September 2009 - Posts
The influence of Blushing Groom remains strong as he's found in several stakes pedigrees from last weekend - and in some surprising patterns...
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Walmac Farm in Kentucky will once again sponsor complimentary TrueNicks on all of their stallions for the 2010 season....
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First crop sires Kitten's Joy and Roman Ruler were among the stallions with juvenile stakes winners last weekend....
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Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky has renewed their TrueNicks subscription for all 11 of their stallions. ...
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Complimentary TrueNicks ratings for the stallions standing at Brereton Jone's Airdrie Stud in Kentucky will once again be available to breeders for the 2010 breeding season....
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Belford Farm in Mt. Gilead, Ohio is the first Ohio farm to sign on with TrueNicks....
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There was plenty of stakes action in Canada this past weekend. Alan Porter comments on the pedigrees of three of the biggest Woodbine winners....
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Free TrueNicks reports for Aptitude (TrueNicks,SRO), Empire Maker (TrueNicks,SRO), First Defence (TrueNicks,SRO) and
Mizzen Mast (TrueNicks,SRO) will once again be available to breeders for the 2010 season
courtesy of Juddmonte Farm. ...
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Signature Stallions in Reddick, Florida has renewed their subscription to TrueNicks for the 2010 breeding season. The William Schettine-owned stallion stallion station is home to seven stallions, including Florida's leading second crop sire in Chapel Royal . The son of Florida stalwart Montbrook also ranks among the top ten second crop sires nationally and among the top five of all Florida stallions...
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Kentucky-based Margaux Farm will once again sponsor free TrueNicks for their six stallions for the upcoming year. Devil His Due ( TrueNicks , SRO ) and Cryptoclearance ( TrueNicks , SRO ) are the two veterans of the Margaux roster. Both tough, consistent multiple grade I winners who each earned over $3 million, the stallions combined have sired 78 stakes winners and the earners of nearly $90 million...
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Free TrueNicks for the 21 stallions standing under the Adena Springs banner will once again be available for the 2010 breeding season. This group includes the very interesting Einstein (BRZ) ( TrueNicks , SRO ) who was purchased by Stronach Racing prior to the Pacific Classic (gr. I). If not for an impossible trip in the Stephen Foster H. (gr I), Einstein would be the first runner with grade I scores...
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Magali Farms in California will have four stallions enrolled in TrueNicks for the 2010 breeding season. Free TrueNicks reports have been available on Decarchy ( TrueNicks , SRO ) and Decarchy ( TrueNicks , SRO ) since last fall and Magali will sponsor two additional stallions, Atticus ( TrueNicks , SRO ) and Ten Most Wanted ( TrueNicks , SRO ). Multiple graded winner Decarchy is one of the more promising...
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Theatrical (IRE) ( TrueNicks , SRO ) 's multiple grade stakes-winning son Hap ( TrueNicks , SRO ) is one of the latest stallions to join the Indiana stallion ranks. He is also among the newcomers to the TrueNicks roster for 2010. Hap was one of the better middle distance turf runners earlier this decade, winning six graded events at 8, 8 ½ and 9 furlongs, including the Shadwell Keeneland Turf Mile...
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There is an interesting phenomenon occurring with sons of A. P. Indy which is not represented well in other nicking services and indeed is why an opportunity based program such as TrueNicks which looks at all the foals bred on a cross has an advantage in our opinion....
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Dale asks : I am a small breeder in NY, and have a limited barn of mares. I have been fascinated with the X-factor in the breeding process and wonder why the nick reports do not highlight the heart scores of those known. It also would be nice to see if a stud is a single copy and if a mare was a single of double copy. I recently had a race filly die, and her heart was weighed as part of the autopsy...
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While Rachel Alexandra rewrote the history books at Saratoga, there were plenty of other graded winners of note last weekend, including another by her sire Medaglia d'Oro....
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Afleet Alex became the first sire of his crop to sire a grade I winner after Dublin's victory in the Hopeful Stakes, one of four grade I events for juveniles over the Labor Day weekend....
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TrueNicks and Australia's premier online stallion directory Bluebloods are pleased to announce a joint venture between the companies. Featured stallions on the Bluebloods site that are also subscribed to TrueNicks' pedigree rating service now have a TrueNicks link on their landing page....
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Footstepsinthesand and Shamardal, two young sons of Giant's Causeway, are showing great promise in Europe....
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Termagant's win in the Moyglare Stud Stakes (gr. I) for 2yo's makes Powerscourt the first sire of his crop with a grade/group I winner....
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Icon Project, Sara Louise, Capt. Candyman Can & Summer Bird all won graded races at Saratoga last weekend. All four are by noteworthy sires and have noteworthy pedigree patterns....
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