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Something important must happen before a problem can be solved. It must be acknowledged that a problem exists. After analyzing the data in a study released this week by The Blood-Horse, and listening to a discussion of the information by six industry participants, it is clear that a problem exists. It is far from clear what must be done to ...

About a month ago, we were discussing sire-line outcrossing and a reader suggested looking into the German stallion Monsun (GER) (pedigree). At the time, the 3-year-old Monsun grandson Kamsin (GER) (pedigree) was a group III winner -- a solid runner but perhaps not one who had yet earned international acclaim.  He was still several ...

The Man o' War Stakes (gr. I) witnessed not only the defeated of Curlin on his turf debut, but also a return to form of the 2006 Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. I) hero Red Rocks, who was taking his first stakes win since the spring of 2007. Red Rocks, a son of one of Europe's dominant sire Galileo, is out of a mare by Machiavellian, who - like Galileo's ...

Although there were only a couple of so-called glamour races this past weekend, there were enough heroes that emerged to make me start having second thoughts about certain subjects I’ve been commenting on. So, in the spirit of the current presidential race I’m going to do some flip-flopping and go from cynical to optimistic regarding these ...

In the upcoming months, TrueNicks has a number of innovations and new products to unveil. Some will be quite visible while the others more subtle. One of the changes in the latter category will be the migration of this site in a couple of days from the current standalone platform you see today onto the powerful Blood-Horse Community Server where ...

  Opening weekend at Saratoga. In the world of horse racing, there are few phrases that can come close to it. The beauty. The atmosphere. The excitement. The fun. The best. Saratoga is horse racing. For those who have done it, you know what I'm talking about. For those who haven't, get there. Because until you do, you haven't experienced ...

I’m cramming one more blog in this week, as I’ll be taking a Saratoga break over the next week and a half. So, enough about Big Brown and Curlin for now. It’s time to delve into something much lighter.Every so often starting now, just to break up the monotony of my often long-winded comments, I will toss in 10 trivia questions. As soon as you know ...

From Fox Tale Stud, we got the news Thursday afternoon that Request for Parole (SRO, TrueNicks) will stand the Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Estacion de Monta Don Petiso in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fox Tale pointed out that the son of Judge T C will be the first Pennsylvania stallion to shuttle south. Full story here. Since he's one of ...

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 ...