With it getting later in the season for breeding U.S. mares, we thought it worth having a look at some stallions that breeders with mares that they are still contemplating getting covered in 2009 might think about as smart plays. Some of these guys were full earlier on, but often at this time of year some gaps open up. click here to read more….

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• What is the saying…a good horse will split any friendship a bad one will cement it for life? http://tinyurl.com/c8grjl #
• Storm Cat, Sadler’s Wells, Seeking the Gold, Dixieland Band, and now it looks like Rahy and Gone West are done…the old move on for the new #
• Congrats to Dario….Pedigree Consultants mating Bribon wins the Westchester Stakes gr. III….Met Mile next up! #
• Interesting article by John Berry on ThoroughbredInternet http://tinyurl.com/ct6dp6 #
• An elder statesman of the Kentucky breeding ranks looks likely to retire from the breeding shed after failing to get any mares in foal. #
• Congrats to Jason, John and Wassim on the win of Silently in the JB Carr Stakes at Randwick. #
• Rocket Man keeps on winning in Singapore. Why is he not in the top 10 turf sprinters in the world? http://tinyurl.com/ct78ed #
• High Chapparal surprises with Above Average in the Sandown Classic Trial. He is out of a Danehill mare. Sadler’s Wells/Danehill again #
• Something a little unexpected that is for sure….http://news.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=50373&source=rss #
• Good friend Matt O’Neil has launched his annual KY Derby CD – Derby Love (Vol 6) – visit the web site here http://www.derbylove.com #

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Madrid-based Dario Hinojosa is one of the keenest students of pedigree that we know, and it’s not just at theoretical level. Over the last few years he’s made pedigree knowledge pay, as (in the name of Darpat Sl) he has bred or raced such as graded stakes winners Pharatta, Ronda, Istan (a son of Ronda), Andujar (who was purchased for the equivalent of around $31,000 as a yearling), and grade one placed stakes winner Alozaina (who was purchased for the equivalent of just over $15,000 as a yearling). All of these had some very clever pedigree factors, but none of them top that of Bribon.

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The historic Haunui Farm, Auckland, New Zealand, has become the first Southern Hemisphere farm to subscribe to TrueNicks, allowing breeders to run complimentary matings with their stallions Iffraaj, Elusive City, Don Eduardo. click here to read more….

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For recent issues of the leading Australian thoroughbred breeding magazine Bluebloods, a publication we write for on a monthly basis, we’ve explored how the Hail to Reason line through Red Ransom (from the Roberto branch) and More Than Ready (from the Halo branch) might provide the ideal outcross for Australia’s current profusion of Northern Dancer line mares.

That point was re-emphasized at the weekend when Red Ransom’s son, Onemorenomore captured the Champagne Stakes (gr. I) over a mile atroyal Randwick. Onemorenomore, who was winning his second race in six starts (all in stakes events), has steadily improved with distance, having scored his previous victory in the T L Baillieu Handicap over 7 furlongs, and then finished fourth in the Sires’ Produce Stakes (gr. I), and his connections were apparently confident that he would appreciate the mile better than the horses who finished in front of him in the Sires’ Produce. click here to read more….

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With the classics coming up next week, major action in Europe mostly featured older horses. Still, the weekend’s biggest contest – the Prix Ganay (gr. I) – did have a classic connection as it marked a return to winning form for last year’s French Derby (gr. I) hero, Vision d’Etat, who defeated the Anabaa horse, Loup Breton, with the 2007 German Derby (gr. I) winner, Adlerflug (by In the Wings) in third. click here to read more….

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