EDWIN ANTHONY

EDWIN ANTHONY began studying thoroughbred pedigrees more than 20 years ago, when he was lucky enough to spend summers during college working with Bill Oppenheim and Roger Lyons at Racing Update. During that time, he also helped Mr. Oppenheim write... More info...

DAVID BAY (AUSTRALIA)

DAVID BAY (born 1952) has owned horses since he was a teenager, trained as a journalist and worked as a reporter and editor on major Australian newspapers before becoming chief executive of Australian Bloodhorse Breeders' Association (now Thoroughbred Breeders Australia) for several years. More info...

ELAINE BELVAL

ELAINE BELVAL parlayed her childhood love of horses into a distinguished career in the thoroughbred industry. While earning her BS degree in Equine Science at Colorado State University, she did her internship with Werk Thoroughbred Consultants in 1991 and, upon completion of her degree, accepted a position with the company as Pedigree Analyst and Consultant. More info...

ROMMY FAVERSHAM

ROMMY FAVERSHAM is a pedigree consultant and author living in Los Angeles. Following college graduation from the University of California at San Diego/Revelle (UCSD), he received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1983 and later became board certified in nuclear medicine... More info...

SID FERNANDO

SID FERNANDO, a 1982 graduate of Vassar College, is a prominent racing and breeding writer. He has been a private pedigree consultant to a select group of international breeders and owners for the last decade, and he has been influential in the purchase and sale of many notable horses, including the dam of a Kentucky Derby winner... More info...

ROBERT D. FIERRO

ROBERT D. FIERRO is managing director of DataTrack International, a firm that helps clients breed, and select, thoroughbred racing and bloodstock prospects utilizing pedigree analysis and several long-established biomechanical programs. With his partner, Jay Kilgore, he devised BreezeFigs™... More info...

SHIN HIKITA (JAPAN)

SHIN HIKITA was born in Kyoto in 1975. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he began writing racing and breeding articles on the internet and for monthly magazines in the 1990s. Shin also has been a private consultant to breeders and has assisted in the purchase and sales of bloodstock. He also has "designed" successful matings for his clients. More info...

KRISTEN MANNING (AUSTRALIA)

KRISTEN MANNING is a freelance pedigree analyst and racing journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Working for various publications such as Bluebloods, Owner Breeder and Racetrack Magazine, she has been studying pedigrees for two decades... More info...

KAREL MIEDEMA (SOUTH AFRICA)

Of Dutch extraction, KAREL MIEDEMA was born in 1946 and emigrated from UK to South Africa in 1976. A life-long obsession with racing developed into a deep interest in breeding and pedigrees during the 1980s. His pedigree insight focuses on genetic sibling inbreeding... More info...

DIEGO MITAGSTEIN (ARGENTINA)

DIEGO MITAGSTEIN is based in Argentina and is one of the most prominent turf journalists in South America. More info...

FRANK MITCHELL

FRANK MITCHELL is the author of the book Great Breeders and their Methods: The Hancocks and is the editor and principal writer of Racehorse Breeding Theories. Formerly deputy bloodstock editor of Daily Racing Form, he writes a weekly column for Daily Racing Form called "Sires and Dams" that concentrates on bloodstock and sales... More info...

MAJOR SRINIVAS NARGOLKAR (INDIA)

MAJOR SRINIVAS NARGOLKAR was born 1943 in Mumbai, India, and educated at St. Xavier's High School and College, Mumbai. He joined the Army and was commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery. He was sent on deputation to Nigeria and took active part in two wars. The Major took premature retirement in 1987 and joined the Stud Book Authority of India... More info...

STEVEN A. ROMAN, PH.D

STEVEN A. ROMAN, Ph.D, was born in 1943 in New York City and is currently a resident of Costa Rica. He is the author of Dosage: Pedigree and Performance, published by the Russell Meerdink Co., in 2003... More info...

VICTOR SHEAHAN (IRELAND)

VICTOR SHEAHAN is a cost accountant and pedigree analyst. His work as a pedigree analyst is strongly influenced by his costing background. In assessing stallions he focuses on value for money and return on investment. Due to the statistical nature of his analysis he rarely recommends stallions yet to have runners. More info...

JOHN P. SPARKMAN

JOHN P. SPARKMAN began his career in the thoroughbred industry in 1972 at Windfields Farm in Maryland, with Northern Dancer quite literally in his back yard. Moving to Lexington in 1974, he served as director of cataloging for the Jockey Club Information Systems for five years, and he also served on the Keeneland July sales selection committee. More info...

LAUREN STICH

LAUREN STICH has long been considered the dean of pedigree handicapping. Stich has parlayed a series of racing-related jobs beginning in her teenage years in New York City, starting with The Morning Telegraph in 1970, where she received a priceless education under the legendary racing journalists Charles Hatton, Evan Shipman and Joe Hirsch... More info...

CLIVE WEBB-CARTER (UK)

CLIVE WEBB-CARTER has been involved in the thoroughbred bloodstock industry for about twenty years. Clive has gained international experience on a number of leading stud farms, including Fayette Park in New Zealand; Side Hill Stud, Newmarket . . . More info...