In a new podcast Jeff Lifson is joined by John Sparkman, an expert on the auction market, bloodlines, and many other aspects from a quite thorough career in the Thoroughbred world.

John talks about planning the mating that resulted in a Kentucky Derby winner, his hand in the breeding that produced Flightline, what really happened with the unbelievable ($16-million!) bidding war surrounding The Green Monkey at Fasig-Tipton’s Florida 2yo sale, how the juvenile sales have progressed through the years, being able to look out his back window at Northern Dancer in the 1970s, and go-to sires of 2022.