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Complimentary Hypothetical Mating Reports The following farms have made TrueNicks reports available at no charge to broodmare owners. You may purchase hypothetical mating reports for other stallions on the Products page. Running a Complimentary TrueNicks Report It's easy to run a hypothetical mating report crossing your mare with any stallion ...

You guys know me well enough by now to know I don't like to play favorites very often. Trying to beat favorites has cost me a lot of money over the years, but it's in my blood; I can't help it. This weekend is a rare exception. I like all four morning-line favorites in the Saratoga grade I races. I'm not happy about it, but what can I do? For ...

Among the promising newcomers that this Saratoga season has produced are Stay Thirsty, Valiant Passion, Uncle Mo and Nicole Russo. Only Russo’s a human.  She’s the 23-year-old turf writer from the Rochester, NY area who has caught on at The Pink Sheet. Russo’s daily reports on the two-year-olds continue to constitute a reading ...

Fall is the busiest time of year for sports in the U.S.  Football dominates the sports landscape for sure, but baseball continues well into the fall, and the basketball season cranks up early in November.  There’s hockey on the calendar, too.  Horse racing also has a major place on the sports calendar in the fall.  The last ...

By Dani Pugh, of Horsin' Around Watch out turf sprinters of California: the silver streak of lightning California Flag is back and is more polished than ever before.  Going into the August  18 Green Flash at Del Mar, the connections of  California Flag made it well know that they were not expecting a win from their flashy silver ...

There usually is a lot of fretting about the fate of horses consigned to the Keeneland September yearling sale after the first week. In a market of thousands, people worry about the strength of the demand, particularly for horses whose pedigrees and conformation don't come close to measuring up to the best.   Interestingly, in recent ...

Freaky juvenile colts Boys At Tosconova (TrueNicks), Stay Thirsty (TrueNicks), and Wine Police (TrueNicks) will square off in Monday's Hopeful Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga. These talented maiden winners will look to progress for their sires Officer (TrueNicks,SRO), Bernardini (TrueNicks,SRO), and Speightstown (TrueNicks,SRO). Who do you like? Any ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   Bob Baffert, Mike Smith & Laffit Pincay Jr. Jersey Sale to Benefit Old Friends,The Race For Education, and Jockeys' Guild. DEL MAR, Calif. -  Horseracing Hall of Fame trio Bob Baffert, Mike Smith, and Laffit Pincay Jr. will sign limited edition collectible jerseys benefiting Old Friends Thoroughbred ...

Horse trailers the size of the noisy semis that ruin small talk in the sidewalk cafes of Broadway are beginning to appear on the backstretch. From up high in the grandstand, you can watch them come and go with a good pair of 7 x 50s.  Except for the impression left by the guy driving – a wiry dude in a wife-beater and ball cap and a Marlboro ...

It's September so I guess we better start talking about juveniles. On Saturday at Saratoga we may have seen the most dazzling maiden winner of the meet when Repole Stable's Uncle Mo devoured a field of 10 in a six-furlong contest. The son of Indian Charlie drew off to win by 14 1/2 lengths under John Velazquez, opening a lot of eyes along the ...