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It would be hard to find a stallion in Kentucky with a pedigree better than the Sparks View Farm stallion Heart of the Storm (TrueNicks,SRO). He’s by the legendary Storm Cat out of the Bold Hour mare Amelia Bearhart. This makes him a brother to multiple grade I winner Chief Bearhart (Horse of the Year in Canada twice and an Eclipse winner in the ...

No story in the past decade transcended the Sport of Kings more than Barbaro’s eight-month struggle to survive, during which he had to undergo major surgeries and numerous procedures, and live in constant discomfort. All of America became engrossed in his story, and each time Barbaro battled back he reached deeper into people’s hearts, whether ...

It is common acceptance that stallions often find success in countries where their genetic structure, racing ability and temperament suits a high percentage of the broodmare population found there. Sires and indeed sirelines can find themselves ''in the right place at the right time'' when a population of mares reaches saturation point of ...

With Tapit (TrueNicks,SRO) , Sky Mesa (TrueNicks,SRO) and the over-achieving Stroll (TrueNicks,SRO) (now back at Claiborne from a sojourn in Italy), Pulpit (TrueNicks,SRO) has made quite a start as a sire of sires. Another Pulpit son, freshman sire Purge (TrueNicks,SRO) , has a smart performer in Macias. He scored a first stakes ...

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 ...

By Keith McCalmont, Triple Dead Heat On October 30th at Keeneland, Julia Brimo was aboard Golden Stride who clipped heels sending the jockey crashing to the ground.  Brimo suffered an incomplete spinal injury that threatened to end her career. Just six weeks removed from the fall, and after undergoing neck surgery to fuse a broken ...

Double Honor (TrueNicks,SRO) has long been a consistent source of winners and blacktype runners. He’s again among the top ten stallions in the Sunshine State with right around $2 million in progeny earnings. We’ll see the first runners by the talented and versatile Imperialism (TrueNicks,SRO) in 2010. The son of Langfuhr was stakes placed on both ...

It’s hard to find a stallion that shows no Northern Dancer or Raise a Native in his pedigree but the intriguing Favorite Bid (TrueNicks,SRO) is one such animal.He’s a son of dual Classic winner and Horse of the Year Spectacular Bid, who is usually in the conversation when the all time greats are discussed. Favorite Bid is out of the mare Never ...

Duckhorn (TrueNicks,SRO) ranks among the leading third crop sires in Pennsylvania in 2009 by progeny earnings and among his good runners is the multiple stakes placed Sweet Sugar. Duckhorn was one of the very best runners sired by perennial mid-Atlantic leading sire Not For Love. He racked up nearly $750,000 in earnings, winning four stakes, ...

Downunder Horsemanship is pleased to announce Ritchie Industries as the Feature Sponsor of the 2010 Clinton Anderson Walkabout Tours. The company has been a longtime supporter of Clinton and his Downunder Horsemanship training Method. Clinton says, ''Ritchie Industries and I have had a great relationship for many years.  I am so excited to ...