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Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills selects his top sires standing for $20,000 or less in 2024, featuring rookie sires and all-weather sires.

Aside from operations like Ocala Stud where it's baked into their strategy, seeing a homebred on offer at a 2-year-old sale is quite uncommon. Carrying a horse along for that length of time in the hopes that they'll end up being an appealing lot for an ever-more scrutinizing juvenile market is a risk most breeders don't want to take unless they have to.

Clay said he looks beyond the immediate family when buying fillies at auction, and dives deep into their maternal bloodlines.

Joe Nevills selects four new members of the All-Value Sire Team, this time focusing on reliable veterans and sires of sprinters.

Cilla Shines In Blue Sparkler At Monmouth Sponsored by: Cilla with Roberto Alvarado, Jr. riding won the Blue Sparkler Stakes at Monmouth Park. Trainer Brett Brinkmans initial reaction when Saturdays Blue Sparkler Stakes at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. came off the grass? “I was happy,” he said. His second reaction? The realization that he still didnt have an answer about whether or not his talented 3-year-old filly Cilla will take the turf. For now, Brinkman can live without f...

Sponsored by: Galileo filly Magic Attitude draws off to win the Belmont Oaks under Javier Castellano Trainer Arnaud Delacour said Lael Stables Grade 1 winner Magic Attitude is training towards a seasonal debut in the Grade 2 Hillsborough at nine furlongs on the Tampa Bay Downs turf on March 6. “Shes doing well,” said Delacour of the 4-year-old Galileo filly, who worked a half-mile in 50.60 seconds on the Tampa Bay Downs dirt on Feb. 17. “She had a little break and has been breez...

Sponsored by: Life Is Good, by Into Mischief The name of the winner of the 2021 Sham Stakes might as well be the years motto: Life is Good. And getting better. The dark bay son of Into Mischief (by Harlans Holiday) had won a maiden on his debut that staggered the speed figure makers, as the colt coasted home by 9 1/2 lengths on Nov. 22 at Del Mar. The sheets and graphs and figs were all very strong on this powerful-looking bay, and Life is Good had been working well and looking good ...

Share Destined for stardom: Little did anyone know at the time, but young Cash (left) and Steve Asmussen had such big futures When I was younger, working in the racing industry in Europe, the name Asmussen meant only one thing: Cash. He was a superstar there for two decades, every bit as successful in France at that time as his compatriot Steve Cauthen was in Britain. Five times Cash was France’s champion jockey. He was an Arc winner, he won four French Derbys and every French Classic at l...