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A Kansas native who has worked in racing journalism since 1974, he is the co-founder of the newsletter Racing Update, and served as the paper's editor until 1993, when he moved to Scotland. Oppenheim developed a reputation as an independent observer of the sales scene in the early 1980's, and he and the staff of Racing Update originated a number of methods of stallion and sales analysis which have been adopted throughout the industry. For the past 10 years he has written a weekly column for TDN, as well as reporting from the major sales. He also works as a consultant, primarily for pedigree analysis, in a private capacity.
Last week we previewed North American and European sires who went to stud in 2011, had their first foals in 2012, their first yearlings in 2013, and have their first 2-year-olds this year. In the context of evaluating stallion prospects, horses go to stud with their achievements fresh in breeders’ minds. Breeders are evaluating the...
There were a total of 45 North American and European stallions with first foals 2012 (F2012), which had nine or more yearlings sell in their first crops at the 2013 yearling sales, and which now are the 2014 class of freshman sires. Now that the Winter Mixed sales are finishing–Goffs today and tomorrow wraps them...
From the point of view of immediate practical application, the trouble with year-end sire statistics is that often the horses which you think look the best, and which the numbers confirm are the best, are all booked up by the time the statistics are published. We can’t promise some of the sires we’re reviewing today...
I know, there are plenty of people who say a ‘good gamble’ is an oxymoron, but when you think about the level of financial gambling involved in sire selection, there has to be some relativity included in the equation. One of the best applications of the APEX figures is to try to decipher which stallions...
As you may recall, the APEX (Annual Progeny Earnings Index) figures we publish cover a rolling seven-year period ending with the year just finished (in this case, 2007-2013). Today we look at what sires accomplished just in 2013, so we have leading North American and European sires of 2013 A Runners and 2013 ABC Runners,...
I know all this data isn=t the easiest to sort out, in fact, I even forgot and said in my column yesterday there are 13 APEX indexes, when actually there are 17: A, B, and C Runners for three regions (North America, ‘Europe’ [GB/ Ireland, France, Germany], and Japan) plus for all three regions combined...
Of the 937 sires which were assigned APEX ratings at the end of 2013 (meaning they had 10 or more 3-year-olds in 2013), there are 501 sires which stand or stood in North America or ‘Europe’ (England, Ireland, France, or Germany) and which had 200 or more year-starters (denoted ‘runners’, though in this case a...
Three sires with 200+ year-starters recorded APEX (Annual Progeny Earnings IndeX) A Runner Index (ARI) figures of 4.00 or higher for the seven-year period 2007-2013, according to data provided to us through the end of 2013 by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). Japan’s Deep Impact (4.59) is the overall leader for the second straight...
Three sires with 200+ year-starters recorded APEX (Annual Progeny Earnings IndeX) A Runner Index (ARI) figures of 4.00 or higher for the seven-year period 2007-2013, according to data provided to us through the end of 2013 by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS).
Though there are two more days of Tattersalls’ December Sale today and tomorrow, and Arqana’s four-day December sale is on deck next week, the trends for the 2013 Thoroughbred auction market have been pretty firmly established. From the Keeneland September Sale (gross up 28%) through last week’s Tattersalls’ December Foal Sale (gross up 30%–see the...
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