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This week we are profiling some interesting first crop offerings at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton July Yearlings sale. Click here for a complete list of Fasig-Tipton July TrueNicks reports. Hip# 25 – Corinthian – Dance Special, by Theatrical (TrueNicks C) There are at least six stakes winners on the A.P. Indy/Nureyev cross, and while it has only ...

(Originally published in the July 10, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric MitchellOnly one conclusion can be drawn from the Equine Injury Database statistics recently released about racehorse fatalities at North American ...

Of all the good racing this weekend, including the Hollywood Gold Cup, Man o' War, and Princess Rooney (all grade I), one of the races I will most look forward to is the Carry Back Stakes at Calder. Though it only a grade III sprint with a short field of five, the headliner is D' Funnybone, who is quickly emerging into a superstar. D' Funnybone ...

UPDATE: Date With Destiny won her debut impressively at Newbury, defeating Zanazzi, the Bernardini (TrueNicks,SRO) half sister to Speightstown (TrueNicks,SRO), by nearly two lengths. Mrs. Julie Wood’s Date With Destiny, the only foal of the ill-fated George Washington, is likely to make her first career start Friday at Newbury in a 7-furlong ...

Franny Freud has had very few slips in her career; in fact she has never been beaten sprinting on the dirt. In a six-race juvenile career, she won four races, including the Ontario Debutante Stakes, Lady Finger Stakes and Fifth Avenue Stakes, her only defeats coming when second in the My Dear Stakes on Woodbine’s all-weather, and off the board in ...

It won't be the best of times, and it won't be the worst of times. It's going to be somewhere in between.   That is how I look at the 2010 yearling selling season, which kicks off with its first important auction, the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select yearling sale, July 13 and 14 in Lexington.   There has been some improvement in ...

This week we are profiling some interesting first crop offerings at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton July Yearlings sale. Click here for a complete list of Fasig-Tipton July TrueNicks reports. Hip# 10 – Stevie Wonderboy – Bojangle's Cat, by Tabasco Cat (TrueNicks B+) Champion Two-Year-Old Stevie Wonderboy (TrueNicks,SRO) owned an intriguing pedigree in ...

On a holiday weekend that is uniquely American, Chinchon proved himself an ungracious visitor, but a talented runner, taking the biggest prize on offer over that period, the $450,000 for the first home in the United Nations Stakes (gr. I) at Monmouth. Bred in Ireland, and campaigned in France, Chinchon finished fifth, beaten under five lengths, ...

Unlike his namesake, a notorious thief and highwayman, Dick Turpin has earned an excellent living through honest endeavor. However, since defeating his stable companion Canford Cliffs to take the Greenham Stakes (gr. III) at the start of the year, he had been continually thwarted in his attempts to gain the group I prize which his talents ...

We are pleased to announce the addition of new Darley Australia stallions Denman (AUS) (TrueNicks) and Time Thief (AUS) (TrueNicks). Group I-winning sprinter Denman retires as the best son of Australia’s leading third crop sire Lonhro (AUS) (TrueNicks,SRO). Denman won nine of twelve career starts, including the Golden Rose (gr. I) over 1400 ...