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It’s never too early to start thinking about the Kentucky Derby. Rank the Derby potential of these top 2-year olds: writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/KDwinner2010.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently arranged in alphabetical order) to the blank placeholders on the ...

Kentucky-based Margaux Farm will once again sponsor free TrueNicks for theirsix stallions for the upcoming year.  Devil His Due (TrueNicks,SRO) and Cryptoclearance (TrueNicks,SRO) are the two veterans of the Margauxroster. Both tough, consistent multiple grade I winners who each earned over$3 million, the stallions combined have sired 78 ...

Between Woodbine, Belmont, and Louisiana Downs, this weekend has shaped up to be a very intriguing and deep graded stakes calendar. Let's try to make it a profitable one. Woodbine The Woodbine Mile was good to me last year, as I banged Rahy's Attorney at 12-1 and had the $700+ tri. Hopefully Sunday will produce the same kind of results, but I ...

Free TrueNicks for the 21 stallions standing under the Adena Springs banner will once again be available for the 2010 breeding season. This group includes the very interesting Einstein (BRZ) (TrueNicks,SRO) who was purchased by Stronach Racing prior to the Pacific Classic (gr. I). If not for an impossible trip in the Stephen Foster H. (gr I), ...

Magali Farms in California will have four stallions enrolled in TrueNicks for the 2010 breeding season. Free TrueNicks reports have been available on Decarchy (TrueNicks,SRO) and Decarchy (TrueNicks,SRO) since last fall and Magali will sponsor two additional stallions, Atticus (TrueNicks,SRO) and Ten Most Wanted (TrueNicks,SRO).Multiple graded ...

Theatrical (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO) 's multiple grade stakes-winning son Hap (TrueNicks,SRO) is one of the latest stallions to join the Indiana stallion ranks. He is also among the newcomers to the TrueNicks roster for 2010. Hap was one of the better middle distance turf runners earlier this decade, winning six graded events at 8, 8 ½ and 9 ...

A sunny day, low 80s, a stern breeze and landscape that rivals serenity. This is the day we were provided with to shoot a video piece to accompany our magazine feature on Dixiana farms. The talent, an incredibly wise and witty Ercel Ellis led the way. We were later joined by farm manager Terry Arnold. The two led Evan Hammonds, and we Blood-Horse ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA A new feature you will now find on ntra.com - with a direct link right off our home page - is  our Breeders' Cup Divisional Blogs section.  We have 15 individual contributors-one assigned to each Breeders' Cup race , and one assigned to the international contenders as a whole.  ...

Just two weeks ago, in a column on sire lines represented at the Keeneland September sale, we noticed that the Byerly/Herod line was a big fat zero -- not a single foal offered. But, then, really not surprising, since the line has long been dormant in North America.  Well, since then another headline has hit the news that concerns ...