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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 ...

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, ...