Emily’s publications include:
- In collaboration with Bill Oppenheim, Emily publishes the Stallion Spectator Ratings (SSR) book twice a year in both the Northern Hemisphere (focusing on North America and Europe) and Southern Hemisphere (including Australasia, South America, and South Africa). Each edition of the book contains a combination of stallion statistics, unique research studies, and a historical almanac of stallion performance- all which seek to answer the eternal question of just how good a stallion really is. The SSR book is available by private subscription only, please contact Emily for more information.
- Oppenheim and Plant also publish a monthly magazine called Thoroughbred Market Report which provides analysis and commentary covering major Thoroughbred sales around the world- find out more here.
- Emily was featured in the three-part Freakonomics Podcast series titled “The Horse Is Us”, which provided a unique perspective on the Thoroughbred horse racing industry. The podcast won a 2025 National Thoroughbred Horse Racing Association Media Eclipse Award for multimedia industry coverage.
Academic Publications:
- Plant, Emily and Jason Triche. “A Class Project to Increase Students’ Understand of Fundamental Operations Management Concepts.” Operations Management Education Review, 17 (2023): 83-106.
- Firth, David, Theresa Floyd, and Emily Plant. “The Tyranny of the Textbook: an 8-step program on how to stop using the textbook.” In book: Teaching Information Systems (2024).
- Pogacar, Ruth, Neil Brigden, Frank Kardes, Emily Plant, James Kellaris. “The Reference Dependence Roots of Inaction Inertia: A Query Theory Account.” Public Library of Science ONE (PLoS ONE) (2023)
- Stowe, Christina and Emily Plant. “Is Moneyball relevant on the racetrack? A new approach to evaluating future racehorses”. Journal of Sports Economics (2019)
- Pogacar, Ruth, Emily Plant, Laura Felton Rosulek, and Michal Kouril. “Sounds good: Phonetic sound patterns in top brand names”. Marketing Letters (2014)
- Stowe, Christina and Emily Plant. “The Price of Disclosure in the Thoroughbred Yearling Market.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 45.2 (2013): 243-257. (Lead article in journal edition)
- Plant, Emily, Robert Dahlstrom, and Kerry O’Neill. “A Dead Horse: You Can’t Beat It”. The Kentucky Journal of Equine and Natural Resource Law, 4.1 (2011): 55-91.
- Dahlstrom, Robert, Arne Nygaard, and Emily Plant. “Exploring the Role of Governance in Sustainable Franchised Distribution Channels.” Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Mega-Engineering Projects. Ed. Stanley Brunn. Springer, 2011. 839-850.
- Plant, Emily. Market Signaling Effects on Business Performance Outcomes.” University of Kentucky, PhD dissertation.
- Mohr, Jakki, Ruth Pogacar, and Emily Plant. “Establishing Knowledge of Careers in Marketing at the Lower Division: A Strategy to Set Expectations and Influence Motivations for Choosing Marketing as a Major.” Marketing Educators’ Association 2013 Annual Conference Proceedings. Portland: MEA, 2013. 173-180.
- Plant, Emily, Lee Meyer (2009). “Dead Stock Disposal- Solutions and Future Programs” Published in “Kentucky Farm Bureau Policy Development Brief, July 2009”.
