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Below is a story that I wrote last week for Bloodhorse.com on Big Brown. If you haven't watched his race from March 5 at Gulfstream Park, do yourself a favor and check it out here. It is worth watching. This horse, if he stays healthy, will be a major factor in the Florida Derby, and perhaps on May 3.   By Jason Shandler  Up ...

With the Barretts March Sale of 2-year-olds in training coming up next week, TrueNicks turns the spotlight on the West Coast, with some notes on the TrueNicks top 10 rated horses in the sale. The highest rated sale horse, hip #49, is bred for speed, being a son of grade I winning sprinter Trippi. Out of Meteoric, a daughter of Pentelicus who set ...

As we inch closer to the 2008 Kentucky Derby, there is one certainty that we can all agree on: There will only be one winner and a whole bunch of disappointment. With that in mind, here's an interesting question to ponder: Since 1978, who was the best Derby starter that did not win? In other words, which horse started in the Derby, did ...

  When you go to a sale, you pretty much are part of a captive audience when it comes to dining. You eat what's available. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's not. My favorite sale dining experience has been at the outdoor bar on the Fasig-Tipton sale grounds in Saratoga Springs. I love the corn on the cob and the thin, ...

The Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of 2-year-olds in training, with its fancy pedigrees, is the best gauge of the health of the top of juvenile market. For the second year in a row, there was no significant skirmish between John Ferguson and Demi O'Byrne, nor was another buyer, such as the flamboyant Fusao Sekiguchi,who was willing to take them ...

  The death of Richard Galpin came as a shock. He attended the under tack show for the Fasig-Tipton Florida sale of 2-year-olds in training and was in good spirits even though his face was banged up. Laughing, he explained that he had fallen in a parking lot the night before. Then, just days later, he was gone. Richard, from a journalist's ...

  Based on the results of the Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of 2-year-olds in training, Speightstown is winning the popularity contest among first-crop sires. He was the top-ranked first-crop stallion and the second-ranked sire for the auction overall because of the average price of $751,250 for his four offspring that were ...

There are a great number of horses that hold cherished names from the Star Wars saga.  The more recent names are the heros and villains I will be touching on in this post.  Let's see if you recognize any of these talented four footed friends.Dark VaderHan SoloJadei KnightLord VaderObi WanObi Wan KenobiStar Wars LegacyThough there have ...

A signifcant plurality of readers -- 47.62%, to be specific -- responded to my recent poll that the dam or female family is the most important ''weed-out'' data when examining a sales catalog. It's sure the way that I go myself.  I actually keep a list of mares that I watch for each time a new catalog comes out. Most of the mares that ...

Latest in the growing band of regional farms to sign its stallions up for TrueNicks is Fox Tale Farm of Coopersburg, Penn. Fox Tale has added a graded stakes winning trio in Pies Prospect (TrueNicks), Request for Parole (TrueNicks), and Smart Guy (TrueNicks). Pies Prospect - (Crafty Prospector - Hot Pillow, by Bates Motel) won six races and over ...