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Sunday Silence may be gone, but his influence is still a very present factor. The recently published Leading Sires Table for Japan shows the great son of Halo a clear winner by more than $9 million. What is particularly significant, however, is the the domination of the rest of the top 10 by sons of Sunday Silence. Second and third are Agnes ...

Over time TrueNicks ratings do change, but it is how they change that makes it an interesting study. Affinities can establish themselves quickly but the TrueNicks system requires certain thresholds to be met for the cross to be considered valid. This means that while it can take some time for a nick to establish itself, the actual success of the ...

Lexington, Kentucky-based Blood-Horse Publications today announced the launch of the TrueNicks sire line affinity system in conjunction with Pedigree Research, LLC, a pedigree consultancy firm headed by Alan Porter and Byron Rogers. The TrueNicks rating system simplifies nicking analysis in the pedigree of an existing Thoroughbred or hypothetical ...

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Byron Rogers Byron Rogers is the primary point of contact for subscribing farms and customers. He is involved with product development, sales, and marketing of the TrueNicks product line. Byron comes from a strong Australian racing background, his family having raced some outstanding racehorses in that country. Byron was, ...

  View Report Keen pedigree observers note that the same patterns often work the world over. This is frequently revealed when running the TrueNicks page on a horse, a report which gives–in addition to a five cross pedigree, Dosage profile, inbreeding, and TrueNicks rating–a list of the five best horses bred on a cross. A case in point is ...

Click here to read part I Things get really tricky for a system when lack of opportunity forces a default to deeper generations for analysis (which happens less frequently with TrueNicks than with hypothetical systems that depend on a much smaller-and problematically incomplete-sample size). It's one thing, for instance, to rate Storm Cat when ...

In his first crop, Kingmambo sired El Condor Pasa - a champion in Japan and France - out of a mare by Sadler's Wells. Kingmambo has gone on to sire seven other stakes winners out of Sadler's Wells mares, including classic winners Divine Proportions and Virginia Waters and current European juvenile standouts Henrythenavigator and Thewayyouare. ...

In my previous post, I described how my first employment in pedigree research came as a result of querying the validity of some sire line crosses published in an English magazine. Since then, I have harbored the ambition to create a better way of reflecting the success-or otherwise-of sire line crosses. It's clear that attempting this with a ...