It's not every day that the oppotunity arises to purchase a daughter of the incomparable Personal Ensign. At the Keeneland November sale, though, it happens twice. Personal Ensign ( pedigree ) is one of...
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It's no secret that Thoroughbred sales have seen a down market in 2008, and I expect that the autumn breeding stock season will experience a similar trend. I plan to benefit from the situation by adding...
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October is less than two days away, and with the change of month comes the release of the Keeneland November sales catalog. For a Thoroughbred pedigree geek like me, the autumn breeding stock sales season...
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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...
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The headlines on BloodHorse.com have told the same story every night for the past two weeks: with a few exceptions at the top of the market, it's a bad time to be selling yearlings. I've been crunching...
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I ducked out of work this afternoon and drove the 2.2 miles to Keeneland for a bit of horse-watching. There were two "Day Nine" hips that had caught my attention when I went through the catalog way back...
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Go to any Thoroughbred sale and you'll see a lot of common elements. Grooms leading their charges around the sand ovals. Potential buyers filling out hip request forms. Bales of sweet-smelling alfalfa...
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The practice of submitting veterinary examination findings to the sales repository is now almost obligatory when selling a foal at public auction. Many buyers won't even look at a yearling or 2-year-old...
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The Blood-Horse and TrueNicks have released a useful guide to the top seven tips that will help you select winners at the fall yearling sales. With Keeneland's uber-sale only days away, you don't want...
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If you haven't done so already, check out the "mini catalog" tool on the Keeneland Sales site . Who needs all 8 catalogs for the September sale when you're only interested in horses that meet a few specific...
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