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Keeneland September Auction Page Now Available
Friday, August 28, 2009 11:00 AM

The TrueNicks score is one factor yearling buyers consider when looking through a sale catalog. At the Keeneland September sale -- with 5,189 hips! -- it's especially important to have a process of elimination to make sure that you're spending your time wisely and seeing only the most promising hips. That's why TrueNicks has created a Keeneland September Auction... Read More...

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Saratoga Yearling Sales Catalogs Now Online
Friday, July 31, 2009 2:16 PM

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... Read More...

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TrueNicks Auction Guide: Fasig-Tipton July Sale
Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:55 AM

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... Read More...

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A Year On -- TrueNicks Scores From the 2008 March OBS Sale of 2-Year-Olds
Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:30 AM

As a prelude to the stallion study -- which is currently "under construction" as we determine the best way to track all the horses that we have rated by each sire throughout the world -- we thought that it was worthwhile going back and taking a look at the 2008 OBS March sale of 2-year-olds to examine the horses that rated well with TrueNicks from that sale.... Read More...

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Filed under: Recent Winners, Validity, Auctions and Sales, 2-Year-Olds, 2YOs of 2009 Study

Pedigrees in Practice -- Cherry One
Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:48 PM

One of the most interesting stakes winners last weekend was Cherry One (TrueNicks A++ ), who took the El Paso Times Handicap at Sunland Park, to remain undefeated in three starts. From the first crop of the Cherokee Run horse Sir Cherokee, Cherry One is out of the El Gran Senor mare One Accord. This is particularly interesting when one recalls that Sir Cherokee... Read More...

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Identify Thoroughbred Mares Carrying Foals With Promise
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:48 PM

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... Read More...

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Filed under: Announcements, Pedigrees and Breeding, Auctions and Sales, Mares, Sires

TrueNicks Special Report on Emerging Broodmare Sires
Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:56 PM

Byron and I -- along with the rest of the team at TrueNicks and with the help of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch -- combed through the data and developed a special report titled Top 10 Emerging Thoroughbred Broodmare Sires at the Keeneland November Sale . It was a very interesting white paper to develop -- and there are some good opportunities at the upcoming sales... Read More...

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Filed under: Broodmare Sire Lines, Pedigrees and Breeding, Auctions and Sales

Freshman Report Card for Keeneland April Sale
Friday, April 04, 2008 8:04 AM

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... Read More...

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TrueNicks Top 10 for OBS March
Monday, March 17, 2008 1:03 PM

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... Read More...

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Top 10 at Barretts March Sale
Friday, March 07, 2008 10:03 AM

With the Barretts March Sale of 2-year-olds in training coming up next week, TrueNicks turns the spotlight on the West Coast, with some notes on the TrueNicks top 10 rated horses in the sale. The highest rated sale horse, hip #49, is bred for speed, being a son of grade I winning sprinter Trippi. Out of Meteoric, a daughter of Pentelicus who set a track-record... Read More...

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Sky Mesa Colt's Speed is No Surprise
Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:02 PM

Fastest work at the under tack show for Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton Calder 2-Year-Old in Training sale was a colt by Sky Mesa ( TrueNicks , SRO ) out of Secondary School, by Honor Grades. The colt - who broke the 10-second mark - is rated an A+ by TrueNicks on the basis of the Pulpit/Danzig cross, but has several other interesting pedigree features. The foremost of... Read More...

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Keeneland January Preview: Day Seven
Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:01 AM

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... Read More...

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Keeneland January Preview: Day Six
Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:01 AM

Alan's Day Six preview: Keeneland January: Day Six Read More...

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Keeneland January Preview: Day Five
Friday, January 11, 2008 1:01 PM

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Keeneland January Preview: Day Four
Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:01 PM

Alan's Day Four preview: Keeneland January: Day Four Read More...

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