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Racing Taupo @ Taupo, Sunday 17 August 2025
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Bred 4 Champions – Dr Eliot Forbes discusses his work with Chrissy Fox on the Bred 4 Champions podcast
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Ka Ying Rising seeks a Hong Kong record 18th straight win when he races in the Feb. 22 Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup (G1) at Sha Tin Racecourse.View the full article -
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Labwah, enjoying a stretch out in distance, won the Feb. 20 UAE Oaks (G3) convincingly enough to have her connections needing to choose between the Kentucky Oaks (G1) or the UAE Derby (G2), a steppingstone to the Kentucky Derby (G1).View the full article -
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W Heart Bond and Wilson Tesoro renew a rivalry on the Tokyo Racecourse dirt Feb. 22 in the February Stakes (G1).View the full article -
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The intuitive platform Stallion Match might be based in Australia but their expertise and client list don't emanate from a single national boundary. The site is a dedicated global resource where breeders anywhere can hypothetically mate their mares for free with any stallion on the planet. Matthew Ennis is the managing director and he says that Stallion Match is all about providing fast and practical decision-making support. “Stallion Match was born out of G1 Goldmine,” Ennis said. “For more than a decade, we've provided a service where farms can promote their stallions. We eventually realized the real value wasn't just in stallion promotion, but in how breeders compare a mating to proven stakes-level success indicators.” With most pedigree tools ensconced behind a paywall, Stallion Match offers a deeper performance-based context and allows users to know they are tapping into proven results. “Our database includes over 1.5 million horses and more than 8 million race runs from a global racing network, updated daily and matched to multi-generational pedigrees,” he said. “We've designed the platform to take deep pedigree and performance analysis and present it in a simple, user-friendly way, which allows breeders to identify suitable stallions quickly and then connect directly with the relevant farm.” Ennis said that another major difference between Stallion Match and traditional companies who provide bloodstock services is that they actually use the system themselves. The same data driven approach has helped from everything to yearling purchases to evaluating how multiple stakes winners will perform at stud. “We don't just provide a tool,” he said. “We actively use it and have proven the results in the marketplace.” With a strong base of U.S. clients and partners like Lane's End, Coolmore, WinStar, Darley, Gainesway, Buckeye Stallion Station, Pleasant Acres, Darby Dan and many others, Stallion Match's reach continues to expand. At its core, the model overlays a searched pedigree against a large population of proven stakes winners and ranks similarity using measurable performance indicators. “Over time, we've consistently seen that matings which score strongly tend to produce higher-performing racehorses far more often than those that don't,” Ennis added. One of the clearest validations Stallion Match employs is in the distribution of its top ratings. “A Perfect Match, which is our highest rating, occurs in only around 3% of searches, yet it is found in approximately 24% of stakes winners, which represents an eight-fold uplift,” he said. “Similarly, a 20/20 Match appears in roughly 32% of searches, but is present in about 60% of stakes winners, which is close to a two-fold uplift.” The recent repeat winner of the G1 Saudi Cup, Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), is a case in point. Out of GSW Forever Darling (Congrats), the superstar globetrotter was rated as a 'Perfect Match' by Stallion Match. According to Ennis, with the industry having moved from paper pedigrees to databases it is only natural that AI would be the next major step when it comes to not only identifying successful patterns, but in gleaning opportunities that may not be obvious through traditional methods. “AI has become a powerful research tool for testing pedigree theories such as Sex Balancing, the Rasmussen Factor, Chef-de-Race patterns, linebreeding and cluster theory,” Ennis said. “It allows us to test concepts quickly and objectively across massive datasets. That level of uplift strongly suggests the pedigree patterns we measure are not random. They are consistently associated with proven stakes-level performance.” Innovation is steadily influencing the way Thoroughbreds are bred, complementing traditional horsemanship with more data-informed decision-making. As global bloodstock markets grow increasingly interconnected and competitive, breeders are looking to technology as an added resource, and platforms like Stallion Match are playing a meaningful role in that evolution. The post Stallion Match Plays Meaningful Role As Bloodstock Resource appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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