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Castleon-Lyons is no stranger to importing successful European stallions to the U. S., having brought over French stallion star Anabaa for the 2008 breeding season. Now the Kentucky stallion station is offering the Danzig son Modigliani (TrueNicks,SRO) to North American breeders. He began his stud career at Greentree Stud in Ireland and is well on ...

This was to be the year. You could feel it. Divine forces were guiding Smarty Jones up the sacred slopes of Mt. Olympus. Only a quarter mile away, the pantheon was in sight. Every step to this point had been perfectly orchestrated, and Smarty's ascent to immortality seemed written in the stars. The vast majority of the record 120,139 in ...

Derrick asks: I ran my Shadeed mare, Sweet Shadeed, through Truenicks and came up with an A++ rating with a 23.32 Variant. Yet I ran the same match through another nicking service and came up with an F rating. Why such a huge disparity? Alan's response: Thank you for your question. We are always happy to compare the TrueNicks ...

On Dec. 6, Steve Asmussen surpassed his own record for wins in a season by a North American trainer with his 623rd victory (he now has 632 as of Dec. 14). It is the second year in a row that Asmussen topped 600 wins and the fifth time in the last six years that he will have led the nation in wins. He also has more than $21 million in earnings ...

(Originally published in the December 19, 2009 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)     Suppose you chose a day and stationed survey takers at the entrance of every racetrack asking those who entered the grandstand three questions: Who is Rachel ...

European sales this fall seemed well on the way to recovery while auctions in this country continued to suffer from the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. But Europe’s strength might be America’s gain in 2010, according to Lincoln Collins, president and owner of the Kern Thoroughbreds bloodstock agency and a director of ...

Wildcat Heir (TrueNicks,SRO) , a speedy grade I winning son of Forest Wildcat leads all North American freshman with a record-setting 38 individual winners. Five of his runners have earned blacktype so far. The Carson City son Hear No Evil (TrueNicks,SRO) has only 11 foals in his first crop but two of them are stakes winners,  Jackson Bend. ...

As mentioned, to keep this blog active over the holiday season, I am reprinting a series of race recaps, mainly from the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup, that originally were published on Bloodhorse.com over the past decade. A new recap will appear every two days. The intention is to provide the reader with a kaleidoscope of images and ...

Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO) is already the sire of a Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and a Melbourne Cup (gr. I) winner, not to mention one of the all time greats in Zenyatta.Darley America is now home to Medaglia d'Oro (TrueNicks,SRO) North America’s #1 second crop sire. He is, of course, the sire of another all time great in Rachel Alexandra. She ...

This is not really a blog, but a preview of what will appear in this space over the next couple of weeks. Rather than simply take a few weeks off from the blog, every two or three days I will reprint the original recaps of some of my favorite races and stories of the decade, mainly Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup events, as they appeared on ...