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2020

FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED

By JoAnn Guidry

2020 LEADING FLORIDA ACTIVE SIRE 2020 LEADING FLORIDA JUVENILE SIRE

KHOZAN

2012 BAY HORSE BY DISTORTED HUMOR – DELTA PRINCESS, BY A.P. INDY

Khozan was the 2020 leading Florida active sire by total progeny earnings with $3,521,813. Khozan was also the leading Florida juvenile sire with progeny earnings in that category of $1,342,145.

All totaled, Khozan was represented by 93 runners with 52 winners, including five black type stakes winners and seven black type stakes-placers. Two in the latter group were graded stakes placed. Of Khozan’s five black type stakes winners, three were juvenile stakes winners. Khozan’s leading earner was Florida-bred black type stakes-winner Princess Secret, who banked $434,300 on the season. Owned and trained by Daniel Pita, Princess Secret won the $200,000 Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes Susan’s Girl at seven furlongs and the $400,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes My Dear Girl at a mile-and-one-sixteenth and was second in the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen going six furlongs, all at Gulfstream Park. Bred by Brent and Crystal Fernung, the 2018 bay filly is out of Golden Horseshoe, by Belong to Me. Consigned by Journeyman Bloodstock Services to the 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s October Mixed Sale as a yearling, Princess Secret sold for $30,000 to Manuel Pita. Princess Secret was named the 2020 Florida-bred champion 2-year-old filly. Florida-bred Poppy’s Pride won a trio of black type stakes on the season: the $75,000 Armed Forces Stakes at Gulfstream Park, the $60,000 Juvenile Sprint Stakes at Gulfstream Park West and Inaugural Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. A Stonehedge LLC homebred, the 2018 bay colt out of Lovely Lexi, by With Distinction, Poppy’s Pride earned $211,724 on the year.

Go Jo Jo Go, another Stonehedge LLC homebred, won the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen at seven furlongs at Gulfstream Park. The 2018 chestnut filly out of Flashy Flirt, by Gulch, was also third in the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Susan’s Girl at Gulfstream Park. She earned $112,800 on the season.

Rounding out Khozan’s quintet of Florida-bred black type stakes winners were Liam’s Lucky and Legal Deal, both homebreds for Gilbert and Marilyn Campbell’s Stonehedge LLC. Liam’s Lucky, out of the Stormy Atlantic mare P. S. I Love You won the Pasco County Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs and earned $109,000. Legal Deal, out of the Wildcat Heir mare Legal Laura, captured the Millions Sprint Preview Stakes at Gulfstream Park West. Legal Deal banked $91,438 on the season.

Khozan was also represented by black type stakes-placed runners Seazan, Untitled, Big Daddy Dave, Independent

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Miss, Lure Him In, Zimba Warrior and Delia O’Hara. Of this group, Seazan was the leading earner with a bankroll of $119,854. Untitled and Zimba Warrior had the distinction of being graded stakes-placed. Untitled was second in the Gotham Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct and Zimba Warrior was third in the Sham Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita.

By Distorted Humor out of Delta Princess, by A.P. Indy, Khozan was purchased by Al Shaqab Racing for $1 million at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Florida select 2-year-olds in training sale. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Khozan broke his maiden at first asking by four lengths and encored that with a second victory by 12 ¾ lengths. While training for the 2015 Florida Derby (G1), Khozan suffered a career-ending injury.

Khozan entered stud in 2016 at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud. He was the 2019 leading Florida freshman and juvenile sire. Khozan stands as property of a syndicate.

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2020 LEADING FLORIDA FRESHMAN SIRE

JESS’S DREAM

2012 BAY HORSE BY CURLIN – RACHEL ALEXANDRA, BY MEDAGLIA D’ORO

Jess’s Dream was the 2020 leading Florida freshman sire by progeny earnings with a total of $401,716. He was represented by 27 runners, seven winners and one Florida-bred black type stakes winner. Jess’s Dream’s leading earner was Florida-bred black type stakes-winner Restofthestory, who banked $135,400 on the season. Restofthestory, a 2018 bay filly out of Holiday Flare, by Harlan’s Holiday, was second in the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes My Dear Girl at Gulfstream Park. Bred and sold by Ocala Stud, Restofthestory was purchased for $95,000 by current owners Karl and Cathi Glassman at the 2020 OBS April juvenile sale. By 2007-2008 Horse of the Year Curlin out of 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, Jess’s Dream was born into the spotlight. Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC and The Estate of Harold T. McCormick, the dark bay colt was named after the late Jess Jackson, who raced Curlin and Rachel Alexander, with wife Barbara Banke, in their Stonestreet Stables silks. Jess’s Dream broke his maiden at first asking on Aug. 24, 2015, at Saratoga and earned a 90 Beyer Speed Figure in what would be his only career start. Jess’s Dream was retired to stud in 2016 and stood his first year at Ocala Stud in 2017. He is a half-brother to Grade 1 stakes-winner Rachel’s Valentina, by Bernardini, who won the Spinaway Stakes (G1). Jess’s Dream stands as property of Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Thoroughbreds and Ocala Stud.