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Photo by Adam Coglianese Multiple grade I winner and track record holder Quality Road (TrueNicks,SRO) has joined TrueNicks in advance of the 2011 breeding season. Following his run in the next month's Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I), for which he is one of the favorites, Quality Road will retire to Lane's End Farm. The son of Elusive ...

Multiple stakes winner and grade I-placed Malibu Moonshine (TrueNicks,SRO) has been retired and will stand the 2011 breeding season at Carlland Stables in Avon, New York. As a TrueNicks stallion, breeders can now run unlimited free nicking reports with Malibu Moonshine. A durable racehorse who made 62 starts over seven seasons, Malibu Moonshine ...

Impressive maiden winner Uncle Mo is getting all the talk going into Saturday's Champagne Stakes (gr. I) for 2-year-olds. Owner Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher hope to use the Champagne as a stepping stone to the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) on Nov. 6. Repole went to $220,000 to secure the son of Indian Charlie ...

The much anticipated Thoroughbred Pedigree and Genetics Symposium is rapidly approaching. The event is sponsored by The Blood-Horse magazine, in conjunction with Pedigree Consultants LLC, and will be held at the Marriott Griffin Gate hotel in Lexington, Kentucky, on Monday, October 11, 2010. Speakers for the 2010 Thoroughbred Pedigree and ...

Buffalo Creek Horse Ranch stallions Ballado Chieftan and Azul Da Guanabara have joined the TrueNicks roster. Ballado Chieftan (TrueNicks,SRO), by Saint Ballado, is a half brother to globetrotting Dubai Golden Shaheen (gr. I) champ Kinsale King, who also placed in the prestigious Golden Jubilee (gr. I) at Royal Ascot. The half brothers are among ...

Photo by photobysparks.com Stakes-winning California stallion Spensive (TrueNicks,SRO) has joined TrueNicks. The gray or roan son of Ponche stands at E.A. Ranches in Santa Ysabel, California, as property of Y-Lo Racing Stables. A six-furlong debut winner at Del Mar at two, Spensive went on to score in the one-mile Gold Rush Stakes over a ...

In the race briefly known as the Zenyatta Stakes, Zenyatta herself used her patented late move to claim her 19th victory Saturday at Hollywood Park. Odds are that the 2011 renewal of the Lady's Secret Stakes (gr. I) will be renamed once again for the unbeaten Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO) mare. But let's not forget 1986 Horse of the Year ...

TrueNicks welcomes Diamond F Ranch stallions Tenga Cat and Del Mar Show. Breeders are now able to run unlimited hypothetical mating reports on these stallions. Del Mar Show (TrueNicks) is a multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire by Theatrical. He excelled on the turf, taking the Bernard Baruch H. (gr. II) at Saratoga and four other graded ...

Photo by Tony Leonard This week it was announced that Kingmambo (TrueNicks,SRO) has been pensioned from stud duty. To date, the 20-year-old son of Mr. Prospector and dual Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. I) winner Miesque has sired 86 stakes winners, including 23 group or grade I winners on the flat. Kingmambo stood his entire career at Lane's ...

We already knew it, but with Rachel Alexandra's retirement it was announced again that the 2009 Horse of the Year will be bred to 2007-08 HOY Curlin (TrueNicks,SRO) in 2011. As Jess Jackson said, ''We are eager to introduce Rachel to Curlin. Imagine what possibilities those two super horses might produce.'' Interestingly, both horses are winners ...