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• 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

• Research is a Mare Owner’s Best Investment

  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 inbreeding / outcrossing, etc. The main problem I... Posted Mar 27 2008, 12:13 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Products, Other Breeding Theories, Hypothetical Matings, Mares

• Giant’s Riches

  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 leading son is one that should create a tough runner... Posted Mar 25 2008, 09:28 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Hypothetical Matings, Mares, Just for Fun

• Ashado Booked to Street Cry

  Darley announced this week that two-time champion Ashado, whose $9-million price at Keeneland’s November sale in 2005 was then a record for a broodmare or broodmare prospect sold at public auction, will be bred this year to Street Cry (IRE) (a stallion... Posted Feb 06 2008, 12:39 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Hypothetical Matings, Mares

• Gold Edition: Report from Australia, Part II

  Continuing on yesterday’s search for the best potential matches for recently-retired Australian sprint star Gold Edition (AUS)… Broadening our scope to look to other parts of the world raises a number of intriguing prospects. Starting in the... Posted Feb 04 2008, 09:07 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Pedigrees and Breeding, Hypothetical Matings, Mares

• Gold Edition: Report from Australia, Part I

  The retirement of the brilliant sprint filly Gold Edition (AUS) engendered some speculation in Australia as to what might be her ideal mate, especially as she is by a son of Danehill, which naturally rules out some of Australia’s most illustrious sires... Posted Feb 04 2008, 05:17 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Hypothetical Matings, Mares