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

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

Oliver — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:34:55 GMT

alan porter: i have a mare who is about to enter her maiden broodmare season Golden Allure out of Alke. i have 2 studs that i am looking at 1)Half Ours out of Unbridled Song AND 2)Custom for Carlos out of More Than Ready . Custom for Carlos trueNicks higher at an A+ ,Half Ours trueNicks at an A . but on Enicks Half Ours percentage is a good bit higher at more than 400% and Custom for Carlos is in the 200% percentile. my question is why? i dont understand why this is ? its says its nicking of the same sires and broadmare(Golden Allure)s grand sire. please explain to help me!! what would you do in my case? oppinons are appricated!

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

ALAN T NAYLOR — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:20:10 GMT

Dear sirs /madam could anyone with breeding knowledge tell me wether the colt AL ZIR PERCHASED BY THE GODOLPIN racing stable and entered in the 1 mile 2000 and the 1 1/2 mile Derby will this colt stay 1 1/2 miles on breeding thanks you for the chance to ask

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

Bob@tbhorse — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:36:18 GMT

Dawn, if you are looking for True Nicks and Nicking, you need to look at Danzig and Storm Cat stallions for your mating. Sons of Danzig, Danzig and Northern Dancer have produced graded stakes winners and stakes winners out of Bayou Hebert and Hoist The Flag mares. Storm Cat, Storm Bird and Northern Dancer have all produced graded stakes winners and stakes winners out of Hoist The Flag mares.

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

brent — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:57:26 GMT

I have a chief seattle colt and i am interested in using hime for a breeding stallion next year. what broodmare lines would you recommend? thanks, brent

Byron's Reply: Brent, TrueNicks is launching a Stallion Affinity Report at the end of this month which you should find of great utility. The report looks at all the active broodmare sirelines available in the region and rates the stallion against these sires. You will be able to then quickly look at all the broodmare sirelines that rate well with your stallion and make informed decisions. Look out for it in the next few weeks.

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

Alan Porter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:49:35 GMT

Hi Jim,

The broad cross of Storm Cat line stallions over mares by Beau Genius has been an extremely successful one. The number of stakes winners - all by different stallions - out of mares by this specific broodmare sire, would seem to indicate a very strong affinity.

I am not a big believer in the importance of dosage. Here the distribution indicates that it is heavily weight towards the "brilliant" end of the spectrum, which is strongly associated with speed.

However, given that Vision and Verse was a good second in the Belmont Stakes, and that Dynamite Vision's dam is by Dynaformer, we have plenty of stamina here.

The dam won over a mile too, so this foal should have no problem with nine furlongs.

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

Jim — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:50:45 GMT

I have a stallion named Dynamite Vision and a mare named Ivy League Genius. He is an unraced son of Vision and Verse and she earned over 180k and is a daughter of Beau Genius, Would these to have a foal with a good dosage and what does it mean????? I did a true nick and got an A+ but what does that mean????

PLEASE HELP

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

Ashley from the Peg — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:23:05 GMT

I am just getting into the business and I have to admit all of this seems overwhelming - I have bought the books on breeding thoroughbreds etc. but these books just don't cover as indepth the pedigree side of breeding. I love reading anything that TrueNicks has to say because I make note of your references to the different pedigrees. Seriously TrueNicks you and your advisers need to write a book on the pedigrees of todays thoroughbreds - what lines are good, what lines to stay away from for certain types of mares etc. I find that I am the type of person that likes to research more before I make any sort of decision and to a newbie who doesn't live in the states or has astronomical sums to spend I think that with the recession in both Canada and the US as well as elsewhere that we will start to see more of depending on the pedigree for racing rather than the pedigree for commercial sale. I would like to see if we get more of the great ones now that the mares and stallions that shouldn't be bred aren't going to because there just isn't the money for it. As a side note - totally off-topic in a way - It would be interesting to see Dance with Ravens bred to RA - Dance Smartly would definetley be a good influence - she was also a great racehorse and producer.What would that kind of mating produce is a interesting question.

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

Dean Miller — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:40:15 GMT

Somebody prove to me that the entire nicking thing isn't just a bunch of crap.

Byron's Reply: Dean, how would you like us to prove it to you? When we did the initial research program we did in fact ask the question and the results were statistically significant across 100,000 horses of varying quality. Commercial horses tend to have a slight skew towards higher ratings in general which is probably something to be expected. Other than us stating this to you, what would you like to see to prove it to you?