Archive for the ‘Corrections and Amplifications’ Category

By Ray Paulick
I was scratching my head over the apparent huge drop in weanlings catalogued to this year’s Keeneland November yearling sale; according to Keeneland press releases from the last two years, there were over 1,000 fewer weanlings in the 2009 sale than in 2008. That led to an article published here Monday entitled: ONE-THIRD FEWER KEENELAND NOVEMBER WEANLINGS.

Mystery solved, thanks to a couple of Paulick Report readers who alerted us to some wrong numbers.  The number of weanlings and broodmares catalogued, as reported on Keeneland’s 2008 press release, was incorrect (the number of weanlings and broodmares offered was transposed in the press release). Those incorrect numbers were used in our Monday report entitled ONE-THIRD FEWER KEENELAND NOVEMBER WEANLINGS.

We should have done some additional digging to confirm those numbers, and apologize to our readers for the error.

The correct numbers (with comparison to 2008) for the 2009 sale are 2,337 broodmares catalogued, down 19.2% from the 2,893 catalogued in 2008. The 1,885 weanlings catalogued to this year’s sale represent a decline of 16.8% from last year. The declines in both weanlings and broodmares offered are roughly the same percentage, and the number catalogued will be the smallest in both categories in several  years.

The corrected table is below: 

While striving to be the independent and timely voice for the Thoroughbred industry, the Paulick Report reserves the right to eat crow on occasion when we publish incorrect information. The story published under the headline THOROUGHBRED TIMES RIPOFF suggested incorrectly, based on third-party information, that the fertility of the Lane’s End stallion A.P. Indy was poor during the 2008 breeding season.

According to statistics provided by Will Farish of Lane’s End, A.P. Indy has covered 113 mares and has 80 of those mares in foal. The Paulick Report regrets the error.