With the September Yearling Sales coming around the corner, one of the more common beliefs often quoted by yearling buyers is that a...

Lord Derby and his brother the Hon. Peter Stanley of New England Stud are in a position that just about any owner/breeder in the world...

Yesterday afternoon, California Chrome trainer Art Sherman contacted the NYRA Stewards requesting permission to use nasal strips on the...

In my earlier post on using Machine Learning for Yearling Selection I mentioned that we looked at both the service fee that the stallion...

Earlier this week in the Thoroughbred Daily News I wrote a letter to the editor in response to Bill Oppenheim's column. Bill pointed out...

We have just witnessed the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby. No doubt by now that there will be stud farms around America now...

Watching the purchasing process that buyers undertake when they are at yearling sales is as much an observation of human prejudice and...

In any market where there is buying and selling, there is overestimation and underestimation of risk and reward by humans. The...

Most of the time I get fairly bored by newly released scientific papers. Many are just re-hashes of old work with a different angle while...

Following my post last week on lessons learned on genetic testing of thoroughbreds, it was suggested by a well known equine exercise...

Earlier this week I was asked to write down some thoughts about genetic testing in Thoroughbreds for the upcoming International...

We are in Australia at the moment for the yearling sales series which kicks off next week at the Magic Millions in Queensland. In fact,...

On the run out of the Northern Hemisphere yearling sales and into the Southern Hemisphere one, we've been doing a lot more data modeling...

Without in any way belittling or demeaning those that struggle daily with substance abuse issues, I feel that I have to start this post...

The Breeders' Cup races have been run and won for another year and we are really happy to say that we had the good fortune to have some...

We were asked to pen a column for the International Thoroughbred magazine on some of our thoughts on using statistics and genetics in...

We have always said (to anyone that would listen!) that there is no one silver bullet to predicting racehorse performance. In distance...

Over on TrueNicks, I created a bit of a stir last week with the suggestion that the term "Sire of Sires", doesn't truly exist. You can...

For as long as I can remember – and admittedly it is not as long as some – there has been a continual question over the soundness of the...

A couple of recent scientific papers have shown the challenges of veterinarians in making calls on x-rays at yearling sales as it relates...