It’s no secret that Giant’s Cauesway is having another very good season. Currently sitting third on the 2008 sires’ ist, he has been represented by by 10 stakes winners this year, nine of them graded. He added a new grade I winner at the weekend when his son Frost Giant won the Suburban Handicap in ...

Throughout the history of the Thoroughbred there have been a number of occurrences where full brothers have performed very well at stud – the European foundation stallions Pharos and Fairway, the North American duo Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad, the Australian stallions Todman and Noholme. More recently...

That under-appreciated Nijinsky II-line stallion Hernando (by Niniski) is having an excellent run with his current crop of 3-year-olds, which include the English Oaks (gr. I) victress Look Here (A+ TrueNicks); Casual Conquest ((A+ TrueNicks), winner of Derrinstown Derby Trial (gr. II) and third in...

That under-appreciated Nijinsky II line stallion, Hernando (by Niniski), is having an excellent run with his current crop of three-year-olds, which include the English Oaks (gr. 1) victress Look Here (A+ TrueNick Rating); Casual Conquest (A+), winner of Derrinstown Derby Trial (gr. II) and third in the...

On Saturday, improving 3-year-old Tiz West scored his first graded triumph when he prevailed by a nose in the Cinema Handicap (gr. III). A son of Gone West, Tiz West is out of the Cee’s Tizzy mare Tizso, a full sister to Tiznow (and is A++ rated by TrueNicks). What makes this particularly interesting...

The recent post by Alan regarding the Ascot stakes winner Supaseus (Spinning World – Supamova, by Seattle Slew) brought back memories for this author as her dam was one of the 100 or so horses in the yard of leading trainer Paul Cole while I worked a flat season in England going back almost 15 [...]

Kingsgate Native has always been something of a mold-breaker. He very nearly won the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot last year on his racecourse debut, and two races later, the 2-year-old broke his maiden in the Nunthorpe Stakes (gr. I), beating established older sprinters. He open his 3-year-old...

It was Galileo’s model of the universe that prevailed on Day Four at Royal Ascot. Daughters of Galileo landed two of the three group races on the card, including the day’s jewel, the Coronation Stakes (Eng-I). In that event –- a contest for 3-year-old fillies –- Galileo’s daughter made up for the disappointment...

The day started with a score for the the U.S. when South Central (Forest Camp – Brittan Lee, by Forty Niner) -– a 13-length winner on his debut –- blazed the trail and then held on gamely for a narrow win. South Central was bred in Kentucky by the partnership of Tony Holmes and Dr. Walter [...]

It’s no secret that Seattle Slew and Mr. Prospector have been combining well in pedigrees for a considerable amount of time (and probably no coincidence that both go tail-female to the Myrtlewood branch of the family of the great tap-root mare Frizette, who is incidentally doubled in Seattle Slew’s granddam...