It's been a hard road to the top of the APEX charts for Coolmore's Galileo, the consensus world number one. It's one thing to be the top sire in North America and Europe by progeny earnings on the TDN General Sire List three straight years (2012-2014), while siring 60-some black-type horses a year, but it's [...]

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Gainesway Farm's Tapit broke Smart Strike's 2007 record $14.3 million in progeny earnings for a North American sire when Untapable became his fifth Breeders' Cup winner in seven crops of racing age by winning the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff on Oct. 31–with two months left in the season. He finishes the season with new-record progeny [...]

Shared Belief's romp (Beyer 111) in Saturday's GI Santa Anita H. propelled his sire, Lane's End's Candy Ride, to the number two spot on the TDN Year-to-Date North American General Sire List (click here), behind only Gainesway's super-sire, Tapit, who had his 15th Grade I winner from seven crops of 3-year-olds (of 2015) when Ring Weekend captured [...]

NOW TO SPECULATE It was great to see Steve Sherack and Brian DiDonato dead-heat for the win on Far From Over in their Bet America Derby Prep Showdown, and it reminded me that, after a month of talking about APEX sires, which by definition have disclosed form as stallions, it's about time we turned our [...]

From 1997 until 2008 or 2009, commercial breeders and the auction marketplace loved first-year sires. One cynic said to me that's because nobody has had a bad one yet, and when you consider that, according to APEX findings, something like 92% of runners do not pay their way, it's not hard to understand the logic. [...]

When Coolmore did the deal to buy the breeding rights to American Pharoah in January, before the Eclipse Awards, they were just hoping they were buying their fifth champion 2-year-old colt in six years to stand at their Kentucky arm, Ashford Stud. They couldn't have bought the sixth anyway; that was the gelding Shared Belief, in 2013. [...]

Last week we wrote about four Kentucky stallions we reckon are very good buys for 2015 which breeders might actually still be able to get to. Here are four in Europe. Happy New Year! https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/members/columnist_frame.cfm?id=9719 [...]

If you still have mares in Kentucky not booked for 2015, here are four stallions listed at $10,000 and under which look to us like very good buys. All have been advertised lately in TDN, so no guarantees, as usual, that there are still seasons available; but if they are, here are our four 'best [...]

The North American and European auction marketplace, which we cover in the Weekly Sales Ticker, bottomed out in 2010, when the sales we covered saw gross receipts of just over $1-billion ($1,033,910,608, to be precise) for 21,577 horses sold, an average of $47,917. Two years later, by the end of 2012, the sales had improved [...]

When stallion managers set their prices they are trying to appeal to two constituencies: owner-breeders and commercial breeders. Maybe there aren't as many owner-breeders as there used to be, but they can still have a significant impact on stallion prices and availability. Dubawi, now Darley's kingpin stallion, is a good, dramatic example of this: the [...]

Besides Street Sense, as Andrew Caulfield detailed yesterday, we have to go back nearly 25 years to find the last GI Kentucky Derby winners to make successful sires, and in fact there were two major sires: Sunday Silence won the 1989 Derby, and Unbridled was the winner in 1990. With I've Spent It's game win [...]