Question : Alan, what do you think about Sons of AP Indy to daughters of Gone West? Alan Porter's response : To date the A.P. Indy ( TrueNicks , SRO ) /Gone West nick -- and the more general Seattle Slew...
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We happened to be studying a Saint Ballado mare the other day for a client, and noticed that to date, the only two graded stakes winners out of mares by that stallion are Saint Afleet (TrueNicks A ), who...
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More Than Ready ( TrueNicks , SRO ) notched up a pair of weekend stakes winners with Vote Early (TrueNicks A++ ) taking the Weekend Delight Stakes at Turfway Park, and Miss Challenge (TrueNicks A+) winning...
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The third of a triumvirate of young classic winning sons of Sadler's Wells -- following Montjeu (IRE) and Galileo (IRE) -- High Chaparral (IRE) is beginning to make significant progress. His first crop...
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We've frequently mentioned, in this and other columns, varieties of what we call "Parallel Patterns." There are variations, but a general description would be where a sire and a mare or broodmare sire...
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We had yet another example of the imporatance of considering opportunity when creating nick ratings with the August 1 victory of Luck Money in the Majestic Light Stakes at Saratoga. Irish-bred Luck Money...
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It is not often that we have a posting on this site with a history lesson included but it seems in order after the 2-year-old filly African Skies (TrueNicks A ) impressively won the Princess Margaret Stakes...
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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...
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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...
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