Secure every purchase. Document every decision.

The bloodstock agent context

At Goffs, Arqana or Tattersalls, your day is a relentless string of yearling assessments on the parade ring, mental comparisons against the hundreds of horses you've seen this season, weighing what you see against the pedigree and the expected price. You manage several clients in parallel, each with their own budget and criteria, and you have to justify every bid by your judgement alone.

Three frictions come up over and over:

• End-of-sale cognitive fatigue — your eye no longer measures at 6pm the way it did at 9am.
• The difficulty of comparing objectively two yearlings seen four days apart in two different countries.
• Justifying to the client — a client paying 350 k€ wants to understand why this horse, and not another.

What Hippik concretely changes

A side photograph of the yearling, taken on the parade ring with your smartphone, and 30 seconds later you have:

• The 6 reference biomechanical angles (shoulder, elbow, back, hock, fetlock, pastern) computed automatically with accuracy validated below 2°.
• The yearling's statistical positioning against a reference cohort (quartiles).
• A PDF report ready to send to the client, documenting your decision and resilient to challenge.

You keep your eye, your instinct, your reading of the market. Hippik takes nothing away from your craft — it gives you a quantified second brain working in parallel, tireless, that speaks the numerical language your institutional clients increasingly expect.

Concrete use cases

Confirm a strong intuition

You fall in love with a yearling. Hippik shows you that its pastern angle is in the upper Q4 of the cohort, and its hock angle in the lower Q1. Your intuition was right on the athletic profile, but you had not seen the potential hock fragility. You adjust your maximum bid in full knowledge.

Decide between two comparable yearlings

Two yearlings, two close pedigrees, two similar expected prices. To the eye, you hesitate. Hippik shows you that one has a back significantly shorter than the cohort (Q1) — correlated in the literature with lower distance tolerance. You decide with a measured justification.

Document due diligence for the client

You buy a yearling at 280 k€ for an institutional client. You attach the Hippik PDF to your purchase memo, with measurements and statistical positioning. The client has a written, factual, vet-grade trace of the horse's morphological quality. Your credibility goes up, the relationship is secured.