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Temple City, photo by Eclipse Sportswire, Inc. Graded stakes winner and grade I-placed Temple City (TrueNicks,SRO) has joined TrueNicks. Additionally, Spendthrift Farm has upgraded their entire roster to the new TrueNicks Enhanced report. By top sire Dynaformer, Temple City is one of the most popular new stallions to enter stud in 2011. ...

Here is a rebuttal to a ''What's Going on Here'' editorial that ran in the Jan. 29 edition of The Blood-Horse. We felt it deserved its own post. -- Eric Mitchell Before I started this letter, I had to give you the benefit of the doubt, so I detoured a short trip to Florida last weekend and spend the day at the 'new', considerably ...

(As part of special series leading up to the Triple Crown, Mike Repole, owner of undefeated champion Uncle Mo, has agreed to author an exclusive guest blog for Triple Crown Talk. The blog, a diary of sorts, will chronicle Repole's thoughts on the Kentucky Derby favorite as he makes his way through the Triple Crown trail. Repole will do ...

I don’t usually rely on others to speak for me but Paul Moran said it so well that I can only point you to his recent blog on ESPN.com, which was a response to a comment made by a gaming executive about Thoroughbred racing’s fan base. For the record, the NTRA’s most recent consumer research, conducted in 2009 by Cambridge, MA-based SocialSphere ...

NUTRAMAX LABORATORIES, INC. INTRODUCES CALXEQUINTM, A CONCENTRATED DAILY HOOF SUPPLEMENT Edgewood, Maryland -Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. is proud to introduce CalxequinTM , a concentrated daily hoof supplement for horses.  A once daily, 3 oz serving of the pelleted Calxequin supports and encourages healthy hooves.   Calxequin ...

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 ...

by Ian Tapp Few could mount a serious case that Uncle Mo was not one of the most talented 2-year-olds American racing has seen in quite a while. He was impressive at six furlongs, brilliant at a mile, and dominant in the 8 ½-furlong Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) that clinched his Eclipse championship. Detractors will remind us that he's made ...

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 ...

 (Originally published in the February 12, 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 TwitterWagering at Santa Anita Park in January was down, lagging 10.81% behind the same month in 2010 and worse than the ...