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The equine genome has been sequenced, and geneticists are starting to get a handle on how gene research might soon yield scientific reasons why one horse is faster than another. That's the basis of the inaugural Thoroughbred Pedigree and Genetics Symposium held Oct. 11 in Lexington. The seminar, presented by The Blood-Horse and Pedigree ...

Hopefully many of you were able to read the unique interview that John Shirreffs gave this morning at Keeneland. If not, here are the highlights. Shirreffs, who prefers to play things close to the vest, was gracious enough to answer questions from a group of about eight reporters for 45 minutes. He was pressed about a variety of tough subjects ...

Photo by Adam Coglianese Multiple grade I winner and track record holder Quality Road (TrueNicks,SRO) has joined TrueNicks in advance of the 2011 breeding season. Following his run in the next month's Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I), for which he is one of the favorites, Quality Road will retire to Lane's End Farm. The son of Elusive ...

Now that the Fasig-Tipton November select sale catalog is live, I can update my earlier post about MarketWatch Broodmare of the Year candidates being represented at the sales. (A free PDF download allows you to read the original MarketWatch Broodmare of the Year article.) From Fasig-Tipton's 186 hips, 136 are broodmares or prospects. ...

by Kate Hunter, http://www.keiblog.net/ One of the bi-products of being an American racing fan in Japan is that I get to check in on some of my favorite racers that have been purchased by Japan over the years; as a racing blogger in Japan, I also get asked a lot of questions about US horses who were bought by the Japanese. While I have not been ...

Multiple stakes winner and grade I-placed Malibu Moonshine (TrueNicks,SRO) has been retired and will stand the 2011 breeding season at Carlland Stables in Avon, New York. As a TrueNicks stallion, breeders can now run unlimited free nicking reports with Malibu Moonshine. A durable racehorse who made 62 starts over seven seasons, Malibu Moonshine ...

Many pedigree pundits mourn the loss of Barbaro from the perspective of his sire-line legacy: he would have been heir apparent to Dynaformer. (I'm still partial to Purim to fill this role.) But Barbaro also was the best representative of an outstanding female family, that of La Reine Rouge. La Reine Rouge was a stakes winner and sister to a ...

Originally published in the October 16, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   By Evan Hammonds  The cornucopia of grade I stakes served up from coast to coast the last two weekends has offered racing fans great insight into the ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...