Just two weeks after his Revolutionary won the $1-million GII Louisiana Derby, Lane's End's late 2007 champion 2-year-old War Pass (Cherokee Run) moved to the top of the 2013 Second-Crop Sire List (click here), by virtue of Java's War's win in last Saturday's $750,000 GI Blue Grass S… [...]

The first rule of finding the GI Kentucky Derby winner is never, never forget the difference between winning a nine-furlong prep race and getting 10 furlongs at Churchill Downs. The nine-furlong prep winners are always the favorites, but they don't always get the trip. I can see that being the case again… [...]

A few Americans were reportedly bemused when the band broke out in the Australian national anthem after Animal Kingdom's comprehensive victory in Saturday's G1 Dubai World Cup (Racing Post Rating 125), centerpiece of a fantastic day's racing worldwide, which began with an impressive win for another very good High Chaparral colt (think So You Think) [...]

Now there, you would think, is a sure-fire name for something by the new leading 2013 second-crop sire, Midnight Lute (Real Quiet) (click here). Don't know, though: there is a 1993 Midnight Train, a mare by Red Ransom who won two races and $89,000, is the dam of… [...]

When Darley spent an estimated $200-million acquiring stallion prospects for the 2008 season (first crop 2009), this is the result they were after: if you click here to view the TDN 2013 Third-Crop Year-to-Date Sire List, the top four names are all horses Darley scooped up, mostly in its 2007 stallion prospect spending spree. The [...]

I've often said the job of an analyst–which is first and foremost my job description–is to see things as they are, not how we want them to be or how we think they should be; those are different questions. In light of the Breeders' Cup reversal of its announcement two years ago that all 2013 [...]

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I had planned to finish up this cycle of APEX and A Runner analysis with some detail about broodmare sires, historical as well as current, and that is still the plan. In the meantime, in doing some further research last week, we discovered a group of 651 A Runners from 2010 who had unaccountably disappeared [...]

The Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, soon the Oscars… yes, it's awards season in movie and TV land. We live in a different segment of the entertainment industry, and we have our own awards ceremonies. And now it's time for some Lifetime Achievement Awards in the stallion business. When we do the calculations for sires' APEX [...]

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Checking in 25th on the freshman sire list is pretty much guaranteed to torpedo a sire's commercial standing, so when Darley's Any Given Saturday occupied that spot on the 2011 North American list, it looked like the writing might have been on the wall. Bu we might have been reading the wrong message. With the [...]

If you own racehorses, even if you're not in it for the money, it's very important to know which stallions are the most consistent at siring racehorses which earn the most money. That's what APEX sire ratings do. We take all the starters in five different jurisdictions (North America; Great Britain/Ireland, tallied together; France; Germany; [...]