2018 Belmont Stakes day selections and analysis

June 6, 2018 at 5:55 pm • By Robb Levinsky

A great day of racing at Belmont Park, here are a few selections from Santa Anita, Belmont, and of course the Belmont Stakes!

Santa Anita

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Robb Levinsky's 2018 Kentucky Derby and Monmouth Park opening day selections and analysis

May 4, 2018 at 10:08 pm • By Robb Levinsky

2018 Kentucky Derby day selections and analysis

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The sale process never begins with the catalog page!

March 11, 2018 at 8:34 pm • By Robb Levinsky

Every year before the sales, we get a sizable number of excited owners who write and say something along the lines of “I got the catalog and have been looking at it.

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Performance of highest priced sales horses leaves something to be desired

February 17, 2018 at 10:47 am • By Robb Levinsky

One of our owners approached me recently and said “I want to buy a really good horse at the sales. What does it cost to buy the best horses”?  The quick answer is simply, the best horses are rarely the most expensive horses.

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How entries and the condition book work

February 16, 2018 at 9:42 am • By Robb Levinsky

Some of the questions we are most frequently asked concern entries. People want to know how many days in advance do you enter and when do you know if the race is going”.

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The Hard Numbers with Yearlings

September 2, 2017 at 2:40 pm • By Robb Levinsky

As the bell weather Keeneland yearling sales begin, it’s worth looking at some numbers, in terms of what buyers got for what they paid.

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No Guarantees

May 25, 2017 at 1:58 pm • By Robb Levinsky

Whenever a well-bred promising young horse someone paid good money for under-performs, people naturally wonder “what went wrong and how can we fix it”? The problem is, neither pedigree, fast work times at a sale, or paying top dollar for a good-looking prospect offers any guarantees.

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The hard numbers with two year olds - Part II

May 10, 2017 at 10:18 am • By Robb Levinsky

Last year, we published a blog analyzing the results shown in a Blood-Horse study (March 19, 2016, pg. 45) titled "2015 Performance & Earning Metrics, Sires of 2-Year-Olds".

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Who is most successful buying two year olds at auction?

May 3, 2017 at 3:52 pm • By Robb Levinsky

Who has had the most success purchasing two year olds at public auction? Of course, it depends on what metrics you use to define success, but an article in The Blood-Horse magazine (Feb. 18, 2017, pg.

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