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So you're not a big fan of synthetics, you say? Me neither. The intent was good. Unfortunately, it just didn't work out as planned. I think most of us would agree on this by now. But here's the thing: It's Breeders' Cup time. For the second straight year, I'm tired of all the complaining. The World Championships are at Santa Anita, again. Deal ...

If Sea the Stars does not make the trip to California, which seems more likely than not, and joins Rachel Alexandra on the absentee list, it will create a void never before seen in the Breeders' Cup. Assuming Sea the Stars does not run, it is safe to say that no two greater horses have ever eluded the World Championship event in a single year. ...

The six week period between the Keeneland September yearling sale and Keeneland November breeding stock auction is typically when stallion managers announce stud fees for the coming season. Well, maybe not this year. Several have hinted they might wait until after the November sale. There is a high degree of nervousness right now in the breeding ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

Dawn asks: I am somewhat new to this and really need some help. have a mare named Buy You A Bear (Bayou Hebert x Sheckyrilla - Shecky Greene) that I am contemplating breeding to Borrego or Leroidesanimaux. These are my questions:1) Based on TrueNicks, she nicks better with 'Leroi' than Borrego, but her Dosage is better with Borrego and she ...

Welcome to TrueNicks' Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling sale page. TrueNicks are available for the 2009 Fasig-Tipton fall yearlings listed here by hip number. To generate a TrueNicks report, click on the link beneath the hip number.   Hip No. 1: b f (Strong Contender--Sally's Sweep). Run free TrueNicks reports for hip #1. Hip ...

For those of you who wait all year to enjoy the Keeneland breeding stock catalog, it's online now. I'm spending a few minutes searching for my list of favorite mares... we'll be talking about this sale a lot in the next few weeks.  Any first impressions after seeing the catalog?

A multiple stakes winner on the Northwest circuit, Nationhood (TrueNicks,SRO) took the 2008 editions of the Budweiser Emerald Handicap. and the Seattle Handicap. Overall, the colt won eight times from 22 career starts. He's a son of former leading first crop sire Cherokee Run, already sire of the solid stallions Kafwain (The Pamplemousse, etc.) ...

Strut the Stage (TrueNicks,SRO) was one of the most consistent grass runners of the first half of this decade, winning seven stakes (six graded) and placing in six  others from 2001-2005. The son of Theatrical comes from a typically strong Sam-Son female line. He's out of the stakes-winning Red Ransom mare Ruby Ransom, who's the dam of ...

Whatever the state of the national and world economies at large, it appears that the Thoroughbred breeding industry is still quite a distance from seeing any light at the end of our sport's tunnel of recession. We experienced a rare and significant drop in the number of mares bred in 2009, and it's hardly a secret that prospects for the 2010 ...