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I'm a fair weather "visitor" to the site. I go there when I need to find someone. Meta, others, have a lot of competition. What a great country.
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The Book Club
The friends that saved the first folio.
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Phrase of the Day
Nick breeding.
To find the right mares to breed means everything to a stud (and his owner). To find the best broodmares, one can step back a generation and take a look at their sires, and then employ what is now known in breeding as a "nick."
Nick breeding involves putting a selection of mars sired by a particlar stallionn to an unreelated statllion. If thhos crosses consistently produce winners, a nick is created.
In Kim Wickens' Lexington, "the nick would eventually come in the form of broodmares sired by the small but powerful chestnut stallion named Glencoe.
More:
A champion Britishh Thhoroughbred, Glencoe was the youngest horse ever to win Britain's coveted Goodwood Cup -- a holdover from the old king's plates distance races.
A mere day after wining the cup, he ran in Goodwood's Racing Sweepstakes and cantered home for the trophy. He followed those victories with winds in the Garden Stakes at Newemarket, as well as theAscot Gold Cup and the Whip, at England's Ascot Racecourse.
He retired as a champion at the age of four in 1835, spurring The Sporting Magazine of London to write, "Glencoe has shown himself the best horse in the world. Where is there one to be found to meet him at weight for age? Not in England, assuredly.
The following year, Glencoe was imported to America and, starting in 1848, stood several stud seasons in central Kentucky.
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Word of the Day
Get: progeny of sire. Link here. In Kim's book, p. 183.
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On Another Note
Haven't missed a Spanish lesson since Sophia and I began studying together more than three years ago though Sophia is not participating much any more. Sad face.
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