January 2009 - Posts
The cross of Northern Dancer with the family of Best In Class has yielded overwhelming success. Alan comments on the recent stakes winner Cherry One while also looking at the specific inbreeding influence that is present in the filly's pedigree....
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Alan responds to a reader's question about high-rated nicks that haven't produced graded winners, and lower-rated crosses that boast one or more grade I winners. The key is looking at how much success each sire-line cross has had based on actual opportunity....
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Walmac Farm boasts prominent stallions in Kentucky, Florida, and Pennsylvania. The farm offers complimentary pedigree nick reports for its 2009 roster of sires....
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What U.S. stallions offer true value for their fees in 2009?...
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Canadian champion Mobil earned over $1.8 million on his way to 22 in-the-money finishes from 29 starts. Run free hypothetical mating reports with Mobil and your mare, compliments of Schonberg Farm....
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Byron takes a reader's question and dispenses his opinion about matching class and quality in Thoroughbred mating decisions....
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A reader asks about the benefits of purchasing a Broodmare Analysis report versus obtaining complimentary ratings from the 350+ stallions subscribed to the pedigree nicking service....
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The new Broodmare Analysis Report provides an efficient and comprehensive way to analyze the crosses of multiple mares against multiple stallions. ...
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A couple of sophomore sires earned high marks in 2008....
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Signature Stallions' roster includes sons of Montbrook, Saint Ballado, Smoke Glacken, Unbridled's Song, and Way West (FR)....
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Representing the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago is Up the Hill Farms, a Thoroughbred stallion station standing studs from the Storm Cat and Danzig lines....
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For Keeneland's January breeding stock sale, the team at TrueNicks identifies several broodmares whose produce records reveal promising patterns, based on the nick ratings of their previous and current matings....
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Alan Porter has written previously about Holy Bull and his sons... he's also commented on Milwaukee Brew's stud career ... well, today, it all comes together as Alan predicts a future pedigree affinity between these two sires....
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While the cross of Blushing Groom (FR) stallions over daughters from the same line is debatable, there's no question that his son Rahy is emerging as a true damsire of sires....
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Repeated pedigree patterns make the cross of Indian Charlie and Storm Cat appear promising -- and it might not matter which is at the top of the pedigree and which is in the damsire line....
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