TrueNicks : Pedigree Elements, European Racing

Kissing Cousins: Australia and Taghrooda

Byron Rogers — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:20:00 GMT

The classic winners share three of four grandparents: Cape Cross, Sadler's Wells, and Urban Sea....(read more)

Return to the Sire the Best Blood of His Dam

Byron Rogers — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:00:00 GMT

Famed Darby Dan manager Olin Gentry said: "Return to the sire the best blood of his dam." This weekend's group I winners Complacent and Astaire show this pattern at work. ...(read more)

Galileo/Danehill Revisited

Alan Porter — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:45:00 GMT

The Galileo/Danehill cross continues to perform at a high level, getting a 16% stakes winners to starters rate that is unchanged compared to 2011....(read more)

Frankel's First Mating: Lots of Inbreeding

Ian Tapp — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Mating with Chrysanthemum carries a whopping 15.33% coefficient of relatedness....(read more)

Frankel Highlights Success of Danehill Mares

Byron Rogers — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:00:00 GMT

International breed-shaping stallion Danehill has proved himself a phenomenon as a sire and broodmare sire in two hemispheres....(read more)

Dream Fulfilled

Alan Porter — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Champion filly Danedream continues to revive the fortunes of her branch of a famous family....(read more)

Gary Hadden Discusses Mating of Reckless Abandon

Ian Tapp — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Bloodstock consultant explains his reasoning behind the mating that produced undefeated Prix Morny (Fr-I) winner....(read more)

Chichicastenango's Never Bend Affinity

Alan Porter — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:45:00 GMT

Sire of French Derby winner Saonois continues his incredible strike rate with mares carrying Never Bend....(read more)

Danzig Line Domination in Europe

Alan Porter 1 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:36:00 GMT

The Danzig-line stallions Dansili and Oasis Dream were represented by seven stakes winners last week. ...(read more)

Ex Games

Alan Porter 1 — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:02:00 GMT

The Marju son Chichon takes Europe's first group event of 2010, the Prix Exbury (gr. III)....(read more)

King For A Day

Alan Porter 1 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:45:00 GMT

Kingmambo sons sire four stakes horses on the March 18 card at Deauville....(read more)

A Crowded Family Portrait

Alan Porter 1 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:46:00 GMT

Northern Station and Flavor are the two most recent stakes winners from an exploding female family....(read more)

Spanning The Globe

Alan Porter 1 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:17:00 GMT

New TrueNicks Stallion Affinity Report proves useful for the new Turkish stallion Sabirli....(read more)

Keep On Rolling

Alan Porter 1 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:30:00 GMT

Giant's Causeway and Medaglia d'Oro, two Leading Sires of 2009, both had new stakes winners last week....(read more)

The Aga Khan Stars Also Shine

Alan Porter 1 — 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)