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 (Originally published in the January 7, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @EJMitchellKy on Twitter The pursuit of the 2011 leading freshman sire title turned out to be a match race between Ashford Stud’s Scat Daddy and ...

(Originally published in the January 7, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   Anthony Hegarty and John Wade are successful residential builders and developers in the Chicago area, but their success doesn’t end in the construction business. It has ...

Here is the way my Eclipse Award ballot would look, as of Dec. 30. Happy New Year to everyone. See you on the other side. Horse of the Year: Havre de Grace--It's been discussed at length how there was no true standout in 2011, but she is the best of the group. The decision by Rick Porter and Larry Jones to race her against males in the Woodward, ...

Using a random number generator, I have chosen a winner for the 2012 Blood-Horse calendar: gocurlin12: My favorite older horse is Forego because he always tried his best and showed so much courage on the track. A very worthy favorite! Be sure to email me your street address, gocurlin12, so I can mail you your calendar by the end of the day! ...

For the first time in its four-year history, TrueNicks reached 1 million total reports run in a calendar year on December 22, 2011. The ticker in the upper right of TrueNicks.com shows the current count. Here's a rundown of the most popular TrueNicks stallions of 2011 who most contributed to the impressive total. #1 - Bernardini ...

by J. Keeler Johnson Every year, many of the top 3-year-old colts head off to stud, often before they've been given a chance to show off everything they can do. In recent years, we've watched horses like Lookin At Lucky, Big Brown, Street Sense, and Hard Spun leave the racetrack at the conclusion of brilliant 3-year-old seasons, leaving us ...

This pre-Christmas blog has two purposes: to commemorate the career of the recently retired hard knocking stallion Eagle Time and to provide you guys with the opportunity to win an awesome Blood-Horse calendar. Consider it my Christmas present to you! You may have heard of Eagle Time, a remarkable 14-year-old horse whose final start was a 1 ...

As December comes to a close, guest blogger/photographer Mathea Kelley had a chance to sit down with Zenyatta's barn foreman Matt Martinez, to get some inside scoop on some Zenyatta “factoids”.  Here are his answers and a bit about Matt too....Zenyatta comes in every morning with Tasty to have breakfast and a look over to make sure she is ...

When searching for a stallion prospect, it helps tohave a lot of money. Because of the downturn in the Thoroughbred marketplace forseveral years recently, top candidates don't sell for as much as they used to,but they're still expensive in the scheme of things. Many farms, however, don't have the resources to beable to afford the very best in ...

We at TrueNicks are pleased to announce our 4th anniversary this month! Time flies, and it's amazing to think that TrueNicks is now beginning its 5th Northern Hemisphere breeding season. TrueNicks was founded in 2007 as a partnership between Pedigree Consultants (Alan Porter and Byron Rogers) and Blood-Horse Publications, with the calculation ...