Nix High School, South Korea's first step

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The best Gyeongju Mannix High School arrived safely at Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 7th.

For the next month, Nixgo will inspect the Yeongjongdo mooring of the Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Quarantine Headquarters for infections of infectious diseases to check the import hygiene conditions of horses. He will then head to a new home in Jeju Ranch of the Korean Racing Authority in early February.

The K-Nix system, which discovered Knicks High School, is a unique technology of the Korean Horse Association that evaluates a horse's genetic ability by integrating DNA information, ancestry, and race records.

The Korea Racing Authority selected Nixgo among 1,794 listed horses at the 2017 Keeneland I-Sema auction and purchased it for $87,000 and about KRW 100 million. Since then, Nixgo has won the Breeders' Cup Futurity (G1) and the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), setting a record of 13.4 billion won in total prize money.

Nixgo, which has become a symbol of the K-Nix system by earning more than 100 times the ransom, was selected as the "World's Best Racehorse" at the 2021 Eclipse Awards, and was officially recognized as the "World Class" in the same year.

Nixgo, who has been working as a seed horse at TaylorMade Ranch in the U.S. after retiring from racing horses, completed the first verification as a stallion by winning the Saratoga Special Stakes (G2).

The introduction of Nixgo in Korea is an important step toward enhancing the international competitiveness of Korean horses and is expected to bring about a major change in domestic racehorse production in the future.

"Nixgo's trip to Korea is not just the introduction of overseas horses, but a symbolic event in which a champion discovered with our technology and verified on the world stage returns to Korea," an official from the Korea Racing Authority said. "We will continue to discover second and third Nixgo by upgrading the overseas breeding development project based on the K-Nix system and increase the competitiveness of the domestic racehorse production base."

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