Early this year, I complained that sales companies are well behind the times in their catalog technologies ( Revelations of the Catalog Page -- The Thoroughbred Industry's Techno Failure ). I suggested...
Read More
Most Thoroughbred breeders and consignors know there's a lot more going on in the sales ring than the best horse bringing the highest price. Conformation and catalog page usually combine to determine whether...
Read More
Last month I harped about Thoroughbred sales companies' failure to update auction catalogs for the 21st century. Well, it's obvious that one auction house was already hard at work bringing some technological...
Read More
The Five-Cross Files has been around for a year now, making this the perfect time to take things full-circle. We started out by exploring the pages of a sales catalog for "revelations" ( Revelations of...
Read More
Filtering through Thoroughbred racing and breeding data day in and day out is -- there's no other way to say it, so I'm going to be frank here -- really, truly, spectacularly fun. And working on the most...
Read More
Much has been said about the prospects for 2007 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour , who will be sold at this year's Fasig-Tipton November sale. ( News story , Hammer Time blog post ) What...
Read More
Here's the scenario : you have the opportunity to purchase a mare carrying a foal that is guaranteed to be a winner. In fact, the foal is even guaranteed to earn more than its training, feed, and veterinary...
Read More
Hip #1 ( catalog page , pedigree ), a 4-year-old colt named GREAT HUNTER , sells Sun., Nov. 2, 2008 at the Fasig-Tipton November mixed sale Thoroughbred female family: 1-n Race record: 3 wins, 4 places...
Read More
Hip #1323 ( catalog page , pedigree ), a 12-year-old mare named WOODTHRUSH , sells Thurs., Nov. 6, 2008 at the Keeneland November mixed sale Thoroughbred female family: 19-c Race record: unplaced in two...
Read More
The familiar brown cardboard boxes arrived at the Blood-Horse building today and vultures descended immediately. On delivery day of the most popular sale catalogs, you can tell who's friends with our shipping...
Read More