February 17 – Membership meeting featuring Alan Porter and Bryon Rogers
Alan Porter has been professionally involved with Thoroughbreds for nearly 35 years. He has authored racing and breeding analyses for three decades, and has been planning matings for leading breeders throughout the world for a quarter century.
After several years working on a stallion farm in England, Alan turned to journalism, joining Stud & Stable (later Pacemaker), a journal on which Alan worked as Deputy Editor. He then served an eight-year term as advisor for Mr. & Mrs. Bertram R. Firestone’s Catoctin Farm and Gilltown Studs before becoming a freelance pedigree advisor and journalist initially working from Long Island, N.Y., but now from Corinth, Miss.
Over the years, Alan has written regular columns for Daily Racing Form , Thoroughbred Daily News , Pacemaker , The Australian Bloodhorse Review , BloodHorseNOW.com , and Owner-Breeder International , as well as contributing to numerous other publications in Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
Alan has also authored three books on racing including Patterns of Greatness and Patterns of Greatness II – The Americans (co-written with Anne Peters) and was a contributor to Great Thoroughbred Sires of the World. A speaker at numerous seminars and conferences around the world, Alan has also provided pedigree commentary on camera for Fox Sports Network and for New York Times Television. More recently Alan has, along with Byron, been a co-developer and part owner of TrueNicks.
Alan Porter has consulted on breedings that have resulted in more than 100 stakes winners to date. They include three Eclipse Award winners in North America, as well as other champions and classic winners in Canada, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates, and group and grade I winners in at least 12 different countries. He currently advises leading breeders and owners in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Alan has been an owner and breeder in both England the U.S., and also owns an off-track Thoroughbred riding horse.
Byron Rogers spent eight years at Arrowfield Stud in Australia as Stallion Nominations and Bloodstock Manager, part of the team that developed the careers of leading sires Redoute’s Choice, Flying Spur and Danzero. Byron played an integral part in the relocation of leading Chilean sire Hussonet as well as planning matings for leading racehorses such as Miss Finland, Mentality, Fashion’s Afield, Sunday Joy, Royal Purler, Miss Bussell, etc
Byron extended his industry experience at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky, where for three years he served as director of their stallion division, managing the careers of the likes of Unbridled’s Song, Forestry, Officer, Forest Danger, Northern Afleet and Southern Image as well as joint venture stallions Tiznow and Speightstown. In 2008, Byron returned to Australia to accept the newly-created post of national sales manager for William Inglis and Son, Australia’s leading Thoroughbred sales company. In 2009, Byron resigned from this position to concentrate on Pedigree Consultants and their associated companies. Byron has written numerous articles for Owner-Breeder International, TBH MarketWatch and The Australian Bloodhorse Review. He co-authored Great Thoroughbred Sires of the World. Byron is a co-developer and part owner of the pedigree rating system TrueNicks.
- Registration is 6:15 P.M. at Keeneland. RSVP Must be made by 5:00 P.M. Feb. 12, 2010. NO RSVP will be taken after the deadline. Please RSVP “Walk in seating” will be very limited. Dinner starts at 6:45 P.M.
- To Pre-Pay mail Check or Credit card info to: KTFMC, 1005 Richmond Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40502 or Register online at www.ktfmc.org.
- Dinner starts at 6:45 P.M.
- ($20/members; $25/guest)
- Please list all attendees.
- We will be passing out 2010 Directorys to all members in good standing.(Dues paid) 1 book per member.