When I wrote a pedigree review of 2010 Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) winner Dangerous Midge ( profile , pedigree ) for this week's issue of The Blood-Horse , I focused my 500 words on the La Troienne female family. I looked specifically at the overall influence of the 1962 Hail to Reason...

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...

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...

A reader's comment to a post last week ( Thoroughbred Pedigree Review of KEESEP Hip #4233 -- A Rasmussen Factor Case Study ) pointed out the significant mare inbreeding in a 1952 mare named Ellen's Best ( pedigree ) . Ellen's Best's fourth dam was Friar's Carse, who was also the dam of her sire War Relic...

The title of this post is a bit misleading. The great racemare Flawlessly won nine grade I contests and $2,572,536 during her multiple-championship career -- but her produce record is too short to judge, with only two Storm Cat fillies produced. Of them, the 1996 Flawlessness was a maiden winner who...

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...

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...

Proud Spell ( pedigree ), winner of today's $600,000 Alabama Stakes (gr. I), is a representative of family 4-m. Her distant cousin, family 4-k member Music Note ( pedigree ), finished a neck behind in Saratoga's historic race ( full race coverage here ). Croft's Spinster (a.k.a. the Widdrington Mare...