Welcome to the Past The Wire bloodstock section. This is where we feature columns on horse breeding, stallion farms, nicking, and pedigree content. Expert pieces on popular stallions, broodmares and their progeny as well as statistical data on stallions, broodmares and foals. We also feature breeding sale news from Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, Ocala Breeders’, Midlantic and Tattersalls.
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October Sale Under Tack Show set for Sunday
POSTED: October 9, 2020
The Under Tack Show for the Two Year Olds and Horses of Racing Age section of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2020 October Sale will...
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Records set at Tattersalls October Book 1 as Galileo Fillies dominate
POSTED: October 9, 2020
The three-day Book 2 starts Monday, Oct. 12 NEWMARKET, Suff., UK – A pair of GALILEO yearlings set the sale ring alight on the third...
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2020 Yearling Sales: How Bad Is It?
POSTED: October 8, 2020
By Steve Zorn With the end of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale, this year’s yearling auction season is nearly three-quarters of the way done. More than...
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Pennsylvania-bred Gun Runner Colt Tops Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale
POSTED: October 7, 2020
TIMONIUM, Md. – The Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale concluded Tuesday with figures on par with the 2019 renewal, with eight of the top 10 prices...
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New York Bred Section Popular During First Session of Midlantic Fall Yearlings
POSTED: October 6, 2020
The first session of the Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale concluded Monday evening in Timonium, MD with figures comparable to the last year's edition. In 2020,...
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Recent Grade 1 Winner Valiance to Sell at Fasig-Tipton November
POSTED: October 6, 2020
VALIANCE, winner of the Juddmonte Spinster S. (G1) this past weekend, will be offered at this year’s Fasig-Tipton November Sale on Sunday, November 8, at...
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The Jockey Club Releases 2019 Breeding Statistics
POSTED: October 6, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Jockey Club reported that 1,552 stallions covered 31,198 mares in North America during 2019, according to statistics compiled through Sept. 29,...
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OBS Grads See Success Coast To Coast and Internationally This Past Weekend
POSTED: October 5, 2020
Alfonso Cammarota’s 2018 OBS Selected Yearling Sale graduate Miss Marissa sat just off the lead in Saturday’s $250,000 Black-Eyed-Susan Stakes (G2) at Pimlico, took command...
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Spendthrift Farm's Into Mischief to stand for $225,000
POSTED: October 5, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Spendthrift Farm’s reigning champion general sire Into Mischief, the sire of Kentucky Derby winner Authentic, will stand in 2021 for a fee...