EBI Services
Show Me the Money
Equine Bloodhound International (EBI) believes that all the boxes for racing or breeding success must be checked. A well-nourished horse from a reputable farm helps the performance odds, as a beginning. Good-to- best confirmation weighs-in, as well, although parenthetically... a superb racehorse and sire, Turn-To, wasn’t exactly right in the pasterns, hear tell.
Our goal is to help you, in particular, with the headliner: Bloodlines Matter. Bloodlines are essential for hitting the top-of-the-mark in racing or breeding thoroughbreds.
EBI believes that fun-is-fun, yet fun lasts longer, a lot longer, when you make money from your entire stable of one or more thoroughbreds. Certain racetracks in the United States and beyond offer significantly-sized purses. The Breeders’ Cup, the Triple Crown Races, here and abroad, as well as those held in Saudi Arabi and Dubai, offer purses in the millions.
The Big-Time money becomes surreal when stallions, such as Into Mischief, and others, reach the upper atmosphere in stud fees and demand. Into Mischief’s 2024 stud fee is $250,000, a bargain based upon his being the leading sire, five consecutive years. Over a 10-year period, Into Mischief’s earnings as a stallion have stretched beyond $250,000,000, roughly. Other stallions reside in the same ozone layer as Into Mischief. Uncle Mo, owned by the billionaire-plus, Mike Repole, has also been highly successful. Ed Rosen serves as his Branch Manager and in house pedigree expert.
When the stars become aligned in your arena, and you own one or more starbright athletes, you can dine with kings and queens, presidents and dictators.
Our Approach
The first step in our process is to determine if you have a trainer or not or perhaps you are a trainer seeking potential stars for yourself or your clients. Naturally, a trainer has a dog in this hunt, no question about it, for he or she stands to benefit. He or she succeeds if the horse succeeds. The saying goes in the equine selection process is:
- What are trainers (or friends) for if you can’t use them? Trainers also say, “What a successful trainer needs…is a good, preferably great horse.”
- When the sales roll around, it is time…time for all hands to be on deck, looking for the toe-tinglers. The grading scale for those in the hunt is to grade the horse from one-to-ten. Tens are reserved for those mares who remind you of Bo Derek.
- D. Wayne Lukas says that the female horse will have: 1) the eye of a princess; 2) the body of a stripper; and 3) a butt like a washerwoman.
Said succinctly, all the hands-on-board, though few in number, are eye-balling as many horses as possible, checking off, regardless of gender, on the horse’s appearance, correctness in its stance, confirmation, and its way of going. Each eye-baller will grade their horses from one-to-ten. Once the homework and grades are turned-in, the bloodhounds come into play and they too will grade the strength of the pedigree from one-to-ten.
Once the herd of horses are narrowed down to a reasonable number of ten or so, the buyer(s) then weigh-in as the ultimate decision-maker(s). The end-stage ranking of preferred choices will trigger the involvement of a registered veterinarian to review the x-ray repository. Some sales companies and consignors provide access to information about a horse’s airway, gained through the videoing of a horse’s endoscopic procedure.