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 As often happens on the Kentucky Derby trail, they fell like proverbial bowling pins last weekend, although two of the bigger names reinforced their strong position. Not all the vanquished will be taken off the trail, as some deserve another chance after racing on less than desirable surfaces, but they have put themselves in a ...

Roman Ruler was tagged as the top 2009 freshman sire to watch in the February issue of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch. The son of Fusaichi Pegasus rose to the top of our list because the dams of his first crop had collectively produced more 2-year-olds stakes winners than the first books of other freshman sires. You may have read this ...

So, Larry Jones wasn't blowing smoke last summer when he told me Friesan Fire was the most talented 2-year-old he ever had in his barn. After standing in the shadow of stablemate Old Fashioned for six months, Friesan Fire has established himself as Jones' top gun. This, after dominating the Louisiana Derby by 7 1/4 lengths and making what was ...

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If you are Thoroughbred racing fan and an avid handicapper, it doesn't get much better than what's on tap this weekend. In addition to the four Derby prep races, there are 12 other graded stakes - nine of the coming on Saturday. Fair Grounds' card is spectacular, led by the $600,000 Louisiana Derby, which we covered earlier in the week. Exciting ...

Our sister site, TheHorse.com, features a page of ads to locate homes for ''free'' Thooughbreds. Many are pleasure horses, some are show animals, and a few are mares worth consideration for breeding.  On that site today, I noticed a listing for the 1992 mare Lady Garthorn (pedigree).  ''Lady'' is a stakes-placed winner of ...

By Becky Johnston  How many times do you say ''jock gave my horse a bad ride''?  That's a patent excuse when you don't pick the winner.  I know of what I speak because I am guilty of it.  Have you ever thought about the greatest rides you've ever seen?   You probably see them most often at tracks near you that ...

Plato, who along with Socrates and Aristotle helped lay the foundations of Western philosophy, once said ''A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.'' Here at TrueNicks we could not think of a more apt saying that encapsualtes our common theme of intelligent interpretation of the TrueNicks report. The rating generated is one ...

By Fran Jurga, Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog This photo just showed up in my email a while ago. I thought it was quite beautiful...and even moreso when I realized ''the rest of the story''. This horse's toe crack has been patched with PMMA adhesive, which will harden into a shell-like covering that closely mimics the hoof wall. Plastic wrap is ...

Reader question:  Mr. Gillies - I am just getting  interested in Thoroughbred breeding.  The more I read the more I became interested in rare Thoroughbred lines and out crossing.  I have been reading your blog and just love it.  I have a couple of questions, does it matter if a horse descends from a Northern Dancer say , ...