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Plan, who looked extremely promising when winning a maiden on the second of two starts at 2, was unplaced in the Two Thousand Guineas (gr. I) on his 3-year-old debut. Fourth in a listed race next time out, he fulfilled his potential on his third start of the year, taking the Keeneland International Stakes (gr. III). A son of Storm Cat out of ...

With the Australian racing season winding to a close, the final stakes race of the winter was run at Eagle Farm last Saturday with the Glenlogan Park-owned mare Perfect Feeling claiming the listed Tattersalls Mile. Perfect Feeling is a daughter of the Coolmore stallion Spinning World, who in this author's opinion is one of the best value ...

In a strange instance of synchonicity a pair of stakes at Lone Star Park, Texas, on the same day were taken by horses whose pedigrees - and close inbreeding - are virtual reverses. The first of these was the Allen Bogan Memorial Stakes, won by Wrenice. By Uncle Abbie, a brother-in-blood to Lemon Drop Kid (TrueNicks, SRO), Wrenice (now an earner ...

The French Colonial Stakes, run over nine furlongs on turf at Belmont Park July 10, resulted in a first stakes win for Willsboro Point, a son of Point Given (TrueNicks, SRO) out of the Red Ransom mare Petrouchka. Rated A by TrueNicks, Willsboro Point is bred on the same Thunder Gulch/Roberto cross as grade I winners Balance and Tweedside. Point ...

Alan Porter recently commented on the newly-announced merger of powerhouse Thoroughbred industry newsletters Owner-Breeder International and TBH MarketWatch. ''Having been publisher of Owner-Breeder International for the last seven years, I'm delighted by the recent merger of the publication with MarketWatch. The move will both bring the work of ...

The family of the Troy mare Cocotte has been hot this year with four group/graded winners among her descendents. First, in May, Creachadoir captured his first group I win in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury. Then on June 29, Creachadoir's half-brother Youmzain took the Grand Prix de Paris (Fr-I). Rated A by TrueNicks, Creachadoir, a son of King's ...

TrueNicks is proud to welcome the stallions from both the Kentucky and Texas divisions of Lane's End Farm as the newest rosters to join TrueNicks. This exciting development enables TrueNicks users to obtain complimentary ratings for nearly 30 stallions, among them some of the world's leading sires. The Lane's End Kentucky powerhouse is home to ...

The Man o' War Stakes (gr. I) witnessed not only the defeated of Curlin on his turf debut, but also a return to form of the 2006 Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. I) hero Red Rocks, who was taking his first stakes win since the spring of 2007. Red Rocks, a son of one of Europe's dominant sire Galileo, is out of a mare by Machiavellian, who - like Galileo's ...

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 ...

TrueNicks is very pleased to announce the addition of well known industry analyst Matt O'Neil as our national sales manager. Matt will be in charge of promoting and managing the products that TrueNicks offers to racehorse owners, breeders, stallion owners and trainers. Following is a news release issued by TrueNicks partner Blood-Horse ...