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James Thomas

Sales editor and senior bloodstock writer

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The good, the bad and the ugly: analysing buyers’ performance at last year’s breeze-up sales

The good, the bad and the ugly: analysing buyers’ performance at last year’s breeze-up sales

Behind The Breeze-Ups

'Most of us can spot the obvious horses but we don’t necessarily have the budget' - Mark McStay

'Most of us can spot the obvious horses but we don’t necessarily have the budget' - Mark McStay

Behind The Breeze-Ups

‘Buying Cachet will always be my favourite memory…even if I broke the pedigree rule’ - Jake Warren

‘Buying Cachet will always be my favourite memory…even if I broke the pedigree rule’ - Jake Warren

Behind The Breeze-Ups

‘I look for statistical outliers when stride, time and pedigree don’t align as expected’ - Jamie Piggott

‘I look for statistical outliers when stride, time and pedigree don’t align as expected’ - Jamie Piggott

Behind The Breeze-Ups

'The major buyers are all very much data-driven' - Matt Coleman

'The major buyers are all very much data-driven' - Matt Coleman

Behind The Breeze-Ups

‘No matter how much data is available, horsemanship will always remain a vital component’ - Billy Jackson-Stops in the breeze-up Q&A hot seat

‘No matter how much data is available, horsemanship will always remain a vital component’ - Billy Jackson-Stops in the breeze-up Q&A hot seat

Behind The Breeze-Ups

Cover stories: Frankel to the fore as we crunch the numbers behind this year’s mating plans

Cover stories: Frankel to the fore as we crunch the numbers behind this year’s mating plans

'We didn’t quite expect a performance like that' - inside track from Aga Khan Studs on Erdenali, Calandagan and the ‘freedom to go off piste’

'We didn’t quite expect a performance like that' - inside track from Aga Khan Studs on Erdenali, Calandagan and the ‘freedom to go off piste’

Good Morning Bloodstock

A great white hope for the Montjeu line and an embarrassment of broodmare riches - five things we learned from Ballydoyle’s Curragh work morning

A great white hope for the Montjeu line and an embarrassment of broodmare riches - five things we learned from Ballydoyle’s Curragh work morning

Good Morning Bloodstock

Why the data points to an under-the-radar name launching a successful first-season sire mission

Why the data points to an under-the-radar name launching a successful first-season sire mission

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