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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 ...

  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 ...