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I am flying home from the 12th annual Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship which concluded Saturday night at the Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada.  I am banging out this blog on my I-Phone while the experience is still fresh in my memory.  This year's event was a nail-biter  with the ...

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 An article by Tanya Tyler at bizlex.com on the first of three ''Women Leading Kentucky'' luncheons was sent to me by Erica Larson.The article was very interesting, because the round table topic was 'How Kentucky Became Southern.' The article brought a brief history lesson, which of course involved horses. Notably Lexington, who graces the ...

By Scot T. Gillies How do the European stallion and sales markets compare to their U.S. counterparts? Michael Youngs and Rachel Pagones review 2011 European stud offerings and 2010 auction results in this month's cover stories. The 2011 European Review issue features extended lists of incoming and young sires in England, Ireland, France, Germany, ...

The catalog is out for what traditionally is the fanciest juvenile auction, the Fasig-Tipton Florida sale, This year's edition of the auction is scheduled for March 3 at its new site, the Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Fla. Following is a list of some of the 2-year-olds that are close relatives to top racehorses:   Hip No. ...

(Guest post by Tom Hall) If people are judged by the company they keep, then why not Thoroughbreds? When Kingmambo was named a chef-de-race stallion in 2010, he certainly joined two exclusive lists. Although pensioned from stallion duty, the 21-year-old son of Mr. Prospector out of Miesque, by Nureyev, is alive and well and living the good life ...

Team Zenyatta ended months of speculation when they announced the identity of the 2010 Horse of the Year's first mate: 2006 champion three-year-old colt Bernardini (TrueNicks,SRO). The cross of A.P. Indy (TrueNicks,SRO) and sons with Machiavellian line mares rates A++ on TrueNicks, with two grade I winners on the cross from only 10 ...

 (Originally published in the January 29, 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 TwitterEclipse Award winners seemed to be reading from the same playbook this year. Several, at some point during their ...

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 240 two-year-olds for its 2011 Florida Sale to be held March 3 at Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Florida. Reports are available for all hips, including 86% sired by TrueNicks complimentary stallions. Visit TrueNicks.com/Auctions to get reports for this sale, or for past and upcoming ...