the colt wasn't one of those horses that everybody just knew from the beginning was going to be successful. Nearly everyone overlooked him during the 2011 Ocala ...