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The latest farm to make their stallions available for complimentary TrueNicks Enhanced reports is WinStar Farm, an outfit that is currently riding on the crest of a wave, coming off a pair of 2010 classic wins. Leader of the WinStar stallion division, Distorted Humor (TrueNicks,SRO), is a horse that made an extremely rapid rise through the ranks, ...

Australian Champion filly Typhoon Tracy ended her outstanding career with a win over the boys in last weekend's C.F. Orr Stakes (gr. I), her second win in that event. The daughter of Red Ransom is out of the South African sprint star Tracy's Element (by Last Tycoon), and is one of five stakes winners from 17 starters from the cross (TrueNicks ...

by Alan Porter Last weekend on the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) scene, the most impressive performance was the effort of the much-touted Brethren in the Sam F. Davis (gr. III, video below). In terms of a classic pedigree, Brethren (TrueNicks A+) is almost uniquely qualified, as not only has his sire Distorted Humor (TrueNicks,SRO) been represented by ...

While we are awaiting the return to action of Indian Charlie (TrueNicks,SRO)’s Two-Year-Old Champion Uncle Mo, the son of In Excess gave notice that he could be doubly represented in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) following the game victory of Anthony’s Cross in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (gr. II). Out of the Unbridled mare Screening, Anthony’s Cross ...

Another sire who had a good week on the international scene was Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO). His U.S.-bred three-year-old colt Splash Point captured the U.A.E. 2000 Guineas (gr. III, video below), his only previous win having come over seven furlongs in England last year. Splash Point is out of the Danehill mare Dianehill, a stakes-winning ...

Young New Zealand sire Thorn Park is a stallon who is quietly moving up the ranks, and he enjoyed a good weekend with Centennial Park winning the Cleanvent Expressway Stakes (gr. II) at Rosehill, Australia, and Jimmy Choux taking the H.S. Dyke Waikato Guineas (gr. III). A son of the brilliant miler Spinning World (by Nureyev), and from the great ...

Bridlewood Farm has long been one of Florida’s foremost nurseries, and we are delighted to announce that they have added their stallions to TrueNicks. Courtesy of the farm, breeders can now run unlimited complimentary TrueNicks reports for all Bridlewood stallions. Current leader of the Bridlewood team is Put It Back (TrueNicks,SRO). A dual ...

Leading Sire of 2009 and 2010, Giant's Causeway (TrueNicks,SRO) doesn’t look like he is going away anytime soon. He’s running second on the list right now, and his trio of 2011 stakes winners include Giant Oak (TrueNicks A++), who added the Donn Handicap (gr. I) to his win in the Clark Handicap (gr. I) on his previous outing. Out of a Crafty ...

For all his merits as a sire – and he crossed successfully over as wide a range of broodmare sires as you could ask for – Wild Again was generally a disappointment as a sire of sires (although Wild Rush did start to shine once he had left these shores for Japan). Despite that, two of this weekend’s major contests fell to horses sired by different ...

While thankfully not (not yet, at least) being quite as folically challenged as Yul Brynner, we do have a connection with a King who has played a staring role in the orient. Having recommended the mating for King Kamehameha, whose dam was sold to Japan carrying that horse, we we’re delighted when he captured the Japan Derby and subsequently earned ...