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 [...]

In a weekend replete with upsets, two longshots introduced themselves as viable stallion prospects by scoring their first Group 1 or Grade I wins. Sheikh Hamdan's Mukhadram (Shamardal), now a 5-year-old, who had been placed twice behind Al Kazeem (Dubawi) in top Group 1 10-furlong races last year (the Prince of Wales's and the Eclipse), [...]

When all was said and done, this year's Saratoga Select Yearling Sale on the Fasig-Tipton grounds just across from the race track, didn't look so very different from the previous two years. Monday started out with a nearly unprecedented 90% sold from the 71 yearlings sent through the ring, but that figure returned to reality [...]

by Bill Oppenheim Pending the outcome of this weekend's final Classic preps, the GI Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn and the GI Blue Grass S., due to be run for the last time on the synthetic Polytrack surface at Keeneland, there are likely to be three contenders vying for favoritism in the GI Kentucky Derby in [...]

When Brad Cummings announced Equilottery at the beginning of the month, we all knew we were for it, but a lot of us who don't pay much attention to lotteries didn't really 'get it.' So I sat down with Brad when I was in Lexington a couple of weeks ago and asked him to explain [...]

It's no big secret that the Coolmore policy is that bigger numbers equal more chances to have a Household Name equals more seasons sold. Sadler's Wells, 14-time champion sire in Britain and Ireland, averaged 100 foals per crop. His son Galileo's recent crops have averaged 160, so for him to be running second to War [...]

At the end of 2006, a total of 1,156 sires which stood or had stood in North America, Europe, and Japan qualified for APEX ratings, meaning, basically, that they had 10 or more 3-year-olds in the last year covered (in that case, foals of 2003 and 3-year-olds of 2006). By midyear 2014–The Jockey Club Information [...]

At the end of 2006, a total of 1,156 sires which stood or had stood in North America, Europe, and Japan qualified for APEX ratings, meaning, basically, that they had 10 or more 3-year-olds in the last year covered (in that case, foals of 2003 and 3-year-olds of 2006). By midyear 2014–The Jockey Club Information [...]

A decline of 23% in gross and 11% in average from the corresponding opening day of Tattersalls' October Book 1 yearling sale yesterday shouldn't be taken at face value as signaling some sort of dip in the market. Last year's first day was particularly strong, and the universal consensus among theatre-goers this week is that [...]

In a weekend replete with upsets, two longshots introduced themselves as viable stallion prospects by scoring their first Group 1 or Grade I wins. Sheikh Hamdan's Mukhadram (Shamardal), now a 5-year-old, who had been placed twice behind Al Kazeem (Dubawi) in top Group 1 10-furlong races last year (the Prince of Wales's and the Eclipse), [...]

Most of the big Kentucky stallion farms will be represented among the 25 North American sires with first foals 2013 (F2013) whose first yearlings will be appearing at either Fasig-Tipton July on the 14th, and/or at Saratoga's select sale next month, but two farms–Ashford, whose two debutants, Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie) (167) and Cape Blanco [...]

There are plenty of great racing events around the globe each year, but none compares with the five days racing at Royal Ascot. Six races a day, Tuesday through Saturday, and last week the weather cooperated, always a huge plus at any racing festival. A total of 489 horses ran in the 30 races (average [...]