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Welcome to TrueNicks' 2010 Keeneland January Mixed sale page. TrueNicks are available for the sale's offerings listed here by hip number. To generate a TrueNicks report, click on the link beneath the hip number.   Hip No. 1: Langfuhr--Restored Hope). FREE TrueNicks report for hip #1.FREE TrueNicks report for CARRIED FOAL. Hip ...

Steve Haskin's Look Back at the Decade  Editors of The Blood-Horse challenged senior correspondent Steve Haskin to fill in the blanks on several “best of” lists for the decade of 2000-2009. While several of them appear in the Dec. 26/Jan. 2 combined issue of the magazine (mailing on Dec. 29), there wasn’t space for them all.Over the ...

Claiborne Farm’s Pulpit has quickly made a name for himself as a sire of sires with sons like Sky Mesa and Tapit. This bodes will for Claiborne’s newest addition, Parading (TrueNicks,SRO), who like those two stallions hails from an exceptional female family. He’s out of the graded placed Storm Cat mare On Parade, a full sister to Champion Storm ...

Call it fate. Call it kismet. Whatever title you prefer, Rags to Riches seemed destined to give trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez their first classic winner. Although ''Johnny V'' has been Pletcher's first-call rider for years, it took a last-­minute decision to run the filly and a madcap jockey scramble to bring them together ...

Steve Haskin's Look Back at the Decade  Editors of The Blood-Horse challenged senior correspondent Steve Haskin to fill in the blanks on several “best of” lists for the decade of 2000-2009. While several of them appear in the Dec. 26/Jan. 2 combined issue of the magazine (mailing on Dec. 29), there wasn’t space for them all.Over the coming ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA   Two tax incentives that greatly benefited the horse industry are set to expire at the end of the year...but there's still time to take advantage of them if you're thinking of an equipment purchase in 2009. Another tax benefit - just for horse purchases - continues for several ...

One of my favorite sayings in covering the horse racing industry is this: A good fiction writer couldn't make up this stuff. So the week before Christmas, word comes from West Virginia that Janene Watson, already barred from Charles Town Races & Slots, has been stripped of her honorary membership in the Charles Town Horsemen's Benevolent and ...

2007 leading first crop sire Posse (TrueNicks,SRO) will stand his first season in New York with Empire Stud. The son of Silver Deputy was represented by record equaling seven first crop juvenile stakes winners in ’07, including champion Kodiak Kowboy. That runner is a leading contender for additional hardware after three grade I wins in 2009. ...

With over $1 million in 2009 progeny earnings, Lightnin N Thunder (TrueNicks,SRO) is the #1 stallion in Massachusetts. He’s a stakes placed son of Storm Cat out of the grade I winner Why Change. Multiple stakes winner La Chica Sensual ($365,660) and 2009 2yo stakes winner Criolla Bonita are among Lightnin N Thunder’s good runners so far. Drewman ...

Millionaire Cowboy Cal (TrueNicks,SRO) won the Laurel Futurity at 2 and rolled on to five graded wins over the next two seasons. In 2009 alone he won three grade II events in Southern California: the Strub S. and San Pasqual S. on Pro Ride and the Oak Tree Mile on the turf. He also placed in six graded races, three of those grade 1’s, including ...