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On Thursday, July 10, a friend and I visited the wonderful training facility of Kenny McPeek. Caption: Magdalana - Photo: Joey MaiThe horses of McPeek were rather calm and complacent upon visiting them, except for one. He bit my arm, but he caught me off guard and it didn't hurt too bad. Just a slight pink discoloration existed.I was mainly ...

You've used the Stallion Register Online. You know the basics. It's a free service... you can do a multi-criteria search from the home page...  stallion pages have tabs for easy navigation... there are a bunch of state and national sire lists... the annual Report of Mares Bred is linked directly from the home page. Those are some of ...

  The buying patterns of Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock manager John Ferguson and the Demi O'Byrne/Coolmore Stud team in recent years have indicated each has avoided young horses with ties to the other camp. So when Fasig-Tipton was sold earlier this year to a Dubai-based company headed by one of Sheikh Mohammed's close associates, there was ...

  There are two Breeders' Cup Challenge ''Win and You're In'' races this week - the San Diego Handicap for 3-year-olds and up on the Del Mar's main track, and the Greenwood Cup for older horses going a mile and half at Philadelphia Park. Before breaking down these races from a handicapping standpoint, it is worth noting that a true iron ...

When the hammer fell following hip #568 at yesterday's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale, it marked the closing of the first major yearling auction in 2008. Many breeders were holding their breaths throughout the last couple of weeks, knowing that the July sale is the first test of the strength of the yearling market. ...

Young Mares Looking over the results of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale, it struck me that foals out of new broodmares were underperforming. The overall sale average was $92,298, and the median was $75,000. I looked at ''birth order'' figures and saw that the yearlings sold included birth orders from first to thirteenth, with ...

I am sticking both my blogs together this week in order to report and comment on something that I find rather bizarre. It concerns Big Brown. Remember when he was the talk of all racing from March to June, the sport’s next superstar who had performed deeds never before seen? Remember the hordes of media that congregated outside his barn the week ...

A small group of trainers standing in the shedrow of the stakes barn at Pimlico the morning prior to Preakness day were discussing a myriad of problems facing the industry. It didn’t take long for the conversation to shift to medication, a topic on which every trainer has an opinion.“There is a group that has the power to influence change on this ...

Watch and enjoy!   You can view additional videos here: Man o' War Narrative  Man o' War - 1920 Kenilworth Park Gold Cup Handicap

TrueNicks is very pleased to announce the addition of well known industry analyst Matt O'Neil as our national sales manager. Matt will be in charge of promoting and managing the products that TrueNicks offers to racehorse owners, breeders, stallion owners and trainers. Following is a news release issued by TrueNicks partner Blood-Horse ...