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The well named grade I winner Albert the Great (TrueNicks,SRO) racked up over $3 million on the track and has sired a pair of grade I winning millionaires so far in his second career, Nobiz Like Shobiz and Albertus Maximus.Coastal Storm (TrueNicks,SRO) is by Storm Cat out of grade I-winning Carson City mare Pearl City, a sister to the good Storm ...

The TrueNicks Auction Guide pages for the Keeneland January are now available. TrueNicks ratings are available for the progeny of all TrueNicks enrolled stallions as well as for in utero foals by subscribed stallions. This information is provided free of charge Keeneland JanuaryIf you have any feedback on what you would like the auction page ...

TrueNicks subscribed stallions can now be searched on TrueNicks.com by the state where they stand. This is in addition to Alphabetical and By Farm listings available on TrueNicks.com. “We’re constantly looking for ways to promote the TrueNicks subscribed stallions,'' said Byron Rogers, co-founder of the TrueNicks Thoroughbred pedigree nicking ...

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 ...

Through the years Ben Walden has developed outstanding stallions like Red Ransom, the leading first crop sire of 1994 (with a then record six first crop juvenile stakes winners). In 2010, we’ll see the debut crops of two more Walden-managed stallions in Bellamy Road (TrueNicks,SRO) and Artie Schiller (TrueNicks,SRO). They began their careers at ...

There was a 'lucky' ending to the last major two-year-old contests of the year with Looking At Lucky taking the Cashcall Futurity (gr. I) and Blind Luck the Hollywood Starlet Stakes (gr. I). Lookin At Lucky is a son of Smart Strike (TrueNicks,SRO) , who won’t repeat his Leading Sire titles of 2007 and 2009, but who has had enjoyed another ...

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 ...