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Easter may be a holiday, but it’s also a time of intense activity in the Australian Thoroughbred industry, especially in Sydney. The BWM Sydney Carnival runs from March 24 to April 28 at Royal Randwick and Rosehill Gardens, and features the world’s richest 2-year-old race, the A$3.5 million AMI Golden Slipper (gr. I)—contested on Easter Saturday—and, one week...
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Keeneland has cataloged 3,919 hips for the 2011 November Breeding Stock Sale to be held Nov. 7-17 in Lexington. Visit TrueNicks.com/Auctions to get TrueNicks reports for all hips in the Midlantic sale, or for any past or upcoming sale. Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale: Book 1: Hips 1-429 Book 2: Hips 430-1227 Book 3: Hips 1228-1643 Book 4: Hips 2058-2882...
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Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 1,007 yearlings for its 2011 Kentucky Fall Yearlings sale to be held October 24-26 in Lexington. Visit TrueNicks.com/Auctions to get TrueNicks reports for all hips in the Midlantic sale, or for any past or upcoming sale. Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearlings: Session 1: Monday, October 24 - Hips 1-336, 10 AM Session 2: Tuesday, October...
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Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 535 yearlings for its 2011 Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearlings sale to be held October 4-5 in Timonium, Maryland. Visit TrueNicks.com/Auctions to get TrueNicks reports for all hips in the Midlantic sale, or for any past or upcoming sale. Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearlings: Session 1: Tuesday, October 4 - Hips 1-264, 10 AM Session...
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Keeneland has cataloged 4,319 yearlings for its 2011 September Yearling Sale ( view catalog at Keeneland's website ) to be held Sept. 11-24 in Lexington, Ky. This year's catalog includes 3,763 yearlings (87%) sired by TrueNicks subscribed stallions, meaning that complimentary reports are available for these hips. Use the link below to view the hips for the entire...
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Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 240 two-year-olds for its 2011 Florida Sale to be held March 3 at Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Florida. Reports are available for all hips, including 86% sired by TrueNicks complimentary stallions. Visit TrueNicks.com/Auctions to get reports for this sale, or for past and upcoming sales. TrueNicks Reports for Fasig...
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Keeneland has cataloged 1,827 horses for its 2011 January Horses of All Ages Sale . The sale runs Monday-Friday, January 10-14, with sessions beginning at 10 a.m. each day. Live streaming video live will be available at Keeneland.com. TrueNicks offers a sortable auction page of all hips in the sale with quick links to order reports or retrieve free reports. Visit...
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The TrueNicks Auction Guide pages are now available for the upcoming Two-Year-Old in Training sales at Keeneland and OBS. The Keeneland April sale will be conducted on Monday, April 5 while the OBS Spring auction runs from April 19-22. Both sales produced juvenile champions last year with Champion 2yo Colt Lookin' at Lucky emerging from the '09 Keeneland April...
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The glorious Saratoga race meeting is now underway -- which means that the highly successful Fasig Tipton Saratoga Select and New York-bred yearling sales are just around the corner. TrueNicks has you covered! Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga sale of selected yearlings is one of the premier horse auctions in the world. It has roots that stretch back to 1917 when Fasig...
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TrueNicks is proud to present the first of our Auction Guide pages for the Northern Hemisphere sales season. Going forward, we'll be offering a site for auction-goers to visit to find TrueNicks scores for hips of interest. This service will expand and improve over the next several months -- but we wanted to start with the 2009 yearling sales so we've created...
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The second round has just begun in the current auction cycle of Thoroughbred breeding stock sales. If the ongoing OBS Mixed Sale is any indication, it's a buyer's market, and anyone looking to purchase a broodmare has a great chance to find a bargain -- if he knows what he's looking for. Byron Rogers, Alan Porter, and the rest of the TrueNicks pedigree rating...
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Alan analyzes first-crop sires of 2-year-olds represented at the Keeneland April sale in a featured article in The Blood-Horse Data Digest (preview below). If you'd like to follow along in the Keeneland catalog while reading, it's available here . Coming into the Keeneland April 2-year-olds in training sale, TrueNicks turns its eye on the freshman sire class...
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Topping the charts is hip #308, a colt from the second crop of Zavata ( TrueNicks , SRO ), out of the Pine Bluff mare Fair Miss, a half sister to Irish stakes winner Steaming Home, from the family of Corporate Report. Bred on the Phone Trick/Pine Bluff cross that has also produced stakes winners Who's Happy and Call Me Wild, this colt is also inbred to Mr. Prospector...
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Alan Porter has been asked to preview each day of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale. His comments appear on BloodHorseNOW.com , including a special page in that publication’s daily PDF newsletter, which is distributed each day at the salegrounds. As part of Alan’s notes, he has provided a Top 10 list of the short yearlings offered each day, and another...
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Alan's Day Six preview: Keeneland January: Day Six
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Alan's Day Five preview: Keeneland January: Day Five
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Alan's Day Four preview: Keeneland January: Day Four
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Alan's Day Three preview: Keeneland January: Day Three
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Alan's Day Two preview: Keeneland January: Day Two
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Alan's Day One preview: Keeneland January: Day One
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