With close to 500 responses, the TrueNicks community overwhelmingly picked Horse of the Year Curlin to top the potential matings for super mare Rachel Alexandra. Some would say that it was an unsurprising...
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How many Derby winners are still running at age 12? In the case of 2000 Texas Derby victor Eagle Time ( pedigree ) , maybe it's more accurate to say he's running "again" instead of "still," since he took...
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It's always fun to pass along good news about retired racers. From our sister site The Horse: Your Guide to Equine Health comes this release: A new trail training course at the Maker's Mark Secretariat...
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Ok, so we have run the feature a little longer than we'd planned, but we figured that with Rachel Alexandra's outstanding win in the Haskell Invitational (gr. I) on the weekend, it was worth a little more...
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I'll start off by saying that today's topic is entirely out of my element. For this discussion to be useful, I'm counting on you, the reader, to share your knowledge. While I've studied Thoroughbred pedigrees...
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Jockey Mike Smith opts off Mine That Bird in the Belmont Stakes (gr. I), adding a few more twists to the bizarre road that the son of Birdstone ( SRO ) has traveled in his Triple Crown odyssey. The part...
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With a year and a half of the TrueNicks blog and 300-plus posts behind us, it has not escaped our attention that there are some passionate horsemen and pedigree analysts who frequent this corner of the...
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Several recent posts inspire us to take a quick look at some similarities -- perhaps coincidental -- between the pedigrees of Birdstone ( TrueNicks , SRO ), Medaglia d'Oro ( TrueNicks , SRO ) , and Kentucky...
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My Blood-Horse colleague David Schmitz posted an interesting look at the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I): Kentucky Derby by the Numbers: Dosage Dilemma . He includes a nice summation...
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You've probably read all of their names at some point or other during the past year. A few might be longtime favorites whose pedigrees appear immediately in your mind's eye; others are perhaps more vague...
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