May 2010 - Posts
An international wrap-up of the weekend's stakes races features the first ever dead heat in a Japanese grade I event....
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Treat Gently won Saturday's Sheepshead Bay Stakes (gr. II), adding to the recent successes of the Green Desert sire line....
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One of the most impressive European juveniles last season, Canford Cliffs, by Tagula, silenced doubters of his distance capabilities with a powerful score in last weekend's Irish 2,000 Guineas (gr. I)....
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This full brother to Kingmambo was a sensation in Zimbabwe before relocating to Gerry and Dana Aschinger's War Horse Place in Lexington....
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The intriguing nick rating of grade I winner Brother Derek and his siblings sheds light on Alydar's unique pedigree impact....
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Does this sound familiar? A talented son of Smart Strike emerges as a leading Kentucky Derby (gr. I) hopeful; the race goes to a rival who benefits from a rail-hugging ride from Calvin Borel; but the Smart Strike son rebounds to prove his classic credentials in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I)....
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Enjoy free TrueNicks reports for tomorrow's Preakness Stakes (gr. I) at Pimlico....
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Just a week after the Derby, it was a quiet weekend for U.S. graded stakes action, but the weekend still revealed a couple of three-year-olds who might have the potential to make their presence made from the summer on....
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The 2010 Barretts May Sale of Two-Year-Olds In Training will be held Monday, May 10 at Fairplex Park in Pomona, California....
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The millennium looks bright for Dubawi after a series of classic-level performers headlined by last weekend's English 2,000 Guineas (gr. I) champ Makfi....
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Super Saver is the second Kentucky Derby (gr. I) win for his late sire Maria's Mon, who conquered an unfashionable pedigree and $7,500 initial fee to gain elite status among Kentucky stallions. Alydar was the last stallion to sire two Kentucky Derby winners....
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Sovereign Award winner as Champion Male Turf Horse, Sky Conqueror stands at Hunterview Farm in Ontario, Canada. His pedigree features an interesting 2 x 4 inbreeding to Nijinsky....
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The top three finishers in both the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks were highly rated on TrueNicks. Let's take a look at these horses' ratings before and after the weekend's results....
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Back on the 1st of June 2009, as part of our study on the TrueNicks ratings and how they are calculated each year we ran the complete 2007 crops on a number of proven stallions - Giant's Causeway, Stormy Atlantic, Maria's Mon and Johannesburg, along with some then unproven sires with their first runners in Afleet Alex, Eurosilver and Roman Ruler. The goal of the study is to look at how ratings change...
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