http://www.raceday360.com/wire/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss R30 dana@superterrific.org http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/algorithms-out-of-an-amazing-mare/ Bloodstock in the Bluegrass - With his victory in the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Sunday, Algorithms outran last year’s champion juvenile, Hansen, by five lengths. The exacta was an endorsement for the increasing importance of the A.P. Indy male line in American racing and especially as an indicator of classic… ]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:43:00 -0800 http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/algorithms-out-of-an-amazing-mare/ http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/ava-knowsthecode-put-the-look-in-her-foals/ Bloodstock in the Bluegrass - Some mares produce foals who look so athletic, so balanced and racy, that buyers cannot resist them. They pay good money for the weanlings and yearlings of this type, even if the sire isn’t on fire and even if there isn’t black-type activity in the dam. And should the dam… ]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:45:00 -0800 http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/ava-knowsthecode-put-the-look-in-her-foals/ http://ddink55.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/two-bob-female-line/ Boojum's Bonanza - Two Bob was the second dam of 1958 champion three-year-old Tim Tam (subject of my last post). The female family of Two Bob is the subject of today’s post. Listed below are all stakes winners among sales foals of 2003-2007 tracing to Two Bob in the female line. I trust… ]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:21:00 -0800 http://ddink55.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/two-bob-female-line/ http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/champion-racemares-like-rachel-alexandra-make-important-producers/ Bloodstock in the Bluegrass - The following post appeared earlier this week at Paulick Report. The happy news that Rachel Alexandra produced her first foal, a big colt by Curlin, is a reminder that she was Horse of the Year in 2009. Her successors as Horse of the Year are also mares: Zenyatta in 2010… ]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0800 http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/champion-racemares-like-rachel-alexandra-make-important-producers/ http://werkhorse.com/whoshotwhosnot/index.php/2012/01/26/gilded-times-regional-sons/ Who's Hot, Who's Not - By Elaine Belval Trained by Darrell Vienna, Gilded Time was champion two-year-old of 1992, winning all four of his starts, including the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. The next year at three, he stunned many in the racing world when he returned after a long layoff to finish third in the… ]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:05:00 -0800 http://werkhorse.com/whoshotwhosnot/index.php/2012/01/26/gilded-times-regional-sons/ http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2012/0126/1224310755727.html via Pinboard - A ‘SPEED GENE’ in thoroughbred horses can be traced back to a single British mare that lived in the United Kingdom around 300 years ago, according to findings published online this week in Nature Communications . This so-called “speed gene” is a variant of the myostatin gene, which plays a… ]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:02:00 -0800 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2012/0126/1224310755727.html http://ddink55.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/sunday-evening-female-line/ Boojum's Bonanza - Sunday Evening was the second dam of both 1969 champion two-year-old Silent Screen and 1968 champion three-year-old filly Dark Mirage (subject of my last post). That pretty much launched the female family of Sunday Evening, which is the subject of today’s post. ]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:05:00 -0800 http://ddink55.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/sunday-evening-female-line/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/teresagenaro/2012/01/24/its-a-boy-horse-of-the-year-rachel-alexandra-gives-birth-to-first-foal/ via Pinboard - The usually moribund month of January in racing is annually brightened by the arrival of new foals, conceived the prior February and delivered in the first month of the new year. 2012 is no exception…except, well, yeah, it is, because two days ago, Rachel Alexandra delivered her first foal, a… ]]> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:52:00 -0800 http://www.forbes.com/sites/teresagenaro/2012/01/24/its-a-boy-horse-of-the-year-rachel-alexandra-gives-birth-to-first-foal/ http://thebrocktalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/rachel-alexandra-colt-will-fight.html The Brock Talk - While not making quite the buzz that Beyonce and Jay Z did with the announcement of their new daughter Blue Ivy Carter, Rachel Alexanda and Curlin have produced the newest celebrity colt in the Thoroughbred world. According to reports, the colt was born at 2:40 pm Sunday at Stonestreet Farm… ]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:17:00 -0800 http://thebrocktalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/rachel-alexandra-colt-will-fight.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThoroughbredChat/~3/IbebgLabm5o/early-2015-tc-favorite.html Thoroughbred Chat - He's here!!!!! The product of 2 time Horse of the Year Curlin (Smart Strike) and 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra (Medagalia d' Oro) was born this afternoon at Stonestreet Farm in KY. Here is a picture that was posted on both Twitter and Facebook. Of course the stakes… ]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:25:00 -0800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThoroughbredChat/~3/IbebgLabm5o/early-2015-tc-favorite.html http://www.horseracingnation.com/blogs/zatt/Its_a_Boy_123 Horse Racing Nation NewsWire - I am thrilled to announce that my favorite horse in 40 years of watching the races, Rachel Alexandra, has given birth to her first foal. The bay colt with a white star for a blaze was born at 2:40 pm today, January 22 at Stonestreet Farm. A son of Curlin,… ]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:07:00 -0800 http://www.horseracingnation.com/blogs/zatt/Its_a_Boy_123 http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/tapit-knocking-on-the-door-at-the-top-of-the-stallion-game/ Bloodstock in the Bluegrass - With a sassy victory in the Grade 2 San Fernando Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday, Tapizar has returned to a position of prominence that he occupied a year ago following a sharp success in the G3 Sham Stakes. Unfortunately for the colt and owner-breeder Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC, the dashing… ]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:42:00 -0800 http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/tapit-knocking-on-the-door-at-the-top-of-the-stallion-game/ http://werkhorse.com/whoshotwhosnot/index.php/2012/01/19/jump-starting-pa-sire-list/ Who's Hot, Who's Not - By Elaine Belval The loss of Overbrook Farm and W. T. Young was a big one for the Thoroughbred industry. And Kentucky lost a promising sire when Jump Start moved to Pennsylvania in 2010. Over the weekend, San Pablo won the Shots Are Ringing S. at Aqueduct for owner Burning… ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:55:00 -0800 http://werkhorse.com/whoshotwhosnot/index.php/2012/01/19/jump-starting-pa-sire-list/ http://www.anddownthestretchtheycome.com/2012/1/19/2714458/2012-freshman-sire-predictions via Pinboard - Take this to Vegas immediately. This is the end all be all of 2012 Freshman Sire Predictions. Now finding a futures pool for this might be a little tough, but I'm sure someone downtown will take your bet. Now, I've broken out the entire list of stallions that entered stud… ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:55:00 -0800 http://www.anddownthestretchtheycome.com/2012/1/19/2714458/2012-freshman-sire-predictions http://www.brooklynbackstretch.com/2012/01/18/visiting-purim/ Brooklyn Backstretch - In late December of 2010, on a frigid, glittery, ice-inflected Kentucky morning, I pulled into Richland Hills Farm. Ed DeRosa and I were on a winter farm tour mission, and our host, Leanna Packard, graciously welcomed us, though I can imagine that there were many things she’d have rather done… ]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:30:00 -0800 http://www.brooklynbackstretch.com/2012/01/18/visiting-purim/ http://ddink55.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/friars-carse-female-line/ Boojum's Bonanza - As Charles Hatton has pointed out, Friar’s Carse figures prominently in the pedigrees of three of the champions of 1959: Sword Dancer, Intentionally, and My Dear Girl (all three of whom were recently posted about in this space). The female family of Friar’s Carse is the subject of today’s post.… ]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:38:00 -0800 http://ddink55.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/friars-carse-female-line/ http://www.anddownthestretchtheycome.com/2012/1/17/2682299/2011-stallion-rankings via Pinboard - Not a lot of surprises, but one thing I wanted to take a closer look at was to look at efficiency (measured by earnings/starter) and to try to measure how consistent sires are (by tossing out the extreme outliers, which is easily accomplished by tossing the leading earner for any… ]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:34:00 -0800 http://www.anddownthestretchtheycome.com/2012/1/17/2682299/2011-stallion-rankings http://www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/colic-claims-richland-hills-sire-purim/ Paulick Report - Purim, a 10-year-old Grade 1-winning son of Dynaformer standing at Richland Hills in Midway, Ky., was euthanized on Saturday following colic surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington. Purim's first crop of foals were 2-year-olds of 2011. Nathan Fox, president of Richland Hills, was instrumental in launching the… ]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:02:00 -0800 http://www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/colic-claims-richland-hills-sire-purim/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendy_u/6700396489/ Flickr - wendyu Rachel Alexandra (2009 Horse of the Year) enjoying a snowy day in January. She is a few weeks away before her Curlin (2007 & 2008 Horse of the Year) colt is due. ]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:39:00 -0800 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendy_u/6700396489/ http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/ap-indys-influence-spreading-into-the-future/ Bloodstock in the Bluegrass - Both at the sales and on the racetrack, the breed is crying out for the influence of A.P. Indy. This is not so simply because the 1992 Horse of the Year has been a greatly successful and influential stallion. That he has. ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:48:00 -0800 http://fmitchell07.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/ap-indys-influence-spreading-into-the-future/