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Although he wasn't an overnight success, Arch has fought back extremely well, and earned recognition as a very solid racehorse sire. The last few years have been highlighted by Canadian Horse of the Year Arravale; English champion older male Les Arcs; thrice South African champion sprinter Overarching; and the ill-fated Alabama Stakes and Gazelle ...

Users of TrueNicks, and for that matter any pedigree program, will have already seen a number of examples where the quality of the immediate ancestors in a pedigree can have an impact on the genetic affinity, or lack thereof, that seems to be present. A good example of this is the royally-bred 2-year-old filly Merlene de Lago (AUS), who made a ...

I stumbled upon her by accident one late evening while watching and looking for horses. She was everything you want in a girl, smart, attractive, articulate and polite.  How can you pass up a spokes-model?  So I took her on a date.We talked a whole lot about the Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown, because I honestly had a lot of ...

On the subject of the Unbridled's Song line - Songandaprayer (TrueNicks, SRO), subject of a post over the weekend, being a son of Unbridled's Song (TrueNicks, SRO) - Unbridled's Song's daughter Classify, who dead-heated for the Spring Fever Stakes at Oaklawn Park, shone a light on what might be an evolving nick. Classify is out of the mare ...

Last weekend was a big one for two Ashford Stud Storm Cat-line stallions. Heatseeker (IRE)'s victory in the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) propelled Giant's Causeway to the top of the leading sires list. He has three other stakes winners this year, including a pair of 3-year-olds in the graded winner Cowboy Cal and the very promising Giant Moon. ...

1: Pyro is a monster. He confirmed what a lot of people thought after watching the Risen Star, and this time, the skeptics (admittedly, I was one of them) have no excuses. His style, pedigree and eye-popping late kick make him perfectly suited for the Kentucky Derby. He and War Pass are so far ahead of their rivals right now that it is scary. ...

  He wasn't the most expensive or best-bred horse in the Fasig-Tipton Florida select of sale of 2-year-olds in training. But he might have been the toughest. The Stormy Atlantic - Deep South colt is so tough that he once, apparently, tried to eat wood. One day, when he was a yearling, the people taking care of him found a chunk about the ...

I mentioned the Equibase Virtual Stable in a recent post and have received several emails asking for more information about the service.  For those of you who don't use it already, here's a great opportunity to learn about a genuinely useful tool that's offered free to users.  The tool is simple:  you identify horses you'd like to ...

Songandaprayer's (TrueNicks, SRO) first crop, sired relatively inexpensively in Florida, made a considerable impact, producing six stakes winners headed by the graded scorers Songster, What A Song, He's Got Grit, and Praying For Cash. That first crop was impressive enough as yearlings that it triggered a move from Florida to Walmac in ...