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...
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sgillies
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11-10-2010
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...
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11-05-2010
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 stakes winners. Sale history: $185,000 as...
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11-02-2010
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 of 7 foals, 5 of racing age, 3 raced...
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10-26-2010
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...
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10-25-2010
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 history: $45,000 as a...
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10-20-2010
Now that the Fasig-Tipton November select sale catalog is live, I can update my earlier post about MarketWatch Broodmare of the Year candidates being represented at the sales. (A free PDF download allows you to read the original MarketWatch Broodmare of the Year article .) From Fasig-Tipton's 186 hips...
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10-14-2010
Many pedigree pundits mourn the loss of Barbaro from the perspective of his sire-line legacy: he would have been heir apparent to Dynaformer. (I'm still partial to Purim to fill this role.) But Barbaro also was the best representative of an outstanding female family, that of La Reine Rouge. La Reine...
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10-12-2010
In my introduction yesterday ( Thoroughbred Breeding Stock Sales Approaching ), I mentioned that I would profile several sale mares in the lead-up to the bloodstock auctions. I thought it appropriate to start out by looking to the 2010 MarketWatch Broodmare of the Year candidates ( download it free at...
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sgillies
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10-06-2010
If you ask me, the month of November in central Kentucky is an early Christmas. It starts out November 7 when Fasig-Tipton has its premier mixed sale. It's perhaps the one U.S. sale guaranteed to attract top breeders worldwide each year, and it appears to have a few additional bits to look forward to...
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10-05-2010