Looking through some recent results, we noticed that another nicking program had rated Elite Squadron – who took the May 3 Churchill Downs Stakes (gr. II) – as an A++ nick. A cross check with TrueNicks revealed that Elite Squadron is rated D. Naturally, we wondered what could have caused such a discrepancy...

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...

It has been a little over two months, ten weeks to be precise, since we launched TrueNicks into the marketplace and the response has been nothing short of overwhelming. With a large roster of stallions subscribed to the complimentary subscription service that allows users to generate their own ratings...

“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...