Less than a month after a surprising second-place finish in her season-opening prep race, champion filly Proud Spell ( profile ) was retired, moved home, and put into broodmare service. A homebred for...
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Just about anyone starting out as a Thoroughbred breeder perceives himself as a near-expert. After all, it's just horses, right? No brain surgery here. Whether it's because of a lifelong love of horses...
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If you thought Ribot's male-line influence through Cormorant was limited to Go for Gin ( SRO ) in Maryland, Albert the Great ( SRO ) in Pennsylvania, and Nobiz Like Shobiz ( SRO ) in Kentucky, think again...
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Before being made available to the public, TrueNicks was tested on a group of more than 100,000 horses. That study firmly established a correlation between a high nick rating and success at stakes level...
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Reader's question: My mare Pebbles Delight has an A++ wih Corinthian. She has been accepted to his book for 2009. However, since she doesn't have a lot of black type up front, I probably won't make any...
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A week or so ago we had an interesting post on this site from Scot Gillies in regards to a "dream mating" for your favorite mare. There was a lot of ideas, some of them very well reasoned, from a number...
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I don't own Hasili (IRE) ( pedigree ). To provide a quick recap of that mare's record as a broodmare, I'll just say she got off to a "slow" start with Dansili (GB), her first foal: he was merely a multiple...
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Question : My question is whether there a much greater risk factor when considering between two stallions that differ in the fact that one has many proven mares and was a very good performer himself, while...
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Amy from Lexington asks Alan: I work for a small farm in Lexington and have been helping to plan matings. I really enjoy pedigree research and learning all the theories behind different nicks / crosses...
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Yesterday brought the news that champion 3-year-old filly Rags to Riches was to be retired and bred to Giant's Causeway. The match of the history-making Belmont Stakes (gr. I) heroine with Storm Cat's...
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