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| | Pin Oak Stud -- Stallions Sky Classic - Thoroughbred Times Article - by John P. Sparkman |
 | | His sire, Nijinsky II, was the best son of Northern Dancer and one of the very best sire sons of that prolific sire of sires. |
 | | The Nijinsky II horse& second crop, foals of 1995, included five more stakes winners, headed by Idle Rich (Idle Affair, by Try My Best), winner of the 2000 All Along Stakes (G3) and the 1999 Glens Falls Handicap (G3), both on turf. |
 | | Winner of the English Triple Crown in 1970, Nijinsky II sired winners over all distances and surfaces, but there was a definite bias in his progeny toward horses capable of getting classic distances, though usually with a measure of precocity thrown in. |
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