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Those who have been reading articles on this blog and posts by Alan Porter and me on the PedigreeConsultants.com site will have noticed some time ago that we are big fans of the Deputy Minister stallion Dehere (TrueNicks,SRO) as a broodmare sire. We know we are not alone in this admiration. Dehere's first stakes winner as a broodmare sire was ...

It is quite common in Thoroughbred breeding to see the success of one sire or sire line ride off the back of the success of a nick or in particular the presence of a stallion in a genetic population. There seems to be, at least in Europe, a strong genetic tie between the former stablemates Danehill and Sadler’s Wells with the most recent ...

As a prelude to the stallion study -- which is currently ''under construction'' as we determine the best way to track all the horses that we have rated by each sire throughout the world -- we thought that it was worthwhile going back and taking a look at the 2008 OBS March sale of 2-year-olds to examine the horses that rated well ...

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Plato, who along with Socrates and Aristotle helped lay the foundations of Western philosophy, once said ''A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.'' Here at TrueNicks we could not think of a more apt saying that encapsualtes our common theme of intelligent interpretation of the TrueNicks report. The rating generated is one ...

With the first Northern Hemisphere 2-year-old races set to get underway shortly, we thought that this year we would do something that allowed us to follow TrueNicks as a predictor of racetrack success. We debated a couple of ways we could do this, with the primary goals of offering a statistically sound study and one that is trackable in ...

Reader's question: My mare Pebbles Delight has an A++ wih Corinthian.  She has been accepted to his book for 2009.  However, since she doesn't have a lot of black type up front, I probably won't make any profit on the resulting foal.  What are your thoughts on this mating? I love the mating, but my pocketbook needs to rule rather ...

A week or so ago we had an interesting post on this site from Scot Gillies in regards to a ''dream mating'' for your favorite mare. There was a lot of ideas, some of them very well reasoned, from a number of readers with some suggestions for various mares to visit various stallions. In some type of continuation from that post, I read ...

Question from Tony: I realize that TrueNicks is primarily a tool for breeders but does your group envision developing any tools for handicappers as way to measure the potential of lightly raced horses?  Byron's reply:  Tony, thanks for the email. The short answer is ''yes,'' the long answer is that it is going to take time to develop ...

Since the launch of TrueNicks less than a year ago, we've been delighted with the reception from both breeders and stallion farms. However, with the season for mating plans about to get into full swing, farms subscribing to the stallion service are coming in thick and fast. This week, TrueNicks hit a milestone when the the number of subscribing ...