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The elephant in the room....Is the dwindling North American foal count.
croding to the Jockey Club. The US foal count was 17,300.
To put this into perspective...in 1990 there were 40,300 live foals.
The first time this dropped below 30k was in 2009 when 29,5k foals were dropped.
In 2018 19.7k live foals.
in 2021, this year's 3 YO crop, 17,850 ( est)
Based on those figures, t should come as no surprise that fields are coming up short.
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