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A Time to Replenish For Breeders and Sellers

A Time to Replenish For Breeders and Sellers

With all the cutbacks there is a void in the marketplace, and breeders and yearling sellers are starting to fill it

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2011's Top Commercial Sires: Indy & Son

2011's Top Commercial Sires: Indy & Son

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

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 Monday, January 30, 2012
Auction Outlook 2012: The Recovery Continues

Auction Outlook 2012: The Recovery Continues

Keeneland director of sales Geoffrey Russell discusses the recovery of the Thoroughbred marketplace and his outlook for the future.

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 Monday, January 16, 2012
Finding Stallion Prospects (blog)

Finding Stallion Prospects (blog)

At Central Kentucky's Airdrie Stud, which developed Harlan's Holiday and was the home of Indian Charlie, racing brilliance and physical attractiveness are important.

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 Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Average Up, Gross and Median Down at Arqana

The Arqana breeding stock sale in Deauville, France concluded Dec. 6 with final figures in line with the same sale a year ago, as the gross and median declined and the average price rose slightly.

 Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Unrivaled Belle to Brushwood for $2.8 Million

Unrivaled Belle to Brushwood for $2.8 Million

Millionaire grade I winner Unrivaled Belle (by Unbridled's Song) was purchased by Betty Moran's Brushwood Stable for $2.8 million from the Eaton Sales consignment Nov. 8 at Keeneland.

 Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Yearling Market 2011: A Fragile Recovery

Yearling Market 2011: A Fragile Recovery

There have been some positive developments at this year's yearling sales, but the upswing is far from robust.

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 Monday, October 03, 2011
Keeneland Sept Interview: Case Clay

Keeneland Sept Interview: Case Clay

Esther Marr talks with Case Clay, president of Three Chimneys Farm, about Big Brown's yearlings. Case also discusses his predictions for the Keeneland September sale. Sponsored by Taylor Made Sales Agency.

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 Monday, September 12, 2011
Keeneland Sept Interview: Duncan Taylor

Keeneland Sept Interview: Duncan Taylor

Esther Marr talks with Duncan Taylor, president of Taylor Made, about the current sales market. They also discuss the new Keeneland September sales format and Duncan mentions the Taylor Made catalog with several stand outs.

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 Sunday, September 11, 2011
Hammer Time: Dillman's Breeding Success

Hammer Time: Dillman's Breeding Success

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

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 Monday, August 29, 2011
Conformation DVD Feature: David Ingordo

Conformation DVD Feature: David Ingordo

David Ingordo explains what he looks for in a horse's conformation as a yearling. Plus the DVD includes a special feature on how he discovered Zenyatta.

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 Monday, August 29, 2011
Bloodstock & Markets - Flexible Flyers

Bloodstock & Markets - Flexible Flyers

In today's sales arena, commercial breeders find they need to be more nimble, find alternatives

 Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Conformation DVD Feature: Zenyatta

Conformation DVD Feature: Zenyatta

What did David Ingordo see in Zenyatta as a yearling sale prospect? Learn this and more as industry experts explain what they look for in yearling conformation.

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 Tuesday, August 23, 2011
What New York Says About the Yearling Market

What New York Says About the Yearling Market

Sheikh Mohammed's wealth and the anticipation of VLT-fueled purses are powerful market forces, but what will happen at other yearling sales that don't benefit from those two boosts?

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 Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Another Way to Skin the Cat at Auctions

Another Way to Skin the Cat at Auctions

For EQB's Jeffrey Seder, high-tech is the way to go. The president and CEO of the Pennsylvania consulting firm advocates using science to find the best sale prospects.

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 Thursday, July 28, 2011
Fasig-Tipton Feature - The Heiligbrodts

Fasig-Tipton Feature - The Heiligbrodts

Esther Marr talks with Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt about their dispersal.

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 Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Increased Numbers at FT New York-Bred Sale

Bucking a trend in which most public auctions have cut back on the number of horses offered, Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 216 New York-bred yearlings for its Preferred Sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

 Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Summertime Fun: Sale 2YOs and Their Names

Summertime Fun: Sale 2YOs and Their Names

One of the most fun things about summer racing is watching the 2-year-olds emerge, especially at Saratoga, where many well-bred youngsters start for the first time.

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 Monday, June 27, 2011
Trade Zone: Baby Boot Camp-Prepping Yearlings

Trade Zone: Baby Boot Camp-Prepping Yearlings

Anyone who's watched scruffy, awkward weanlings playing in a pasture may wonder how they ever turn out to be the pristine, polished yearlings seen heading to sales rings across the country.

 Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Feeling His Oatsees - By Ron Mitchell

Feeling His Oatsees - By Ron Mitchell

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.

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 Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Select 2YO Selling Season: Good and the Bad

Select 2YO Selling Season: Good and the Bad

What was good and what was bad about the 2011 select selling season for 2-year-olds in training.

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 Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tracking Profitability

Tracking Profitability

2-year-olds most profitable market in 2010

 Tuesday, April 12, 2011
2010 Auctions Digest

2010 Auctions Digest

This BloodHorse.com free report is a convenient reference guide to the public sales results for progeny of North America's leading commercial Thoroughbred stallions.

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 Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Auction Downturn Continued in 2010

Auction Downturn Continued in 2010

Even though it's still early in the new millennium, the Thoroughbred auction business already has had to struggle through two downturns.

 Wednesday, December 22, 2010
West Coast Regional: Sharp Shooters

West Coast Regional: Sharp Shooters

You look at Steve Bajer and John O'Hara moving around the sales at Keeneland each September and November, and they seem like two guys who took a wrong turn on the way to a fishing trip.

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 Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Hammer Time Blog: Market Rally

Hammer Time Blog: Market Rally

Alan Greenspan says a sustained stock market rally would be the best thing for the American economy and it also would help the Thoroughbred auction business as well.

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 Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Finding Homes for Them All - by Eric Mitchell

Finding Homes for Them All - by Eric Mitchell

In the best of all possible worlds, every yearling offered at Keeneland would find a buyer.

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 Wednesday, September 29, 2010
New York Sale Goes on One-Year Hiatus

New York Sale Goes on One-Year Hiatus

Complications arising from scheduling make it impossible for the New York Breeders Sales Co. to hold its fall breeding stock sale this year, officials said Sept. 13.

 Monday, September 13, 2010
Keeping Our Place in the World

Keeping Our Place in the World

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?

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 Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Sale: No Big Surprises

Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Sale: No Big Surprises

Hammer Time's Deirdre Biles reviews the results of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select Yearling Sale.

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 Friday, July 16, 2010

Castagnola to Begin Own Bloodstock Agency

Steve Castagnola, the director of client development at Taylor Made Sales Agency in Kentucky, is leaving his position to begin his own bloodstock agency, it was announced Aug. 4.

 Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Select Sales Plans July Consignment

A group of commercial breeders have combined to form a new public sales agency, Select Sales LLC, which plans to offer its first consignment at this year's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky select yearling sale in July.

 Monday, February 09, 2009

Denali Hires Short as Sales Director

Craig Bandoroff, owner of Denali Stud near Paris, Ky., has hired Savannah Short as the farm's director of sales.

 Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Consignors: Business Down, But Not Out

Consignors: Business Down, But Not Out

After its ninth day, which produced a session-topper of $400,000, the marathon Keeneland September yearling sale business-wise remained down. But given recent developments on Wall Street, overall economic stagnation, and the aftermath of hurricanes, things could be much worse, consignors said.

 Thursday, September 18, 2008
Ladies Day Tuesday at Keeneland

Ladies Day Tuesday at Keeneland

An Indian Charlie filly topped the Sept. 16 session at the Keeneland September yearling sale, going for $250,000.

 Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Lane's End Stallions Top Day 2 Sires

Lane's End Stallions Top Day 2 Sires

Kingmambo and A.P. Indy, two stallions who stand at Will Farish's Lane's End Farm, emerged on top of the list of leading sires of yearlings sold (minimum three sold) during the Sept. 9 second session of the Keeneland September yearling sale.

 Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Keeneland Potpourri: Sale News and Notes

Sheikh Mohammed's "friends" buying under the Rabbah Bloodstock banner; seven-figure success for Rob Whiteley; Starlight Stables in action.

 Tuesday, September 09, 2008

CBA Seeks Sale Horse Info Standards

The Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association (CBA) has developed a series of questionnaires that are designed to help standardize the pre-sale information that consignors gather from horse owners or their representatives.

 Friday, July 11, 2008
Expanded Florida Sales Rules Published

Expanded Florida Sales Rules Published

The most recent version of rules governing horse sales in Florida were published for public comment May 9. The regulations are being touted as a successful compromise by some of those involved in the process.

 Friday, May 09, 2008
Mack Backs TOC Call for Reform

Mack Backs TOC Call for Reform

Earle I. Mack, who led the push for pending auction reform legislation in Florida, has come out in support of a strong policy statement recently released by the Thoroughbred Owners of California regarding horse sales.

 Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Commentary: By the Numbers

By - Dan Liebman - Usually, if sales of young horses are up, so too are sales of broodmares and broodmare prospects. As this issue devoted to the auction market shows, 2007 was a bit different.

 Wednesday, December 26, 2007

$200,000 Posse Colt Tops Session One of Fasig-Tipton Preferred Sale

A colt by Posse out of the Phone Trick mare Reverse the Call brought $200,000 to top session one of Fasig-Tipton's Preferred New York-bred Yearling Sale in Saratoga Springs Aug. 10, where the average, gross, and median were all up.

 Tuesday, August 14, 2007

New Buyers Help Japanese Select Sale

A squadron of bold new buyers in the middle market lifted up the Japan Racing Horse Association select sale, keeping the foal portion nearly on pace with last year's scorching record results even though there were fewer players competing for the most expensive horses.

 Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Arlington Names Kiehn VP of Sales, Marketing, and Guest Services

Arlington Park president Roy Arnold announced April 9 that Ken Kiehn has been named as vice president of sales, marketing and guest services for the Illinois track.

 Monday, April 09, 2007

New Sales Agency Formed in Kentucky

Two veteran horsemen and a former chief operation officer of Magna Entertainment have launched a full-service sales agency in Kentucky that will offer select consignments to major public auctions. Crossroads Sales will offer their initial consignments this year at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July and Keeneland September yearling sales.

 Friday, March 02, 2007

Dixieland Band Filly Brings Top Price as FTK Sale Ends

Dancing Band, a 4-year-old daughter of Dixieland Band, brought $250,000 to top Monday's concluding session of the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale at the Lexington pavilion.

 Monday, February 12, 2007

Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland Working to Develop Steroid Policy

Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland have formed a committee that includes veterinarians and breeders to develop a policy that will involve testing for the inappropriate use of anabolic steroids at their Kentucky sales.

 Saturday, January 20, 2007

Buyers Want Disclosure of Conformation-Altering Procedures

More than two-thirds of respondents to a Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association survey of auction buyers indicated they are less likely to purchase a horse that has undergone a surgical procedure prior to being sold.

 Friday, August 11, 2006

Continued Upswing at Magic Millions Sale

The end of the tunnel is in sight. Not that those who run Magic Millions want it to be. As day three of the broodmare section of the 14-day long Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast wound down, new heights were reached yet again.

 Friday, June 16, 2006

Barretts Catalog Now Online

The catalog for the 2006 Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in training is now online. A total of 378 head have been entered in the sale that will be conductted Tuesday, May 16 in the Hinds Pavilion located on the grounds of Fairplex Park in Pomona, California beginning at 10:30 a.m.

 Friday, April 07, 2006
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