The Jockey Club projects 35,400 registered foals for 2009, a 3.3% decline from its revised estimate of 36,600 registered foals for 2008.
 
The foal crop projection is computed using Reports of Mares Bred (RMB) received to date for the 2008 season. The reports are to be filed by August 1 and should be submitted as soon as possible for the 2008 season to avoid delays in receiving Service Certificates.

“After mirroring historical trends during the first three weeks of August last year, the pace of 2007 RMB submissions slowed noticeably thereafter and that prompted us to reduce our previously announced forecast for 2008 by 900 foals,” said Matt Iuliano, the Jockey Club’s vice president of registration services. “Based on RMB returns to date for the 2008 breeding season, the foal crop contraction is likely to continue in 2009.”

Foal registration is to be completed within 12 months of the birth of the foal. Late registration is available for additional fees, which makes actual foal crop counts difficult before December 31 of the crop’s two-year-old year, by which the vast majority of the foal crop has been registered.

RMS can be submitted online at the Jockey Club's registry website.