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(Originally published in the July 11, 2009 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  In the midst of a stinging defeat for expanded gaming in Kentucky, it was discovered that people will still attend a racetrack - without slots - and have fun doing so. But not for the ...

Fasig-Tipton officials want to make the Saratoga select yearling sale the premier yearling sale in the world, and this year they've made progress toward reaching that goal based on sire power. This year's sale will have offspring of certain prominent veteran stallions than the 2008 edition of the auction did. There are seven yearlings sired by ...

We've written a lot abut this year's group of second-season stallions and one of that group -- Speightstown (TrueNicks,SRO) -- enjoyed a truly exceptional weekend. It started quietly enough Friday, with Fufty Too (A), taking the Dean Kutz Stakes at Canterbury Park. The primary importance of that victory was that it took Speightstown's total ...

Here's wishing everybody a safe and fun July 4th weekend. If you are playing the races, below are a few of my spot plays from some feature race around the country. Whatever you might be doing, have a great time. I'll be back next Tuesday for the final Triple Crown Talk post of the season. Suburban Handicap - (6) Rising Moon: This lightly-raced ...

Another member of the old guard has been pensioned. Three Chimneys announced yesterday that Rahy has retired from stud service due to declining fertility. As a representative of several good historic bloodlines -- Blushing Groom (FR), Wild Risk (FR), Halo, and Herbager, for example, and from the immediate family of Glorious Song and Ballade ...

TrueNicks is proud to present the first of our Auction Guide pages for the Northern Hemisphere sales season. Going forward, we'll be offering a site for auction-goers to visit to find TrueNicks scores for hips of interest.  This service will expand and improve over the next several months -- but we wanted to start with the 2009 yearling sales ...

Welcome to the TrueNicks Fasig-Tipton July Sale page. The following list of hips from the 2009 Fasig-Tipton July sale includes basic catalog information. For progeny of subscribed stallions with a B+ or better rating, a TrueNicks score is also included. Use the provided links to run a TrueNicks report for any hip in the ...

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Everyone wants to see a showdown between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta. Although people do change their minds, as Jess Jackson did last year with Curlin, there are issues involved here that make it improbable it's going to happen. But there is a way to overcome those issues, which we'll get to later. Let's first discuss the principals involved. ...

The June issue of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch includes 10 profiles of 2009's leading first-crop yearling sires to watch, based on their 2008 weanling medians. These insightful profiles were written by pedigree expert Alan Porter and international bloodstock consultant Michael Youngs. We actually had 12 profiles to run but wound up with ...