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Welcome to the TrueNicks 2010 Fasig-Tipton Texas Summer Yearlings auction page. The sale will be held August 30 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. Monday, August 30 - Hips 1-363, 10 AM TrueNicks are available for the sale's offerings listed here by hip number. To generate a TrueNicks report, click on the link beneath the hip ...

Reader challenge: Identify the following four horses represented by their 3-cross pedigrees. Note that Broodmare Sire x is the same horse in all pedigrees, as is Sire y. It may be useful to consult the list of TrueNicks subscribed stallions to solve this week's puzzle. TrueNicks ratings are up-to-date as of time of publishing, but the exact ...

TrueNicks welcomes graded and multiple stakes winning sprinter Sing Baby Sing (TrueNicks,SRO), a new stallion for 2011 standing at Lane’s End Texas. A son of Unbridled's Song (TrueNicks,SRO), Sing Baby Sing captured the six-furlong Phoenix Stakes (gr. III) at Keeneland, and his career included stakes wins on dirt, turf, and synthetic, ranging ...

Following on from Alan Porter's post on the continued success of Dansili, here is a look at his offspring's stakes results over the last two months. Winning distances range from six to 16 furlongs and include grade/group I winners Proviso and Harbinger. In his current crop of 148 two-year-olds, Dansili has seven winners, highlighted by group III ...

Welcome to the TrueNicks 2010 OBS August Open Yearlings auction page. The sale will be held August 24 in Ocala, Florida. Wednesday, August 25 - Hips 201-550, 10:30 AM Thursday, August 26 - Hips 551-901, 10:30 AM NOTE: Click here for the OBS August Selected Yearling Sale to be held August 24. This sale includes Hips 1-200. TrueNicks are ...

Welcome to the TrueNicks 2010 OBS August Selected Yearlings auction page. The sale will be held August 24 in Ocala, Florida. Tuesday, August 24 - Hips 1-200, 1 PM TrueNicks are available for the sale's offerings listed here by hip number. To generate a TrueNicks report, click on the link beneath the hip number. NOTE: Click here for the OBS ...

The Jim Dandy Stakes (gr. II) will be run Saturday, July 31. Post time is 5:48 pm ET. Click the link for each contender to view a complimentary report.   1 - Steinbeck (6-1) FREE TrueNicks report for Steinbeck 2 - Afleet Express (4-1) FREE TrueNicks report for Afleet Express 3 - Stormy's Majesty (15-1) FREE TrueNicks report ...

On 27 Jul 2010 8:46 PM, John writes: ''Why does Rachel Alexandra get an A++, while Zenyatta gets just an A+? Am I missing something?'' Ian's response: Hi John, Thanks for your question. TrueNicks is a sire line nicking program that measures how well a sire line/broodmare sire line cross has fared at producing stakes winners. TrueNicks is a ...

A colleague recently pointed out an interesting story from the July 2010 issue of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder Incorporating Pacemaker. In a profile of breeders Eric and ''Budgie'' Moller, Jeremy Early explains that the Moller's foundation broodmare, Horama – a 2,100 guineas yearling purchase who won four races at five furlongs – became ancestress ...

The Personal Ensign Stakes (gr. I) will be run Sunday, August 29th – the day after the Travers Stakes (gr. I) – at Saratoga Race Course. Already pointing to the race is Life At Ten (TrueNicks A), who is riding a six-race win streak that includes the Ogden Phipps Handicap (gr. I) and a powerful score in the 10-furlong Delaware Handicap (gr. II). ...