The breeding stock sales in late 2008 and early 2009 are the end of an era for one of North America's top sires. This marks the final sales season when Storm Cat ( SRO ) will be represented as a covering sire. Following a breeding season in which he displayed declining fertility, Overbrook Farm announced...

We're less than three weeks away from Kentucky's big November breeding stock sales. I've narrowed my own list down to eight mares that I'll bid on -- and if the bloodstock market tanks as much as the yearling sales did, I might have a chance at one or two of them! Today, I've chosen a couple of broodmare...

Before we hit the sales catalog for today's broodmare pick, I have some recommended reading. Here's something you don't find every day: one of the best minds in Thoroughbred auctions is offering a free peek at her Cheat Sheet for the Keeneland November sale . If you follow Thoroughbred sales news, you...

The Keeneland November sale will have a close link to the tragic filly Eight Belles ( pedigree ) as her dam is being offered, carrying a full sibling to the runner-up in this year's Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). ( Full story here .) Some numbers on this newsworthy Keeneland November...

We're back in Ocala for today's broodmare pedigree review pick. Lisa the Great is one of the first hips through the ring during the Consignor Preferred listings (Day 1) part of the sale. Some stats on this broodmare: Hip #3 ( catalog page , pedigree ), a 6-year-old mare named Lisa the Great , sells Mon...

For today's Thoroughbred broodmare sales catalog offering, let's travel about 750 miles down I-75 South from Lexington's Keeneland sales pavilion to the Ocala Breeders' Sales complex in Ocala. Better remind me to stop though -- I'm liable to want to make it an even 1,000 miles and wind up on the Gulf...

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 the rare Thoroughbreds about whom the mantle of greatness is unarguable. Her perfect racing career...

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 to my small broodmare herd this fall -- with the hope of obtaining, at a bargain, a mare that might...

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 easily beats the excitement of yearling auctions or horses-in-training sales. (If pressed, I might...

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 when it came out, and I wanted to see them. Hip #3086 ( catalog page ) was a bay filly by Yes It's...