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Now with the breeding stock sales nearly completed, breeders are in the process of finalizing their breeding decisions for the 2012 season. We've seen a big increase in the number of TrueNicks reports run in the past 30 days—102,551 to be exact, compared to 71,422 during the previous 30 days. Always popular during the breeding season is our ...

OK, so who’s the Eclipse Award-winning trainer this year? The usual names  – Baffert, Asmussen, Pletcher, or Mott, all of whom had terrific years? Or perhaps Graham Motion or Dale Romans, who both had career years and won classics? Before deciding, voters should pay close attention to Aidan O’Brien, who could become the first foreign-based ...

(By Lizz Kunz) Dynaformer, who will be 27 when the 2012 Northern Hemisphere breeding season commences, has consistently sired winners of races all across the world since first retiring to Wafare Farm in 1990. While it's no secret that this big bay with an ''I'm boss'' attitude knows how make a determined runner, many in the Thoroughbred ...

Broodmare Analysis Report The Broodmare Analysis Report rates the hypothetical matings of your mare with up to 50 stallions of your choice, helping to augment your stallion research. The report includes TrueNicks ratings, five generation pedigrees, and top five horses bred on the cross for each mating. $199 Build ReportLearn MoreView Sample ...

TrueNicks Enhanced Report Ultimate nicking resource for any horse or mating TrueNicks Enhanced hypothetical mating reports are made available by subscribing stallion farms as a service to breeders, allowing you to run unlimited free reports with subscribed stallions whose names are preceded by the enhanced logo. Reports for all other stallions ...

TrueNicks Enhanced Report Ultimate nicking resource for any horse or mating TrueNicks Enhanced hypothetical mating reports are made available by subscribing stallion farms as a service to breeders, allowing you to run unlimited free reports with subscribed stallions whose names are preceded by the enhanced logo. Reports for all other stallions ...

(Originally published in the November 19, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) If Adam Lazarus had had his way, he may have been working in the broadcast booth at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships instead of attending as a winning owner. After graduating ...

When I was in Louisville for the Breeders’ Cup, I had the pleasure of hearing Bill Casner, co-founder of WinStar Farm and owner of Well Armed, deliver the keynote address at the Race Track Chaplaincy of America’s White Horse Award Luncheon. While I knew the the basics behind the story of Well Armed, who made a miraculous recovery from a ...

 (Originally published in the November 19, 2011 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 Broodmares are the true measure of recovery in the commercial Thoroughbred market. When horsemen invest in ...