The start of the week brought the double-whammy news that both Sadler's Wells ( pedigree ) and Storm Cat ( on SRO ) ( pedigree ) were pensioned. It would be hard to overstate the impact that these two...
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Zenyatta (Street Cry (IRE) - Vertigineux, by Kris S.) further enhanced the burgeoning reputation of her sire on Saturday with a victory in the Apple Blossom Handicap (gr. I). The undefeated 4-year-old...
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Previously in this blog we had commented about the strange fact that despite standing at the same farm in Australia, Giant's Causeway never received as many Danehill mares as one would have thought reasonable...
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Jeri from New York asked: I'm pleased to see Empire Stud signed up! Could you ask Alan Porter if there is any value to tying to inbreed to Alydar. I do not see his name come up in pedigrees anymore and...
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Ashford Stud sire Grand Slam lived up to his name over the Easter weekend with three stakes winners in three days. On March 21, French-raced and Kentucky-bred 3-year-old War Officer earned a first stakes...
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Honour Devil (ARG) ( pedigree ) has made Nad al Sheba his stomping ground. After a ~ 6-furlong maiden victory in his homeland of Argentina as a southern hemisphere 2-year-old, the son of Honour and Glory...
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Last week we looked at the Domino sire line. As a few readers have pointed out, Domino represents only one branch of the Himyar ( pedigree ) bloodline. Even stepping back in the pedigree and looking at...
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man... or so the saying goes and in Australia it seems that the hour is arriving for a stallion or sire line to stand up and be counted when it comes to the next leading sire...
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In a previous post , Alan discussed the success of Honour Devil, a son of shuttle sire Honour and Glory out of a Fitzcarraldo (ARG) mare, and noted that it was part of a broader cross that involved another...
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Over the weekend, I took a short road trip to look at a potential mate for one of my broodmares. This is the first time that I'm contemplating a "breed to race" mating instead of a commercial match, and...
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