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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 ...

By Gene Kershner, EquiSpace While checking out some of John Daly's funky golf pants the other day, I started thinking about the Skins Game, a made-for-TV golf event, usually held around Thanksgiving which would bring together that year's hottest names in golf.  This led me to thinking about how what kind of made for TV event could bring ...

Carl Rollins is not a horse owner, breeder, trainer, nor jockey. He doesn’t work for a racetrack, sale company, racing organization, or bloodstock agent. He has never mucked a stall, hotwalked a horse, bred a mare, or broken a yearling. But Carl Rollins gets it—he understands the importance of the horse industry to Kentucky. For nearly 15 years ...

We've often mentioned that More Than Ready (TrueNicks,SRO) crosses well with mares carrying Buckpasser lines. This is scarcely surprising as his broodmare sire, Woodman, is out of a Buckpasser mare who is inbred to La Troienne through the similarly-bred Busanda (dam of Buckpasser) and Striking, and that his own fourth dam is inbred 3 x 2 to La ...