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 recent TrueNicks special report ( Identifying Thoroughbred Mares Carrying Foals With Promise ) was...
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sgillies
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01-07-2009
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...
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sgillies
on
10-14-2008
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...
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sgillies
on
10-08-2008
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...
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sgillies
on
10-07-2008
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...
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sgillies
on
10-03-2008