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00:00Breeders' Cup Classic winner, Nix Goh, is back in training at Churchill Downs, where
00:07he's preparing for a potential start in the Pegasus World Cup.
00:10But before the champion returns to the Brad Cox barn, he first stopped in at Taylor Maid
00:15Farm, where he will begin his stud career in 2022.
00:20Nix Goh is the epitome of a racehorse.
00:25When you have a horse that wins the Claiborne Breeders' Futurity at two, comes back and
00:31wins the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, and then the next year wins the Breeders' Cup Classic,
00:35it doesn't get any better than that.
00:38Nix Goh's best qualities as a racehorse is speed.
00:43And what's great, as I remember Mr. Gaines used to say, we're trying to breed the horse
00:49that has the most speed, that's the best looking, that can carry the speed the furthest.
00:54You know, that he won a grade one, at two, that says everything, everybody's looking
00:59for that.
01:00Down the center of the track, but well behind Nix Goh, and Nix Goh at 70 to one, Alvin Jimenez,
01:09Nix Goh, tremendous upset.
01:11My history at Taylor Maid, I always heard milers make the best sires.
01:15Setting the track record in the dirt mile, that was quite an accomplishment that shows
01:22he has the speed.
01:23And then to go under two minutes for a mile and a quarter, that takes a special horse,
01:29and he did that in the Classic.
01:43I think that his confirmation is definitely a plus, not being an overly big horse and
01:48fits a lot of mares.
01:50And he's very well balanced, reminds me a lot of a stallion, Blushing Groom, also McGinn
01:56himself.
01:57They're not big horses, but they're very well balanced, got plenty of hip.
02:01So I think those kind of stallions cross good with a lot of mares, and he's a very correct
02:06horse.
02:07So, you know, we are fired up about Nix Goh.
02:10He has a male ancestor Secretariat out of Obe Dior on the bottom side, which is a son
02:18of Fran Falouche, with Secretariat on the top and Northern Dancer on the bottom.
02:22So you have a reverse cross of Stormcat, which I think could be very interesting.
02:29And Alplanker, the broodmare sire, is by Danzig and out of Lassie Deer, which that's the same
02:35breeding as AP Indy's female family.
02:38So I think with AP Indy, he could work good.
02:40So I think besides being a great horse, if he can throw his talent, we won't need to
02:44worry about what he's bred to.
02:46There are some interesting crosses that you can do with the horse.
02:50It's hard to go out and buy a horse like this.
02:54So to get one like this, we have Not This Time, which has shown that we have another
03:01proven stallion on the rise that's doing well.
03:04But when you run a stallion operation, horses help each other.
03:07So since we have Tacitus, Not This Time, and Nix Goh, plus Instagram and a Steel Regard,
03:14we've got New Blood at TaylorMade.
03:16So I think all these horses, just the combination, Midnight Storm, it helps all of them.
03:21We have faith and we think he's going to be a good one.