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• TrueNicks Joins MarketWatch and Owner-Breeder

  Alan Porter recently commented on the newly-announced merger of powerhouse Thoroughbred industry newsletters Owner-Breeder International and TBH MarketWatch. “Having been publisher of Owner-Breeder International for the last seven years, I’m delighted... Posted Jul 23 2008, 04:27 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements, Products

• Moving Houses… And More

  In the upcoming months, TrueNicks has a number of innovations and new products to unveil. Some will be quite visible while the others more subtle. One of the changes in the latter category will be the migration of this site in a couple of days from the... Posted Jul 20 2008, 06:22 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements, Products

• O’Neil Hired as TrueNicks Sales Manager

  TrueNicks is pleased to announce the addition of Matt O’Neil as national sales manager. Following is a news release issued by TrueNicks partner Blood-Horse Publications: Blood-Horse Publications has hired pedigree analyst Matt O’Neil as the new... Posted Jul 14 2008, 11:42 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements, Products

• To Region or Not to Region

  We were recently forwarded an e-mail containing an advertisement from another pedigree consultancy that mentioned “… other pedigree information services that attempt to dazzle you with vast database resources without discriminating the information that... Posted Apr 16 2008, 10:19 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Products, Validity, Other Breeding Theories

• 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

• A New Look for TrueNicks Reports

  As part of the TrueNicks commitment to ongoing improvement of our product line, we are pleased to unveil a new look for the basic Hypothetical Mating and Named Foal reports (click on the report names to see samples). The new presentation is designed to... Posted Feb 21 2008, 01:46 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements, Products, Just for Fun

• As Easy as A, B, C ?

  Stallion managers and broodmare owners have offered some interesting insights since the release of TrueNicks. One stallion manager told me that he would come across clients who would reject matings that rated A on another nicking product because they... Posted Jan 28 2008, 04:03 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Products, Validity

• Curiouser and Curiouser

  “Curiouser and curiouser” cried Alan. The anomaly of widely differing nick ratings on an identical cross is a very strange one. When TrueNicks rates Unbridled’s Song with a Miswaki mare, the result is a “D,” based on the direct cross of Unbridled... Posted Jan 17 2008, 06:43 PM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Products, Validity, Other Breeding Theories

• “No Rating” Doesn’t Equal “No Meaning”

  A reader wrote in to ask for clarification on the No Rating return after running a TrueNicks hypo-mating report for Niigon with a Richter Scale mare. Niigon is a son of Unbridled, by Fappiano, by Mr. Prospector. Richter Scale is a son of Habitony, by... Posted Jan 14 2008, 09:38 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Products, Validity

• Keeneland January Preview: Day Seven

  Alan Porter has been asked to preview each day of the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale. His comments appear on BloodHorseNOW.com, including a special page in that publication’s daily PDF newsletter, which is distributed each day at the... Posted Jan 13 2008, 12:05 AM by TRUENICKS Filed under: All Posts, Announcements, Products, Auctions and Sales