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A few weeks back, we presented a fun paper called Top 10 Myths About Nicks in Thoroughbred Breeding. Today at 2 p.m., Alan Porter and Byron Rogers will host a half-hour video on the topic. Alan and Byron will also be available to take questions after the presentation. The Webinar is FREE and easy to access.  Just register here.

Editor's note:  Dr. Robert Fishman shares his story about breeding recent stakes winner Girlfrienontheside. We've read of the breeding considerations that resulted in her dam, Refrain (see part I  and part II of the series). Here we follow along as Refrain is retired to broodmare duties. Refrain became a broodmare and was ...

What's the best source of stakes-winning broodmare prospects for the low-budget breeder?  Without question, it is at the racetrack. I like to study the fillies entered in claiming contests on upcoming race cards, hoping to find one that has potential as a producer. With a bit of research and a lot of patience, it is possible to ...

The Comparable Index (CI) measures the average earnings of progeny produced from the annual book of mares bred to a sire, when those same mares were bred to other sires. In other words, CI indicates the producing quality of the mares bred to a stallion.  To understand CI, you must first be familiar with the Average Earnings Index (AEI). The ...

Editor's note:  In part I of the series, Dr. Robert Fishman, breeder of recent stakes winner Girlfrienontheside, discussed his choice to breed his mare Inlaw to Unbridled's Song -- a mating that resulted in Refrain, dam of Girlfrienontheside.  Follow along as Dr. Fishman continues the story. I bred Inlaw next to first-year ...

Editor's note:  Dr. Robert Fishman, breeder of recent stakes winner Girlfrienontheside, graciously accepted a request from TrueNicks' Byron Rogers to recount the pedigree considerations that resulted in the filly. Girfrienontheside is by Indian Charlie (TrueNicks,SRO) out of the Unbridled's Song (TrueNicks,SRO) mare Refrain. She won ...

This week's pedigree analysis on BloodHorse.com is a ''Porter on Pedigrees'' column about the grade II winner Misremembered, the first stakes winner bred by top trainer Bob Baffert.  As I was proofreading Alan Porter's story, I pulled up a catalog page for Misremembered's dam, the Quack horse Beyond Perfection.  It wasn't all that ...

I recently wrote an article for TBH MarketWatch -- Blood-Horse Publications' speciality newsletter for Thoroughbred professionals -- that focuses on the aftermath of a runner's career as a racehorse.  While I was researching the issue, a conversation with Liz Harris, executive director of Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA), ...

Relaunch -- the most prominent conduit of In Reality's sire line in 2009 -- was well-represented in the pedigrees of weekend stakes winners. These days, Relaunch might be best known as the grandsire of Tiznow (SRO) and Put It Back (SRO) and great-grandsire of Officer (SRO) -- but the 1979 Del Mar Derby (gr. IIIT) winner has really left his ...

Another member of the old guard has been pensioned. Three Chimneys announced yesterday that Rahy has retired from stud service due to declining fertility. As a representative of several good historic bloodlines -- Blushing Groom (FR), Wild Risk (FR), Halo, and Herbager, for example, and from the immediate family of Glorious Song and Ballade ...