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• Reader Q&A: Why Do Nick Ratings Vary By a Sire’s Different Sons?

  Question: We were wondering why Rahy crossed on Trempolino is a C TrueNicks but Runaway Groom (through Cherokee Run) crossed on Trempolino is an A when they are both Blushing Groom sire lines. Mare is Emeralino. Your thoughts please…. Regards, Brian... Posted Aug 24 2008, 11:41 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Pedigrees and Breeding, Readers' Questions

• Hill ‘n’ Dale Joins TrueNicks

  Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms is the latest major Kentucky farm to enroll its stallions on TrueNicks, allowing users to run complimentary ratings on a roster of 13 stallions. Place of honor in Hill ‘n’ Dale team has to go to veteran Theatrical (IRE) (TrueNicks... Posted Aug 23 2008, 10:19 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements

• Pin Oak Stallions Join TrueNicks

  TrueNicks is happy to announce that the Pin Oak Stud stallions are the latest to join the TrueNicks team. The Versailles, Ky., stallion farm stands a trio of stallions, veteran Sky Classic (TrueNicks, SRO); the up-and-coming Broken Vow (TrueNicks, SRO... Posted Aug 18 2008, 10:35 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements

• TrueNicks Welcomes Ashford Stud

  Breeders now have access to complimentary ratings for the 12 stallions at Ashford Stud, as another top Kentucky farm enrolls its stallions on TrueNicks. Ashford’s powerful roster is headed by Giant’s Causeway (TrueNicks, SRO), who is both Storm Cat’s... Posted Aug 15 2008, 03:17 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements

• WinStar Stallions Now on TrueNicks

  TrueNicks welcomes WinStar Farm, our most recent new subscriber. WinStar’s commitment allows breeders to run complimentary ratings with the six stallions that make up the farm’s powerful roster. The team is headed by Distorted Humor (TrueNicks... Posted Aug 14 2008, 08:19 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements

• The Green Monkey on TrueNicks

  Mare owners considering breeding to The Green Monkey (TrueNicks), who begins his stud career at Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds in Ocala, Fla., in 2009, are now able to research their mares with the horse on TrueNicks. Randy Hartley and Dean De Renzo consigned... Posted Aug 13 2008, 09:23 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements

• Millennium Farms Stallions Latest to Join TrueNicks

  TrueNicks is delighted to welcome Millenniums Farms Kentucky, which has become the latest farm to give users complimentary ratings with its sires. Millennium Farms is currently home to six stallions, but the roster will be extended in 2009 with the recently... Posted Aug 12 2008, 05:18 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements

• Journeyman Stud Stallions Now on TrueNicks

  Breeders will now have access to complimentary TrueNicks ratings for the stallions standing at one of Florida’s leading stallion stations, Brent Fernung’s Journeyman Stud. Journeyman stands six young sires at their Ocala facility. The roster is headlined... Posted Aug 12 2008, 10:09 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements

• Hot Choo

  New York-based sire Western Expression was represented by his first stakes winner when his daughter, I Lost My Choo, took the Virginia Oaks (gr. III) at Colonial Downs. Rated A++ by TrueNicks, I Lost My Choo has a very unusual pedigree pattern. Firstly... Posted Aug 08 2008, 09:09 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: Recent Winners, All Posts, Pedigrees and Breeding

• Parallel Series

  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 are bred on a similar cross (we also have inversion... Posted Aug 07 2008, 03:19 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: Recent Winners, All Posts, Other Breeding Theories, Emerging Nicks

• Luck — Or Opportunity?

  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 was scoring his first stakes victory, although... Posted Aug 06 2008, 02:59 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: Recent Winners, All Posts, Validity, Emerging Nicks

• Opportunity Knocks

  Some recent articles by propents of rival nicking systems have floated the idea that somehow programs that don’t use a database of worldwide stakes winners, and don’t consider true opportunity – in fact they admit they don’t use opportunity at all – can... Posted Aug 04 2008, 09:44 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: Recent Winners, All Posts, Validity

• River Edge Stallions Join TrueNicks

  One of California’s leading stallion farms, River Edge, has become the latest to enroll its stallions on TrueNicks. River Edge Farm is home to three stallions: Benchmark (TrueNicks, SRO), Bertrando (TrueNicks, SRO), and Tribal Rule (TrueNicks, SRO). Benchmark... Posted Aug 04 2008, 09:13 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts

• Reader Q&A: Cost vs. Quality

  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 the other is a young stallion that is well-bred... Posted Aug 02 2008, 04:22 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Validity, Pedigrees and Breeding, Hypothetical Matings, Readers' Questions

• It’s a Danzig Affair

  It was quite a weekend for the Danzig. First of all, Danzig himself was represented by 200th stakes winner when Olympic captured the Mataji Stakes at Calder. And a review of stakes activity around the world shows that an awful lot of Danzig-line horses... Posted Jul 31 2008, 04:23 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: Recent Winners, All Posts, Sire Lines