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Welcome to the TrueNicks 2010 CTHS Canadian-Bred Yearlings auction page. The sale will be held September 7 & 11 at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Selected Session: Tuesday, September 7th - Hips 1-225, 2 PM Open Session: Saturday, September 11th - Hips 226-466, 2 PM TrueNicks are available for the ...

It took nine years for Beth and Jasper Alexander, the owners of Hattie’s, to realize that their fried chicken dinners could taste great away from their Phila Street location.  Then they opened an outpost on Restaurant Row.  This summer, two years later, a new Hattie’s pushed Pat’s Saratoga Chicken stand into oblivion. The next frontier ...

Multiple graded stakes winner Desert Party (TrueNicks) has been retired and will stand the 2011 breeding season at Darley's Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky. A $2.1 million two-year-old purchase, the son of Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO) out-sprinted Vineyard Haven in the six-furlong Sanford Stakes (gr. II) at Saratoga. In Dubai at age three, ...

By Becky Johnston  Evening gone to soon It is an understatement to say this sport has highs and lows.  Even after 20 years, I am still surprised when the cold slap of reality strikes me firmly across the face.  I chastise myself in these instances for allowing my spirit to go to those peaks with the sport.  The fall ...

Whether you’re a Quality Road fan or not, you had to feel good for Blame and Claiborne Farm, who combined not only to win the historic Whitney Handicap (gr. I), but turn back the clock to a time when homebreds ruled the sport – horses that were bred tough and ran tough. In Blame, Claiborne has bred a near-perfect racing machine, a ...

Grade I winner Bullsbay (TrueNicks) has been retired and will stand at Northview Stallion Station near Chesapeake City, Md., for the 2011 breeding season. The son of Tiznow earned $923,245 during a career that included a victory in the 2009 Whitney Handicap (gr. I), where he defeated Macho Again and Commentator. Bullsbay also won the Alysheba ...

Fans will have to wait until October 2 to see Majesticperfection on the racetrack again.  Trainer Steve Asmussen said the Gr. 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt winner will remain inactive until probably the Gr. 1 Vosburgh. The long-range goal for the uber speedy son of Harlan's Holiday, of course, is the Gr. 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint this November 6. ...

At the end of the afternoon of a perfect summer day, a colt named Blame assured the followers of Saratoga Race Course that it would remain the ''Graveyard of Favorites.''  As the 7-2 second choice in a compact field of six over-achievers, the dependable 4-year-old son of Arch owned by Claiborne Farms and Adele Dilschneider turned his ...

Don’t ever believe that horse racing is anything other than the greatest game. The second larger-than-life, feel-good story of the young Saratoga meet unfolded in the Loudonville Stakes. The first featured the daughter of a sharecropper whose only horse triumphed in the Sanford Stakes. This one featured a man down on his luck and the ghost of a ...