BloodHorse.com

Feedback from TrueNicks users and other readers of this blog comes in various formats -- some by email, some by comments to our article posts. Most are printable, a few are not. An email just arrived from a subscriber to both TrueNicks and a rival service. We figured that while the comment was not meant to be complimentary, we would publish it and ...

By Steve Zorn  Well, it took a while, but there are more and more signs that horse racing isn't being spared the ills that are affecting the rest of the economy. There are three ways of measuring how well racing is doing, depending on what your economic interest is.  If you're a commercial breeder, what you care most about is ...

Much has been said about the prospects for 2007 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour, who will be sold at this year's Fasig-Tipton November sale.  (News story, Hammer Time blog post) What I haven't heard too much about, though, is the mare's reproductive soundness.  Hip #188 (catalog page, ...

How does one even begin to comment on this year’s wild and crazy Breeders’ Cup? Pro-Ride form, the absence of any injuries, the filly phenomena, the European butt-whipping, Santa Anita, Horse of the Year, ESPN’s new camera shots? That’s just for starters.Before anything, I must say I cannot recall a more enjoyable two days of racing, whether you ...

Better Than Honour, the dam of back-to-back Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winners Jazil and Rags to Riches, will be last horse offered Nov. 2 during the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select mixed sale in Lexington.  According to Fasig-Tipton president, Boyd Browning, her position in the catalog is a result of a mutual agreement between ...

Bobby Spalding is right. More often than not, we tend to overanalyze, overreach, even overreact. It leads to brain overload.When it comes right down to it, Spalding said, “They are just horses; treat them like horses.”They are words every farm manager should live by, imparted to Spalding by his first boss in the industry, Brereton Jones, owner of ...

By Frank VespeJust checked put our pal Ted's post introducing this week of musings from the small-ownership crowd.  There, to my surprise, he'd successfully pilfered a photo of me from our That's Amore Stable website. In the picture, I appear to be the living definition of fat and happy. Which, truth be told, I was on that day. The ...

Here's the scenario:  you have the opportunity to purchase a mare carrying a foal that is guaranteed to be a winner.  In fact, the foal is even guaranteed to earn more than its training, feed, and veterinary costs.  Profit!  Here's the catch: the foal's dam shouldn't be bred again and will need to be retired.  You've ...