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The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association announced May 16 that it will hold a Thoroughbred Breeding Clinic in Lexington May 31-June 2. All aspects of breeding will be presented and farm tours will be included.
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by Anne Peters
Who will be next to join Storm Cat, Mr. Prospector, and A.P. Indy?
by Anne Peters
Awesome Again is one of the most consistent sires of high-class runners in North America.
by John P. Sparkman
No contemporary stallion has exerted as overpowering an influence as a sire of sires as the late, great Danehill.
With the final round of Kentucky Derby (gr. I) preps underway, so begins the usual analysis of top contenders--Are they good enough?--Will they get the distance?
A new handicapping challenge is already on for freshman sires.
Mating with Chrysanthemum carries a whopping 15.33% coefficient of relatedness.
Download this feature with enhanced media on foaling.
First foals of graded stakes winners and a few extra treats sent to us by farms.
by John P. Sparkman,
When Galileo retired to stud at Coolmore in 2002, his sire Sadler's Wells was widely viewed as a disappointing sire of sires in Europe.
by Ann Peters
The gritty grey filly Mizdirection won last November's Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT), and she put in another remarkably game performance to win 'in her comeback Jan. 6 in the Monrovia H. (gr. IIT).
Jackson Bend, a multiple grade I winner who was retired from racing in October, will not stand his first season at stud in 2013 after it was determined that he would require more time to recover from a training accident.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Cape Town trainer Mike Bass talks about how he is a big fan of the Cape Thoroughbred Premiere Yearling Sale. He discusses how he shops for horses.
Equine STDs can affect pregnancy outcomes and breeding stock's welfare.
The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association Political Action Committee will hold its third annual online stallion season auction Jan. 24, 25, and 26 to benefit the PAC and the racehorse retirement program Turning For Home.
Monday, January 21, 2013
'The further we get away from 2008, the better for everybody involved.'
The average stud fee has decreased 6% for the 2013 breeding season.
The broodmare market, a driving force in the industry, holds promise.
When Chad Reed's parents gave him a $5,000 budget to pick out a mare at the 2009 Keeneland November mixed sale at age 12, he never dreamed it would eventually result in a Breeders' Cup starter.
Victory Gallop: A Star In Growing Turkish Industry.
Who has the breeding to go the Belmont distance?
Joe and Fred Seitz, at Brookdale Farm, where Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another was born and raised.
Barry Irwin comments on Kentucky Derby 137 and Went the Day Well who is set to run in Derby 138.
Coolmore is planning to develop, along with the Irish government, a Thoroughbred industry in China. The project involves racetracks, a training center, and the export of 100 mares from Ireland to China.
Monday, April 16, 2012
The first foals by Big Brown are now ready to run. Enjoy this video produced by Three Chimneys Farm, of them in action.
Bloodstock & Markets: Doing one's homework, value shopping among keys
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
More Optimism Than Pessimism As Select 2YO Selling Season Approaches
Shari Eisaman talks about what she sees in young horses that indicates they will do well at the racetrack
A.P. Indy and one of his sons, Bernardini, were among the top commercial sires last year as A.P. Indy's stud career was coming to an end
A report on Kentucky's Thoroughbred breeding industry and related state programs that support it financially shows continued strength in quality despite decreases in funding and competition from gaming states.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Bred grade I winner Dream of Summer and her grade I winner Creative Cause
A look at first-crop yearling sires and next year's 2-year-old sales calendar
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Long-time breeder Ted Kuster found himself in a slump a few years back. Then Hilda's Passion came along.
Having horses running on drugs is not sitting well with our fans
Nancy Dillman of Stonegate Farm discusses her good fortune to breed grade I winner Havre de Grace and that runner's half brother, which brought $1.2 million at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale
MAHUBAH'S CORNER
First Dude's grade I win in the Hollywood Gold Cup brings honor to a less-heralded branch of the same female family as A.P. Indy -- his own grandsire. By Avalyn Hunter
Mark Taylor of Taylor Made Sales Agency explains the importance of the Fasig-Tipton Select Sale in July. Mark also explains the history of Taylor Made's 35th anniversary to Esther Marr.
"Breeding and watching the young horses grow is absolutely what I love best...but after the last few weeks, I might change that."
When Mike Lauffer and partner Bill Cubbedge bought back a Forestry colt at the 2009 Keeneland September yearling sale, they thought long and hard before naming the newest member of their racing stable.
New York revival fueled by VLTs at Aqueduct.
Rudy and Virginia Tarra hit the heights with Giant Oak
While Avalyn Hunter takes a rather hopeful view on whether high-class racemares make the best producers in her piece "From Fame to Foals" (The Blood-Horse of Feb. 12, page 390 ), sad to say, I am a bit more skeptical.
Mares should be in optimal health prior to breeding season
The financial drain is becoming too large for small commercial Thoroughbred breeders to handle.
November 13, 2010 - To Retire or Keep Racing?
The artificial insemination rule appears to have merit -- in a bygone era.
Industry newbie, limited budget, I stretched to land a broodmare at the Keeneland November mixed sale in 2001.
A Kentucky Horse Racing Commission committee is considering changes to the state's Breeders' Incentive Fund, money for which comes from a 6% sales tax on stud fees.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Keeneland has successfully developed the September sale into the largest international marketplace for Thoroughbred yearlings. But will the sale continue offering the kinds of horses European buyers want?
For years commercial breeders have mortgaged their collective futures for today's cash.
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