2009 Top-10 Industry Honors

In the Bloodhorse/Marketwatch (7/21/09 issue) sales rankings of consignors,* John O'Hara was recognized with top ten rankings in the following categories:

• Top 10 for highest rate of return

• Top 10 for highest sales average

• Top 10 for highest percentage of profitable pinhooks

*Two year-old pinhooking rankings for sales agents who offered at least 5 horses for sale

Sharpshooters
Steve Bajer and John O'Hara
know how to pick 'em

Bloodhorse Magazine
by Lenny Shulman

You look at Steve Bajer and John O’Hara moving around the sales at Keeneland each September and November, and they seem like two guys who took a wrong turn on the way to a fishing trip. Bajer, 62, and O’Hara, 53, both married, walk the grounds with an easy give-and-take dialogue running between them, accompanied by O’Hara’s son, Dustin. They’re dressed casually, and while they’re paying close attention to the business at hand—picking out weanlings and yearlings to buy—they give off the impression of two guys on holiday looking for a restaurant. The results of their purchases, however, paint a far different picture...Read full article: click here
 

2009 Singular Industry Honor

Bloodhorse/Marketwatch (1/23/09 issue) recently concluded a 5-year study of two-year-old consigners from 2001-2005 that analyzed sales and racetrack purse earnings.

Equine Prep was the only consignor with both a sales average of over $100,000 and whose horses had average earnings greater than their sales average at the racetrack.

In the same study, Equine Prep was ranked third of all consignors with an Average Earnings Index (AEI) of 3.06;  i.e., horses sold by Equine Prep from 2001-2005 produced over 3 times the average purse earnings during the same span of time.

Ranked #1 in 2003 and 1996 for highest percent of profitable pinhooked horses by Bloodhorse Magazine Publications