BY ERIC MITCHELL Much has been written about the polarization of the Thoroughbred commercial market. Within subgroups of sale horses by quality, we've seen a growing divide between what's...
http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/market-watch/archive/2017/07/05/defining-the-polarized-market.aspx
BY RON MITCHELL Driven by the top of the market, the first four juvenile sales of 2017 resulted in a 12.2% increase in gross receipts, a 15.8% cumulative increase in average, and a decline in b...
BY ERIC MITCHELL The average price of a sire's progeny sold at auction is one our most trusted metrics of commercial value because money actually changed hands. An average sold price follows t...
BY ERIC MITCHELL The late Unbridled's Song appears to have already clinched the 2017 North American leading sire title with Arrogate's rich back-to-back victories in the $12 million Pegasus Wo...
BY ERIC MITCHELL With the first of 2-year-olds in training sales behind us, BloodHorse MarketWatch compiled a list of the leading sires by average under tack show times and compared the ave...
Two of the highest profile classes of horses a trainer will have in his barn are maidens and 3-year-olds. A relatively high percentage of maiden special weight wins indicates a trainer who has th...
Sources of stamina among North American stallions seems to be getting leaner as judged by the recent release of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation's annual report of sire durability and ...
Successful pinhookers are like long-term stock investors. They set their spending limits, buy as much quality as they can afford, and stick to the basic principles that identify performance pote...
Nowhere is the impact of a $12 million race felt more keenly than on the general leading sire list for North America, where Unbridled's Song has made a meteoric rise to the top. In 1:47.61, the l...
Time to dust off the crystal ball and attempt to decipher which freshman sires of 2017 are likely to be at or near the top of the first-crop sire list at year's end. The only certainty in such a...
Father and son Pioneerof the Nile and American Pharoah topped the leading covering sire ranks by gross and average at the five-day Keeneland January horses of all ages sale that ended Jan. 13. ...
Last fall the family team of bloodstock agent Bob Feld, his son Sean Feld, and trainer Mark Feld, put a name to a concept they had been testing since Bullet Train—half brother to European cham...
By Nicole Sauer A sire's career typically hinges on his first 2-year-olds, no matter what the initial market opinion was of the horse when he first entered stud. Occasionally that first crop va...
By Nicole Sauer More than 1,900 broodmares will be offered in-foal at this year's Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Many buyers will keep the resulting foals from these mares, but some fo...
By Nicole Sauer As has been previously discussed in MarketWatch, Comparable Index (CI) and Class Performance Index (CPI) are useful tools for breeders and buyers to estimate a stallion's level ...
By Nicole Sauer Yearlings by young and unproven sires can be a risky investments, but those by proven sires tend to be more costly. Consequently, weighing the risks against the potential return...
By Nicole Sauer As mentioned in an earlier post on 2-year-old ROR , sales 2-year-olds as a whole achieve a higher rate of return in racetrack earnings than sales yearlings largely because buyer...
http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/market-watch/archive/2014/07/24/buyers-reward-quick-breeze-times.aspx
By Nicole Sauer Fasig-Tipton's July yearling sale marks the beginning of the yearling sale season in North America. In the June issue of MarketWatch, we review the success of major yearling sal...
By Byron Rogers, @Perf_Genetics This weekend saw the running of two classics—one on each side of the Atlantic—run over roughly the same distance. The Belmont Stakes (gr. I), run in New Yor...
By Nicole Sauer Since 1973, an average of five Kentucky Derby (gr. I) starters have ran back in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I). By that standard, this year's class of sophomores is under-performi...
By Nicole Sauer Not since Apollo in 1882 has a horse that was unraced at age 2 gone on to win the Kentucky Derby (gr. I). The famed "Curse of Apollo" will be put to the test once again this yea...
http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/market-watch/archive/2014/04/24/debunking-the-curse-of-apollo.aspx
By Ian Tapp Given that so much of our discussion and analysis goes to sires—leading sires, new sires, broodmare sires, undervalued sires—the March issue of MarketWatch is our opportunity to...
By Nicole Sauer Buyers at 2-year-olds in training sales have at least one distinct advantage over yearling buyers: they get to see the horses perform. As a result, 2-year-olds are typically sol...
By Nicole Sauer Trying to pinpoint which of the newest crop of sires will be most successful is a difficult proposition for even the most skilled horsemen. At this point in a stallion's career,...
By Nicole Sauer Keeneland's November sale is the largest grossing breeding stock sale in North America, and the perception seems to be that it includes higher quality stock than Keeneland Janua...