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Before he was a Kentucky Derby winner....
Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:13 PM

Back on the 1st of June 2009, as part of our study on the TrueNicks ratings and how they are calculated each year we ran the complete 2007 crops on a number of proven stallions - Giant's Causeway, Stormy Atlantic, Maria's Mon and Johannesburg, along with some then unproven sires with their first runners in Afleet Alex, Eurosilver and Roman Ruler. The goal of... Read More...

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Filed under: Recent Winners, Validity, Handicapping, 2YOs of 2009 Study

A Year On -- TrueNicks Scores From the 2008 March OBS Sale of 2-Year-Olds
Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:30 AM

As a prelude to the stallion study -- which is currently "under construction" as we determine the best way to track all the horses that we have rated by each sire throughout the world -- we thought that it was worthwhile going back and taking a look at the 2008 OBS March sale of 2-year-olds to examine the horses that rated well with TrueNicks from that sale.... Read More...

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Filed under: Recent Winners, Validity, Auctions and Sales, 2-Year-Olds, 2YOs of 2009 Study

Using TrueNicks to Predict Racetrack Success
Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:42 AM

With the first Northern Hemisphere 2-year-old races set to get underway shortly, we thought that this year we would do something that allowed us to follow TrueNicks as a predictor of racetrack success . We debated a couple of ways we could do this, with the primary goals of offering a statistically sound study and one that is trackable in 2009. An ideal solution... Read More...

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Filed under: Validity, 2-Year-Olds, 2YOs of 2009 Study