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[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/dgvanclief_large.jpg'']GD. G. Van Clief, Jr.[/image] D.G. Van Clief has spent his career in the Thoroughbred industry serving as chief executive officer of Nydrie Stud, as the CEO and founding chairman of the NTRA and the president of Breeders’ Cup Limited. Van Clief currently serves ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/jharper_large.jpg'']Joe Harper[/image] Joe Harper took over the management of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in 1978. During this period Harper has overseen Del Mar's emergence as one of the nation's top racetracks for daily average handle and attendance. He was also instrumental in overseeing ...

Welcome to TrueNicks! Attract more broodmare owners – and the right broodmares – to your stallion program with TrueNicks. As a TrueNicks member, you’ll have unlimited use of Hypothetical Mating Reports to rate your stallions with prospective broodmares, allowing you to make better breeding decisions and increase your profit.   ...

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What is the TrueNicks rating?The TrueNicks rating is a score that reflects the degree of affinity between the sire and broodmare sire (or sire line and broodmare sire line) of the subject horse or hypothetical mating. To ensure that the resultant rating is the result of true opportunity, the TrueNicks score is based on a calculation that ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/tschrupp_large.jpg'']Todd Schrupp[/image] With a father in the Marines, Todd Schrupp, born in Edina, Minn., lived many places during his boyhood. The place he remembers best is Camp Pendleton, near San Diego and not far from Del Mar Race Course. In the summers of 1975 and 1976 he and his ...

[image url=''http://www.bloodhorse.com/talkinhorses/images/mwall_large.jpg'']Maryjean Wall[/image] Maryjean Wall retired in June after 35 years as racing writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader. She voluntarily took a corporate buyout. On her final day of writing for the newspaper, she was at Belmont Park covering the Belmont Stakes and Big ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/abrown_large.jpg'']Alex Brown[/image] Alex Brown has worked in horseracing on-and-off in North America for twenty years. He spent most of this time at the Fair Hill Training Center. Alex also runsalexbrownracing.com, a site that initially focused on Barbaro's recovery shifted it's focus to ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/shaskin_large.jpg'']Steve Haskin[/image] Blood-Horse senior correspondent Steve Haskin returns to Talkin' Horses for a recap of the 2008 Triple Crown, one of the most memorable in recent history. Haskin is an award-winning Turf writer renowned for his Kentucky Derby commentary, with weekly ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/jshandler_large.jpg'']Jason Shandler[/image] Blood-Horse staff writer Jason Shandler makes his debut on Talkin' Horses for a special Belmont Stakes (gr. I) handicapping preview. With Big Brown winning both the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I), Shandler will examine his ...