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 by the recent merger of the publication with...

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 current standalone platform you see today onto...

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 national sales manager for TrueNicks, a Thoroughbred...

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 matters from the information that doesn’t...

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 have run into had been finding a way to [......

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 be easier to read and interpret, and includes all...

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 wanted A++. In an e-mail conversation regarding a...

“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’s Song with Mr. Prospector-line mares, as...

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 Habitat, by Sir Gaylord. Question: I just purchased...

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 salegrounds. As part of Alan’s notes, he has...