TrueNicks : Mares

Still Lucky, In Kentucky

aporter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:43:00 GMT

Malibu Moon and Northern Afleet, who both started in regional markets, were represented by grade I juvenile winners last weekend from crops sired since moving to Kentucky....(read more)

Good Vision

aporter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:53:00 GMT

Wintergreen Stallions' Pollard's Vision is among the many surprises on this year's first crop sire standings...(read more)

The Aga Khan Stars Also Shine

aporter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:31:00 GMT

Horses bred or owned the Aga Khan swept seven French group events, five of them group I last weekend and they came all across the distance scale, with all manner of pedigree patterns....(read more)

Q&A - What are the Differences Between TrueNicks & Other Nicking Systems? What's More Important, a 'Good' Dosage Profile or a Good Nick Rating?

aporter — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:26:00 GMT

Dawn asks : I am somewhat new to this and really need some help. have a mare named Buy You A Bear (Bayou Hebert x Sheckyrilla - Shecky Greene) that I am contemplating breeding to Borrego ( TrueNicks , SRO ) or Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) ( TrueNicks , SRO ) . These are my questions: 1) Based on TrueNicks, she nicks better with 'Leroi' than Borrego, but her Dosage is better with Borrego and she has more stakes...(read more)

Montjeu Again and Again (and Again)

aporter — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:03:00 GMT

Last weekend in Europe Montjeu emerged with a group I winner and two juvenile group winning colts who both look like Derby prospects....(read more)

A Juvenile Weekend

aporter — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:47:00 GMT

First crop sires Kitten's Joy and Roman Ruler were among the stallions with juvenile stakes winners last weekend....(read more)

Oh Canada

aporter — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:21:00 GMT

There was plenty of stakes action in Canada this past weekend. Alan Porter comments on the pedigrees of three of the biggest Woodbine winners....(read more)

Interesting Patterns Abound in Elusive Quality's Latest String of Stakes Winners

aporter — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:00:00 GMT

With six stakes winners in the month of August, Elusive Quality is America's hottest stallion......(read more)

Ghanaati is Giant Cause for Celebration

aporter — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:40:00 GMT

The Giant's Causeway filly Ghanaati became a classic winner over the weekend. Alan Porter delves into her female family and finds a blue hen....(read more)

Broodmare Analysis Report Unveiled

sgillies — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:36:00 GMT

The new Broodmare Analysis Report provides an efficient and comprehensive way to analyze the crosses of multiple mares against multiple stallions. ...(read more)

Identify Thoroughbred Mares Carrying Foals With Promise

sgillies — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:48:00 GMT

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....(read more)

A Perfect Show

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:07:00 GMT

With the Australian racing season winding to a close, the final stakes race of the winter was run at Eagle Farm last Saturday with the Glenlogan Park-owned mare Perfect Feeling claiming the listed Tattersalls Mile.

Perfect Feeling is a daughter of the Coolmore stallion Spinning World, who in this author's opinion is one of the best value stallions to stand in Australia this coming breeding season, and is out of the unraced Lady Cairns, a daughter of Breeders' Cup Mile winner Last Tycoon. Lady Cairns in turn is out of the New Zealand winning Crested Wave mare Blue Water Lady, a sister to the Caulfield Stakes (Aus-I) winner Drought, and a half-sister to Salcantay (by Palace Music), winner of five races including two listed events.

Spinning World has had a brilliant season in Australia with the highlight being his 3-year-old daughter Heavenly Glow winning the AJC Oaks and STC Arrowfield Stud Stakes (both Aus-I).

What should be interesting to those that know her pedigree is that Heavenly Glow is out of a mare by Celestial Bounty, a son of Last Tycoon's sire, Try My Best. A brother to the high-class El Gran Senor, Try My Best is out of Sex Appeal, a daughter of Best in Show who of course also features as the fourth dam of Spinning World. Thus both Heavenly Glow and Perfect Feeling, who rate A++ with TrueNicks, are inbred to Best in Show 5 x 5. One of the most significant tap-root mares of the last 50 years, the grand producer Best in Show is ancestress of more than 70 stakes winners, the best known including El Gran Senor, Try My Best, Aldebaran, Aviance, Chimes of Freedom, Spinning World, Malinowski, Xaar, Yagli, Strong Hope, Rags to Riches, Jazil, Domedriver, Umatilla, Hurricane Sky, and Redoute's Choice.

In the case of Spinning World at least, inbreeding to this superior mare has proven a very profitable nick.

Research is a Mare Owner's Best Investment

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:03:00 GMT

Amy from Lexington asks Alan: I work for a small farm in Lexington and have been helping to plan matings. I really enjoy pedigree research and learning all the theories behind different nicks / crosses inbreeding / outcrossing, etc. The main problem I have run into had been finding a way to figure out what lines broodmare sires cross with. I was hoping you could shed some light on finding a good approach to look at a mare's sire and gather information on what that horse has accomplished as a broodmare sire, and with what lines he has made those accomplishments. I would appreciate any advice you can give me.

I also wanted to tell you that I love your website. It is very informative, and makes for an easy read. Thank you for your time.

Alan responds: Hi Amy, thank you for your question.

The Jockey Club's equineline.com has several products that will help you analyze a mare and find out the stallions that have worked best with her broodmare sire.

Product 61 (view sample) gives all the foals out of mares by a broodmare sire, along with the sire of those foals, and their race records (including whether or not they are black type performers). Product 62 gives the best performers out of a mare by a chosen broodmare sire, along with their sire.

Another report, product 91 (view sample) allows you to enter a mare and obtain a list of all sires out of mares by her sire, and number of foals, starters, winners, black type winners, total earnings and AEI, all with percentages.

Using these products will enable you to tell the sires that have worked with the broodmare sire. From there it is possible to consider one of the stallions that have worked, or another horse from the same sire line (The Blood-Horse Stallion Register lists stallions by sire, and has charts of stallions arranged by sire lines).

Of course, when the possible horses have been selected, the potential matings can be run on TrueNicks hypo-mating (with many leading commercial stallions subscribing to give breeders complimentary access to nick ratings, and others available for a $20 report fee - a wise purchase when considering that most stud fees are five figures).

In the coming months TrueNicks will be releasing products that enable a broodmare owner to enter a mare and obtain a list of stallions in a chosen price range and location, sorted by TrueNicks rating.

Giant's Riches

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:03:00 GMT

Yesterday brought the news that champion 3-year-old filly Rags to Riches was to be retired and bred to Giant's Causeway.

The match of the history-making Belmont Stakes (gr. I) heroine with Storm Cat's leading son is one that should create a tough runner, and a horse that will have no problems with classic distances.

Of course, we couldn't resist running it through the TrueNicks program. This came up with the mating as a C based on the Storm Cat / A. P. Indy cross. That cross has produced only three stakes winners, albeit a couple of notable names, headed by the Haskell (gr. I) winner and Kentucky Derby (gr. I) runner-up Bluegrass Cat (TrueNicks, SRO), and graded stakes winner Untouched Talent. Storm Cat himself sired Bluegrass Cat and Untouched Talent from seven starters out of A.P. Indy mares, but so far there are 42 starters by sons of Storm Cat out of A.P. Indy mares, and only one stakes winner.

There are, however, some other factors - beyond the outstanding class of the sire and dam, a very important point - that might help this mating. From a pedigree pattern standpoint, we can note that both Giant's Causeway and Better Than Honour, the dam of Rags to Riches, are Northern Dancer / Blushing Groom crosses. We can also note that Giant's Causeway is sire of the exciting sophomore stakes winner Giant Moon, who is out of a mare by Capote who, like A.P. Indy, is a son of Seattle Slew.

Ashado Booked to Street Cry

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:02:00 GMT

Darley announced this week that two-time champion Ashado, whose $9-million price at Keeneland's November sale in 2005 was then a record for a broodmare or broodmare prospect sold at public auction, will be bred this year to Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks, SRO) (a stallion who is subscribed to TrueNicks complimentary hypothetical mating reports). This will be one of the more interesting matings of the year with the result being an inbreeding to the good sire Halo and containing a number of duplications of the outstanding broodmare Almahmoud.

The Street Cry/Ashado mating is an A+ TrueNicks mating and it is worth taking a look at. Why? It is a good example of looking at the pedigree in its totality. While the sire line/broodmare sire line is an A-level rating, and thus worth considering on that basis alone, there are also some other elements in the pedigree that look quite desirous especially when one looks at the pedigree of Street Cry's grade I winning filly Cry and Catch Me (see attachments).