What Are Pedigree Matching Sale Reports and How Can They Help Buyers?

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Pedigree Matching sale reports are auction-specific documents that list yearlings with their correct pedigrees and rank them by performance rating. According to the site, reports are available for all North American sales, and the stated purpose is to help buyers avoid mistakes and focus on the best horses in each sale. They are most useful if you are preparing for a specific auction and want a shortlist before you inspect horses in person.

What a Sale Report Contains

Based on the site's description, each report is built around two elements:

  • Correct pedigrees for the yearlings in a given sale, so you are working from verified bloodline information rather than catalog summaries alone.
  • Performance ratings, with horses listed according to their rating rather than by hip number or alphabetical order.

The site frames this as "a valuable tool to avoid mistakes and help you focus on the best in each sale." In practice, that means the report is a filtering layer: instead of reading an entire catalog, you start from a ranked list and decide which horses deserve deeper study.

How Buyers Can Use One

A practical sequence for using a sale report:

  1. Identify the sale. Reports are published for North American sales, and the site posts them under its news section (for example, "Sale Reports | August 30, 2026").
  2. Get the report for that sale. The site directs inquiries through its contact channels; there is no published self-serve checkout described on the page.
  3. Work the ranked list. Because horses are ordered by performance rating, you can set a cutoff — for example, review only the top tier first — and expand downward if your budget or goals require it.
  4. Cross-check against the catalog and physical inspection. The report tells you which pedigrees rate well; it does not replace vetting, conformation review, or your own trainer's judgment.
  5. Compare across sales. If you are shopping more than one auction, the same rating basis lets you compare candidates from different sales on one scale.

A Concrete Scenario

Suppose you plan to attend a yearling sale with 400 entries and a limited budget. Rather than building a list from scratch, you pull the sale report, note the horses above a rating threshold you set, and arrive with perhaps 30 candidates instead of 400. You then spend your inspection time on those 30 — and on any horse the report flags that you would otherwise have skipped.

What the Reports Do Not Do

  • They do not guarantee racing or performance outcomes. The site's broader claim is that pedigree matching has "proven its worth over the years" across breeds, not that any individual rating predicts a champion.
  • They do not replace inspection. A high rating is a reason to look closer, not a reason to buy unseen.
  • They are not described as free. The page lists reports under "Reports & Services" with "Order Now!" links but publishes no prices, so treat cost and access terms as something to confirm directly.

Where Sale Reports Fit in the Wider Service

Sale reports are one product among several from Pedigree Matching, which also offers standard reports, custom horse reports, retainer consulting packages, and publications by owner Norman Hall. The underlying method — matching sire lines to dam bloodlines — is the same concept applied across the site's tools, including the PM Equine software, which the site says can generate a performance rating for any horse and select a sire for a mare.

If your goal is buying rather than breeding, the sale report is the most directly relevant product: it applies the site's rating approach to horses that are actually for sale.

Getting the Latest Reports

The site posts sale report announcements in its news section, with separate news categories for Standardbred, Thoroughbred, Arabian, Quarter Horse, and Tennessee Walking Horse. To obtain a report, the page directs inquiries to:

  • Phone: 1-902-628-5581 (Canada)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Mail: Box 571, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, C1A 7L1

Check the news section for the most recent sale report posting before contacting, since availability is tied to specific sale dates.