Florida Horse August 2016

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CONTENTS August 2016 • VOL 59/ISSUE 6

DEPARTMENTS 6

—By Brock Sheridan

BROCK TALK

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FLORIDA FOCUS —By Tammy A. Gantt

FTBOA MEMBER UPDATE

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Mark Casse inducted into Canadian racing’s Hall of Fame

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FTBOA MEMBERSHIP SURVEY

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LEADING SIRE LISTS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Country-wide Florida-bred statistics

AROUND THE COUNTRY

FROM THE FTBOA BOARDROOM —By Jamie Cohen

FARM MANAGEMENT

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—By Mike Mullaney

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—By Gary West

DRIFTING OUT

WAY’S OF THE WEST

FEATURES/COLUMNS ON TOP OF THE HILL

Ocala-based Glen Hill Farm celebrates its milestone 50th anniversary —By JoAnn Guidry

34 WORLD APPROVAL FOR UNITED NATIONS

Live Oak Plantation’s homebred won the Grade 1 United Nations Stakes —By Brock Sheridan

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Florida-breds shine as Gulfstream’s annual Summit of Speed program kicks off —By Mike Mullaney

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An upclose look at Florida’s industry connections in picturesque Barbados—By Tammy A. Gantt

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SUMMIT OF SPEED

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CHUM’S BEST RUN Rebecca Nelsen knew as soon as she sat on “Chum” that he would be her horse.. —By Ben Baugh

EQUINE CARE

Lepto vaccine for horses —By Heather Smith Thomas

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Chasing

the Championships

Brock Sheridan

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ore than half-way through 2016, the races for the year’s various Florida-bred titles is well under way. Not only have several Florida-breds established themselves as challengers for local accolades but many can count themselves among the nation’s contenders in their respective divisions as well.

The year-end divisional champions are determined using the FTBOA Chase to the Championship point system, a ranking that awards points for success in stakes races. Those points are published each week in the Friday edition of Wire to Wire and are also available on the FTBOA website at ftboa.com/racing/Chase-to-the-Championship.

Through July 13, Live Oak Plantation’s World Approval is the leader in the Older Male category with 18 points, nine ahead of Calculator in second. He is also the leader with the same points in the Male Turf division, 12 points ahead of Life Imitates Art. World Approval solidified his position atop Florida-bred leaderboard with a victory in the Grade 1 United Nations Stakes (see page 34 for full coverage) on July 3 at Monmouth Park. Trained by FTOBA board member Mark Casse, the 4-

by outlasting that rival in a stretch-long battle to win the Madison Stakes (G1) at Keeneland in April. She also picked up Chase points by finishing third behind Curalina in the Grade 1 La Troienne Stakes at Churchill May 6.

One of the more contentious divisions thus far is for male sprinters which is loaded with Florida-breds who this year have battled on the national stage.

The leader is Jacks or Better Farms’ Awesome Banner with 12 points who is just ahead of Calculator and X Y Jet with nine each, Catalina Red at eight points and Wild Dude with seven.

Awesome Banner began the year on the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail and took the six furlong Hutcheson Stakes (G3) and seven furlong Swale Stakes (G2), both at Gulfstream Park in January. After two disappointing efforts around two turns in the Xpressbet.com Fountain of Youth (G2) and the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby (G2), Awesome Banner returned to sprinting and won the Big Cypress at Gulfstream in June before finishing second to winner Rated R Superstar in the Carry Back (G3) July 2, also at Gulfstream.

Catalina Red and Calculator finished first and second respectively in the Grade 3 Churchill Downs Stakes on May 7 for a Florida-bred sweep (see more on page 8) and X Y Jet won the Sunshine Millions Sprint Stakes and the Grade 3 Gulfstream Park Sprint to start his year. He then put in a gallant effort on the world stage in March as he led for 1,150 of the 1200 meters in the Group 1 Golden Shaheen at Meydan only to finish second to Muarrab by a neck.

Only one point separates Gone Away, Speed Seeker, Brandy’s Girl, Josdesanimaux and Lori’s Store in the Female Turf category and Ballet Diva has just two points on April Gaze, Code Warrior and Gone Away among 3year-old fillies.

Things are just starting to heat up as 2-year-olds get underway in this month’s first legs of the Florida Sire Stakes and other important juvenile races across the country. So much of the excitement is just beginning for the youngsters.

But no matter who will be named the champions at this year’s end, Florida-breds continue to impact the racing scenes far outside the borders of the Sunshine State. ■

continue to impact the racing scenes “Florida-breds far outside the borders of the Sunshine State. ” year-old grey had previously established himself among North America’s elite turf horses in the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill Downs when second, only a neck behind winner Divisidero on the Kentucky Derby (G1) undercard on May 7. In his next race, World Approval put in another strong effort, finishing third behind winner Flintshire in the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Manhattan Stakes at Belmont Park on the Belmont Stakes undercard on June 11.

Look for World Approval next in the Grade 1 Arlington Million in August with the ultimate target being the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) to be run at Santa Anita on Nov. 5.

Last year’s Florida-bred Horse of the Year Sheer Drama is back on track in 2016 and leads the standings to repeat as champion older female with 11 points, eight ahead of Speed Seeker.

The Harold Queen homebred avenged her loss to Stopchargingmaria in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1)

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Red,’ Calculator 1,2 in Churchill Downs Stakes Saddled and ridden by new hands, Catalina Red flashed his old form on a huge stage May 7 in taking the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes, holding off fellow Floridabred Calculator to win the $500,000 event by a length.

The seven-furlong Churchill Downs Stakes was one of the supporting Derby Day features; Catalina Red got the distance in 1:20.79, only .35 off the track record.

Jorge Navarro took over the training of Catalina Red from Chad Stewart, who had saddled him to an impressive one-length victory in the April 9 Sprint Stakes, one of the highlights of Tampa Bay Downs’ Florida Cup Day program.

Navarro gave the mount to Javier Castellano, a future Hall of Famer who has never shied away from big races under bright lights.

Catalina Red tracked pacesetters Limousine Liberal and Holy Boss through fractions of :22.24 and :44.64. Limousine Liberal cracked first but Holy Boss was a stubborn opponent, matching strides with Catalina Red before the Floridian gained the upper hand.

No sooner had he put Holy Boss away then he had to deal with the oncoming Calculator, Florida’s champion 2-year-old of 2014. Calculator was gaining slowly but ran out of ground.

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Abiding Star Wins $100G Parx Derby Gilbert Campbell’s Florida homebred Abiding Star furthered his sire’s growing reputation with a front-running, two-length tally over fellow Florida-bred Discreet Lover in the $100,000 Parx Derby on May 7.

Abiding Star’s tally, his fifth straight, came a few hours before another streaking son of Uncle Mo, Nyquist, held off all comers in the Kentucky Derby (G1) to win his eighth in a row.

Out of the Dynaformer mare Abiding, Abiding Star races under the silks of Campbell’s Williston-based Stonehenge Farm.

He’s trained by Ned Allard, who came into the day winning Parx races at a 38% clip, and was ridden by J.D. Acosta.

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“I like the way he did it turning for home,” Castellano said. “When I asked him, he took off really well.”

The runner-up had three-quarters of a length over the Californian Kobe’s Back.

Junior Alvarado, rider of Calculator, said, “Good race for him and a good trip for me.”

Catalina Red came to Navarro in April, and his new trainer praised Stewart’s work with the horse.

“Chad Stewart did a fabulous job with this horse,” Navarro said.

Catalina Red was bred by France and Irwin Weiner of Ocala, Fla., and he’s owned by Anthony Lenci.

Catalina Red paid $30.20. The 4-year-old son of Munnings – Lovely Dream, by Freud, has won five of his 10 career starts for earnings of $469,885. It was only his second start outside of Florida, having finished seventh in the Grade 3 Gallant Bob at Parx. Limousine Liberal was second in that race.

In addition to Tampa’s Sprint, Catalina Red had won two other stakes in Oldsmar, the Inaugural and the Pasco, beating the topflight Floridian sprinter XY Jet in the latter.

He also won the Jackson Bend against statebreds at Gulfstream Aug. 8. n

level allowances, Discreet Lover’s performance showed that he, too, would be formidable if the right stakes race were to come along. Discreet Lover is a son of Repent bred in Florida by Woodford Thoroughbreds. He’s owned by Trin-Brook Stables. n

$17 Savingtime Wins Gulfstream’s Miss Gracie Handicap Savingtime, a 4-year-old daughter of Ocala Stud stallion Kantharos bred, owned and trained by Vaughn Heard, won the $75,000 Miss Gracie Handicap on May 8 for older fillies and mares at Gulfstream Park.

The Florida-bred Savingtime completed the seven-furlong event in 1:23.28.

The early pacesetter My Dearest Venezuela held for second, 1¾ lengths behind the winner and 3¾ lengths ahead of third-place Hows My Gold.

Savingtime is out of the Time Bandit mare Daylight Time. Ridden by Vicente Gudiel, she paid $17 to her supporters and earned $46,035, boosting her career earnings to $186,494. She Florida-bred Savingtime

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Florida-bred Catalina Red (right)

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Florida FOCUS by Mike Mullaney

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Kaplan Retires Bill Kaplan, one of South Florida’s most successful trainers over the past 30 years and conditioner of 2011 champion female sprinter Musical Romance, has retired from racing.

Kaplan not only distinguished himself as the trainer of multiple graded-stakes winners, but as a great judge of young talent and someone who actively and creatively publicized the sport.

“It’s just time,” Kaplan said. “I’m 70 years old and I think I’d rather do some other things

at this stage of my life than get up every morning at 4:30 a.m. I’ve been thinking about it since last year. I’ve been doing this for 37 years. I’m financially secure, I’m relatively healthy, and I want to enjoy myself.”

Kaplan’s graded-stakes winners include Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) and Inside Information (G2) winner Musical Romance, Indiana Derby (G2) winner East Hall, Davona Dale (G2) and Old Hat (G3) winner Ekati’s Phaeton, Palm Beach Stakes (G3) winner Mr. Livingston, and Spectacular Bid Stakes (G3) winner Seacliff, who also swept the 1995 Florida Stallion Stakes.

Other stakes winners included Ravensmoor, Fortune Pending and Castlebrook, a trackrecord holder at Calder.

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has won three of her 18 career starts with five seconds. She was stakes placed in the Unamine and the Three Ring last summer at Gulfstream.

The Three Rings, won by last year’s state champion 3-year-old filly Dogwood Trail, was part of the inaugural Florida Sire Stakes series of events for 3-year-old fillies. n

crazyguy to a fourth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby (G1).

In the week leading up to saddling Seacliff in the 1995 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), Kaplan wrote a blog for the Sun-Sentinel, writing about his trip home to New York and updating readers on his horse’s preparation going into the race.

As his stable grew, Kaplan also became known for his keen eye at yearling and 2-year-old sales. MuBill sical Romance, who earned $1.6 Kaplan million and later sold at auction for $1.6 million, was purchased for $22,000.

Mr. Livingston, a winner of $400,000, went for $42,000, and East Hall, who earned $870,000, was bought for $55,000.

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A trio of Florida-breds distinguished themselves during Baltimore’s two-day Preakness weekend extravaganza, running 1,2 in the May 13 Hilltop Stakes and taking the Maryland Sprint the next day.

Gilbert Campbell’s homebred Always Sunshine brightened a dreary day on Preakness

Florida-bred Always Sunshine

Saturday, scoring in the Grade 3, $150,000 Maryland Sprint Stakes.

The day before, Augustin Stable’s Gone Away came with an outside rally to eke out a victory over Glen Hill Farm’s fellow Floridabred Family Meeting, who impressed while weaving through the field while finishing strongly in the $100,000 Hilltop.

Always Sunshine – a 4-year-old son of West Acre out of Sunny Again, by Awesome Again, and a product of Campbell’s Williston property, Stonehenge Farm South – came into the Maryland Sprint a winner of three of his last five, with a pair of seconds, including a runner-up performance to Sprint rival Salutos Amigos in the Tom Fool (G3) at Aqueduct in March.

Salutos Amigos, highweighted at 124 pounds, went off narrowly favored at 6-5 in the six-furlong Sprint, which attracted seven older horses. The other six contenders carried 118; Always Sunshine was the 9-5 second choice under Frankie Pennington and Cinco Charlie was close up at 2-1.

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from the field, winning by 2½ lengths.

All Star Red came along for second with Rockinn on Bye third. Salutos Amigos – previously unbeaten in seven races over off tracks – checked in a disinterested fifth and Cinco Charlie faded to sixth.

Winning time was 1:10.49 and he paid $5.80. He has won five of 11 career starts with three seconds and two thirds. The $90,000 first prize pushed his earnings to $313,950.

The Sprint was the first graded success for Always Sunshine.

Florent Geroux had clear sailing in the lane with Gone Away and figured he had the Hilltop wrapped up after measuring the frontrunners, but Gary Stevens and Family Meeting were threading their way through traffic and nearly stunned Geroux.

At the line, Gone Away had a head on Family Meeting, who held the same margin over Wessex, the momentary lead just a few yards from the finish.

Gone Away and Family Meeting were last and second-last early in the 14-filly Hilltop, 20 lengths behind as Javier Castellano, riding the pacesetting Morethanjusthello with a broken right iron, went winging along. That pair had a seven-length lead through an unbridled half-mile in :46.12.

“It worked out great,” Geroux said. “We let them go early and she relaxed toward the rear.”

The field bunched up on the turn. Geroux unleashed Gone Away for a strong stretch run, but he wasn’t alone as Stevens had Family Meeting threading her way through a congested pack.

With a clean run outside, Gone Away had the advantage and she reached the wire just in time, avenging a loss to Family Meeting when the Floridians met in a maiden race, coincidentally, in Maryland, at Laurel, on Nov. 7.

“In the stretch, I was looking inside and saw [Family Meeting] coming. She was coming real fast, but we got the job done,” Geroux said.

The final clocking for the 1 1/16-mile Hilltop was 1:41.68 over a firm turf course.

The $60,000 first prize pushed Gone Away’s earnings to $109,495. She paid $29.80.

Winner of two of her five starts, her previous stakes appearance was a third to Canadian champion and Breeders’ Cup winner Catch a Glimpse in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride at Gulfstream in February.

Gone Away is a daughter of Leroidesanimaux-Miss Tullamore Dew, by Mecke. Her second dam, Hurry Home Hillary, also produced Wood Memorial (G1) winner Bellamy Road. Gone Away was bred by Dianne Cotter of Alachua, Fla., and was sold at the OBS April sale in 2015 for $35,000. n

Florida-bred Second Summer Wins Californian, Cures Any Preakness Hangover A day after his Triple Crown bid came to an end, a 4-year-old Florida-bred provided jockey Mario Gutierrez with the antidote to any lingering side effects from that disappointment.

Second Summer, the second-longest shot in the field at better than 9-1, took Gutierrez to the lead in the stretch run of Santa Anita’s Californian Stakes (G2) May 22, then held safe the accomplished Hard Aces to win the $200,000 event by a length.

Barely 27 hours earlier, Gutierrez was on the East Coast, finishing third aboard Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Nyquist in Pimlico’s Preakness Stakes (G1).

Second Summer, a son of Belmont Stakes Florida-bred Second Summer

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Florida-bred Pure Sensation

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winner Summer Bird out of the Street Cry mare Greenstreet, bred by Richard Shultz, had been slow to come around for trainer Peter Eurton, breaking his maiden in his sixth start and not winning again until his 11th, which came March 19. He parlayed that score into another victory on April 17, showing signs that he was starting to get the hang of things.

His improvement coincided with Eurton’s recognition that, after 1-1-0 record from six turf starts, the main track might be a better place for him.

Second Summer stalked the pace of Lieutenant Colonel through the first six furlongs, took over as the pacesetter faded and was under urging to beat Hard Aces by a length. Lieutenant Colonel, the 9-10 favorite, stayed on for third.

“He has an affinity to quicken and his stamina is just amazing,” Eurton said of the gelding he trains for Sharon Alesia, Ciaglia Racing, LLC, Marc Ferrell and Slam Dunk Racing. “He just looked like he was loaded. It looked like he was going to get boxed in for a second and when Mario made the move to go in-between [Lieutenant Colonel and Point Piper] … that was just such a great money-move.”

Second Summer got the 1 1/8-mile Californian in 1:48.29.

Second Summer paid $20.80. His fourth victory in his 13th start earned his connections $120,000, pushing his bankroll to $270,610.

Eurton said he is making plans for what could be one of his favorite summers. n

beginning of their operation.

“The Generazios are great people,” Jose said, “very, very good for the game. As for Pure Sensation … he’s one of those good horses who knows he’s a good horse.”

The Generazio horses attacked the Jaipur from different angles: Both stumbled at the break, but, after recovering, Pure Sensation went straight to the front under Jose Ortiz while Disco Partner, with Junior Alvarado up, dropped to last of the 13 older sprinters in the race.

Pure Sensation is a tough character if he gets the lead out of the gate and, after dueling the speedy Rocket Heat into submission, he entered the stretch with a tight lead. Mosler made a bid, then was

Fla.’s Pure Sensation Sets Record in Jaipur Patricia Generazio’s Florida-bred, homebred Pure Sensation picked a great time to snap out of a mini-slump, taking the $300,000, Grade 2 Jaipur Stakes by a neck over another Generazio horse, Disco Partner, in course-record time on June 12.

The Jaipur was part of the supporting program to the Belmont Stakes Day card at Belmont Park.

Pure Sensation, a 5-year-old gray gelding, is by Zensational-Pure Disco, by Disco Rico, who is sired the Generazio-bred Disco Partner.

Pure Sensation was off at 18-1 and Disco Partner was 16-1; the Generazio exacta returned $825 for a $2 bet.

Disco Partner comes out of Jim Ryerson’s barn, while Pure Sensation has been trained throughout his career by Christophe Clement, who expressed great satisfaction after winning the race for the Generazios.

“I’m just thrilled because he belongs to Patricia Generazio,” Clement said. “[Frank and Patricia] Generazio have been long-time supporters of the stable. They are great owners and breeders and it was a great result for them.”

Clement’s sentiments paralleled the thoughts of Juan Chavez and his son, Jose, who operate JC Thoroughbreds, a facility within the Oak Ridge Equine Center in Morriston that has been breaking, wintering and training horses the last 10 years.

The Chavezes associations with the Generazios dates back to the

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A few familiar faces were brought together in the Gulfstream Park paddock June 25 when Moment of Delight renewed her ongoing rivalry with Dogwood Trail, the 2015 state-bred champion 3-year-old filly, in the $75,000 Boca Chica Stakes.

Dogwood Trail went a long way toward icing her title with successive scores last summer over fields that included Moment of Delight in the seven-furlong, Grade 3 Azalea (in which Moment of Delight was sixth) in July and the Florida Sire Stakes’ Three Ring (MOD fifth) at the same distance in August.

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Trail, she took the 1 1/16-mile Meadow Star, the FSS divisional finale, by 6¼ in October.

They met once more prior to the 6½-furlong Boca Chica, each registering unsatisfactory performances in the Sunshine Millions Distaff (Dogwood Trail was fourth, MOD was ninth) in January.

Adam Lazarus, managing partner of Pinnacle Racing, which co-owns Moment of Delight with Norman Stables, said health issues knocked their filly out of action since their last meeting with Dogwood Trail.

While she was recovering, Dogwood Trail was putting in a string of four subpar efforts, finishing off the board in successive stakes, all at Gulfstream. And yet she was sent off the Boca Chica’s 8-5 favorite with Savingtime next at 3-1, Moment of Delight at 7-2 and Winning for Sarah at 9-2 in the field of seven older fillies and mares.

“That’s usually not her thing, but Stanley knew about his old horse in the one hole and didn’t want her to get away with an easy lead,” Lazarus said, “and that was the difference in the race.”

Dogwood Trail broke nicely from the wood but Castro kept his mount close and – with Tyler Gaffalione scrubbing away on Dogwood Trail – he never let the favorite get an easy lead.

The pressure became too much for Dogwood Trail coming off the turn and Moment of Delight slipped easily into the lead. She lengthened her advantage through the stretch and won in hand by 5¼.

Winning for Sarah held Savingtime safe by two to get second. Dogwood Trail faded to fifth.

The time for the race was 1:17.05. The winner paid $9.40.

Moment of Delight, a daughter of A.P Warrior out of the Stormy Atlantic mare Sweetness, was bred by Jimmy Randolph of Sparr, Fla., and was sold at the OBS April, 2014, sale for $58,000. The Boca Chica was her fourth win in 16 starts; she has earned $353,728. n

We’re All Set Wins Sea of Grass Peter Walder has seen plenty of races during his lengthy career as a trainer, and on June 26 in the $75,000 Sea of Grass Stakes he saw a race that figured to be very competitive.

Walder’s representative in Gulfstream’s 6½-furlong race for older Florida-breds was the 5-year-old former claimer We’re All Set, and he said his pre-race words to jockey Rafael Hernandez were cautionary.

“I told him in the paddock, ‘You can run this race five times and get five winners. It’s all about the trip.’ It was a very competitive race … it was just about who tripped out.”

The players were in mild disagreement with Walder, seeing the race as a repeat of the May 13 Bull Gator, which was won by Yourdreamsormine. Assigned co-highweight of 123 pounds with Grande Shores, Yourdreamsormine was sent off the solid evenmoney favorite.

Yourdreamsormine and Grande Shores conceded two pounds to the rest of the field, except Aces for John, who got in at 119.

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shaken off, but Disco Partner was gathering momentum from the back of the pack, closing briskly while eight wide.

The wire came just in time for Pure Sensation, who, carrying 120 pounds, was giving four pounds to Disco Partner.

Co-highweights Ready for Rye and the lukewarm, 7-2 favorite A Lot, at 122 pounds, finished noses apart in third and fourth, a length behind Disco Partner.

Pure Sensation got home in 1:06.76 in the six-furlong turf race, besting Keep the Faith’s 11-year-old mark of 1:06.82.

“When this horse is right, he’s a top-class horse and he proved it,” Clement said.

Pure Sensation’s fractions for the race were 21.64, 44.06 and 55.32 seconds.

“I had a lot of horse so I let him run and he ran great,” Ortiz said.

In his only previous outing this year, Pure Sensation was fifth in the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint on Feb. 6.

He closed 2015 with an eighth-place finish at 11-2 in Mongolian Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint Oct. 31; He had beaten Mongolian Saturday by a nose in their previous matchup, the Turf Monster (G3) at Parx, on Sept. 7.

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“He’s got a big heart and he finishes,” Walder said. “It’s always nice when you can claim a horse for a ‘quarter’, go through all their conditions, win a couple of allowance races, and now a stakes.”

A son of With Distinction out of True Glitter, by Robin des Pins, We’re All Set was bred by Curtis Mikkelsen, Patricia Horth and Gordon and Lindie Reiss. He is owned by David Lengel, Norman Rader and Brett Brookman.

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Master Blender left the gate quickest from the far-outside post, but Abounding Legacy, the 3-1 second choice, and Mitos y Leyendas joined him in a three-way battle for the front that led the field through an opening halfmile in :45.93.

Turning for home Abounding Legacy clung to his narrow advantage over those other two but the field was gaining ground.

We’re All Set sprung first and gained the lead between horses in the final yards as Yourdreamsormine – trapped behind a wall of horses in early stretch – finally got loose and closed fast to take second, a half-length behind the winner and a half-length ahead of the still-battling Abounding Legacy.

Grande Shores finished fourth and Mitos y Leyendas and Master Blender deadheated for fifth. Springmeier, Colormepompom and Aces for John completed the finish.

We’re All Set, the third choice at a generous 11-2, traveled the distance in 1:16.33. He paid $13.20 after winning his fourth in his last six starts; he finished second in the other two efforts. He was coming out of a runnerup showing against Yourdreamsormine in the May 13 Bull Gator Stakes at seven furlongs.

We’re All Set started his career in good company, placing to state-bred Horse of the Year Wildcat Red in a maiden effort and finishing third to Best Plan Yet in the In Reality Stakes as a 2-year-old, but he lost his form along the way and fell into a rut, performing in low-level, optional-claiming races as a 3-year-old.

Walder pulled him out of a claiming race for $25,000 in March of 2015, then won with him first time out of the box against $30,000 company.

After a few stops and starts, We’re All Set appears to have regained his best form.

Florida-bred Dalmore

Fla.-bred Dalmore Scores In Affirmed Looks like the Desormeaux brothers have a worthy companion to their classic-winning Exaggerator.

The Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes at Santa Anita on July 2 went to the Kent Desormeauxridden, Keith Desormeaux-trained Dalmore in a showing that had the normally loquacious Kent especially chatty after the race.

Within reach of the freewheeling Beaumarchais and San Felipe (G2) winner Danzing Candy through an opening half-mile in :46, Dalmore made a big move on the turn, challenged the frontrunners in early stretch and eased away from the classy Danzing

Corrections On page 34 of the April/May issue of The Florida Horse Tracy Alberson of Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company was misidentified as Kim Cookson of OBS. On page 69 of the April/May issue of The Florida Horse, the breeder of Hip 5, a colt

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Candy for a half-length victory, getting the 1 1/16 miles in 1:40.84.

“The most impressive part was that halfmile move to the quarter pole,” said Kent.

“That was all him … I never asked him. I hadn’t even used my horse yet and Rafael (Bejarano, aboard Danzing Candy) was driving. I knew we had him. It was a very explosive effort by Dalmore.”

Another seldom-shy witness, Bob Baffert, the trainer of the 1-5 Danzing Candy, was also impressed by the Florida-bred winner.

“Beaumarchais was just going so fast,” he said. “When I saw that second quarter in 46, I thought ‘Oh man!’ … Dalmore is a good horse.”

Bred by Sally Andersen of Ocala, Fla., Dalmore is a son of Colonel John out of Silver Breeze, by Silver Deputy. He sold for $47,000 at the September yearling sales of 2014 at Keeneland.

It took seven starts for him to break his maiden, even as he tried claiming company – finishing second – in one start at Saratoga. He finally broke through at Santa Anita this March, and off that effort was sent back east for a dismal eighth-place effort in the Wood Memorial (G1). Back in California, he was fifth in Los Alamitos’ California Chrome before beating optional-claiming company in his prep at Santa Anita for the Affirmed.

Owned by Big Chief Racing, Rocker O Ranch and Keith Desormeaux, he went off at 7-2 in the Affirmed and paid $9.20.

Danzing Candy, off at 1-5 in his first start since finishing 15th in the May 7 Kentucky Derby, was 8½ lengths clear of third-place Prince of Arabia.

Dalmore’s third win – all at Santa Anita – from 11 starts earned him $60,000 to raise his bankroll to $187,302.

Keith Desormeaux dangled the possibility that Dalmore might be sent east for the big races for 3-year-olds at Monmouth and Saratoga, especially if his Preakness winner Exaggerator hasn’t completely bounced back from a grueling Triple Crown campaign. n THE FLORIDA HORSE • AUGUST 2016 13

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Florida FOCUS OBS To Renovate Sales Complex; Hiatus For Fall Mixed Sale With the approach of the year’s final 2year-old sale, the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company has announced a major renovation project, with extensive improvements in store for the sale pavilion, offices and customer service areas.

The facelift will include expansion of the sale pavilion as well as extensive remodeling of the Horsemen’s Lounge, featuring a bar and seating area overlooking the covered walking ring and chute.

In order to complete as much of the renovation work as possible in time for the 2017 sale calendar, the Fall Mixed Sale will not be held this year. “We are excited about the upgrades designed to improve the sales experience for our customers,” said OBS

president Tom Ventura. “With windows of opportunity between our sales so limited, skipping the sale in October permits four uninterrupted months of work. Although the entire project will not be completed in that time frame, a significant portion of the exterior structural work will be done. The Winter Mixed Sale will be held in its normal time slot, featuring broodmares, newly turned yearlings and horses of racing age, allowing our consignors to target January instead of October this year.”

For more information regarding future sales or the OBS website, please call (352) 237-2154. ■

Court Rules in Favor of FTBOA and Upholds Breeders’ Awards Statutes April 19, 2016 While the policy of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association is to refrain from engaging in public dialogue on matters that are the subject of pending litigation, the FTBOA has released

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the following public statement in an effort to keep its members informed.

On April 12, 2016, Florida Circuit Court Judge James C. Hankinson entered a Final Judgment dismissing with prejudice all remaining counts of a lawsuit brought by SCF, Inc. (Southern Cross Farm), challenging the constitutionality of the Florida laws that create and govern the state’s breeders’ awards program. This lawsuit was filed against the FTBOA and the Florida Division of PariMutuel Wagering, and also names the state’s thoroughbred tracks.

The lawsuit was filed in Leon County, Florida, in January 2015. According to the records of the Florida Department of State, the president of the plaintiff in this lawsuit (SCF, Inc.) is former FTBOA member Belinda Kitos. SCF, Inc., is represented in the lawsuit by attorney David Romanik, who has also been associated with the quarter horse ventures at Gretna, Oxford Downs, and Hialeah.

The FTBOA has long considered this lawsuit a retaliatory and frivolous action.

However, if this lawsuit had been successful, it could have decimated the Florida breeders’ awards program — a program on which so many of our members rely. As a result, the FTBOA, in conjunction with the Florida Attorney General’s office, aggressively defended against the challenges raised by SCF, Inc. On behalf of the hardworking Thoroughbred breeders of our state, we are pleased to announce that the Court agreed with us and dismissed the entirety of SCF’s lawsuit.

Despite this decisive defeat, SCF has unfortunately decided to continue its unfounded attack on the Florida breeders’ awards program by appealing the trial court’s final judgment. Notwithstanding this continued effort by SCF, the FTBOA’s operations have not, and will not, be affected by this frivolous lawsuit, and the FTBOA will continue to tirelessly promote and defend the interests of Florida’s thoroughbred industry. n

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‘Red’, Calculator 1º, 2º en Churchill Downs Stakes Ensillado y montado por manos nuevas, Catalina Red mostró su vieja forma en un gran escenario el 7 de mayo al ganar la Churchill Downs Stakes de Grado 2, con una ventaja sobre Calculator, criado en Florida, para ganar el evento de $500,000 por un cuerpo.

La Churchill Downs Stakes de siete furlongs fue uno de los eventos secundarios del Derby Day; Catalina Red recorrió la pista en 1:20.79, a solo 0.35 del récord.

Jorge Navarro relevó a Chad Stewart en el entrenamiento de Catalina Red, quien lo había ensillado en una impresionante victoria por un cuerpo en la Sprint Stakes del 9 de abril, uno de los momentos más destacados del programa Tampa Bay Downs’ Florida Cup Day. Navarro dio la montura a Javier Castellano, un futuro miembro del Salón de la Fama, quien nunca ha eludido las luces de las grandes carreras.

Catalina Red se ubicó detrás de los líderes Limousine Liberal y Holy Boss en fracciones de 0:22.24 y 0:44.64. Limousine Liberal cayó primero, pero Holy Boss fue un oponente perseverante, a la par de Catalina Red antes de que el oriundo de Florida lo venciera.

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Abiding Star gana el Parx Derby de $100,000 Abiding Star, criado por Gilbert Campbell en Florida, impulsó aún más su reputación de semental con una clasificación líder de dos cuerpos por encima de Discreet Lover, criado en Florida, en el Parx Derby de $100,000 el 7 de mayo.

La clasificación de Abiding Star, la quinta consecutiva, llegó pocas horas antes de que otro exitoso hijo de Uncle Mo, Nyquist, venciera a todos los participantes del Kentucky Derby (G1) y obtuviera su quinta victoria consecutiva.

Abiding Star, hijo de la yegua Dynaformer, compite con los colores de Stonehenge Farm de Campbell en Williston. Su entrenador es Ned Allard, quien llegó con una tasa de éxito del 38% en carreras Parx, y su jinete fue J.D. Acosta.

Abiding Star, que salió con 3-5, ocupó su posición habitual a la cabeza cuando abrieron las puertas, Let Me Go First se ubicó en segundo lugar y, cerca, Cardio Cowboy en tercer lugar.

Esos dos cargaron contra el líder al acercarse a la curva más lejana de la carrera de una milla y 70 yardas y Abiding Star se libró de ellos, pero Discreet Lover fue una amenaza más grave, con 9-1, el caballo con menos probabilidades de ganar de los 5 competidores de 3 años.

Discreet Lover corrió bien a lo largo del barandal mientras Acosta, jinete de Abiding Star, ofreció un carril amplio junto al baran-

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mente pero se quedó sin terreno.

El segundo superaba a Kobe’s Back de California por tres cuartos de cuerpo.

Catalina Red fue criado por France e Irwin Weiner de Ocala, Florida, y su propietario es Anthony Lenci.

Catalina Red dio una ganancia de $30.20.

El hijo de Munnings y la yegua Lovely Dream de Freud, de 4 años, ha ganado 5 de 10 largadas de carrera, con ganancias de $469,885. Fue su segunda largada afuera de Florida y terminó en séptimo lugar en el Gallant Bob de Grado 3 en Parx. Limousine Liberal ocupó el segundo lugar en esa carrera. n

dal. El jinete de Discreet Lover, Jose Flores, sin embargo, se negó a morder el anzuelo y alejó su caballo del barandal en la recta. Discreet Lover, aunque seguía en juego, nunca fue una amenaza para el ganador, que cruzó la meta con una clara ventaja de 1¾ cuerpos.

Discreet Lover superó por 9 cuerpos al tercer puesto, Let Me Go First.

Abiding Star, al ganar su quinta largada de 11, con un segundo y un tercero, aumentó sus ganancias totales a $202,385. El potro alazán dio a sus seguidores una ganancia de $3.20.

Las fracciones de la carrera fueron 0:22.99, 0:46.05, 1:10.80 y 1:37.08, con un tiempo final de 1:41.22. n

$17 Savingtime gana la carrera Miss Gracie Handicap en Gulfstream Savingtime, la hija de 4 años de Kantharos, propiedad de Vaughn Heard y criada y entrenada por él, ganó la carrera Miss Gracie Handicap de $75,000 para potras y yeguas mayores en Gulfstream Park el 8 de mayo.

Savingtime completó el evento de siete furlongs en 1:23.28, luego de seguir de cerca a la Florida-bred Saving Time

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Bill Kaplan, uno de los entrenadores mas exitosos de Florida del Sur en los últimos 30 años y preparador de la campeona Bill Kaplan de carreras de 2011, Musical Romance, se ha jubilado de las carreras.

Kaplan no solo se destacó como el entrenador de varios ganadores de carreras de grado, sino también por su capacidad para detectar talento joven y como alguien que daba a conocer el deporte de forma activa y creativa.

“Simplemente ha llegado la hora”, dijo Kaplan. “Tengo 70 años y creo que preferiría hacer otras cosas en esta etapa de mi vida en lugar de levantarme todos los días a las 4:30 de la mañana. Lo he estado pensando desde el año pasado. He estado haciendo esto por 37 años. Tengo seguridad económica, estoy relativamente saludable y quiero disfrutar”.

Las victorias de carreras de Grado de Kaplan son, entre otras, Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) e Inside Information (G2),

ganador Musical Romance, Indiana Derby (G2), ganador East Hall, Davona Dale (G2) y Old Hat (G3), ganador Ekati’s Phaeton, Palm Beach Stakes (G3), ganador Mr. Livingston, y Spectacular Bid Stakes (G3), ganador Seacliff, que también ganó la Florida Stallion Stakes de 1995. Otros ganadores son Ravensmoor, Fortune Pending y Castlebrook, que posee un récord en Calder.

En 2007, Kaplan ensilló a Imawildandcrazyguy que terminó en cuarto lugar en el Kentucky Derby (G1).

En la semana previa a ensillar a Seacliff en la Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) de 1995, Kaplan escribió un blog para el Sun-Sentinel, mencionó su viaje de regreso a Nueva York y actualizó a los lectores sobre la preparación de su caballo antes de la carrera.

Varios de los caballos de Kaplan han ido al establo de Stanley Gold. n

(G3) en Aqueduct en marzo.

Salutos Amigos, con un peso asignado de 124 libras, comenzó un poco favorecido con 6-5 en el Sprint de seis furlongs que atrajo siete caballos mayores. Los otros seis aspirantes llevaban 118 libras; Always Sunshine fue la segunda opción con 9-5 después de Frankie Pennington y Cinco Charlie estuvo cerca con 2-1.

Cinco Charlie marcó el ritmo en una pista cubierta de lodo de una forma que parecía ser sencilla, y registró tiempos parciales de 0:23.54 y 0:46.75 para la media milla inicial, antes de que Always Sunshine ganara distancia en la primera recta y se alejara fácilmente del terreno, con una victoria por 2½ cuerpos.

All Star Red llegó en segundo lugar y Rockinn on Bye en tercer lugar. Salutos Amigos, invicto anteriormente en siete carreras en pistas mojadas, terminó imparcial en quinto lugar y Cinco Charlie quedó atrás en sexto lugar.

El tiempo ganador fue 1:10.49 y dio una ganancia de $5.80. Ha ganado cinco de 11 Un trío criado en Florida se destacó durante largadas de carrera con tres segundos y dos el gran espectáculo Peakness del fin de semana terceros. El primer premio de $90,000 auen Baltimore, al obtener el primer y el segundo mentó sus ganancias a $313,950.

La Sprint fue la primera victoria de Allugar en la Hilltop Stakes del 13 de mayo y ways Sunshine en una carrera de grado. ganar la Maryland Sprint al día siguiente.

Florent Geroux tenía el camino libre con Always Sunshine, criado por Gilbert Campbell, iluminó un día gris en Peakness el Gone Away y pensó que ganaría la Hilltop desábado, al ganar la Maryland Sprint Stakes, spués de medir a los punteros, pero Gary Stevens y Family Meeting se abrían camino Grado 3, de $150,000.

El día anterior, Gone Away de Augustin por el tráfico y casi sorprenden a Geroux.

En la meta, Gone Away tenía una cabeza Stable, apareció con velocidad por afuera para apenas alcanzar una victoria sobre Family de ventaja sobre Family Meeting, que manMeeting de Glen Hill Farm, también criado tenía el mismo margen sobre Wessex, el líder en Florida, que impresionó al abrirse camino momentáneo a unas yardas de la meta.

Gone Away y Family Meeting estaban en por el terreno y terminó con un buen desemúltimo y penúltimo lugar al comienzo de la peño en la carrera Hilltop de $100,000.

Always Sunshine, el hijo de 4 años de West Hilltop de 14 potras, 20 cuerpos detrás de Acre y la yegua Sunny Again, de Awesome Javier Castellano, quien voló sobre la conAgain, y producto del terreno de Campbell en stante Morethanjusthello, con el estribo dereWilliston, Stonehenge Farm South, llegó a la cho roto. Ese par tuvo una ventaja de siete cuerpos durante una Maryland Sprint tras desenfrenada media haber ganado tres de milla en 0:46.12. las últimas cinco, con Con una carrera un par de segundos, lo limpia por afuera, que incluye el segundo Gone Away tenía la lugar frente al rival de ventaja y alcanzó la Sprint, Salutos AmiFlorida-bred Always Sunshine meta justo a tiempo, gos, en la Tom Fool

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favorita My Dear Venezuela, con 9-5, en fracciones de 0:22.79, 0:45.46 y 1:09.92. La potra criada en Florida tuvo una buena largada pero se conformó con correr en el cuarto lugar durante el primer cuarto de milla antes de avanzar al tercer lugar a un ritmo constante después de media milla, y al segundo lugar para perseguir a My Dear Venezuela en la recta. Alcanzó a la líder inicial antes de pasarla en la mitad de la recta y llegar a la meta sin problemas.

La líder inicial ocupó el segundo lugar, 1¾ cuerpos detrás de la ganadora y 3¾ cuerpos delante de Hows My Gold, que ocupó el tercer lugar.

Savingtime es hija de yegua Daylight Time, hija de Time Bandit. Montada por Vicente Gudiel, dio a sus seguidores una ganancia de $17 y ganó $46,035. Incrementó así sus ganancias totales a $186,494. Ha ganado tres de 18 largadas de carrera con cinco segundos. Lideró las apuestas en la Unamine y la Three Ring el verano pasado en Gulfstream. La potra Dogwood Trail de 3 años, campeona del estado el año pasado, ganó la carrera Three Ring, que fue parte de la serie de eventos inaugurales de la competencia Florida Sire Stakes para potras de 3 años.

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Florida FOCUS Belmont Stakes, Summer Bird, y de la yegua hija de Street Cry, Greenstreet, criado por Richard Shultz, había sido lento para el entrenador Peter Eurton, superó la categoría “principiantes” en su sexta largada y no volvió a ganar hasta su 11º largada, el 19 de marzo. Se valió de ese logro para obtener otra victoria el 17 de abril, y mostró signos de que comenzaba a dominar la práctica.

Su mejora coincidió con el reconocimiento de Eurton de que, luego de un récord de 1-10 en seis largadas sobre césped, la pista principal podría ser un mejor lugar para él.

Second Summer siguió el ritmo de Lieutenant Colonel durante los primeros seis furlongs, se adelantó mientras el líder quedaba atrás, y fue impulsado para vencer a Hard Aces por un cuerpo. Lieutenant Colonel, el favorito con 9-10, mantuvo el tercer lugar.

“Tiene una afinidad para acelerar y su resistencia es increíble”, dijo Eurton sobre el capón que entrena para Sharon Alesia, Ciaglia Racing, LLC, Marc Ferrell y Slam Dunk Racing. “Parecía estar cargado. Parecía que iba a quedar encerrado por un segundo pero cuando Mario hizo una maniobra para Un día después de que finalizara su victo- colocarse entre [Lieutenant Colonel y Point Piper]... fue una maniobra exiria en la Triple Crown, un catosa”. ballo de 4 años criado en Florida Second Summer terminó la dio al jinete Mario Gutierrez el Californian de 1 1/8 millas en antídoto para todo efecto secun1:48.29. dario persistente luego de esa deSecond Summer dio una cepción. ganancia de $20.80. Su cuarta Second Summer, el segundo victoria en su 13º largada sigcon menos probabilidades de nificó una ganancia de $120,000 ganar en el grupo con una apuesta para su equipo, lo que aumentó levemente mejor que 9-1, llevó a sus ganancias a $270,610.

Gutierrez al primer lugar en la Eurton dijo que estaba harecta de la Santa Anita’s Californian Stakes (G2) el 22 de mayo, y Florida-bred ciendo planes para lo que podría Second Summer ser uno de sus veranos favoritos. luego se mantuvo a una distancia del famoso Hard Aces para ganar el evento de n $200,000 por un cuerpo.

Apenas 27 horas antes, Gutierrez estaba en la Costa Este, donde terminó en tercer lugar como jinete del ganador del Kentucky Pure Sensation, de Patricia Generazio, criDerby (G1), Nyquist, en la Preakness Stakes ado en Florida, eligió un gran momento para (G1) de Pilmico. salir de un pequeño estancamiento, al ganar la Second Summer, hijo del ganador de la Jaipur Stakes de Grado 2 de $300,000 por una BENOIT & ASSOCIATES PHOTO

Second Summer, criado en Florida, gana la Californian, cura toda resaca de la Preakness

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para vengar la pérdida contra Family Meeting cuando los oriundos de Florida se enfrentaron en una carrera para principiantes, casualmente, en Laurel, Maryland, el 7 de noviembre.

El tiempo final para la Hilltop de 1 1/16 millas fue 1:41.68 sobre una pista de césped firme. El primer premio de $60,000 aumentó las ganancias de Gone Away a $109,495. Dio una ganancia de $29.80.

Ganadora en dos de cinco largadas, su presentación anterior en carreras resultó en el tercer lugar para la campeona canadiense y ganadora de la Breeders’ Cup, Catch a Glimpse, en la Herecomesthebride de Grado 3 en Gulfstream en febrero.

Gone Away es la hija de LeroidesanimauxMiss Tullamore Dew, de Mecke. Su segunda madre, Hurry Home Hillary, también dio a luz a Bellamy Road, ganador de la Wood Memorial (G1). Gone Away fue criada por Dianne Cotter de Alachua, Florida, y se la vendió en la venta de OBS en abril de 2015 por $35,000. n

cabeza ante otro caballo de Generazio, Disco Partner, en tiempo récord el 12 de junio.

La carrera Jaipur fue parte del programa secundario del evento Belmont Stakes Day en Belmont Park.

Pure Sensation, un capón gris de 5 años, hijo de Zensational-Pure Disco, de Disco Rico, cuyo progenitor es Disco Partner, criado por Generazio. Pure Sensation comenzó con 18-1 y Disco Partner con 16-1; la exacta de Generazio dio una ganancia de $825 por una apuesta de $2.

Disco Partner viene del establo de Jim Ryerson, mientras que Christophe Clement, quien expresó gran satisfacción luego de haber ganado la carrera para los Generazio, ha entrenado a Pure Sensation durante su carrera.

“Estoy contento porque le pertenece a Patricia Generazio”, dijo Clement. “[Frank y Patricia] Generazio han apoyado al establo durante mucho tiempo. Son grandes propietarios y criadores y fue un gran resultado para ellos”.

Los sentimientos de Clement fueron similares a los de Juan Chavez y su hijo, Jose, quienes operan JC Thoroughbreds, un establecimiento en el Centro Equino Oak Ridge en Morrison, que ha domado, cuidado durante el invierno y entrenado caballos durante los últimos 10 años.

La asociación de los Chavez con los Generazio se remonta al inicio de la operación.

“Los Generazio son grandes personas”, dijo Jose, “muy buenos para el juego. En cuanto a Pure Sensation... es uno de esos caballos buenos que sabe que es bueno”.

Los caballos de Generazio atacaron la Jaipur desde distintos ángulos: Los dos se tropezaron en la salida, pero, después de recuperarse, Pure Sensation fue directo hacia el frente dirigido por Jose Ortiz, mientras Disco Partner, con Junior Alvarado, quedó último entre los 13 competidores de la carrera.

Pure Sensation es un personaje resistente

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Un momento de venganza Algunas caras conocidas se encontraron en el potrero de Gulfstream Park el 25 de junio cuando Moment of Delight renovó su rivalidad constante con Dogwood Trail, la potra de 3 años, campeona de 2015 y criada en ese estado, en la carrera Boca Chica Stakes de $75,000.

Dogwood Trail contribuyó en gran medida a asegurar su título con victorias consecutivas el verano pasado en grupos que incluían a Moment of Delight en la Grade 3 Azalea de siete furlongs

(en la que Moment of Delight quedó sexta) en julio y la Three Ring de Florida Sire Stakes (MOD, quinta) en la misma distancia en agosto.

Moment of Delight consiguió la revancha cuando, directamente a costa de Dogwood Trail, ganó la Meadow Star de 1 1/16 millas, la final FSS de la división, por 6¼ cuerpos en octubre.

Se encontraron nuevamente antes de la carrera Boca Chica de 6½ furlongs, ambas con desempeños poco satisfactorios en la Sunshine Millions Distaff (Dogwood Trail terminó cuarta, MOD terminó novena) en enero.

Adam Lazarus, el socio gerente de Pinnacle Racing, y copropietario de Moment of Delight junto con Norman Stables, dijo que los problemas de salud impidieron que su potra compitiera desde su último encuentro con Dogwood Trail.

Mientras se recuperaba, Dogwood Trail obtenía cuatro resultados inferiores al terminar fuera del marcador en carreras consecutivas, todas en Gulfstream. Y, sin embargo, fue enviada a Boca Chica como la favorita con 8-5, seguida por Savingtime con 3-1, Moment of Delight con 7-2 y Winning for Sarah con 9-2 en el grupo de siete potras y yeguas mayores.

“Por lo general no es lo suyo, pero Stanley sabía de su viejo caballo en el primer hueco y no quería que obtuviera la delantera fácilmente”, dijo Lazarus, “y esa fue la diferencia en la carrera”.

Dogwood Trail corrió bien en la largada, pero Castro se mantuvo cerca y, con Tyler Gaffalione a unos pasos en Dogwood Trail, no dejó que la favorita obtuviera la delantera con facilidad.

La presión fue demasiado para Dogwood

Trail al salir de la curva y Moment of Delight se ubicó al frente con facilidad. Aumentó su ventaja durante la recta y ganó tranquila por 5¼.

Winning for Sarah venció a Savingtime por dos cuerpos para llegar en segundo lugar.

Dogwood Trail quedó en quinto lugar.

El tiempo de la carrera fue de 1:17.05. La ganadora dio una ganancia de $9.40.

Moment of Delight, hija de A.P Warrior y de la yegua Sweetness de Stormy Atlantic, criada por Jimmy Randolph de Sparr, Florida, fue vendida en la venta OBS de abril de 2014 por $58,000. La carrera de Boca Chica fue su cuarta victoria en 16 largadas; ha ganado $353,728. n

We’re All Set gana la carrera Sea of Grass Peter Walder ha visto muchas competencias durante su larga carrera como entrenador, y el 26 de junio, en la Sea of Grass Stakes de $75,000, vio una carrera que fue muy competitiva.

El representante de Walder en la carrera de seis furlongs y medio en Gulfstream, para caballos mayores criados en Florida, fue el ex competidor de 5 años We’re All Set, y antes de la carrera dio una advertencia al jinete Rafael Hernandez.

“Le dije en el establo, ‘Puedes competir en esta carrera cinco veces y obtener cinco ganadores. Se trata del camino.’ Fue una carrera muy competitiva... solo se trataba de ver quién fracasaría”.

Los jugadores estaban levemente en desacuerdo con Walder, vieron la carrera como una repetición de la Bull Gator del 13 de mayo, en la que Yourdreamsormine obtuvo el primer lugar. Con un peso asignado de 123 libras, al igual que Grande Shores, Yourdreamsormine fue el favorito de las apuestas a la par.

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si consigue la delantera en la largada y, luego de luchar con el veloz Rocket Heat y vencerlo, llegó a la recta con una ventaja ajustada.

Mosler pujó, luego fue vencido, pero Disco Partner ganaba velocidad desde el fondo del grupo, cerca y rápidamente por el exterior.

La meta llegó justo a tiempo para Pure Sensation, que, con 120 libras, superaba a Disco Partner por cuatro libras.

Los caballos con el mismo peso asignado, Ready for Rye y el favorito con 7-2, A Lot, con 122 libras, terminaron con hocicos de diferencia en tercer y cuarto lugar, un cuerpo detrás de Disco Partner.

Pure Sensation alcanzó la meta en 1:06.76 en la carrera sobre césped de seis furlongs, mejorando la marca de 11 años de antigüedad de 1:06.82 de Keep the Faith.

“Cuando este caballo está bien, es un caballo de primera categoría y lo demostró”, dijo Clement.

Las fracciones de Pure Sensation para la carrera fueron 0:21.64, 0:44.06 y 0:55.32 segundos.

“Tenía mucha energía por lo que lo dejé correr y corrió muy bien”, dijo Ortiz.

En su carrera anterior, la única de este año, Pure Sensation quedó quinto en la Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint el 6 de febrero.

Cerró el 2015 en el octavo lugar con 11-2 en la Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint de Mongolian Saturday el 31 de octubre; Había vencido a Mongolian Saturday por un hocico en su encuentro anterior, la Turf Monster (G3) en Parx, el 7 de septiembre.

Pure Sensation dio una ganancia de $39.20 y obtuvo $165,000 por su victoria en la Jaipur, lo que aumentó sus ganancias a $628,415. n

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“Tiene un gran corazón y termina”, dijo Walder. “Siempre es bueno poder reclamar a un caballo por un ‘cuarto’, pasar por todas sus condiciones, ganar un par de carreras de concesión, y ahora un clásico”.

We’re All Set, hijo de With Distinction y de la yegua True Glitter, de Robin des Pins, fue criado por Curtis Mikkelsen, Patricia Horth y Gordon y Lindie Reiss. Sus propietarios son David Lengel, Norman Rader y Brett Brookman.

La Sea of Grass fue una de las tres carreras que ganó Hernandez en su regreso ese día, quien volvió recientemente a la acción después de cuatro meses, tras sufrir una lesión en una caída. n

Dalmore, criado en Florida, obtiene la victoria en Affirmed Parece que los hermanos Desormeaux tienen un compañero digno para su ganador de clásicos, Exaggerator.

Dalmore, montado por Kent Desormeaux y entrenado por Keith Desormeaux, ganó la Affirmed Stakes de Grado 3 en Santa Anita el 2 de julio y luego de la carrera, el normalmente locuaz Kent se mostró particularmente hablador.

Al alcance del desenvuelto Beaumarchais y el ganador de la San Felipe (G2), Danzing Candy, durante la primera milla inicial en 0:46, Dalmore hizo una gran maniobra en la curva, desafió a los líderes en la primera recta y se alejó tranquilo de Danzing Candy para obtener una victoria de medio cuerpo. Recorrió las 1 1/16 millas en 1:40.84.

“Lo más impresionante fue la maniobra en la media milla hacia el poste que marca el cuarto”, dijo Kent. “Lo hizo él... nunca se lo pedí. Todavía no había utilizado mi caballo y Rafael (Bejerano, sobre Danzing Candy) se estaba esforzando. Sabía que lo teníamos. Fue un esfuerzo muy explosivo de Dalmore”.

El ganador criado en Florida también impre-

Correcciones En la página 34 del número de abril/mayo de The Florida Horse, Tracy Alberson de Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company fue identificada incorrectamente como Kim Cookson de OBS. En la página 69 del número de abril/mayo de The Florida Horse, el criador de Hip 5, un potro de Uncle Mo, hijo de la yegua Five Star Dream, de Two Punch, que se vendió por $1 millón, debería haber sido CandyLand de Middletown, Delaware. n

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sionó a otro testigo que rara vez es tímido, Bob Baffert, entrenador de Danzing Candy con 1-5.

“Beaumarchais iba tan rápido”, dijo.

“Cuando vi el segundo cuarto en 46, pensé ‘¡Dios!’... Dalmore es un buen caballo”.

Criado por Sally Andersen de Ocala, Florida, Dalmore es el hijo de Colonel John y de la yegua Silver Breeze, de Silver Deputy.

Fue vendido por UDS 47,000 en la venta de potros de septiembre de 2014 en Keeneland.

Luego de siete largadas pudo superar la categoría “principiante”, incluso compitió en carreras de competición, donde terminó en segundo lugar, en una largada en Saratoga. Finalmente lo logró en Santa Anita en marzo, y por ese esfuerzo fue enviado de regreso al este para obtener un deprimente octavo lugar en la carrera Wood Memorial (G1). En California, ocupó el quinto lugar en Los Alamitos ante California Chrome, antes de vencer a la compañía de competición opcional en la prepara-

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Yourdreamsormine y Grande Shores tenían dos libras más que el resto del grupo, con la excepción de Aces for John, que entró con 119 libras.

Master Blender salió primero desde el poste externo, pero Abounding Legacy, la segunda opción con 3-1, y Mitos y Leyendas se unieron a él en una batalla por la delantera que encabezó al grupo durante la media milla inicial en 0:45.93.

Al acercarse a la meta, Abounding Legacy se aferró a su estrecha ventaja sobre los otros dos, pero el grupo ganaba terreno. We’re All Set avanzó primero y ganó la delantera entre los caballos en las últimas yardas mientras Yourdreamsormine, atrapado detrás de una pared de caballos en la recta, finalmente se liberó y cerró rápidamente para obtener el segundo lugar, medio cuerpo detrás del ganador y medio cuerpo delante de Abounding Legacy, que seguía peleando.

Grande Shores terminó cuarto y Mitos y Leyendas y Master Blender empataron en quinto lugar. Springmeier, Colormepompom y Aces for John completaron la llegada.

We’re All Set, la tercera opción con un 11-2 generoso, recorrió la distancia en 1:16.33. Dio una ganancia de $13.20 después de ganar la cuarta de sus últimas seis largadas; terminó segundo en las otras dos. Había obtenido el segundo lugar contra Yourdreamsormine en la Bull Gator Stakes de siete furlongs el 13 de mayo.

We’re All Set comenzó su carrera bien acompañado, al obtener uno de los primeros lugares en la victoria del Caballo del Año, Wildcat Red, con esfuerzo y al terminar tercero ante Best Plan Yet en la carrera In Reality Stakes a los dos años, pero perdió su forma en el camino y se estancó, compitiendo en carreras de competición opcional de bajo nivel a los 3 años.

Walder lo sacó de una carrera de competición por $25,000 en marzo de 2015 y, luego, ganó su primera largada contra rivales por $30,000.

Luego de algunas frenadas y largadas, We’re

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toria en Santa Anita para la carrera Affirmed.

Sus propietarios son Big Chief Racing, Rocker O Ranch y Keith Desormeaux.

Comenzó con 7-2 en la Affirmed y dio una ganancia de $9.20.

Danzing Candy, con 1-5 en su primera largada desde que terminó en decimoquinto lugar en el Kentucky Derby del 7 de mayo, terminó a 8½ cuerpos del tercer lugar, Prince of Arabia.

Dalmore gano $60,000 en su tercera victoria, todas en Santa Anita, de 11 largadas y aumentó así sus ganancias a $187,302.

Keith Desormeaux consideró la posibilidad de que Dalmore pudiera ser enviado al este para competir en las grandes carreras para caballos de 3 años en Monmouth y Saratoga, en especial si el ganador de la Preakness, Exaggerator, no se ha recuperado completamente de la agotadora campaña Triple Crown. n

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Keeping members informed MEMBER SURVEY

DISCOUNT PROGRAM UPDATES

Members are encouraged to read the results of the recent membership survey in this issue. The number of acres used for the industry is up compared to 2005, the number of horses the membership reported being responsible for has decreased since 2015 although the foal crop has trickled back and the Florida Sires Stakes program is growing in numbers. The entry rate to those new to the industry is 7.5% and the majority of those in the business have been so for more than 20 years with an average of 26 1/2 years. More than 54% of the respondents reported their business was growing or steady. Three fourths reported being involved in breeding. More results will be covered in upcoming months and will be highlighted at the annual meeting in October. The results will be used as tool to guide the FTBOA to provide effective communication about programs, services and events and for use while presenting the strength of the industry to legislators at the county and state levels.

The following are newly added to the growing list of discount partners for FTBOA members – Comfort Suites in Dunnellon 15% off best rate (about 20 minutes from OBS sales grounds) and 10% off Uncle Maddio’s Pizza for dine-in customers in Ocala. The pizzeria also delivers to OBS barns during the sales.

Over 50% of the members responding to the membership survey reported using discounts and a number of new discounts were suggested that will be followed up on in an effort to provide even more cost savings to members.

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For those of you based in the Marion County area, you can subscribe or pick it up on newsstands. Throwback Thursday is an example of one of the new features in Wire to Wire and features photos from past Florida racing, breeding and sales successes. Plans are in the works for more new features with original content to come in future months.

In addition, advertisers can now sponsor a variety of branded columns including Racing Green featuring handicappers’ picks of the week, State-breds in Action featuring Florida-breds in stakes races, Chase to the Championship showcasing the horses in the race to year end honors, the Florida Breeders and Florida Stallion Progeny lists, both original content lists available only in Wire to Wire. If you are interested, contact Richard Witt at 609-851-7410 or rwitt@ftboa.com.

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AMERICAN HORSE COUNCIL

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he American Horse Council held its annual conference on June 12 through 14 in Washington D.C. A number of topics were of importance to the thoroughbred industry were highlighted. Of top priority is that microchips will become a requirement of registration with the Jockey Club for foals of 2017 and later. In 2016, owners had the option to request free microchips with registration and genetic sampling kits when a Live Foal Report was submitted. The microchip about the size of a grain of rice - is implanted in the nuchal ligament in the left side of the animal in the middle third of the neck, halfway between the poll and withers.

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(plus tax) through The Jockey Club, or through a veterinarian or supplier. For foals of 2016, owners have the option to request free microchips with registration and genetic sampling kits when a Live Foal Report is submitted. For foals of 2017, owners will be sent a free microchip with each registration and genetic sampling kits. There is no fee to report a microchip number to The Jockey Club. It is recommended, however, that a veterinarian implant the microchip in the horse, so additional fees may be associated with implantation.

In addition, a number of legislative items were covered including racing medication legislation with the Thoroughbred Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act; Thoroughbred Horseracing Anti-Doping Au-

thority bill (THADA); tax extenders for three year depreciation, bonus depreciation, expense allowance and conservation easements; immigration reform; temporary guest worker program; Internet gambling legislation; sports betting/daily fantasy sports and America’s wire act.

Regulatory issues included clarification of federal withholding tax requirement on racing.

Additional equine topics were the newly formed national equine disease communication center, equestrian helmet safety act; highway safety regulations impacting horse trailers and vans; preventing all soring tactics act (PAST), and concussions in youth sports. Details can be found at http://www.horsecouncil.org/ or ask for a copy of AHC briefs available from the FTBOA at 352-629-2160. ■

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INDUSTRY NEWS Ocala horseman inducted into Canadian racing’s Hall of Fame

More Canadian Honors for Casse

By MIKE MULLANEY ne of Marion County’s most passionate and eloquent spokesmen; one of the nation’s most respected horsemen, and a seven-time Sovereign Award winner – Mark Casse – was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame this month.

The Canadian Racing Hall of Fame is located at Woodbine Racetrack in Etobicoke, Ontario, and ceremonies were Aug. 3 at the Mississauga Convention Centre.

The 55-year-old Ocala resident – who has found enormous success racing his horses from Florida to Ontario, and from the northeast’s major tracks to Santa Anita and Del Mar – will join a Hall of Fame club that includes trainers such as Secretariat’s Lucien Laurin and Northern Dancer’s Horatio Luro.

In addition to his Sovereign Awards as top trainer in Canada, his accomplishments include 10 titles as leading trainer at Woodbine since 2002. He set races-won and earnings records in 2011 when his horses took 119 contests while banking more than $6.6 million.

Last year, in the U.S. and Canada, his horses won 159 races and earned $13.6 million. Included among those victories were Breeders’ Cup tallies in the $2 million Mile by the filly Tepin and by Catch a Glimpse in the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Among the champions he has trained are three Canadian Horses of the Year: Lexie Lou (a filly who won Canadian Oaks, before taking the country’s most prestigious race, the Queen’s Plate, in 2014), Uncaptured (2012) and Sealy Hill (who swept the Canadian Triple Tiara in 2007).

In addition to training horses, Casse has been an active participant in organizations that promote the sport: He is a board member of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association as well as director of Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association and a steward of the Jockey Club of Canada.

Casse has been a trainer since he was 18 in 1979, when he took over the reins from his father Norman.

Joining him in induction will be: Dahlia, a Group and Grade 1 winner and earner of nearly $1.49 million in Europe, Canada and the U.S. who hailed from the same 1970 crop as Secretariat; Wise Dan, the hugely popular gelding who earned more than $7.55 million and consecutive Eclipse Awards as the North American Horse of the Year in 2012 and 2013, years in which he also won consecutive renewals of the Breeders’ Cup Mile and the Woodbine Mile; the late Dr. Michael Colterjohn, one of Canada’s top equine-reproductive veterinarians; the late Daryl Wells Sr., track announcer at Woodbine, Fort Erie and Greenwood, the Ontario Jockey Club’s three tracks, and; from the world of harness racing, driver Yves Filion, the late John Ferguson Sr., the late Bruce Johnston, and the horses San Pail and Odies Fame. ■

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Ocala-based Glen Hill Farm celebrates its milestone 50th anniversary

By JOANN GUIDRY

he Ocala farm—the Florida division of Kentucky-based Greentree Stud— wasn't even for sale. But that wasn't about to deter consummate Chicago businessman Leonard Lavin.

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It was 1966 and having just become actively involved in the thoroughbred business, Lavin was in town visiting Joe O'Farrell at his Ocala Stud Farm. As it happened, Greentree Stud was across the road from Ocala Stud.

“Joe took me over to Greentree Stud for a

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tour,” recalled Lavin. “I fell in love with that farm on first sight. Joe told me the property wasn't for sale. But when I got home, I called Jock Whitney, who owned Greentree Stud, and we had a deal in an hour.”

Lavin had earlier begun racing in the name of Glen Hill Farm, a nod to his Glencoe, Ill. home, and decided to stick with the name for his newly-acquired farm. And as it turned out,

the 325-acre property did have a hill. It would be the perfect spot for Lavin and his wife Bernice to build their Ocala home.

With the acquisition of the Ocala farm, Lavin's thoroughbred endeavors were off and running. In 1967, Illionis-bred Gabby Abby became Lavin's first stakes winner when she captured the Indian Maid Handicap on October 11 at Hawthorne Park. Willard L. Proctor, THE FLORIDA HORSE • AUGUST 2016 27

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Hill Farm also campaigned Grade 1 stakes winners Prize Spot (Ky-bred) and Marketing Mix (Ontario-bred).

Glen Hill Farm has to date bred and/or raced a trio of millionaires. The leading money earner campaigned by the operation is Marketing Mix, a multiple Grade 1 stakes winner who banked $2,015,893. She is followed

by Glen Hill Farm homebred One Dreamer ($1,266,067) and Florida-bred Coil ($1,154,360).

Those five decades of extraordinary success earned now 96-year-old Lavin the 2015 Eclipse Award of Merit for a lifetime of outstanding achievement.

“I am both surprised and deeply honored to receive the Eclipse Award of Merit. It is truly my proudest moment in the horse business, a business that has been one of the great pleasures of my life,” said Lavin. “From the normal Thursday cards to racing in the Breeders' Cup and everything in between, I have found every moment to be a thrill and a reward. With that has come the wonderful relationships made with people throughout the industry, the camaraderie with our team at Glen Hill Farm, and, of course, the horses we've had the pleasure of breeding, owning and racing. And now this award provides a capstone that leaves me both humbled and grateful.”

DREAMS INTO REALITY

Both Lavin's father and uncle were avid sportsmen who introduced him early on to I dreamed that one day I'd be horse racing, which was a major able to race my own horses. But I sport in the Chicago area.

“I always loved horse racheld off getting into the business Lavin's first and then longing. I learned to read the past time trainer, saddled Gabby until I could afford to do it the way I performance charts at a very Abby to that victory. Lavin's early age,” said Lavin, who was wanted to. —Leonard Lavin first Florida-bred homebred born on Oct. 29, 1919. “When stakes winner to come off the Ocala farm was Unifor- I was nine, my father and I took a train from Chicago to mity. The 1972 bay horse by *Maris out of the Hill Rise Louisville to see Reigh Count win the 1928 Kentucky mare Audit won the Will Rogers Handicap (G2) at Hol- Derby. As a teenager, I would skip school to go bet on lywood Park and Baldwin Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Equipoise whenever he ran at Washington Park or Ar1975. Uniformity was, of course, saddled by Proctor. lington Park. And I dreamed that one day I'd be able to Things would only keep rolling from there. To date, race my own horses. But I held off getting into the busiGlen Hill Farm's distinctive burnt orange, white and black ness until I could afford to do it the way I wanted to.”

And it would be Lavin's business savvy that paved silks have been in the winner's circle for 185 stakes wins.

In fact, from 1967 through 2016 to date, Glen Hill Farm the way to making that dream a reality. Lavin began his has won at least one stakes race a year, except for 1999. business career as a fragrance salesman in Chicago prior The farm has bred and/or raced 108 stakes winners, to joining the Navy during World War II. Once back in including 75 Florida-breds. Glen Hill has posted 28 civilian life, he resumed his career built on a penchant homebred graded stakes winners with another six non- for selling personal care products. For a year and a half, homebreds raced for a total of 34 graded stakes winners he traveled the country selling one of the very first perbred and/or raced. Included in that latter group are manent wave hair kits.

Grade 1 Florida-bred stakes winners Convenience, After buying several small businesses, Lavin bought Header Card, One Dreamer, Coil and Chiropractor. Glen a large West Coast beauty supply company in 1955. He

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moved the company to Chicago and kept only one of its products—V05 hair conditioner. And that would be the base on which he and Bernice built Alberto-Culver Co. into a personal beauty care and household products worldwide corporation. Thanks to Alberto-Culver Co., Lavin could now afford to become involved in the thoroughbred industry on the level that he'd dreamed.

Encouraged by the success of Gabby Abby, as well as ensuing stakes winners Tampa Trouble and Heavy Up, Lavin and Proctor went shopping again. At the 1969 Saratoga yearling sale, Lavin paid $32,000 for a Floridabred filly by Fleet Nasrullah out of *Moment of Truth II,

by Matador (GB). Named Convenience, she became the first Grade 1 stakes winner campaigned by Lavin. And maybe even more importantly, Convenience would become Glen Hill Farm's first foundation broodmare.

In four seasons of racing, Convenience won seven stakes, including the Vanity Handicap (G1) twice (1972 & 1973) and the 1974 Santa Maria Handicap (G2) on her way to earning $648,933. During her career, Convenience engaged in exciting rivalries with the best handicap mares in the country. That elite company included champions Typecast and Florida-bred Susan's Girl, as well as Turkish Trousers.

“After we beat Typecast in the Vanity Handicap, her owner Fletcher Jones, wanted to set up a match race,” Lavin said. “I kept saying no and upping the ante, thinking the subject would be dropped. But when Jones matched my $100,000 and Hollywood Park put in $50,000, it was too hard to pass up.”

More than 50,000 racing fans came out to witness the winner-take-all, $250,000 nine-furlong match race between Convenience and Typecast on June 17, 1972.

Both horses carried 120 pounds. Typecast broke on top, but Convenience took the lead past the grandstand, never relinquished it and prevailed by a head at the wire. After defeating males in several key stakes, Typecast was named the 1972 champion handicap mare. Convenience was honored as the 1972 Florida-bred champion handicap female.

In the 1973 Vanity Handicap, Convenience defeated Fred Hooper's Susan's Girl, who had been the champion 3-year-old filly of 1972. But Susan's Girl then bested Convenience in the Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap (G1) that season. Susan's Girl went on to be named the 1973 champion handicap filly.

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ners Good Potential (in partnership), Lonely Girl, Star of the Crop, Afto (in partnership), Split Run and One Dreamer. And without question, the star of this stellar group is One Dreamer, a 1988 gray mare out of Creatively, by Pretense, who carried Glen Hill Farm's silks to Breeders' Cup glory. In 1994, One Dreamer posted a wire-to-wire victory in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) on Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs. One Dreamer was trained

by Tom Proctor, the son of Willard Proctor who then handled the Chicago-based string of the Glen Hill Farm stable and home to the BC Distaff winner.

“When I got into the thoroughbred business, one of my dreams was to one day RELAUNCH TAKES OFF breed and race a horse of When I got into the thoroughAnother yearling purchase championship caliber,” Lavin bred business, one of my dreams said. “One Dreamer made would provide Lavin with a key foundation sire line. At the was to one day breed and race a that dream come true.”

1977 Keeneland summer yearAs fate would have it, the horse of championship caliber. One Alberto-Culver Co. had ling sales, Lavin paid $73,000 for a gray colt by In Reality out Dreamer (by Relaunch) made that began sponsoring the then dream come true. —Leonard Lavin $1-million BC Distaff in of Foggy Note, by The Axe II. 1990. But instead of presentNamed Relaunch, the colt was sent to Proctor's southern California base where he won ing the winning trophy in his role as the company's chief the Del Mar Derby (G3) and La Jolla Mile (G3) in 1979. executive officer and chairman of the board, Lavin was In addition, he notched seven graded stakes placings be- on the receiving end. fore retiring with $278,100 in career earnings. Lavin had One Dreamer was named the 1994 Florida-bred sold half-interest in Relaunch to Hilary Boone Jr. in champion handicap female. In addition to winning the mid-1980 and, after being syndicated, the stallion was BC Distaff, One Dreamer also captured the Louisville sent to the latter's Wimbledon Farm near Lexington. Budweiser Breeders' Cup Handicap (G2), as well as five Lavin made good use of Relaunch and soon his racing other stakes while being graded stakes-placed twice. She retired with career earnings of $1,266,067 to Glen Hill stable featured many of his outstanding progeny.

A small sampling of Glen Hill Farm stakes winners Farm, which was now being managed by Willard Procby Relaunch includes Florida-bred graded stakes win- tor's son, Harry “Hap” Proctor. As a broodmare, One Dreamer is the granddam of Florida-bred graded stakes winner Broken Dreams.

“We felt like we had the best mare those two years, but that's part of the game,” Lavin said.

Convenience was retired to Glen Hill Farm, which was managed by Allan Proctor, Willard Proctor's brother. Convenience produced stakes-placed Conveniently, a 1976 mare by In Reality, and stakes winner Circular, a 1981 mare by What a Pleasure. Conveniently then produced graded stakes winner Concept Win, as well as stakes winners Major Impact, Earn Your Stripes and Comparability.

Circular produced graded stakes winner Star of the Crop.

Thanks to Convenience, the Glen Hill Farm homebred stakes winner’s parade was well underway.

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Glen Hill’s key foundation sire, Relaunch, produced many outstanding progeny, including Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) winner One Dreamer

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GAINS, LOSSES AND CHANGES

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While One Dreamer's BC Distaff victory was a milestone win, the success continued unabated for Glen Hill Farm well beyond a new decade. The farm's list of stakes grew, including such outstanding racehorses as graded stakes winners Concept Win, Split Run, Top Rung, Openstock, Bonus Pak, Indy Groove, Rich in Spirit and Closeout.

As passionate as Lavin was about thoroughbred racing, his real one true love was his wife Bernice. In 1947, while working in sales at a national consumer products company, Lavin met Bernice Weisner at a dance. They were married six months later and for the next 60 years were true life partners. The couple built Alberto-Culver Co. together; Bernice served as vice president, treasurer, director and corporate secretary until her retirement in

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2003. They raised a family, daughters Carol, Karen and son Scott, who died in 1998. On Oct. 29, 2007, Bernice Lavin died at her home in Chicago; she was 81.

The following spring of 2008 brought more changes.

After having developed Glen Hill Farm into a nationally prominent thoroughbred operation, then 88-year-old Lavin turned over the day-to-day management of the farm to his then 30-year-old grandson Craig Bernick.

The latter assumed the title of president and chief executive officer of Glen Hill Farm. Lavin would remain involved as a very active chairman of the board.

“My grandfather and I have always been close,” said Bernick, now 38. “I always loved spending time on the farm with him. We would spend hours talking about the horses, watching races and studying pedigrees. I just soaked in all in.”

Bernick was 13 when his grandfather gave him his first racehorse, 16 when he watched One Dreamer win the BC Distaff and 18 when he raced his first winner.

That latter horse was Embezzlement, a high school graduation present from his grandfather. Embezzlement, a 1994 filly by Relaunch out of Treasure, by Saratoga Six, earned $60,480 racing for Bernick and Glen Hill Farm.

After graduating from Tulane University, Bernick held several executive positions with Alberto-Culver in both its Chicago and New York offices. During his stint with Alberto-Culver, Bernick's parents, Howard and Carol Bernick, were operating the company, which was later sold to Unilever for $3.7 billion in 2010.

“I was very fortunate to have the tremendous business opportunities that I did with Alberto-Culver,” said Bernick. “But I always knew that my passion was for thoroughbred racing. So I started my own racing stable.

I followed my grandfather's plan and bought yearling fillies to race for their residual value as broodmares.”

Those early yearling purchases by Bernick yielded multiple stakes winner You Go West Girl, stakes winner Stormy Venus and stakes-placed Forever Brilliant.

“It was gratifying to accomplish what I did with my own racing stable,” Bernick said. “But I was happy to turn my focus to running Glen Hill Farm. Since a very early age, it was always my dream to carry on my grandfather's legacy.”

TODAY'S GLEN HILL FARM

With the acquisition of two smaller adjacent farms in the past decade, Glen Hill Farm has now grown to 380 acres. A second entrance was added, leading to a new two-story, Southern-styled office, complete with rockers on a front porch. Hap Proctor, who had taken over as farm manager in 1991, retired in 2013. That development

led to 60-year-old Tom Proctor, Hap's brother and longtime Glen Hill trainer, becoming more involved in the actual farm operation. The new office includes a second story apartment for Proctor to reside when in Ocala.

“Having Tom involved early on with the horses on the farm has added another beneficial dimension to his job as a trainer,” Bernick said. “By the time they get to the racetrack, Tom is very familiar with them and that makes his job much easier. We're both very happy with the arrangement.”

Karen Dreaver, who has been with Glen Hill Farm for 12 years, serves as farm and broodmare manager.

Accented by large, tree-lined rolling paddocks, the farm includes a 24-stall broodmare barn, eight adjacent foaling paddocks, a 16-stall training barn and a five-furlong training track. Barring any complications, Glen Hill Farm broodmares have always foaled outside in paddocks.

“It's very natural and we believe far less stressful for the broodmares and babies,” Bernick said. “We've been doing it that way since my grandfather started the farm and never saw any reason not to do it.”

Glen Hill Farm's bloodstock holdings, according to

Florida-bred G1 Stakes Winner Convenience was also the 1972 Champion Handicap Female.

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Bernick, generally hover at around 100 head. The broodmare band and their offspring on the farm typically number around 65-70, depending on the time of the year. The racing stable is comprised of 30-35, a mix of 2-year-olds and older horses as the seasons change.

“We have our southern California racing base and we do race at Gulfstream Park, as well as Fair Grounds,” Bernick said. “We recently moved from Chicago to the East coast. We purchased a 40-stall training barn at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland. We send our young horses from the farm to Fair Hill now. The location also gives us great access to at least half a dozen racetracks from the spring to the end of the year.”

While some things have changed in the farm's operation, much remains the same.

“We are still primarily a breed-to-race operation,” Bernick said. “But we are a little more commercial than we used to be. We generally race fillies to develop into broodmare prospects. We mostly sell our colts as weanlings or

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yearlings because we don't stand stallions. But there are always exceptions to that rule too. We do sometimes end up racing colts and geldings, just depends on the individuals and the circumstances. ” At the heart of the farm is the 31-member broodmare band, which includes a solid core of blacktype runners and/or blacktype producers.

“I think the broodmare band we have now is one of the best we've ever had,” Bernick said. “It includes some of our best families that we've developed, as well as some fillies we bought, raced successfully and are now breeding.

When we race a horse, we don't look at it as just racing that horse, but as racing a whole family. This creates continuity and increases the value of our broodmare band.”

PRESENT & FUTURE FOUNDATIONS

The reigning foundation matriarch of the Glen Hill Farm broodmare band is 21-year-old Qualatative. Glen Hill Farm paid $200,000 for the 1995 Woodman out of

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always wants to make sure that we're always realistically looking toward the future.

“I'mMyproudgrandfather to be a part of that plan, but Glen Hill Farm will always be my grandfather's farm, his legacy.

My goal is to have Glen Hill Farm endure for another 50 years ” —Craig Bernick

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Hearts and Clouds, by Blushing Groom (FR) mare at the 1996 Keeneland yearling sale. A modest earner of $34,010 on the track, Qualatative has earned her keep as a broodmare. She is the dam of Florida-bred graded stakes winner Rich in Spirit and Florida-bred stakes-placed Holidaysatthefarm. Deceased Rich in Spirit became the dam of Florida-bred graded stakes winner Wishing Gate. The latter, Holidaysatthefarm, as well as Qualatative daughers Key Component and River Forest are all part of the Glen Hill Farm broodmare band. Wishing Gate had a 2016 War Front filly, Holidaysatthefarm had a 2016 Two Step Salsa colt and Key Component had a 2016 Midnight Lute filly “We can trace 18 of our horses back to Qualatative,” said Bernick. “She had a 2016 Soldat filly and we're planning to breed her to Kantharos.”

Other key members of the broodmare band include graded stakes winner Broken Dreams, a granddaughter of One Dreamer and who had a 2016 Ghostzapper colt; graded stakes winner Closeout, who traces back to both Relaunch and Convenience; grades stakes winner Indy Groove, by A.P. Indy; graded stakes winner Pontchatrain, by War Front; stakes winner Grat, the dam of Florida-bred graded stakes winner Old Time Hockey and Indy Blaze, the dam of Florida-bred graded stakes winner Enterprising.

Two other broodmares of note are stakes-placed Mutually Benefit, a Dynaformer mare who is a half-sister to Malibu Moon, and stakes-placed Rainbow's Song, by Unbridled's Song. Both were bred in 2016 to 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.

Holding a special position in the broodmare band is multiple Grade 1 stakes winner Marketing Mix. Glen Hill Farm bought the 2008 bay mare by Medaglia d'Oro out of Instant Thought, by Kris S. for $150,000 at the 2009 September Keeneland yearling sale. Carrying the Glen Hill Farm silks, Marketing Mix became a multiple graded stakes winner of $2,015,893. Among her stakes wins were the 2012 Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1) and Gamely Stakes (G1).

Retired to the broodmare band, Marketing Mix had a 2015 Tapit filly. Through Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, Glen Hill Farm sold the filly as a weanling for $1.1 million at the 2015 Keeneland November Mixed sale. She was bought by Shadwell Estate Co. “I guess some people were surprised we sold Marketing Mix's Tapit filly,” said Bernick. “But she had tremendous market value and what we got for her will pay for future stud fees for Marketing Mix. Unfortunately, she was barren in 2016, but we've bred her to War Front this season.”

Bernick learned his lessons well from his grandfather and continues to do so.

“My grandfather taught me well and he is still very involved in a long-term strategy for Glen Hill Farm,” said Bernick, who with wife Lindsey, daughters Cora (3) and Edie (1), spends the late fall into early spring on the Ocala farm. “He always wants to make sure that we're always realistically looking toward the future. I'm proud to be a part of that plan, but Glen Hill Farm will always be my grandfather's farm, his legacy. My goal is to have Glen Hill Farm endure for another 50 years.” ■

GLEN HILL FARM: 50 YEARS AT A GLANCE

By The Numbers 185 Stakes Wins 108 Stakes Winners Bred And/Or Raced 75 Florida-bred Stakes Winners Bred And/Or Raced 34 Graded Stakes Winners Bred And/Or Raced Grade 1 Stakes Winners Bred And/Or Raced CONVENIENCE (Fla-bred) HEADER CARD (Fla-bred) PRIZE SPOT ONE DREAMER (Fla-bred) MARKETING MIX COIL (Fla-bred) CHIROPRACTOR (Fla-bred) Millionaires Bred And/Or Raced MARKETING MIX ($2,015,893) ONE DREAMER ($1,266,067) COIL ($1,154,360) Florida-Bred Champions Bred And/Or Raced CONVENIENCE 1972 Handicap Female ONE DREAMER 1994 Handicap Female EFFECTIVENESS 1995 2-Year-Old Filly COIL 2012 Male Sprinter *Statistics Through July 15, 2016

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n a Fourth of July weekend when Americans celebrated their independence from sea to shining sea, hunch players with a more global approach cashed their tickets when Live Oak Plantation’s homebred World Approval won the Grade 1 United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park Sunday.

The Florida-bred son of Northern Afleet out of Win Approval, by With Approval had been knocking on the door of several high profile turf races this year but could not quite get to the wire first after winning the Grade 3 American Derby and Grade 3 Saranac last year. He was second to Take the Stand (Arg) in the

Grade 2 Mervin Muniz at Fair Grounds in March, second behind winner Divisidero in the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill on the Kentucky Derby (G1) undercard and third behind winner Flintshire in the June 11 Manhattan (G1) at Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes day.

But a tactical change by trainer Mark Casse and a flawless ride by a new jockey in Florent Geroux provided a successful formula that resulted in a 1 ¼-length victory in the $327,000 United Nations, the first Grade 1 tally for World Approval.

“We employed a little different strategy for the United Nations and he really provided a powerful performance,” Casse said. “We tried to keep him a lit-

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World Approval tle closer to the lead because there was never a question he could go that far. One of his assets is his ability to adapt his running style and even though the race was a mile and three-eighths, it never hurts to have some speed.”

As expected, Florida-bred Cement Clement went to the front from the start and led the field of 10 around the first of three turns in the United Nations as Geroux had World Approval two and one-half lengths further back in second with longshot Noble Road in third and Riviere Du Pond fourth. Favored Wake Forest was some 10 lengths back in ninth after a first quarter mile in a honest :24.29.

Cement Clement continued to show the way around the clubhouse turn and down that backstretch as World Approval stalked in second and the rest also remained in line through a half-mile in :50.21. Around the far turn, Money Multiplier began to move up from fifth,Wake Forest was also in full swing on the outside as World Approval was edging closer to the leader near the front.

World Approval took over turning for home and drew clear down the stretch as Money Multiplier got up for second with Wake Forest third as is his they finished up in 2:14.66 over course labeled good. Triple ability to adapt his running Threat (Fr) finished fourth. The style and even though the race steward’s posted an inquiry sign immediately following the finish, was a mile and three-eighths, but that was in reference to Triple it never hurts to have some Threat coming out of the starting speed. —trainer Mark Cassee gate moments late.

“We sat the perfect trip,” Geroux said. “On paper it looked like the two horse (Cement Clement) would be going to the lead, so we let him set the pace for us. The only question was whether he could go that far since this was his first time going that much distance, but he showed he can do it and he did it well. When I asked him at the quarter pole he responded nicely.”

The United Nations victory was the sixth victory and Named the Florida-bred champion turf horse of first from sixteen starts for the 4-year-old grey gelding.

2015, this year Casse say’s World Approval has im- The $180,000 check for winning the United Nations inproved to yet another level. creased World Approval’s career earnings to $853,450. “[World Approval] seems to be getting better and betWorld Approval is yet another Florida-breds to win ter and I think he’s one of the better turf horses in North the United Nations in recent years. Turbo Compressor, America,” Casse said. “I’m going to speak with [owner] who now stands at Northwest Stud, took the United NaMs. [Charlotte] Weber but obviously our long term goal is tions in 2012 and Presious Passion won back-to-back in the Breeders’ Cup [Turf] and maybe before that the Ar- 2008 and 2009. The gelded Presious Passion is living a lington Million.” life of retirement hosting fans on a regular basis at PleasThe Arlington Million (G1) is set for Aug. 13 at Ar- ant Acres Farm. lington Park near Chicago and the Breeders’ Cup Turf World Approval paid $7.40 for a $2 win ticket, $3.80 (G1) will be run Nov. 5 at Santa Anita. to place and $2.80 to show. n

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World Approval, the 2015 Florida-bred Champion Turf Horse, improved his career earnings to $853,450.

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All Smiles at the Summit Florida-breds shine as Gulfstream’s annual

Summit of Speed program kicks off

By MIKE MULLANEY

orge Navarro has discovered that the metaphorical grass can be greener off the turf course and on the main track. Since taking the Florida-bred Delta Bluesman out of the infield and running him on dirt, he’s seen the 6-year-old gray finish first in four straight races, most recently on the July 2 Grade 2, $250,000 Smile Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

The Smile, along with the Princess Rooney Stakes (G2) as well as seven other stakes, comprise Gulfstream’s annual Summit of Speed program, which this year created a $9.702 million handle, an increase of 18% from 2015.

Navarro claimed Delta Bluesman, a son of Wagon Limit, from breeder Denis Dwyer for $30,000 in October of 2014 and immediately won two turf starts with him. But in late spring the gelding started showing a distaste for greens, with off-the-board showings in the Sunshine Millions Turf Sprint and a low-level optional claimer.

J

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2 event was a major, and pleasantly surprising, step up for his horse.

“He can be a chicken,” he said. “I was amazed that he dug in like that. When [Chief Lion] came up, I thought, ‘Jaramillo, what are you doing?’ He doesn’t like horses coming next to him, but maybe he is changing, coming around, and becoming the horse that we thought he was in the morning. He trains like a good horse. He worked [a half-mile] in :46 last week and the exercise rider said he did it like nothing.”

Navarro, who was reunited with the superb Floridabred sprinter XY Jet recently, said his goal for Monster Racing Stables is to get Delta Bluesman to the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita in November.

His Smile score took care of the fees for that race, and he intends to plot a deliberate course.

“This was his fourth start in two months so I’m going to take my time with him,” Navarro said. “I wasn’t sure if we would win and I told him, ‘Just being in the race is a pleasure. And if he wins it, then hey, I’ll make your dreams come true.’ I’m going to give him 50-60 days and then find one or two races before the Breeders’ Cup.” The gray’s career record is 43-9-10-7 with a bankroll of $433,937.

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Florida-bred Three Rules wins the Birdonthewire

Navarro decided a change of strategy was in order, and his streak of four first-place finishes would have resulted in a like number of victories had he not been disqualified to fifth for crowding opponents in Monmouth’s Decathlon Stakes May 14. Despite the successes, Navarro beats himself up for not making the decision sooner.

“Getting him off the turf has been key,” he said. “I keep knocking myself in the head … I wasn’t patient enough.”

Assigned the rail, Delta Bluesman took an early lead that he ceded to Chief Lion after four of the six furlongs in the Smile were run in :43.81.

“The pace was violent,” said Delta Bluesman’s rider, Emisael Jaramillo. “I just rode my horse. [Chief Lion] came to me and opened up a half-length, but my horse came back when I asked him. He never gave up.”

Delta Bluesman retook the lead turning for home and had plenty left to hold safe Limousine Liberal, who was slightly favored over Delta Bluesman at 7-5.

The winning margin was 3¾ lengths, and Limousine Liberal edged Chief Lion for second by a neck.

The final time was 1:08.94 and the winner, off at 32, paid $5.

Navarro acknowledged that their victory in the Grade

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Hubert Pilcher’s Shade Tree Thoroughbreds of Reddick had plenty to celebrate after their Three Rules took home first prize in the $75,000 Birdonthewire.

Winner of his only prior race, contested over a sloppy track last month, Three Rules showed surface condition was irrelevant with his five-length tally over eight other 2-year-olds over a fast track, getting 5½ furlongs in 1:04.50.

Shade Tree co-bred the Florida-bred colt, a son of Northwest Stud’s Gone Astray out of Joy Rules, by Full Mandate, with Geoff Roy and Tom Fitzgerald.

Three Rules, the 6-5 favorite, broke well and rider Cornelio Velasquez tucked him into third as Francesco Appeal and Cinderela El Crome led the way. The winner showed a good bit of courage when he squeezed through a narrow opening to grab the lead, which he extended through the stretch.

Velasquez has been on plenty of good horses and he clearly thinks Three Rules will take his place among them.

“I wanted to send a little bit to get position and wait, wait, wait,” he said. “At the quarter pole I had a lot of horse. He got some good schooling behind horses. He is a class horse.”

The 73-1 Sonido finished second, a neck in front of Francesco Appeal.

Three Rules earned $44,640 and paid $4.40.

“He’s the real deal,” winning trainer Jose Pinchin said. “I knew it from the beginning. I was only surprised because I thought he was going to be 3-5.”

Pinchin said that, since Three Rules’ talents have

gone public, he has been entertaining offers to help in the sale of the Shade Tree star. Regardless, he said Three Rules will next run in the Aug. 6, $200,000 Dr. Fager leg of the Florida Sire Stakes.

Three Rules has earned $80,640 so far.

Florida-bred Pink Poppy takes the Spook Express

SPOOK EXPRESS

Pink Poppy, a homebred sent out by Ocala’s Arindel Farm, led from start to finish in winning the $75,000 Spook Express by an easy three lengths.

The victory snapped an 11-race losing streak – tracing back to her victory in the Sunshine Millions filly & Mare Turf – but despite the slump, players had noticed signals of a return to form and they sent the 5-year-old off at 3-1 in the field of six older fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles over the turf.

Susie Bee was the 9-10 favorite and she finished second while never a serious threat to the winner, who is a daughter of Tiznow out of Rahy’s daughter Boa. Rafael Hernandez and his mount partnered in a calm, competent front-running effort that took them through opening fractions of :24.18, :47.70 and 1:10.41. Latique stuck to the frontrunners early but when she gave up the chase no one else picked up the baton.

The official chart of the race says it all: Pink Poppy “finished wrapped up in the end.”

Susie Bee had 6½ lengths on third-place EB Ryder, who was a neck in front of Lori’s Store.

Pink Poppy paid $8.60 and completed the Spook Express distance in a very quick 1:39.67. She earned $46,035, boosting her career total to $244,861. She is trained by Ronny Werner trains.

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past Perfect Kay at the sixteenth pole under Leyva’s lefthanded encouragement and withstood a late surge from Lirica to win by a half-length. The winning time was 1:05.21 over a rapidly drying-out track labeled “good.”

“This filly has a lot of upside,” Leyva said. “She runs as fast as she needs to and she’s smart. She does whatever I ask her to do.”

Perfect Kay was third, three-quarters of a length behind the runner-up, and 3-5 favorite White Gold checked in fourth, 1¼ lengths farther back.

Co-bred by Patricia Horth, Cajun Delta Dawn is trained by David Fawkes, who also trains Perfect Kay. “Down the backside, it looked like Perfect Kay was getting the perfect trip,” Fawkes said. “She looked comfortable, but in the stretch, I’m not sure what she was looking at – maybe the grandstand, I don’t know – and the other filly took advantage of it and just caught her. “[Cajun Delta Dawn] was professional. If you watch her first race, she ran the same way. She lost the lead and dug back in against the fence. She’s a nice filly. Naturally, we thought Perfect Kay might be a bit quicker going 5½ (furlongs), but Juan rode a perfect race. They did everything right and it set up well for her.”

A daughter of Ocala Stud stallion Kantharos out of Cajun Dawn, by Awesome Again, Cajun Delta Dawn paid $36.60 and boosted her career earnings to $81,105.

Fawkes said she run next in the $200,000 Desert Vixen leg of the Florida Sire Stakes at Gulfstream Aug. 6.

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Florida-bred Cajun Delta Dawn winning the Cassidy

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Cajun Delta Dawn, owned and co-bred in Florida by Curtis Mikkelsen, showed a great deal of courage in winning her only previous race at 5-1 last month.

She may have showed more in winning the Cassidy Stakes at 17-1.

Laying third as Perfect Kay maintained a 3½-length lead through an opening half in :45.21, Cajun Delta Dawn was given her cue by rider Juan Leyva on the turn.

Grinding and gaining ground along the rail, she edged

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Seajay Stable’s Spelling Again withstood race-long pressure to eke out victory by a neck in the $250,000 Princess Rooney.

The Brad Cox-trained 5-year-old mare earned an entry-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita Nov. 5 with her triumph in the sprint for fillies and mares.

Ridden by Luis Saez, the Churchill Downs shipper ran seven furlongs in 1:22.09 under jockey Luis Saez after holding off a furious late bid by Marty Wolfsontrained Cali Star.

In her quest to collect her second career Grade 2 victory since being claimed for $40,000 at Santa Anita in May 2015, the 3-1 second choice broke alertly to press the pace set by My Miss Venezuela along the backstretch before taking the lead on the far turn, only to be quickly joined by the Wolfson-trained Kiss to Remember on the turn into the homestretch.

After straightening for the stretch run, Spelling Again responded to Saez’ urging to open a lead approaching midstretch but was faced with Cali Star’s formidable outside drive. She again responded to her jockey’s urg-

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Spelling Again triumphs in the Princess Rooney

Cox said Spelling Again will dictate when she will race again and if she will be shipped to Southern California for the Breeders’ Cup. “I’m a one-race-at-a-time kind of guy. I was thinking the Groupie Doll at Ellis [Grade 3, Aug. 6], but I’ll let her totally dictate where she’ll run next time,” Cox said.

CARRY BACK

Rated R Superstar became a graded-stakes winner for the first time while handing the odds-on favorite Awesome Banner his first sprint setback in five tries when he rallied from off the pace to a convincing 3¼-length tri-

Rated R Superstar takes the Carry Back

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ing to hold her late-charging rival off by a neck.

“I had a little pressure early, but I knew I had enough horse. When she came to the stretch she kept running,” Saez said. “I got nervous – that other horse was flying – but I knew I just had to ride harder. And we got it.”

Cali Star, the 4-1 third-betting choice ridden by Cornelio Velasquez, finished second, 2½ lengths ahead of Birdatthewire, the Grade 1 stakes winner who went to post as the even-money favorite.

Spelling Again had to work a lot harder in the Princess Rooney than he did when she coasted to a 4½-length win in the Chilukki (G2) at Churchill Downs last November.

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umph in the Grade 3, $150,000 Carry Back Stakes.

With Cornelio Velasquez aboard, Rated R Superstar was reserved at the rear of the pack in the run down the backstretch while the 2-5 Awesome Banner, as expected, controlled the pace through quick splits of 22.37 and 44.59 seconds for the opening half-mile. Rated R Superstar came wide with his bid rallying into the stretch and readily wore down the tiring leader despite drifting at the end.

Awesome Banner, who had won his first four sprint starts by a combined margin of 22 lengths including the Grade 2 Swale and Grade 3 Hutcheson here earlier this year, appeared well in control turning into the stretch with a clear lead, only to shorten stride late and prove no match for the winner. He was easily second-best, finishing six lengths in front of third-place finisher Bullet Gone Astray.

The victory was the third in 11 starts for Rated R Superstar, who completed seven furlongs over a track upgraded from “good” to “fast” just prior to the race in 1:22.09. He paid $7.40.

Winning trainer Kenny McPeek said Rated R Superstar would likely make his next start in the seven-furlong, Grade 1 King’s Bishop next month at Saratoga.

AZALEA

Gelfenstein Farm’s rising star Dearest lived up to the bettors’ expectations, registering a 1½-length victory in the $100,000 Azalea Stakes at 1-5 odds.

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Dearest ($2.40) scored her fourth triumph in five lifetime starts in the race for 3-year-old fillies while running seven furlongs in 1:22.81 under Emisael Jaramillo. Smartly Agree, a 25-1 longshot, finished second, 5¼ lengths ahead of Ballet Diva in the sixhorse field. “[Jaramillo] lost the whip at the beginning of the race, but she won easily and won in a good time,” said winning trainer Gilberto Zerpa.

Dearest broke alertly to stalk the pace set by Ballet Diva along the backstretch and into the far turn during fractions of 23.25 and 45.65. The favorite began to assert herself leaving the turn into the homestretch and continued on to post a solid score over the late-closing Smartly Agree despite drifting late.

“I didn’t get worried, she was in a perfect position,” Jaramillo said. “She has a lot of class.”

Zerpa said: “She’ll go to Saratoga. She’s going to run in [the Grade 1 Test, for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs Aug. 6],” said Zerpa, whose ultimate goal is the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1).

UMPHREY TURF SPRINT

Drawing Away Stable’s Doctor J Dub led gate-towire, holding off multiple-stakes winner Daring Kathy to win the $75,000 Bob Umphrey Sprint by a neck.

The 6-year-old son of Sharp Humor, who was turned over to Jena Antonucci in May after being trained pre-

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viously by Maria Borell, returned $58. Doctor J Dub, winner of five of 22 races, covered the firm five-furlong race in :55.38.

“I’m so proud of this horse,” Antonucci said. “Our huge focus when we got him was to get him to take a breath, relax, be happy.”

After finishing fourth for Antonucci in the five-furlong Bonita at Gulfstream June 4, Doctor J Dub tired at a mile June 26.

“It was an experiment for us, more a pedigree thing,” Antonucci said. “It’s hard to take an older horse and shut him down and have him go two turns. But it was a question we wanted to ask, so the race became more of a big breeze for him.”

La Estrella and trained by Simon, Aire Bueno covered a firm 1 1/16-mile turf course in 1:40.68. Aire Bueno, a winner of 12 of 39 starts, has won three of his last four starts for Simon. His only loss was a second-place finish June 16 when he lacked room and had to alter course down the stretch. He returned $10.40. ■

(above) Doctor J Dub wins the Umphrey Turf Sprint (below) Aire Bueno takes the Miesque’s Approval

MIESQUE’S APPROVAL

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Matthew Rispoli drove the 7year-old Chilean gelding Aire Bueno inside the pacesetter Star Contender down the stretch to win the $75,000 Miesque’s Approval by three quarters of a length over a closing Hammers Terror. Star Contender was third.

Owned by Charles Simon and

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Friendly hospitality, tourism and commerce combine for one of the racing world’s most prestigious events each March while breeders from Florida and the island make racing and sales ring connections

By TAMMY A. GANTT

n 2012 when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization selected “Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison” as a world heritage site, they were doing what Bajans long knew – preserving a moment in time of cultural significance for the island of Barbados. The UNESCO grand ceremony marked the achievement with one plaque being installed in the garri-

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son area encompassed largely by the historic Garrison Savannah racetrack. Racing began there in 1845 when military men squared off with plantation owners matching their horses in competition in front of the garrison.

The Garrison Savannah is the crown jewel of the historic area and in the 18th and 19th centuries was the headquarters for the British West Indies Regiment. The Barbados National Cannon Collection, one of the rarest collections of British cannons in the West Indies, graces the track perimeter. The George Washington House, named aptly after its most famous resident, is nearby; along with a fountain built in 1865 to commemorate piped water brought to the city in 1861. In 1905, these informal match races were organized creating the Barbados Turf Club.

In 1982, the great Caribbean horse racing classic, the Gold Cup was born and coined as “a spirited contest between winners and the gallant contenders that spur them on.” This signature event, which should be on every horse racing fan and jet-set traveler’s bucket list, is held annually in March and attracts 20,000 people. It is a spectacle uniquely its own bringing the pride and hospitality of the island together in food, fans, fun and festivities. The event is steeped in tradition, so much so that the actual newly minted gold cup trophy is flown annually to Barbados on British Airways with much pomp and circumstance.

The main goal of the event was to put Barbados on the horse racing map and to encourage Caribbean horses and jockeys to take part. Originally sponsored

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(at right) A foal by Florida-bred OBS Grad Spicey Tiger out of Heavenly Angel, a mare who comes from a strong family and is by resident stallion Thady Quill, winner of Sandy Lane Gold Cup (G1-Bar) and second in the Oak Tree Breeders’ Cup Mile (G2).

(below) The view from the top of the gallop on Sion Hill is breathtaking as paddocks grace the lower hillside below.

in 1982 by Cockspur Rum, Sandy Lane Hotel began as sponsor in 1997 leading to the event’s gain in international recognition.

A showcase in successful sports tourism, decades of hosting the Sandy Lane Gold Cup (G1-Bar) have added to the island’s economy and opened the door for more elite sporting events. The events stimulate the Barbadian economy as they create an opportunity for businesses to sell their products, drive international appeal, and solidified its position as “the most prestigious horse race in the Southern Caribbean”. The Club does not rest on its laurels, as they are always looking for opportunities to promote the Cup. The Horse Racing Radio Network became the newest step this year, when it partnered to provide live coverage of the richest race in the Caribbean, the $200,000 Cup. The international coverage was a first for the growing HRRN network.

“The most appealing part of the Barbados racing experience is the pageantry. The festivities the night before the Gold Cup include scurries, short races run clockwise on the inside dirt training tracks, and nothing compares to the parade which precedes the running of the

Sandy Lane Gold. Racing in Barbados is truly special,” said Mike Penna of HRRN. In 35 runnings, Barbados horses have won 26, Trinidad and Tobago four (and the most recent), Canada two, and Martinique one. The United States’ first win was in 2014 followed by a win in 2015, both for owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey and trainer Michael Maker. The 2016 winner Dorsett, a Kentucky-bred, last raced in the U.S. at Gulfstream Park in January and was purchased by Robert Peirce for owners from Trinidad-Tobago on a trip to Florida. Trainer Peirce has won three Gold Cups.

“We have been very fortunate to have many ambassadors for Barbados racing over the years. Some of best and most famous supporters include Barbadians Sir Michael Stoute and Patrick Husbands BSS [Barbados Service Star honoree]. Also, worthy of mention would be Eugene Melnyk, Derrick Smith and more recently Ken Ramsey, all world-renown owners who have in one way or the other placed Barbados racing on the international map”, said Raphael Greene, secretary/treasurer of the Barbados Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association.

Prodigy Husbands is one of several jockeys from the island to win jockey titles at various tracks in North

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America in recent years, and in 2014 Martinique’s riding title also fell to another Barbadian. “The Garrison track is a school from which numerous jockeys graduate to become leading riders worldwide,” said B.T.B.A Vice President Richard Edwards. For example, after excelling in his apprenticeship on local soil, Barbadian Rico Walcott migrated to Canada and is now a multipletime Champion Jockey at Northlands Park. Additionally, former Barbados-based Trinidadian Emile Ramsammy has won Canada’s top awards numerous times. Each November, the track stages a Jockeys' Challenge which gives fans a chance to see world-class riders compete against local standouts on the tight and tricky Garrison circuit.

Eugene Melnyk is owner of Winding Oaks Farm in Ocala, formerly Mockingbird Farm owned by the legendary horse breeder Harry Mangurian, Jr. Before that, it was Florida’s thoroughbred heritage farm, Tartan Farm, home to many Florida-rich racehorse bloodlines.

Also a resident of Barbados, Melnyk created a tie to

Chinese Jocks Launch in Barbados Jockeys Chen Li and Qin Yong from Hubei, China, are the first inductees into the China Horse Club China Dream Project initiative, that kicked off in Barbados under the watchful eye of Turf Club Horseman’s Liaison and Racing Official Mohommed Mohamad. The program is designed to provide international opportunities for young Chinese nationals in horse racing. Turf Club CEO Rosette Peirce is a driving force behind the support of the industry and local community in which Li and Yong serve as ambassadors for horse racing worldwide. racing and Barbados that cannot be broken by time. He named his racehorses after famed sites and towns in Barbados. From Speightstown to Flower Alley to former Florida stallions Graeme Hall and Stratford Hill, visitors to the island realize a place can become synonymous with top champion racehorses in more ways than one. A few name-connected Florida-breds include Brereton, Bridgetown, Spring Hall and Welchman Hall.

In 1985, the Barbados Thoroughbred Breeders’Association (BTBA) was created, once again preserving a part of the cultural landscape couched in one of the great sports of the island, horse racing. The Association formed to promote the Creole native thoroughbreds being bred on the island, and infused periodically with the blood of imports. The association’s more immediate goals are to assist the development of the breeding industry by providing local breeders with access to the information and current trends available to breeders internationally. The BTBA also intends to enhance benefits to improve the member experience. The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Owners’ Association serves as a resource for BTBA and promotes Florida-breds to fill the needs, while understanding the balance between homebreds and imports is important.

Among breeders who have shaped the industry advancing the development of quality races and horses are Challenor “Chally.” Jones, Diana Jones, Gay Smith (wife of Coolmore partner Derrick Smith), Hopefield Stable, Sir Charles and Lady Williams, Bruce Bayley, Aysha Syndicate, Joanne Hearst-de Castro, Paul Noel, George De Vere Davis, Brighton Bloodstock, Melrose Farms, Sunset Farms, Major R.A. Stoute, John Chandler, and many others.

The BTBA.’s current administration consists of Peter

Perennial leading owner, Mrs. Gay Smith’s Springhead Farm is managed by Edward Walcott, and stands several stallions in its castle-like barn graced by entryway cannons.

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Horses in the parade ring pass the statue of three time Barbados Gold Cup winner Blast of Storm which was donated to the people of Barbados.

The infield contains a paved sidewalk for walkers and joggers to get their morning exercise, while racehorses go the opposite way for morning training. The infield also contains sports fields that are popular in the evening with local residents.

Odle, president; Richard Edwards, vice president; and Raphael Greene, secretary/treasurer; along with Jonathan Simpson, Philip Atkinson and Mrs. Fiona Kinch. Each are stakeholders in the industry, breeding a number of the roughly 100 or so foals born annually.

These foals with imports create the racing scene today.

“Our breeding industry over the last fifteen years has transitioned from one that was primarily based on stock acquired out of the United Kingdom, to one where virtually all imported stock is sourced from the US, particularly Florida.”

“We seek a future where our locally-bred horses can compete on even terms with horses brought in from anywhere in the world, and to also be competitive in select races in North America. In the past our industry has produced one eventual North American stakes-winner in Incitatus.” said Atkinson.

The industry would like to repeat that feat. The Association feels it can meet that challenge going forward to reach that level of quality, so they want to attract the

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best quality breeding stock with diverse pedigrees.

“We think we are well set on that path”, he further noted.

Those diverse pedigrees are seen in the BTBA stallion book, with Springhead Farm representing the largest stud. Lion Heart, Storm Cat and Nureyev are reflected in the farm’s current sire lines, along with other farm stallion rosters featuring bloodlines of Medaglia D’ Oro, Giant’s Causeway, Clever Trick, Graeme Hall, leading Barbados stallion Janak by Rahy, Grand Slam, Thunder Gulch, Woodman, Gone West, Pulpit, Stormello, Black Mambo, Tiger Ridge, Storm Boot by Storm Cat, Jeblar by Alydar, Mujadil by Storm Bird, Forty Mile by Mr. Prospector and Orpen by Lure, among others. Most recent additions include a son of Galileo and Dansili, further enhancing the strength and diversity of the industry's male lines.

Bajan hospitality is a source of pride – starting at the airport with welcome banners featuring top Barbadians worldwide like jockey Husbands and singer Rihanna. They greet visitors with warm smiles and friendly personalities.

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The Barbados Turf Club is no different offering world class experiences. The Club offers suites well-stocked with amenities for owners and their guests, a festive atmosphere close to the action for tourists, and an informal atmosphere for local fans. Entire families enjoy pudding, souse, rice and stew, fried fish or fish cakes with coconut water or Barbadian rum. The rum may even be from the Turf Club President Sir David Seale’s own top rum producing Four Square Distillery. He also is

a top owner with six Gold Cup wins to his credit.

Committee member Simpson sums it up as, “An afternoon visit to the track provides an alternative to the traditional holiday pastime of sun, sea and sand–although Barbados still boasts a healthy dose of each.”

Many of the hotels and resorts are race day sponsors and make the races part of the destination experience by bringing their guests to the Club. The connection of tourism and racing led to BTC being recognized for its achievement in tourism for Barbados in the Caribbean last year, and in 2016 Barbados was named the Best Caribbean Destination by Caribbean Travel Marketplace.

The award marked the seventh tourism award in the last year.

The BTC is responsible for organizing, regulating and promoting the races, typically comprised of 25 race meetings and 185 races annually. Racing is broken into three seasons. The first season runs March through April and includes Gold Cup Day. The second season runs May through September. The third season kicks off November and ends in December with Boxing Day, their biggest holiday. Races can be seen every other weekend or sometimes back-to-back depending on the schedule of events

Morning swimmers at beaches near the stables are often greeted by grooms and racehorses going out for their training regimen in the ocean.

(inset) Storm Arrow by Storm Boot, a 2006 Ocala Breeders’ Sales April graduate, stands in Barbados with a pedigree chocked full of the Florida bloodlines of Unbrldled by Fappiano and Minnesota Mac

by RoughN’ Tumble, a stallion who kicked off the legacy of Ocala Stud

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(inset) Race fans cheer on the horses in the grandstand. (below) Home of horse racing since 1845, the Garrison Savannah track near Bridgetown draws race fans and tourists alike under the watchful historic clock tower.

per month. The schedule includes the Barbados Triple Crown with the Guineas, Midsummer Creole Classic and Derby. The BTBA also sponsors a series of five races specifically for Barbadian-bred horses annually.

"The atmosphere at the track is unparalleled fun, whether it is during a race-meet or at morning gallops, and the small community involved in racing has no shortage of characters to entertain. There are good quality horses competing, and racing at the Garrison provides a truly unique up close experience not available at most tracks in the United States and other parts of the world,” said Greene.

Indeed, the spectators are as close as one can get without being on the track. Horses whiz by only feet from the grandstand, and the box seats overhanging the track making fans feel like they are getting a birds eye view of the action.

Morning workouts also give a close-up experience as track goers can walk on the inner sidewalk and enjoy their workout alongside thoroughbreds in training. And

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if that proximity wasn’t enough for horse fans, there are the ocean workouts at 5:30 a.m. Horses are led to the beach and are swam around yachts anchored in the bay, while cruise ships dot the horizon. Barefooted trusty grooms, some in lifejackets, lead, ride on, or swim beside the steeds as they propel their bodies for invigorating workouts, while curious tourists look on.

While both have long been tied together thanks to their location in the Caribbean, Florida and Barbados also share the mutual love of horse racing, and other equine disciplines. In addition, their supply chains cross as feed milled in Ocala makes its way to the island on a regular basis, along with tack and other supplies from the mainland. Thoroughbred connections at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales go back 20 or so years with buyers like Luther G. Miller and more recently Jonathan Simpson, Saffie Joseph, Dan and Martin Raizman, Ronald Peirce and David Murray among others paving the way for Florida-breds to be infused into the racing and breeding scene, while still developing and supporting the Creole runners. Since 1997, Floridabreds account for 33% of import champions and within the last 10 years, they ac-

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count for 40% of the Mentone Award Champion Imports. All but one were purchased out of OBS sales.

Barbados breeders and owners visit and buy at the OBS sales annually and focus on March, April, June and August. Sales numbers placed them in the top 10 international buyers in the latest June sale, which included buyers Roger and Bruce Parravicino, descendants of racing stalwart Nick Parravicino, whose Realtors Limited is a long-standing sponsor of the BTBA. Buyers collectively say they look at pedigrees while focusing on horses that are not too big that can handle turns at the track.

Also, racing is on the turf so horses with bloodlines for the turf are prominently considered.

“Florida had been the preferred location for the acquisition of new blood into the racing industry and by extension to our breeding stock over the last number of years. This is why we have made the decision to align ourselves in many other ways with the Florida industry”, said Atkinson.

“The synergies and history shared by and between Florida and Barbados thoroughbred breeding and racing are amazing. Barbados particularly respects and feels very comfortable with the horses and people of Florida.

They are such a supportive market for us and there is so much potential for the future. I encourage our FTBOA breeders and owners to check out Barbados, I know many have. The people are fantastic and friendly while the island is the definition of natural beauty. They are

Florida-bred Winners of the Barbados Mentone Champion Imported Award Yr/Horse 1997 Super Jeblar 2002 Talkaboutlucky 2006 Duc D Fer 2007 Who’s Wavering 2011 Daga 2012 Dancin David

Owner Gay Smith C.N. Paaravicino Aysha Syndicate Aysha Syndicate Lord Michael Taylor Sir David Seale

Breeder Farnsworth Farm John Franks Sez Who TB Stanley Ersoff Bridlewood Farm Karl M. Hohensee

Consignor Sold OBS NTS Stables April Lynne Martin April Sez Who TB August Sold privately Sequel Bloodstock April Niall Brennan March

truly great friends to FTBOA, OBS and our Florida tracks.” said FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell.

Any visit to Barbados leaves you with a single mission – to go back for the welcoming smiles and friendly personalities that delight the many visitors on the island.

The cherished song on Gold Cup Day titled “Beautiful Barbados” says it best, “You’ll find rest and you’ll find peace in Barbados. Come back to my island and me.”

For the breeders of Barbados and Florida, hopefully a future champion racehorse will be making that trip also. ■

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1) Leading trainer Victor Cheeseman and BTBA Secretary/Treasurer Raphael Greene talk horses at the morning works. 2) Mohommed Mohamed is the racetrack’s top guide for both visitors and horsemen alike. 3) Polo announcer, breeder, owner and buyer at the OBS sales, Jonathan Simpson talks to a jockey after a ride. 4) Luther G. Miller is one of the early adopters to purchase racehorses at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales. 5) Peter Odle, president of the BTBA, shares hospitality with many tourists to the island in his suite at the Barbados Turf Club.

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TBOA members were sent a survey questionnaire with renewals this spring. Twenty one percent of the membership completed and returned surveys. Respondents were from 24 states including Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and internationally Canada. Members were asked how long they have been in the industry with a majority of members (55%) reported being in the industry more than 20 years and averaging 36.5 years.

The growth rate for the industry of members engaged 5 years or less was reported at 7.5% and doubled to 15% when adding members in the industry 10 years or less.

HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE INDUSTRY? Over 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55.1% 16 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.5% 11 to 15 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10.4% Less than 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.5% 6 to 10 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.0%

Members were asked to report the number of acres they own or manage. The reporting numbers were applied conservatively to the entire membership. The number of acres represented by the membership is 86,744 in 2016, an increase of almost 24% from the 70,000 reported in the 2005 American Horse Council study. Members owning 25 acres or less are 64%, 51-100 acres are 16%, 100-999 acres are 16%, and those owning more than 1,000 acres are 5%. Of those owning 100 to 999 acres, the average acres owned were reported as 235 acres. Previous estimates suggested 75% of the membership owned smaller acreage, but the 2016 responses show some of operations have acquired more land moving into the 51-100 acre range.

Members were asked the number of horses for which they were responsible. The majority (61%) reported responsibility for over 50 horses, with almost 35% reporting responsibility for over 100 horses. Those who care for more than 100 horses averaged 219 horses in their care. The membership represents 30,862 horses, a decline of 12.6% from 2005 (35,300 horses). This is comparable to the national decline in thoroughbred numbers.

Broodmares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84% Yearlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74% Horses of racing age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73% Weanlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67% Retired TBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33% Stallions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13% TBs now in other disciplines . . . . . . . . . . .8%

WHAT IS YOUR INDUSTRY SECTOR?

Respondents averaged at least 3 categories of horses they were responsible for

Respondents involved in breeding ............75%

The survey asked if a member’s operation was declining, steady or growing. Sixty five percent of members reported their business is steady or growing. Those who reported their operation as steady attributed it to operations-related reasons (25%), the economics/costs (23%) and the industry (15%).

Those that reported their operation as growing contributed their growth on their product (35%), business plan (26%), their financial

Racing sector............................................66% Broodmare care sector .............................37% Foal care sector ........................................32% Sales prep sector......................................28% Farm management ...................................24% Lay-ups.....................................................23% Early schooling..........................................22% Pin-hooking ..............................................18% 60 THE FLORIDA HORSE • AUGUST 2016

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Selection of Stallions for Broodmares investment (17%) and that they were new to the business (13%). Members that reported their business was declining reported economics as a factor (33%), their age/retirement (30%) and the industry (30%).

The FTBOA asked what programs members would like to learn more about.

The information will be used to guide FTBOA services for members. In addition, FTBOA also wanted to know what discounts members use. More than half reported using a discount with the top discounts being foal registration, the OBS ITW, hotels, John Deere, Sherwin Williams, Seminole Feed, restaurants, Winning Edge Tack Shop and Agricon.

FTBOA also asked what discounts should be pursued and these included airfare, more hotels and feed stores among others.â–

WHAT FTBOA PROGRAMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT? Top choices of respondents Breeders awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28% Discount programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22% Florida-bred special events . . . . . . . . . . .20% Florida-bred Sire Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . .19% Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14% Florida stallions/stallion shows . . . . . . . .13% FTBOA committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9% Mentor program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6%

SELECT SEMINARS/EVENTS YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING Preparing for the sales . . . . . . . . . . . .21% Taxes/depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20% FTBOA resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16% Business plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14% Retired thoroughbreds . . . . . . . . . . . .13% Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8% Intern program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5% Estate planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3%

Members were asked if they were responsible for selection of stallions for broodmares, were there specific pedigree lines looked for?

74% of respondents reported yes there were specific bloodlines and 26% reported no.

Based on Stallions All stallions Commercial stallions Solid proven stallions Stallions that will sell well at the sales

Specific Stallion lines AP Indy 6 Mr. Prospector 6 (outcrossed with Northern Dancer, Hail to Reason, Storm Cat)

In Reality 5 Unbridled 4 Deputy Minister 2 Gone West 2 Tapit 2 Affirmed Fappiano Forli Blushing Groom Buckpasser Chef de Reines Cool Coal Man

Indian Charlie In Summation La Troiene Non -Phalaris Prince John Private Account Pulpit Roberto Round Table male line Seattle Slew Secretariat Street Cry Storm Cat Sweetsouthernsaint Tapit Tiz Now

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Based on Mares What is best for the mares Specific stallion to each individual broodmare pedigree Based on mare pedigree, conformation, race record Pedigree lines that compliment my mare's pedigree and conformation Based on the cross Stallion selection helps, but good race mares or stakes producers Mares that win Secretariat mares Female Regal Classic line on either side Smarten line and Halo line broodmares Nicks

Based on Traits/Other Believer of biomechanics Distance, stamina, durability, health Durability and stability Endurance, durability Fast ones Must meet dosage requirements Just good ones Look for goldmine 20/20 Precocious, dirt type Route horses Speed Speed and dirt pedigree lines Refer back to historical lines with success Breed for the market

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By BEN BAUGH

Rebecca Nelsen knew as soon as she sat on “Chum” that he would be her horse. f only all relationships were as serendipitous and their transitions that smooth. Chum is Best Chum, a rambunctious sort, a horse with an engaging personality that seems to transcend any raucous behavior he may display. Nelsen describes Chum as a “Good Boy.” A Florida-bred, Best Chum was recently honored by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association for being the Run for the Ribbons’ horse show’s High Point earner.

However, ascendency and achievement in the hunter classes isn’t the only discipline in which the 15-year-old has enjoyed success. Best Chum earned $155,256 at the racetrack, with the preponderance of his 54 lifetime starts coming in allowance races. The bay son of Semoran, out of the Chumming broodmare Miss Duffy, who ran in the money 15 times from 32 starts, was bred, campaigned and trained by Lloyd Lockhart, who passed away in March 2016. He raced for seven years, making his last start as an 8-year-old, said thoroughbred trainer Laurine Fuller-Vargas, the owner, organizer and manager for the Run for the Ribbons horse show and Lockhart’s granddaughter. Fuller-Vargas knows Best Chum intimately, having seen the horse develop from an early age.

“I first saw him when he was a 2-year-old,” said Fuller-Vargas, who may have seen him initially while being broke in Florida. But her first recollection of seeing the colt with the playful personality was when her

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CHUM’S BEST RUN grandfather was stabled at Monmouth Park. “My mom had him throughout his race career too. So, that’s really where I spent time with him, when my mom had her shedrow.”

Chum was consistent, earning his keep, running in the money in nearly half of his lifetime starts. But it wasn’t until he was a 4-year-old that he broke his maiden, competing at racetracks up-and-down the east coast. He was intact during his racing career, and his boisterous exuberance endeared him to the Lockhart family. FullerVargas really got to know Chum around her mother’s barn, when she trained the horse while her grandfather concentrated on his insurance business.

“Chum was always a character,” said Fuller-Vargas. “He was a stud until he was in my care at the farm (Cedar Lock Farm) down here. My grandfather didn’t like to geld anything, so he was always loud and made his presence known.”

It would take 16 starts before Chum was placed first, through a disqualification at Aqueduct, and he would finally break his maiden in his 19th time going postward, a 6-furlong maiden special weight race as a 4-year-old at Monmouth Park. The horse who placed second five times during his sophomore campaign, was hardly a source of frustration for the Lockhart family as he progressed through his conditions.

“My grandfather didn’t like to drop horses because he would be happy with seconds, thirds and fourths because that’s where he made a lot of his money,” said Fuller-Vargas. “A maiden is a horse’s best friend, especially at that level at Monmouth Park, when you run in a maiden special weight in that kind of company. He

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made so much money, keeping his maiden for as long as he did. That was something my grandfather was known for doing, keeping a horse where he felt they could win.”

It didn’t come as a surprise that Best Chum would find some level of success at a different discipline. He seemed to possess those qualities and attributes that would make one successful. He would train athletically in the mornings, so he would be prepared when it came to the afternoons, said Fuller-Vargas.

“He’s just always been an athletic horse in everything he’s done,” said Fuller-Vargas. “He’d go out and train tough every day. My grandfather always had confidence in him.”

It was that close personal bond, one that saw Best Chum become part of the Lockhart family, as it was with the other horses in their barn, said FullerVargas.

“They (his horses) were pets to him,” said Fuller-Vargas. “He didn’t have owners. They were his horses. Chum was paying for the ones who weren’t breaking their maidens.”

Best Chum retired sound at age nine, and like many of Fuller-Vargas’ grandfather’s horses, they would let the horseman know when they were ready to retire. The three generations of horsemen knew the string in their barn, what they were capable of, and chose the spots they ran in after careful consideration.

He would be altered at age 10, and Lloyd Lockhart toyed with the idea of bringing Best Chum back to the races, but with 18 months away from the racetrack, the decision was made to keep him retired. But Chum’s willingness to please and his athleticism kept his mindset open to any endeavor.

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“But just to humor my grandfather, we put the tack back on him (when he was nine) and sent him back to the track for two weeks,” said Fuller-Vargas. “I’m like, ‘He wants to be done.’ He went out there and trained and still did his thing. You could tell, he was like ‘Is this real.’ If we had run him again, he would be like, ‘I’ll do it.’”

Plans had called to make Best Chum a lead pony, and he was fitted with a western saddle, but he wasn’t having any of that, when the decision was made to start riding him English.

“I had my exercise rider get on him before me, I always do that,” . He’s never nasty. He’s willing up said Fuller-Vargas.

Best Chum made the most of to every jump you put him to. He’ll ask you a question, but if you say it’s ok, his new surroundings, and those around the barn including Fuller- he’ll go over anything. He’s been fun for me, for my very first horse to esVargas, would shower the multiple tablish a bond with. He’s gotten to know me as his person.

—Rebecca Nelson allowance winner with attention “We’ve seen him on his worst days,” said Fullerwhen time allowed.

“When Rebecca purchased him, that’s when he Vargas. “There was one place that wasn’t an ideal stayed into his routine,” said Fuller-Vargas, who almost home and we had to rehab him through that experikept Best Chum for herself. “He’s always been a good ence. He went to another person who was going to take boy. You could pull him out of a field with two months him as a lead pony because he had done lead pony off and get on him and he’d be a little fresh. And that’s work at the farm but nothing on the track. They took him down, and he had to get ponied off the track bethe way he was on the track.”

But before he found his forever home with Rebecca, cause he was so fresh. So, the people were like, ‘He’s Best Chum found himself at several other places where not going to be a lead pony.’ We took him back to the things just weren’t working out. It was about finding the farm. Rebecca was his next home.”

Nelsen has been competing Best Chum in the hunter right fit for his personality, a place where he belonged. classes, and rode him in the inaugural Run for the Ribbons horse show in September of 2015.

“That’s what really made me decide to purchase him,” said Nelsen. “When I sat on him, and we rode, I was like, ‘This is my horse.’ He was just perfect. I kept him at Laurine’s farm the first month or so, and then moved him to where he is now, Tri-Color Stables, under Angie Chovnick.”

Best Chum’s willingness to please has kept things interesting for Nelsen, and the pair continues to evolve as a combination under Chovnick.

“He’s excited about his ride time,” said Nelsen.

“He’s never nasty. He’s willing up to every jump you put him to. He’ll ask you a question, but if you say it’s ok, he’ll go over anything. He’s been fun for me, for

“He’s excited about his ride time

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CHUM’S BEST RUN

I knew he “was ready.

At each show I took him to, he gave me his all.

I’d love to see if I could stick him in a couple of HITS classes and that’s our goal for next year.

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—Rebecca Nelson

my very first horse to establish a bond with. He’s gotten to know me as his person.”

However, Best Chum can still be a handful. It takes more than a little warm-up, to get him relaxed, said Nelsen.

“He does have a fresh sense about him,” said Nelsen.

“Overall, he doesn’t do anything bad. He’s such a good boy and so smooth to ride.”

Nelsen and Best Chum are working hard to build a strong foundation, taking the time they need in making sure they have their mechanics correct, and because of his age now that he’s 15-years-old. The rider sees the potential in the gelding with the rambunctious side, believing he’s capable of doing 2-foot 6-inch and 2-foot 9-inch classes at the horse shows.

“We’re concentrating on the lower stuff right now,” said Nelsen, about the gelding with the ‘I don’t care what you do to me personality.’

“It’s helping him find where his legs need to go, where to find his stride and how to find the spot and land.

He can have a heavy mouth when he’s not paying attention and we’re working on that part.”

It was a propitious start in the world of showing for Nelsen and Best Chum as they took home Grand Champion honors at their first Run for the Ribbons show this past September. It’s apparent that Best Chum is enjoying his new career and the results are the proof. Nelsen and Best Chum have been consistently at the top of their divisions, placing first, second and third, earning Grand Champion distinction in one of the classes at each show.

“When I bought my first horse, we were like, ‘We’re going to take this slow.’ I knew he was ready,” said Nelsen, about the horse who’s always willing to please and loves peppermints. “At each show I took him to, he gave me his all. I’d love to see if I could stick him in a couple of HITS classes and that’s our goal for next year.

But right now, we’re just going to stay with the local shows to build our confidence as a team and individually.

Because he does question you coming up to a fence, ‘Am I going, am I not, like what’s happening here.’”

The concept for Run for the Ribbons came about nearly two years ago because Fuller-Vargas thought it was something that Florida needed. A show specifically designated for thoroughbreds, in the Horse Capital of the World, in a place where there are so many training tracks, she said. The shows are held at Fuller-Vargas’ Cedar Lock Farm, five times a year, which eventually

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may expand to seven. The shows calendar year ends in February, but because of the increased popularity, especially among the horsemen based at Tampa Bay Downs, a show may be held in April.

“The first year was shaky,” said Fuller-Vargas. “It was taking a bunch of thoroughbred people and telling them, ‘Alright, now we’re going to put on a show, and this is what we’re supposed to do, and this is how we’re supposed to do it.’ It was really just me because I was the only one who had a hunter/jumper background, which was showing from when I grew up. Everyone else had literally never been to a show before.”

Although the show may have been a bit awkward at

first, it’s steadily improved as Fuller-Vargas and the others involved with Run for the Ribbons have identified what needs to be addressed to make things run smoother. All of the shows have been in held at Cedar Lock Farm with the exception of one that was held in Miami. There are now classes for breeds other than Thoroughbreds.

“There are things we forgot,” said Fuller-Vargas. “At one show we forgot the toilet. At each show, we’ve learned what not to forget. There was a list of things that we needed. The very first show, we had a big turnout, 30 horses at the show, but for the next few shows, the numbers tapered off. It was scary. The first year was a learning experience for everyone.”

The Jockey Club through its Thoroughbred Incentive Program, better known TIP, has been very supportive, and had been offered by the Run for the Ribbons show from its inception, said Fuller-Vargas. Best Chum has a TIP number and has earned points at every show, said Nelsen. The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association has also been a key sponsor since the shows inception, and continues to showcase the success of the program. ■

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■FLORIDA-BREDS AROUND THE COUNTRY ————By Race Type/Grade ————

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—STAKES RACES Win/Place/Show 3 3 3 3 4 4 6 3 3 4 3 3 4 5 4 8 5 4 3 4 3 4 4 3 3 4 4 3 3 6 7 3 4 5 6 3 4 4 3 3 5 6 3

Adios Charlie Crown of Thorns Lonhro (AUS) Tiz Wonderful Summer Bird West Acre Wildcat Heir Awesome of Course In Summation Sky Mesa Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Sky Mesa City Zip Congrats Mr. Sekiguchi Black Mambo With Distinction Kantharos Wildcat Heir Gottcha Gold Uncle Mo Munnings Circular Quay Repent Uncle Mo In Summation Northern Afleet Big Drama Flashy Bull Burning Roma Bwana Charlie Pomeroy Gottcha Gold Leading the Parade Wildcat Heir More Than Ready Munnings Medaglia d'Oro High Cotton Imperialism Heatseeker (IRE) Burning Roma Tizway

Sheer Drama/Madison S. (G1)

Breeder

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Unlimited Pleasure Magical Mist In the Gold Unbridled Salt Greenstreet Sunny Again Courtly Choice The Church Lady Formal Desire Sweetness 'n Light Miss Tullamore Dew Family Plan Aidan Lemon Drop Girl Fly Apple Shu Sexy Stockings True Glitter Daylight Time Bayou Mist How Ya Doing Abiding Lovely Dream Angel of Bataan Discreet Chat Candlelightdinner Back to Basics Win Approval Platinum Tiara Park Tavern Riveting Drama Olivia's Affair Soi Disant Star Brook Killisnoo Courtly Choice Habiboo Lovely Dream Mediation (IRE) Sky Gazer Royal Hint Seraphic Too Riveting Drama She's Sensational

Ocala Stud Woodford Thoroughbreds Live Oak Stud John A. DeVault III & Sue S. DeVault Richard Shultz Gilbert G. Campbell Versatile Thoroughbreds LLC Ciaran Dunne & Amy Dunne Lynne Boutte & Chris Boutte Y-Lo Racing Stables LLC Dianne D. Cotter Glen Hill Farm Donald R. Dizney Dr. K. K. Jayaraman MD & Dr. Vilasini Devi Jayaraman MD Bridlewood Farm Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Curtis Mikkelsen & Patricia Horth/Gordon Reiss & Lindie Reiss Vaughan Heard Orlando Martinez Wynn Jolley & Mary Jolley Gilbert G. Campbell France Weiner & Irwin J. Weiner Lisa McGreevy Woodford Thoroughbreds Ocala Stud Ocala Stud Live Oak Stud M375 Thoroughbreds Inc. Nick de Meric & Jaqui de Meric Harold L. Queen Wayne McFarland Ramiro Rosas Medina Sherry R. Mansfield & Kenneth H. Davis Lambholm Versatile Thoroughbreds LLC Hardacre Farm LLC France Weiner & Irwin J. Weiner Vegso Racing Stable Patricia Generazio Shade Tree Thoroughbreds Inc Katherine Devall & Heatseeker Syndicate Harold L. Queen Farm III Enterprices LLC

5/28/16 5/28/16 5/23/16 5/23/16 5/22/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/20/16 5/20/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/13/16 5/13/16 5/13/16 5/8/16 5/8/16 5/8/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 4/24/16 4/23/16 4/17/16 4/17/16 4/16/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16

Catalina Red/Churchill Downs S. (G2)

Track Off ID Pos Race Name BEL AP PID PID SA PIM SA SA PIM BEL PIM PIM CD MTH GP GP GP GP GP GP PRX CD HST PRX CD CD CD GP EVD CD CMR CT CMR CMR LRC TAM TAM TAM TAM TAM TAM KEE TAM

2 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 3 2 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2

Grade/ Value Earngs

Paradise Creek S. $100,000 Arlington Classic S. 3/$100,000 Tom Ridge S. $100,000 Tom Ridge S. $100,000 Californian S. 2/$200,345 Maryland Sprint H. 3/$150,000 Kona Gold S. 2/$201,035 Mizdirection S. $80,035 Chick Lang S. $100,000 Vagrancy H. 3/$147,000 Hilltop S. $100,000 Hilltop S. $100,000 Unbridled Sidney S. $63,433 Decathlon S. $74,500 Bull Gator S. $75,000 Bull Gator S. $75,000 Bull Gator S. $75,000 Miss Gracie H. $75,000 Miss Gracie H. $75,000 Miss Gracie H. $75,000 Parx Derby $100,000 Churchill Downs S. 2/$500,000 George Royal S. $50,000 Parx Derby $100,000 Pat Day Mile S. 3/$250,000 Churchill Downs S. 2/$500,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic S. 1/$500,000 Honey Ryder S. $75,000 Equine Sales Oaks $75,000 La Troienne S. 1/$300,000 Clasico Prensa Hipica S. 3/$33,360 Robert Hilton Memorial S. $100,000 Copa de Jose Diego S. 3/$40,600 Copa de Jose Diego S. 3/$40,600 Los Angeles S. 3/$100,000 Sophomore Turf S. $75,000 Hiltn Grdn Inn/Hmptn Inn & Suites Spr $75,000 Tampa Turf Classic S. $75,000 Stnhedge Fm Sth Sophmor Fillies S. $75,000 Ocala Breeders' Sales Sophomore S. $75,000 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf S. $75,000 Madison S. 1/$300,000 Sophomore Turf S. $75,000

Wild Dude/Kona Gold S. (G2)

$20,000 $10,340 $20,000 $10,000 $120,000 $90,000 $120,000 $9,480 $10,000 $15,000 $60,000 $20,000 $5,380 $7,500 $46,500 $15,000 $7,500 $46,035 $14,850 $7,425 $60,000 $297,600 $10,000 $20,000 $45,500 $96,000 $95,000 $7,275 $15,000 $29,700 $3,336 $20,000 $23,548 $4,060 $20,000 $45,000 $45,000 $45,000 $45,000 $45,000 $45,000 $180,000 $15,000

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—STAKES Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name Fast Flying Rumor Fundamental Valueable Charmer Epic Journey Josdesanimaux Calculator Second Mate Alfredo Romana Cement Clement Chief Attraction Extravagant Kid Promotional Daring Kathy Magnificent Margo Big John B Grande Shores Guns Loaded Reporting Star Brothersofthetime Fellowship World Approval Iron Rob Redneck Humor Ballet Diva Extravagant Kid D''cajun Cat Colombian Queen Bullet Gone Astray Sorryaboutnothing Abiding Star

Sex Age Sire G C F G F C C H G F G F M F G H G G G C G C G F G G F C C C

4 4 3 3 4 4 3 5 5 3 3 4 5 4 7 8 5 6 5 3 4 3 5 3 3 5 3 3 3 3

West Acre Arch Value Plus J P's Gusto Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) In Summation Mizzen Mast More Than Ready Limehouse Forty Grams Kiss the Kid Artie Schiller Wildcat Heir Congrats Hard Spun Black Mambo D'wildcat Circular Quay Bob and John Awesome of Course Northern Afleet Twirling Candy Da Stoops Hear No Evil Kiss the Kid D'wildcat Big Drama Gone Astray Repent Uncle Mo

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Track Off Date ID Pos Race Name

Silver Scandal Halo's Verse Charm Spell Golden Horseshoe Jost d'Oro Back to Basics Second Offense Cat in the Tree Gouge But Mommy Pretty Extravagant Instant Thought Dare to Mambo Holy Miss Baldomera Sexy Stockings One in the Chamber Classic Beauty Hostility Go Girlfriend Go Win Approval Cold Blooded Dame Sylvieguilhem Dame Sylvieguilhem Pretty Extravagant Rabiadella On the Dole Permanent Makeup Royal Card Abiding

Gilbert G. Campbell Glen Hil Farm Big C Farm Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Palm Beach Racing II LLC Ocala Stud El Batey Farm LLC Gilbert G. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. John A. DeVault III George Bolton Vicino Racing Stable Glen Hill Farm John Eaton & Steve Laymon Baccari Bloodstock Carolin Von Rosenberg DVM & Prince Farm Brylynn Farm Inc. Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Equest Thoroughbreds Inc. Gilbert G. Campbell Marion G. Montanari Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Live Oak Stud John C. Pereira Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Vicino Racing Stable Eico Stable Harold L. Queen Joe Carroll & Kris Carroll Woodford Thoroughbreds Gilbert G. Campbell

4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/4/16 4/3/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 3/26/16 3/20/16 3/20/16 3/19/16 3/19/16 3/19/16 3/19/16 3/19/16 3/13/16 3/12/16

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’s Association •Lonny Powell – CEO, Executive Vice President •Brock Sheridan – Editor-in-Chief •Tammy Gantt – Associate Vice President, Membership Services, Events Director, Contributing Editor, Industry and Community Affairs 68 THE FLORIDA HORSE • AUGUST 2016

Adena Springs South •Declan Doyle – Director of Stallion Seasons & Sales Gulfstream Park •Michael Costanzo – Claims Clerk •Peter Aiello IV – Track Announcer Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park •Heather Belmonte – Executive Assistant

TAM TAM TAM TAM TAM AQU TAM TAM TAM TAM TAM TAM TAM WRD SA GP SA GP GP GP FG SA SUN GP GP FG GP GP SA LRL

2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 1

Grade/ Value Earngs

Hiltn Grdn Inn/Hmptn Inn & Suits Spr $75,000 Tampa Turf Classic S. $75,000 Stnhedg Fm th Sophmor Fillies S. $75,000 Ocala Breeders' Sales Sophomore S. $75,000 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf S. $75,000 Carter H. 1/$400,000 Sophomore Turf S. $75,000 Hiltn Grdn Inn/Hmptn Inn & Suits Spr $75,000 Tampa Turf Classic S. $75,000 Stnhedg Fm th Sophmor Fillies S. $75,000 Ocala Breeders' Sales Sophomore S. $75,000 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf S. $75,000 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf S. $75,000 Wilma Mankiller Memorial S. $50,850 Tokyo City Cup S. 3/$100,690 Sir Shackleton S. $100,000 San Simeon S. 3/$101,380 Appleton S. 3/$200,000 Sir Shackleton S. $100,000 Xpressbet.com Florida Derby 1/$2,000,000 Muniz Memorial H. 2/$300,000 San Pedro S. $79,695 Bill Thomas Memorial S. $100,000 Any Limit S. $75,000 Spectacular Bid S. $75,000 Colonel Power Overnight S. $50,000 Any Limit S. $75,000 Spectacular Bid S. $75,000 Pasadena S. $79,845 Private Terms S. $80,000

Ocala Breeders’ Sales •Tom Ventura – President •Kevin Honig – Mutuels Tampa Bay Downs •Allison DeLuca – Racing Secretary Breeder •Rick Heatter Trainers •Todd Pletcher •Chuck Simon

$15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $80,000 $7,500 $7,500 $7,500 $7,500 $7,500 $5,625 $5,625 $10,000 $60,000 $61,380 $60,000 $120,280 $9,900 $95,000 $60,000 $46,800 $60,000 $46,035 $14,550 $4,800 $7,425 $7,275 $9,540 $45,000

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Sex Age Sire H F C M F G C F G F H

5 4 4 6 3 6 4 3 3 3 6

D'wildcat Kantharos West Acre Wildcat Heir Sky Mesa City Place In Summation Eskendereya Pomeroy Corinthian Medaglia d'Oro

Dam

Breeder

Date

Amelia Island Sydney's Kiss Sunny Again Marbleous Routine Family Plan Chelle Spendabuck Back to Basics Unicorn Kid Soi Disant Gran Senorita Sunshine Song

Red Oak Stable A. Francis Vanlangendonck & Barbara Vanlangendonck Gilbert G. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Marty Hershe Glen Hill Farm Maria M. Haire Ocala Stud Sally J. Andersen L. Richard Kent & John Waterman Ramiro Rosas Medina Arindel Farm Gaye Swartz

3/12/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/6/16 3/6/16 3/5/16 3/5/16

Track Off ID Pos Race Name GP GP AQU GP TAM AQU SA CMR AQU FG OP

2 2 2 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 2

Grade/ Value Earngs

Silks Run S. $75,000 Captiva Island H. $75,000 Tom Fool H. 3/$200,000 Captiva Island H. $75,000 Florida Oaks 3/$155,000 Tom Fool H. 3/$200,000 San Carlos S. 2/$301,035 Dia de la Mujer S. 2/$32,760 Jimmy Winkfield S. $125,000 Allen Black Cat LaCombe Memorial Overnight $50,000 Hot Springs S. $100,000

$14,400 $14,550 $40,000 $7,275 $20,000 $20,000 $36,000 $19,001 $25,000 $9,600 $20,000

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show Horse Name Far Out West In Mid Heir Uncle Vinny It''s Macaroni Mochima To the Flag Syrisong Miss Mandate Performance Bonus Rifle Talk Deland Foolhardy Bold Contender Bold Animaux Miami Kid E. On the River Chosen Heir Appealing Julia Devil''s Wildcat Nopalito Extreme Caution Congratulate Me Valueable Charmer Kantune Uncle Jimmy Key to the Highway Seventyseven Ilene Wild Twist Rosebud''s Tiger Southern Portrait Gasupthejet Hammer the Bay Thinking of Girls Thundergram Set of J''s Wildwood Dancer Savio Spa Town Parade Kitai Do Not Enter Yooou Den Lucky Player Mystic Strike Mumbles Mestizo Laugh It Up No Flowers

Sex Age Sire G M C M F M F F C G C G F G G G G F F G F C F C C F F F F F G G G G G G G M F G F G H G G M M

4 6 3 5 4 5 4 4 4 3 4 6 3 4 3 5 7 4 3 4 4 3 3 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 7 8 5 5 4 3 5 4 5 4 4 7 3 3 5 5

Dam

West Acre Slick and True Wildcat Heir Rhythm in Shoes Uncle Mo Arealhotlover City Zip Spring Mambo Wildcat Heir Starship Squaw Circular Quay My Allegiance Exchange Rate Syriana's Song Pioneerof the Nile Baba's Mandate Discreetly Mine Unlimited Pleasure Majestic Warrior Ravia Gottcha Gold Star Brook Leading the Parade Dauntless Strong Contender Special Wife Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Bold Maiden Awesome of Course Sloaney Montbrook Countess Kelly Wildcat Heir Kombat Kate With Distinction Successful Verdict D'wildcat Devil's Affair Two Step Salsa Haut Monde Value Plus Hometown Discount Congrats Fantasy Forest Value Plus Charm Spell Kantharos Our Tune Uncle Mo Cookngoodlookn Keyed Entry Usual Manner Seventysevenstreet Sunshine Jean Wildcat Heir Rhythm in Shoes In Summation Rosebud's Ridge Munnings Southern Tour Mr. Sekiguchi Onaccountofyou Half Ours Quelle Surprise Speightstown Flashy Frolic Graeme Hall Parental Uproar Wildcat Heir Twisted Truth Pomeroy Dancing Elaine Saint Anddan Foret Leading the Parade Saratoga Hopeful Strong Hope O Kudsai Keyed Entry My Favorite Rose Kiss the Kid Carolina Girl Lookin At Lucky Janetstickettocats Smart Strike Mystic Rhythms Two Step Salsa Beautifully City Place Colebrook Fighter Straight Faced E Major Scat Daddy A Kiss Away

Breeder

Track Date

ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Gilbert G. Campbell New Farm Gilbert G. Campbell Hardacre Farm LLC Laurence Leavy Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Goldmark Farm LLC Jack T. Hammer Ocala Stud Mr. & Mrs. Irwin J. Weiner Sherry R. Mansfield & Kenneth H. Davis Lambholm Downtown Bloodstock Partnership Family Broodmares IV LLC Brenda Kay Jones Versatile Thoroughbreds LLC Luis de Hechavarria Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds LLC Jeremy Richards & Amy Richards Get Away Farm John E. Shaw Woodford Thoroughbreds Big C Farm Susan Kahn Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Sorrento Oaks Farm Inc. Efrain Diaz New Farm Herman Wilensky B.P.N. Molly Lightner & Joclyn Helmbrecht Haras Santa Maria de Araras S.A. Robert A Murphy & Dr. Sandy L. Price-Murphy Stanley Boileau Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson John Santina Warren Miller Sherry L. Finn Linda Schroetlin Janis Cross Cubbage Destiny Oaks of Ocala Peter Vegso Racing Stable Cheryl Magana Sharon Biamonte & Nancy Economy Adam Parker & Suzette Parker Carson Springs Farm

5/30/16 5/30/16 5/30/16 5/30/16 5/30/16 5/28/16 5/28/16 5/28/16 5/28/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/25/16 5/24/16 5/24/16 5/23/16 5/23/16 5/22/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/20/16 5/20/16 5/18/16 5/18/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/13/16 5/13/16 5/13/16 5/13/16 5/12/16 5/12/16 5/8/16 5/8/16 5/8/16 5/7/16 5/7/16

PRX MNR MTH FL TDN PRX PRX WO BEL MD CMR CBY CD CBY CMR IND PID PID SRP TDN ARP CBY DEL CD MNR DEL CT CT MNR MNR WRD LS TDN AP LS AP CMR BEL BEL AP LAD EVD WNT LS LS SRP AP

1 2 2 3 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 2 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 1

$58,948 $24,096 $47,000 $17,000 $23,000 $54,744 $54,744 $68,969 $77,000 $3,700 $12,453 $30,000 $46,935 $30,000 $11,410 $15,000 $28,340 $29,600 $19,500 $26,500 $14,500 $30,000 $36,125 $49,592 $15,876 $36,125 $24,500 $24,500 $15,876 $15,876 $20,900 $23,000 $28,000 $35,640 $23,000 $35,640 $12,245 $80,000 $80,000 $43,560 $20,780 $24,700 $14,550 $22,000 $22,000 $21,546 $33,000

Earngs $31,200 $5,020 $10,000 $1,700 $2,300 $30,600 $10,200 $6,446 $7,700 $2,183 $7,223 $18,000 $25,920 $6,000 $1,141 $3,000 $16,800 $2,800 $1,950 $2,450 $8,700 $18,000 $21,600 $8,640 $1,620 $3,960 $4,900 $2,450 $9,396 $3,240 $12,492 $13,740 $15,600 $19,800 $4,580 $3,630 $7,555 $48,000 $16,000 $3,630 $12,000 $4,800 $9,000 $4,340 $2,387 $12,600 $19,800

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Sex Age Sire

Misia Sekiguchi Alphabets Tuff Gal Crichlow Alley To the Flag Grab the Cash Uncle Jimmy Beeline Express Ima Wildcat Charleston Pier Grant Corner the Market Yes by Gold No Totti No Party Queena Esther Mama Joyce Sunnysammi Doubly Distinct Bourbon Street Boy Pinson Benny''s Diamond To the Flag Discreet Lover Sudden Tempest Karfagen Expected Ruler Wildwood Dancer Union Grace Durbayan My Love Venezuela Whogoosedthemoose Impulse Idea Oration Animal Instinct Charleston Pier Ray''swarrior Benny''s Bullet Queena Esther Charlotte Amalie Bourbon Street Boy

By My Side Tripmeister Da''s Legacy Carolina Gold Takeit Tothe Limit Runaway Que We''re All Set Hy Riverside Doubly Distinct To the Flag Forest Mist Stallwalkin'' Dude Wildcat Runner Da''s Legacy Souper Lucky

By My Side Lock N Roll Beeline Express Benny''s Bullet Lift Me Up E Lizzy Chatt Hills Jamie''s Dancer Idon''tknogoaskanni Hectors Pride

M M F M F C M G C G M G F F F F G G C F M C M G C G C G F F M G G C C M F F G M G G F G G G C G M G G C G G M G M M C M F F M G

5 7 4 5 4 3 5 4 4 6 5 4 3 3 3 4 5 3 3 4 5 3 5 4 3 4 3 3 4 4 6 5 4 4 4 5 3 4 3 6 4 7 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 4 6 4 7 5 6 5 5 5 3 5 4 4 8 5

Dam

Mr. Sekiguchi Lerma Alphabet Soup Peppermint Bay Flower Alley Oakwood Park Circular Quay My Allegiance Demaloot Demashoot Mesmerizing Uncle Mo Cookngoodlookn Gimmeawink Northbound Express Wildcat Heir Ima Wild Pussycat Circular Quay Perfectly Wild Put It Back Haviland With Distinction Legacy's Silver Yesbyjimminy C B T Dan's Girl Pleasant Strike Dean's List Roman Ruler Speaking of Time First Dude Harbin First Defence In Awe With Distinction My Scarlet Angel Greatness Brandy O'Brien Majestic Warrior Celtic Song Benny the Bull Drippingindiamonds Circular Quay My Allegiance Repent Discreet Chat High Cotton Pace Mate Montbrook Unseen Power Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Expected Pleasures Pomeroy Dancing Elaine In Summation Eva's Way Yesbyjimminy Albright Scat Daddy Gold Point Gal Spring At Last Melo Sophie Tiltam Spring Vale Spring At Last Miz Betty Grace Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Silver Lisa Circular Quay Perfectly Wild Majestic Warrior Mary Alex Benny the Bull Montana Jordana Roman Ruler Speaking of Time Rockport Harbor Moloko Greatness Brandy O'Brien The Kaiser Shaye Alone High Cotton Lucky Trip City Place She's a Sweetiepie Wildcat Heir Promenade Road Wildcat Heir Miss Shoplifter Leading the Parade Killisnoo With Distinction True Glitter Macho Uno Sarcasm With Distinction My Scarlet Angel Circular Quay My Allegiance Forestry Misty Tab City Place Chelle Spendabuck Wildcat Heir Pretty Springs City Place She's a Sweetiepie Giant's Causeway Slewfoundmoney The Kaiser Shaye Alone Double Honor Camilles Castle Gimmeawink Northbound Express Benny the Bull Montana Jordana Two Step Salsa So Cheerful Majestic Warrior Ampsterdam Intidab Impertinent Music Hal's Image Good Dancing The Daddy Sweet Davia Cowtown Cat Your Gorgeous

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Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Bridlewood Farm Kenneth E. Proctor & Barbara Proctor Eugene Melnyk Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Marilyn McMaster Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Arilda Barroso Red Oak Stable William P Sorren Pia M. Kirkham Kelly Warhurst Mari George Mighty White Stallion LLC Chris Compton Dizney Double Diamond LLC Rick Sutherland Emerald Pastures Corp.

Marty Hershe & Galloping Acres Farm Bonnie Heath Farm LLC Gregg James Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Woodford Thoroughbreds Savanna Run Farm Ann Hendy Liam Benson Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson Buddy Jones Paul Murray Watson Orlyana Farm Ric Deg Farm & Luisa Degwitz Bruno Schickedanz Donarra Thoroughbreds LLC Anthony Robinson William P Sorren Alex Lieblong & JoAnn Lieblong William Beaty Shari Beaty & Joan Tennant Chris Compton Marilyn McMaster Marty Hershe & Galloping Acres Farm Frank Bertolino Ocala Stud Francis Mc Donnell Rustlewood Farm Inc. Craig L. Wheeler & Barry Berkelhammer Lambholm Curtis Mikkelsen& Patricia Horth Gordon Reiss & Lindie Reiss Amy Dunne Emerald Pastures Corp.

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Michael Anthony Rodriguez Maria M. Haire Ponder Hill Inc. Francis Mc Donnell Live Oak Stud Frank Bertolino Lloyd W. Lockhart Arilda Barroso William Beaty Shari Beaty & Joan Tennant Midwest Thoroughbreds Inc. BryLynn Farm Inc. George W. Brown Rose Family Stables LTD Henry C. Follette Red Sunset Farm

5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 5/3/16 4/28/16 4/24/16 4/23/16 4/23/16 4/23/16 4/23/16 4/22/16 4/22/16 4/20/16 4/19/16 4/17/16 4/16/16 4/16/16 4/16/16 4/15/16 4/15/16 4/15/16 4/15/16 4/15/16 4/13/16 4/13/16 4/12/16 4/12/16 4/11/16 4/8/16 4/7/16 4/6/16 4/5/16 4/5/16 4/5/16 4/4/16 4/3/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 3/30/16 3/29/16 3/27/16 3/27/16 3/27/16 3/22/16 3/22/16 3/22/16 3/21/16 3/21/16 3/19/16 3/19/16 3/17/16 3/16/16 3/15/16 3/15/16 3/13/16 3/13/16 3/13/16 3/13/16 3/13/16 3/12/16

IND FON MNR PRX TDN BTP TUP FL PEN SAF FON FON CMR PRX KEE KEE MVR TUP KEE PRX PRX PRX FON CT KEE HAW CT CMR KEE PRX MVR PRX KEE PEN OP SUN PRX WRD TUP CMR FON FON CT SUN CMR GP GP MVR PRX MVR PRX PRX FON PRX CMR TAM TUP SUN FON LRL GP GP LRL AQU

2 3 3 3 1 3 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 1 3 1 2 2 3 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 3 3 1

$15,000 $8,000 $15,552 $52,500 $25,500 $13,500 $16,400 $17,000 $30,680 $2,304 $8,000 $8,000 $11,463 $56,080 $60,845 $62,848 $19,500 $14,280 $59,585 $53,000 $53,000 $56,080 $7,000 $24,500 $55,595 $20,000 $24,500 $12,245 $62,380 $55,244 $24,500 $66,804 $55,355 $29,500 $79,000 $31,395 $49,470 $22,990 $14,000 $12,202 $8,000 $8,000 $24,000 $27,930 $12,204 $42,800 $42,800 $18,000 $51,500 $18,000 $60,840 $67,820 $8,000 $63,140 $12,453 $20,300 $14,000 $31,395 $7,000 $42,000 $39,800 $39,800 $42,000 $67,000

$3,000 $960 $1,620 $5,610 $14,700 $1,350 $1,607 $10,200 $3,245 $432 $960 $960 $1,303 $5,610 $5,150 $5,320 $10,800 $2,744 $10,300 $30,600 $10,200 $5,610 $4,200 $15,190 $30,900 $4,000 $2,450 $1,303 $5,320 $10,200 $1,750 $7,654 $30,900 $3,245 $47,400 $6,907 $10,200 $2,273 $2,716 $2,490 $4,800 $1,600 $14,280 $6,145 $7,223 $27,000 $4,780 $3,600 $10,200 $1,800 $36,000 $5,610 $1,600 $12,000 $1,245 $2,300 $2,688 $6,907 $4,200 $23,940 $9,560 $4,780 $4,620 $40,200

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Sex Age Sire F C G G C M C M G G G M

4 4 5 6 4 5 4 7 4 5 9 5

Congrats Wildcat Heir Tapit Indy Wind Majestic Warrior Graeme Hall Tiznow Bwana Charlie Flashstorm With Distinction Red Bullet Circular Quay

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Royal Card Sayes Court Silver Clipper Sisa Mary Alex Ruby Park Ruban Bleu Olivia's Affair Repentina My Scarlet Angel Lil Punkindo My Allegiance

Woodford Thoroughbreds Bill Rasco & Ben-D Farm South LLC Alfonso N. Figliolia Hardacre Farm LLC Alex Lieblong & JoAnn Lieblong Eugene Melnyk Haras Santa Maria de Araras S.A. Wayne McFarland Northwest Stud Emerald Pastures Corp.

Adena Springs Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

3/11/16 3/11/16 3/11/16 3/8/16 3/5/16 3/4/16 3/4/16 3/4/16 3/4/16 3/2/16 3/2/16 3/1/16

LRL DED AQU HOU OP CMR OP CMR PEN MVR MVR PRX

2 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 2

$43,386 $35,310 $67,000 $23,000 $73,000 $9,010 $73,000 $9,010 $29,500 $18,000 $17,500 $52,500

$8,820 $3,795 $6,700 $13,620 $14,600 $5,226 $43,800 $1,802 $5,900 $3,600 $1,750 $10,200

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show Horse Name ILiana Star Elusive Speed Daisy Creek Yes Its Factual The Wife Knows Eklipsado Tamarack Smile Big One Fine Ride Wildcat Kelli Specialcnsydration Ana''s Pride Broadway Broad Wicked Attitude A Song of Faith Two for the Money Igo Forgreatness Live Forever Draft Beer Animal Quiet Faction Cat Sherpa Rhapsody in Red Is Everybody Happy Lu Lu Laura Loud and Lovely Red Hot Looks Bill''s Passion Jax La Zoraya Lori''s Folly Two to One Get Lit N Get Wild Dangerous Bend Game Lad Mesojet Empire Cat Wild Good A Great Vice Miss Knucklehead Conquest Wildcat Imperial Rose Tamarack Dixie Kicks Special Risk Something Naughty El Venue

Sex Age F F F F F G F F G F F F F F F G C F G G C C F C F F C G F F C F G C C C G C F F C F F F F F C

3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 4 2 2 3 2 4 2 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 2 4 3 2 2 3 3

Sire Line of David Exclusive Quality Montbrook Yes It's True Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) First Dude Giant Oak Big Drama Awesome of Course Wildcat Heir Artie Schiller Exclusive Quality High Cotton Put It Back Crown of Thorns Circular Quay Greatness Pioneerof the Nile Tapizar Iqbaal Wildcat Heir Kantharos Mineshaft Maclean's Music Circular Quay Maimonides Bring the Heat Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) City Zip Biondetti With Distinction Yesbyjimminy Wildcat Heir Big Drama J P's Gusto Ghostzapper Cowtown Cat Pomeroy Greatness Big Drama Wildcat Heir Imperialism Giant Oak Exclusive Quality Eskendereya Into Mischief Tale of the Cat

Dam Colcon Kigh Tee Note d'Amour Baldomera My Wife Koni's Penty Wild Meggie Meg Margaret Smile Mystical Time Earthquake Ride Luna Dorada Grey Appeal Aggressive Broad Switchin Lanes Trolley's Last Key West Appeal Glory City Smokin Again Henny Blues I Be a Cover Girl Zooming By Proud Brush Lucky Alizea Water in the Pond Arealhotlover Express Angel Take a Look Premier Roma Flexible Princess Bridge to Gold Kissa Melissa Stop the Wedding Moonlit Star Kickapoo Princess Betty's Courage Miz Betty Grace Empire's Gold Tea Dancer Small Vices Groove Maker Vee Cee Dancing Miracle Miss Wild Meggie Meg Dixie Dudette Wicked Uno Gracious Assault Great Venue

Breeder

Date

Chris Compton Lucio Fernandez Alan Amato & Mike Galinski BryLynn Farm Inc. Frank Bertolino Steve Tucker & Michelle Jackson Sherry R. Mansfield & Kenneth H. Davis Kinsman Farm Emmy Gaffney Susan Kahn Farm III Enterprices LLC Ponder Hill Inc. Mary A. Hohensee Carl Walker Woodford Thoroughbreds A. Francis Vanlangendonck & Barbara Vanlangendonck Jennifer Hayford Woodford Thoroughbreds Harriet Finkelstein & Hartley de Renzo Thoroughbreds Wesley Ward Ann Ferrentino Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman E. Paul Robsham Stable LLC Glen Hill Farm Gilbert G. Campbell Karen J. Silva Jared Cheeks Harold L. Queen Farm III Enterprices LLC Carlos Munoz Just For Fun Stable Robert B. Tillyer & Dr. Chet Blackey David Char A. Francis Vanlangendonck & Barbara Vanlangendonck Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Donarra Thoroughbreds LLC Wayne McFarland Blitchton Breeding LLC & Farm III Enterprises LLC Edward A. Seltzer Beverly Anderson & Marc Haisfield Debora Corral Morgan A. Francis Vanlangendonck & Barbara Vanlangendonck Shade Tree Thoroughbreds Inc Sherry R. Mansfield & Kenneth H. Davis Mike Mareina & Nathan Mitts GoldMark Farm LLC Christy Whitman Rustlewood Farm Inc.

5/30/16 5/30/16 5/30/16 5/30/16 5/30/16 5/29/16 5/29/16 5/29/16 5/29/16 5/28/16 5/28/16 5/28/16 5/28/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/25/16 5/25/16 5/25/16 5/25/16 5/25/16 5/25/16 5/25/16 5/25/16 5/23/16 5/22/16 5/22/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/21/16 5/20/16 5/19/16 5/19/16 5/18/16 5/18/16 5/18/16 5/18/16 5/15/16 5/15/16

Track ID MTH DEL PID PIM DEL GP MNR MTH GP GP WO GP GP CBY LAD CT GP CBY GP GP CD GP CT DEL GP MNR PID DEL GP GP PRX PID PID GP GP PIM ARP GP LAD BTP CD MNR MNR BEL BEL MNR CD

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

1 1 2 2 3 1 3 3 3 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 1 3 1 2 2 3 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 1

$34,120 $34,500 $31,590 $40,000 $34,500 $40,800 $13,818 $34,620 $40,800 $42,000 $67,220 $42,000 $42,000 $28,000 $19,180 $23,000 $37,200 $28,000 $40,000 $40,000 $47,904 $40,000 $23,000 $36,635 $55,000 $14,100 $27,930 $34,000 $55,000 $55,000 $51,000 $26,930 $26,930 $42,000 $42,000 $58,550 $9,700 $42,000 $19,510 $13,000 $39,105 $13,536 $13,536 $100,000 $100,000 $13,959 $45,092

$20,520 $20,400 $5,400 $8,400 $3,740 $25,800 $1,410 $3,600 $4,560 $25,800 $33,540 $8,760 $4,560 $16,800 $3,800 $4,580 $8,760 $3,080 $24,000 $8,000 $8,320 $4,000 $13,620 $20,400 $36,000 $2,820 $5,400 $6,800 $10,400 $5,400 $5,500 $16,200 $2,700 $25,800 $9,120 $10,500 $970 $4,560 $3,800 $7,930 $21,960 $8,178 $2,820 $20,000 $10,000 $8,178 $24,960

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Sex Age Sire F F C G G G G F F F G C C F C C G F F G F F F G F F M F G H C F F G G F F F C G F F C F M F F C C G F F F F G C F F G F F G G F

3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 4 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 8 3 3 3 3 3 3 8 3 3 5 3 2 3 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 2 3 3 8 3 2 2 2 3 4 3 3 3 3 2 3 4 2 4 4 3 3 2

Tizway First Dude Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Northern Afleet In Summation Da Stoops Midshipman Exclusive Quality Imperialism Gone Astray Tapizar Brooks 'n Down Astrology Hear No Evil Cowtown Cat Field Commission Summer Bird A. P. Warrior Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Cashel Castle Rock Hard Ten Artie Schiller Gone Astray Two Step Salsa Yesbyjimminy Big Drama Alke Unbridled's Song First Dude Loose Leaf Exclusive Quality Factum With Distinction Mineshaft Indy Wind Colonel John Exclusive Quality Line of David Crown of Thorns Shakespeare Adios Charlie Gone Astray Wildcat Heir Midshipman Alke Strong Contender Awesome of Course Adios Charlie Field Commission Pomeroy Cool Coal Man Into Mischief Artie Schiller Majestic Warrior Da Stoops Backtalk Uncle Mo Mineshaft Iqbaal Mass Media Flower Alley Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Tapit With Distinction

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Dam

Breeder

Date Track ID

Vindy City Dixieland Fantasy Just Livin a Dream Acadia Breeze Sweetly Valid Daylight Time Bon Caro Annie's Double Blue Flash Adalene Henny Blues Sexy Stockings Courriel Star in My Crown A True Star Glory Park My Disco Dancer Tiger On the Green Gamecents Darnquick Lildevil Lady Tropicana Lyrique Got Dimples Franconia Madam Hertfield Bucky's Prayer Mercedes Envoy Witch Princess British Event Stormy Start Maresa (IRE) Drivemecrazy Runaway Rizzi Bold Pegasus Abuela Esther (URU) Mystery Bullet Grey Appeal Colcon Ambition Unbridled Fiddle Wild in Manila Adalene Zooming By Linder's Lass Mercedes Envoy Special Wife Dobra Can Rianne Keep the Profit Siena's Splash Inaspecial Way Gracious Assault Shoppers Return Maiara Daylight Time Passeporta Therese Lucky Alizea I Be a Cover Girl Dance Special Oakwood Park Premier Roma Mutually Benefit Dare I Dream

Woodford Thoroughbreds Dizney Double Diamond LLC Patricia Generazio Dizney Double Diamond LLC Ocala Stud Vaughan Heard Darley & Rick Sutherland Donald Wilson Shadybrook Farm Inc. & William Lussky Murray Stroud Harriet Finkelstein & Hartley de Renzo Thoroughbreds Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Rick Sutherland Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Edward Seltzer Beverly Anderson & Tom Yarbrough Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman Linda S. Rosenblatt Family Broodmares III LLC Garth Bodkin & Kerry Reynells Alan Benning Inc. Woodford Thoroughbreds Janice Marilyn Clark Michael Vincent Laurato Matalona Thoughbreds LLC Gerald Bennett & Mary Bennett Shelley Goss Huber Dale Kalmar Brian Kalmar & Unbridled''s Song Syndicate Christine Weiss Ivey J. Surrency Brent Fernung Crystal Fernung & Casey Fernung-Bradford Gilbert G. Campbell Pedro Maestre Farm III Enterprises LLC Stud El Aguila Hickstead Farm Ponder Hill Inc. Chris Compton Woodford Thoroughbreds Allison Hill Roulston Dr. D. W. Frazier Murray Stroud Ann Ferrentino Helen Barbazon Joseph Barbazon Ryan Barbazon & Renee Barbazon Shelley Goss Huber Downtown Bloodstock Partnership Mr Amore Stables Destiny Oaks of Ocala John Foster Barbara Hooker & Field Commission Partnership River Run Farm Mary George Christy Whitman Craig L. Wheeler Just For Fun Stable Vaughan Heard Lynn Jones Angela M. Ingenito E. Paul Robsham Stable LLC Wesley Ward Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung Eugene Melnyk Harold L. Queen Glen Hill Farm Dr. Rick Erwin & Janet Erwin

5/15/16 5/15/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/14/16 5/13/16 5/12/16 5/12/16 5/12/16 5/11/16 5/11/16 5/11/16 5/11/16 5/10/16 5/8/16 5/8/16 5/8/16 5/8/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/7/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 5/6/16 5/5/16 5/1/16 5/1/16 5/1/16 5/1/16 5/1/16 5/1/16 4/30/16 4/29/16 4/29/16 4/29/16 4/29/16 4/29/16 4/28/16 4/28/16 4/28/16 4/27/16 4/27/16 4/25/16 4/25/16 4/24/16 4/24/16 4/23/16 4/21/16 4/21/16 4/21/16 4/21/16 4/19/16 4/17/16 4/17/16 4/17/16 4/16/16

GP GP GP GP MTH GP ASD TDN TDN SA GP GP IND GP MNR IND FP GP GP WNT GP LS TAM WO TAM TAM FON AP TAM TAM TAM GP SA SUD SUN GP GP BEL SUN FX TDN LRC KEE WO FON KEE GP GP KEE TAM WRD MNR GP GP GP GP LRC CT GP MVR MNR TAM TAM CMR

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

2 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 1 2 3 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 3 1

$37,800 $37,800 $40,200 $41,400 $35,560 $41,400 $11,760 $21,500 $21,500 $54,880 $43,000 $43,000 $33,280 $42,000 $13,536 $32,000 $9,280 $40,800 $37,200 $13,950 $40,800 $21,000 $23,000 $60,540 $23,000 $23,000 $6,200 $32,000 $20,600 $20,900 $20,900 $36,600 $57,380 $1,500 $21,525 $41,400 $41,400 $90,000 $21,525 $20,000 $21,500 $55,875 $57,756 $66,500 $6,200 $53,839 $37,800 $37,800 $44,150 $20,600 $20,988 $14,100 $37,200 $36,600 $37,200 $41,400 $45,345 $23,000 $41,400 $17,000 $14,100 $20,900 $20,900 $9,206

$8,760 $4,560 $25,800 $25,800 $7,200 $8,760 $1,200 $2,150 $2,150 $33,600 $10,800 $5,400 $6,400 $10,800 $1,410 $3,200 $4,800 $25,800 $8,760 $1,500 $4,560 $12,420 $13,900 $33,540 $4,600 $2,300 $3,720 $19,200 $4,600 $4,600 $2,300 $4,560 $6,720 $825 $12,915 $25,800 $9,120 $18,000 $2,153 $12,000 $12,900 $9,000 $9,960 $11,180 $744 $29,880 $9,120 $4,920 $26,650 $4,800 $11,736 $1,410 $9,120 $4,200 $9,120 $25,800 $27,000 $4,560 $8,760 $1,700 $8,319 $4,600 $2,300 $5,448

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name Major Drama Mumbles Mom''s On Strike Dangerous Dan Something Naughty Extreme Justice El Venue Rapid Red Cat Ride Crown of Ambition Grandpa''s Indy Land Ho Banner Girl Dudette Leroisgoldanimal Devil''s Wildcat Malibu Princess Melody Girl Liana Star Conquest Harlequin Oh Great Idea Salsa Bay Shot Conquest See Ya Big City Dreamin Conquest Serenade Two for the Money Curves That Kick The Strip Lori''s Folly Major Drama Ms. Scarlet Fever The Wife Knows Equation High Dive Supah Czech Something Naughty Jordan''s Salsa Crichlow Alley Appealing Julia Bold Contender Bullish Bird Adens Dream Wild Good Lily Wildwood Dancer Candy Man Can Bill''s Passion Dark as Midnight Conquest Nitro Yankee Lass Dalmore Thehawkwilneverdie Better in Leather Ad Lutem Sheikh and Sleek Publicist La Dominadora Budding My Girl Corey Major Drama Big Changes Two for the Money

Sex Age Sire C G F G F G C C G C G C F F F F F F F C F G G C F F G C F C C F F F F C F G F F F G C C F G G G C G F C G F F F F F H F C C G

3 3 3 2 3 6 3 4 4 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 2 3 4 3 4 3 3 3 4 3 4 3 3 3 4 4 3 4 3 3 3 4 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 3 3 4 4

Big Drama Two Step Salsa First Dude Iqbaal Into Mischief Omega Code Tale of the Cat Circular Quay Candy Ride (ARG) Crown of Thorns Indy Wind Lonhro (AUS) Leading the Parade First Dude Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) D'wildcat Malibu Moon Unbridled's Song Line of David Harlan's Holiday J P's Gusto Two Step Salsa Big Brown Adios Charlie Iqbaal Unbridled's Song Circular Quay Fairbanks Quality Road With Distinction Big Drama Value Plus Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) In Summation Wildcat Heir Uncle Mo Into Mischief Two Step Salsa Flower Alley With Distinction Strong Contender Summer Bird Wildcat Heir Pomeroy Uncle Mo Pomeroy Lemon Drop Kid Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Midnight Lute High Cotton Yankee Gentleman Colonel John Pomeroy Archarcharch Midnight Lute Include Cowtown Cat Sarava Spring At Last Warrior's Reward Big Drama Midshipman Circular Quay

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Diva Dyna Beautifully Mom's Deputy Little Miss Julien Gracious Assault Lavender Twist Great Venue Laura's Minstrel Saoirse Cat Ambition Unbridled Abuela Esther (URU) Snow Cone Danceforcarol She's Our Angel Gold for My Gal Devil's Affair Royal Damsel Fashion Girl Colcon Time for a Crown Diablo's Madam Franconia Magna Heart Unlimited Pleasure Teriffany Sararegal Key West Appeal Lunachick Cottage Link Kissa Melissa Diva Dyna Frontier Franny My Wife Christy Love Victory Pool Supah Jackie Gracious Assault Rachel's Rose Oakwood Park Successful Verdict Special Wife Pheodora Missunitednations Tea Dancer Therese Dancing Elaine Snow Cone Premier Roma Pretty Imposing Dream Storm Blueyed Lass Silver Breeze Anniesgothebeat Ava Pie Ad Litem Sheikh's Serenade Tionesta Jennifer Kay Platinee Inspirational Diva Dyna Colorama Key West Appeal

Bryan Hilliard Cheryl Magana Courtney Meagher & Chad Meagher Wesley Ward Christy Whitman George Douglas Finora & Robin Finora Rustlewood Farm Inc. John Rio & Carole Rio Live Oak Stud Woodford Thoroughbreds Stud El Aguila Live Oak Stud Bryan R. Baker Destiny Oaks of Ocala Robyn Thompson Jeremy Richards & Amy Richards Kuehne Racing Donarra Thoroughbreds LLC & Taylor Made Stallions Inc. Chris Compton Prince Farm Louie Rogers Thoroughbreds LLC Michael Vincent Laurato GoldMark Farm LLC Ocala Stud Wesley Ward David. J. Lavoie & Unbridled''s Song Syndicate A. Francis Vanlangendonck & Barbara Vanlangendonck Rick Rudman Machmer Hall & Milan Kosanavich Just For Fun Stable Bryan Hilliard Arboritanza Racing LLC Jolane Weeks & Barbara Rehbein Frank Bertolino Centaur Farms Inc. New Farm Hickstead Farm Christy Whitman Rose Family Stable Ltd Eugene Melnyk Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds LLC Downtown Bloodstock Partnership Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman Laurence Leavy Blitchton Breeding LLC & Farm III Enterprises LLC Angela M. Ingenito Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson Live Oak Stud Harold L. Queen Patricia Generazio Janet Erwin Galen Ho''o Sally J. Andersen Lambholm Farm III GoldMark Farm LLC Live Oak Stud Linda Pastor & Robert Pastor Annie Martin Haras Santa Maria de Araras S.A. Woodford Thoroughbreds Bryan Hilliard Joanne Crowe & Joe Pickerrell A. Francis Vanlangendonck & Barbara Vanlangendonck

4/16/16 4/16/16 4/16/16 4/16/16 4/16/16 4/16/16 4/15/16 4/15/16 4/13/16 4/13/16 4/13/16 4/13/16 4/12/16 4/10/16 4/10/16 4/10/16 4/10/16 4/10/16 4/10/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/9/16 4/8/16 4/8/16 4/8/16 4/8/16 4/6/16 4/5/16 4/4/16 4/3/16 4/3/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 4/2/16 3/29/16 3/27/16 3/27/16 3/27/16 3/26/16 3/26/16 3/26/16 3/26/16 3/26/16 3/25/16 3/25/16 3/25/16 3/24/16 3/24/16 3/24/16 3/24/16 3/23/16 3/23/16 3/20/16 3/19/16 3/18/16 3/18/16

MVR LS OP LRL MNR GP OP OP GP SUN SUN GP MVR TAM TAM SUN GP GP AQU KEE SA WO GP WO KEE KEE CT CT OP PRX MVR TAM TAM TP CT LRL MVR CMR MVR TAM GP PRX FG GP SA HAW AIK TAM AQU OP FG SA PEN GG GP GP GP MVR GP AQU MVR OP CT

1 1 1 2 3 3 2 3 1 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2

$19,000 $21,000 $76,000 $41,320 $14,100 $36,600 $76,000 $76,000 $40,800 $21,525 $21,525 $40,800 $17,000 $20,900 $20,900 $21,525 $36,600 $36,600 $70,000 $53,329 $56,690 $59,516 $36,600 $59,516 $43,970 $53,880 $23,000 $23,000 $76,000 $62,500 $24,000 $22,700 $22,700 $13,540 $23,000 $42,520 $17,000 $9,117 $17,000 $20,300 $51,000 $50,500 $41,000 $41,000 $57,380 $20,000 $23,250 $20,600 $60,000 $75,000 $44,000 $56,345 $31,920 $26,468 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $18,000 $36,400 $60,000 $18,000 $75,000 $23,000

$10,200 $12,480 $45,600 $8,400 $1,410 $4,560 $15,200 $7,600 $25,800 $4,736 $2,153 $4,200 $1,700 $4,800 $2,500 $2,153 $4,560 $4,200 $7,000 $29,880 $33,600 $11,180 $4,560 $6,149 $24,600 $29,880 $4,580 $2,290 $45,600 $10,000 $3,400 $14,100 $4,600 $6,000 $13,740 $22,800 $3,400 $970 $1,700 $2,300 $6,000 $10,000 $8,200 $5,400 $6,720 $12,000 $15,000 $4,600 $12,000 $15,000 $26,400 $33,600 $5,700 $15,600 $24,000 $8,800 $4,400 $3,400 $4,360 $36,000 $3,400 $45,000 $4,580

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name Mom''s On Strike Zoot Suit Conquest Serenade Redmoor Minute Madness Jordan''s Salsa Rizzi''s Honors Second Mate Crown of Ambition Market Strength Leonardo Da Vinci Map Room Show Me Bold Contender Warranty Happily Ever Just Talkin Stranglehold Pinson Empire Cat Extreme Justice Liam''s Prince Good Genes Blind Ruckus Jack West Howling Wolf Blue Bahia D Q Rexster

Sex Age F C F F G G F C C C C G F F F F F G C G G G C G G G F G

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 6 4 3 3 3 3 3 3

Sire

Dam

Breeder

First Dude High Cotton Unbridled's Song Speightstown Gone Astray Two Step Salsa With Distinction Mizzen Mast Crown of Thorns Twirling Candy Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Artie Schiller Lemon Drop Kid Strong Contender Artie Schiller Smart Strike Midshipman Cool Coal Man Majestic Warrior Cowtown Cat Omega Code Northern Afleet Awesome of Course Da Stoops Majestic Warrior Yesbyjimminy Wildcat Heir Straight Man

Mom's Deputy Yes It's Valid Sararegal Chancery Lane Hurricane Ginger Rachel's Rose Runaway Rizzi Second Offense Ambition Unbridled Stellar Strength Top of the Noggin Holidaysatthefarm Apt to Star Special Wife Shoppers Return Happiness Is Sumthingtotalkabt Ambalika Celtic Song Empire's Gold Lavender Twist Princess Liam Precious Feather Daylight Time Great Humor Righteous Wolf Chocolate Brown Stormy Entrance

Courtney Meagher & Chad Meagher Summerfield & Rustlewood Farm David. J. Lavoie & Unbridled''s Song Syndicate Eugene Melnyk Circle S Ranch Rose Family Stable Ltd Pedro Maestre El Batey Farm LLC Woodford Thoroughbreds Carolin A. Von Rosenberg DVM Wendy Christ Kathie Haines & Elderbreds Inc. Glen Hill Farm Vegso Racing Stable Downtown Bloodstock Partnership Craig L. Wheeler Vegso Racing Stable Randall E. Lowe Lucio Fernandez Bonnie Heath Farm LLC Wayne McFarland George Douglas Finora & Robin Finora Sienna Farms LLC Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Vaughan Heard Kinsman Farm Constance E. Stawasz Dennis A. Drazin Nancy F Mills

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Date 3/17/16 3/16/16 3/13/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/12/16 3/11/16 3/11/16 3/11/16 3/11/16 3/11/16 3/10/16 3/10/16 3/10/16 3/9/16 3/6/16 3/5/16 3/5/16 3/5/16 3/4/16 3/4/16 3/3/16 3/3/16 3/3/16 3/2/16 3/1/16 2/28/16

Track ID FG GP GP FG GP CMR SA GP SUN GP GP SA GP GP GP TAM GP TP FG FON TAM FG GP GP GP MVR PRX CMR

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

3 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 3 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 3 2 3 1 2 3 1 3 1

$44,000 $47,000 $42,000 $41,000 $47,000 $11,410 $57,725 $40,000 $21,525 $40,000 $40,000 $56,690 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $20,300 $47,000 $12,894 $40,000 $6,200 $20,600 $37,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $17,000 $51,500 $9,699

$4,840 $31,000 $10,000 $24,600 $31,000 $2,282 $6,720 $24,000 $4,735 $8,000 $4,000 $6,720 $24,000 $8,000 $4,000 $2,300 $31,000 $6,000 $24,000 $744 $4,800 $4,070 $24,000 $8,400 $4,400 $10,200 $5,500 $5,625

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Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

KANTHAROS

WILDCAT HEIR Name

LEADING FLORIDA SIRES

WITH DISTINCTION

NA Stk Gr Earnings Strtrs Wnrs SW's Wins SW's Earnings

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg 2yo Avg Sold

2yo Avg

Farm Name

Sire Name

Wildcat Heir

Deceased

Forest Wildcat

$2,855,224

182

79

2

2

1

$2,922,261

Wild Dude

140,345.00

30

$31,050

32

$44,906

Kantharos

Ocala Stud

Lion Heart

$1,490,568

62

34

5

6

1

$1,893,908

X Y Jet

550,970.00

39

$25,877

25

$46,760

With Distinction

Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughb Storm Cat

$1,527,735

112

48

2

2

0

$1,549,026

We're All Set

109,100.00

12

$12,750

3

$36,667

High Cotton

Ocala Stud

Dixie Union

$1,280,502

128

45

2

2

0

$1,291,171

April Gaze

109,060.00

25

$24,364

35

$47,886

In Summation

Ocala Stud

Put It Back

$1,234,707

87

38

1

1

0

$1,235,237

Calculator

246,800.00

9

$11,889

14

$17,300

First Dude

Double Diamond Farm

Stephen Got Even

$1,178,212

67

32

1

1

0

$1,178,212

Flora Dora

91,250.00

36

$22,236

30

$47,400

Awesome of Course Ocala Stud

Awesome Again

$1,153,751

63

29

2

4

1

$1,153,751

Awesome Banner 270,835.00

8

$24,938

11

$32,545

Two Step Salsa

Get Away Farm

Petionville

$875,298

67

28

2

2

0

$881,429

Two Step Time

107,165.00

7

$10,571

8

$23,250

Exclusive Quality

Journeyman Stud

Elusive Quality

$847,691

85

34

0

0

0

$851,405

Dreaming of Neno 55,980.00

6

$4,983

9

$12,000

Gone Astray

Northwest Stud

Dixie Union

$800,629

61

22

1

1

0

$800,629

Three Rules

80,640.00

26

$19,862

24

$39,800

Big Drama

Bridlewood Farm

Montbrook

$793,857

47

27

0

0

0

$798,097

Determined Lady

77,660.00

9

$44,778

11

$37,364

Greatness

Prestige Stallions

Mr. Prospector

$653,785

52

24

0

0

0

$666,870

Great Smoke

72,810.00

3

$16,833

3

$75,000

Montbrook

Deceased

Buckaroo

$631,010

60

26

0

0

0

$638,015

Collin's Smile

59,670.00

Benny the Bull

Bridlewood Farm

Lucky Lionel

$571,859

49

24

0

0

0

$577,397

Benny's Diamond

91,150.00

7

$8,443

1

$35,000

West Acre

Deceased

Forty Niner

$554,315

19

10

2

2

1

$554,315

Always Sunshine 173,900.00

Burning Roma

Prestige Stallions

Rubiano

$550,400

29

19

1

1

1

$550,400

Sheer Drama

249,700.00

Yesbyjimminy

Bridlewood Farm

Yes It's True

$538,295

33

21

1

1

1

$539,693

Coppa

121,800.00

1

$8,000

4

$25,250

Adios Charlie

Ocala Stud

Indian Charlie

$379,588

23

11

0

0

0

$466,095

Conquest See Ya

72,735.00

22

$19,245

24

$42,571

Cool Coal Man

Journeyman Stud

Mineshaft

$453,126

38

19

0

0

0

$453,126

Matt King Coal

80,200.00

1

$2,500

4

$11,375

Hear No Evil

Ocala Stud

Carson City

$395,178

25

8

1

1

0

$395,178

Ballet Diva

1

$8,000

Flashstorm

Northwest Stud

Storm Cat

$311,862

27

13

0

0

0

$313,531

Abounding Legacy 51,080.00

11

$5,673

2

$6,700

J P's Gusto

Journeyman Stud

Successful Appeal

$301,367

17

9

0

0

0

$301,367

Inky Dinky Do

47,305.00

4

$17,750

3

$14,333

Wagon Limit

Bridlewood Farm

Conquistador Ciel

$298,364

10

4

1

1

1

$298,364

Delta Bluesman

219,100.00

1

$5,000

Silver Tree

Vegso Racing Stable

Hennessy

$237,996

23

7

0

0

0

$237,996

Tree Shaker

67,555.00

Concorde's Tune

Deceased

Concorde Bound

$164,531

20

8

1

1

0

$168,333

Grey by You

67,350.00

Crown of Thorns

Woodford Thoroughbreds

Repent

$164,083

16

5

0

0

0

$164,083

Swagger Jagger

30,140.00

5

$11,500

3

$78,400

United States

Northwest Stud

A.P. Indy

$153,735

19

5

0

0

0

$153,735

U S Diva

42,000.00

8

$7,900

4

$12,800

Senor Swinger

La Mancha Farm

El Prado (IRE)

$151,450

22

9

0

0

0

$151,450

Wheres My Ball

21,425.00

Telling

Prestige Stallions

A.P. Indy

$141,186

13

4

0

0

0

$141,567

Telling Tony

62,070.00

6

$4,617

Iqbaal

Ward Ranch

Medaglia d'Oro

$133,450

10

4

0

0

0

$133,450

Riv

27,880.00

Factum

Stonehedge Farm

Storm Cat

$120,065

16

5

0

0

0

$120,065

Lisa's Secret

24,297.00

Forty Grams

Vales Farm

Distorted Humor

$112,244

7

3

0

0

0

$112,244

Chloe's White Soxs 42,994.00

Hal's Image

Get Away Farm

Halo's Image

$96,295

8

5

1

1

0

$96,295

Three Wonders

Deceased

Storm Cat

$92,249

9

3

0

0

0

Mach Ride

Bridlewood Farm

Pentelicus

$87,949

10

4

0

0

0

Hello Broadway

Ups and Downs Farm

Broken Vow

$84,705

12

8

0

0

0

$84,705

Trouble With Girls

23,803.00

Straight Man

Deceased

Saint Ballado

$72,491

10

4

0

0

0

$72,491

Unflinching

21,920.00

The Green Monkey Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughb Forestry

$68,284

11

4

0

0

0

$68,284

Golden Mila

18,240.00

Field Commission

$61,610

6

2

0

0

0

$61,610

Drafted

26,650.00

Solera Farm

Service Stripe

103,520.00

Jamie's Dancer

35,610.00

$92,249

Two Wonders

51,670.00

$87,949

Mach My Day

33,320.00

2

$45,000

1

$285,140

4

$36,375

1

$20,000

1

$1,000

1

$3,000

1

$1,200

1

$14,000

11

$14,273

7

$18,214

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GONE ASTRAY

FIRST DUDE

BIG DRAMA

Name

Sire Name

Farm Name

NA Stk Gr Earnings Strtrs Wnrs SW's Wins SW's Earnings

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg Avg

2yo Sold

First Dude

Stephen Got Even

Double Diamond

$1,178,212

67

32

1

1

0

$1,178,212

Flora Dora

$91,250

36

$22,236

30

$47,400

Gone Astray

Dixie Union

Northwest Stud

$800,629

61

22

1

1

0

$800,629

Three Rules

$80,640

26

$19,862

24

$39,800

Big Drama

Montbrook

Bridlewood Farm

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t its regularly scheduled meeting on June 24, the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association’s Board of Directors reviewed an Independent Auditors’ Report, prepared by Duggan, Joiner & Company, of the financial statements of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeder and Stallion Awards Program (the Promotional Trust Fund).

The Report contains statements of financial position for the Promotional Trust Fund as of Dec. 31, 2015, and 2014; statements of activities and cash flows for the years then ended, and related notes.

After the auditors’ presentation at the Board meeting, the FTBOA Board of Directors voted to accept the Report as presented.

This Report was previously presented by the auditors to the FTBOA Executive Committee on June 23, at which time public comments were requested and received.

Dates for the 2016 FTBOA Board of Directors elections were also re-announced.

The FTBOA Board of Directors, at its regularly scheduled meeting on April 29, approved an expansion of the Florida Sire Stakes program that would make out-of-state foals eligible to participate in FSS stakes races under the following conditions: The horse must be sired by an FTBOAregistered Florida stallion that has paid double the FTBOA Florida stallion registration fee for the year the foal was conceived.

All FSS eligibility payments must be made for the horse, at a rate double what would otherwise be paid for an FTBOA-registered Florida-bred, per the FSS payment schedule.

The horse will race for 50% of the purse in each FSS stakes race. Currently, the FSS stakes schedule includes a three-race series for 2-year olds (with a division for colts and a division for fillies) and a three-race series for 3year olds (with a division for colts and a divi-

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sion for fillies) and are typically held the first Saturday in August, September, and October.

Pending regulatory approval by the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering, the expanded program will go into effect with the FTBOA registration of Florida stallions of 2017 for foals of 2018.

This policy change responds to numerous member comments received in a variety of forums, the vast majority of which supported expanded FSS eligibility for out-of-state foals by Florida stallions. As members may recall, starting with the foals of 2012, the FSS program transitioned from a track-based program of 30 years administered by Calder Race Course to a new program administered by the FTBOA. In addition to the above action, the FTBOA Board unanimously approved two documents that memorialize the ongoing practices of the FTBOA: (a) the 2016 Breeders’ Awards Policy; and (b) the 2016 Industry Promotion Plan.

These documents were vetted by the Racing Committee and/or Executive Committee, and Board members received member and public comment on these documents on several occasions, including a special meeting held for this purpose on April 26. The Board also unanimously approved an FTBOA Public Comment Policy, on which no member/public concerns were previously raised.

Dates for the 2016 FTBOA Board of Directors elections were also announced. The election process remains unchanged. Election candidate forms will be available starting June 22 on the FTBOA website and in the FTBOA offices or can be faxed or mailed upon request.

Candidate forms are due by July 22. Ballots will be mailed on Sept. 20. Voting ceases on Oct. 20 at the start of the annual meeting.

Supporting material from meetings are available at www.ftboa.com under News, Meetings. n

PRESIDENT George Russell CEO & EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Lonny Taylor Powell FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Joseph M. O’Farrell III SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Gil Campbell SECRETARY Sheila DiMare TREASURER Fred Brei DIRECTORS Barry Berkelhammer Mark Casse George Isaacs Richard Kent Milan Kosanovich Roy Lerman Diane Parks Jessica Steinbrenner Charlotte C. Weber Greg Wheeler

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Equine Care

Lepto Vaccine for Horses

By HEATHER SMITH THOMAS

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spirochetes

eptospirosis is caused by spiral-shaped bacteria called spirochetes. This disease can affect humans, dogs, livestock, horses, and many other mammals. Some types of lepto are most common in certain species of animals that serve as the carrier host.

The disease often found in wildlife populations including deer, raccoons and rodents that shed the organism into the environment. The leptospires can survive in surface water, stagnant ponds, streams, or moist soil for long periods of time at mild temperatures.

Lepto is spread to susceptible animals by discharges and secretions (especially urine) of sick and carrier animals, which often contaminate feed and water. Some infected animals, particularly with strains of lepto that are adapted to that species of host, appear to be healthy, yet harbor bacteria in their kidneys and reproductive tract, shedding leptospires in urine or reproductive fluids.

These pathogens may enter a susceptible animal via nose, mouth or eyes by contact with contaminated feed, water or urine, or through breaks in the skin on feet and legs when walking through contaminated water. Urine or contaminated water splashing into the eyes of susceptible animals can spread the disease, as can breeding. Once leptospires enter the body, they multiply in the liver and migrate through the blood to the kidneys.

They release toxins that damage red blood cells, liver and kidneys, sometimes causing acute kidney disease.

In horses the infection is often mild and may go unnoticed, but it can cause abortions, acute kidney disease, and recurrent uveitis (“moon blindness”). There

have been effective vaccines available for cattle, swine and dogs for many years, but until recently there was no approved vaccine for horses. The main roadblock was funding, and lack of interest from pharmaceutical companies because they thought there was not enough market for an equine vaccine.

Dr. Stuart Brown, Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, Lexington, Kentucky, has been working with several veterinarians for a number of years to try to convince drug companies there is a need for an equine vaccine.

“For most of the other domestic species there are very good, effective vaccines available. The abortion issue in horses has debated for a long time. Some people thought it was just a regional problem in central Kentucky, but veterinarians in other regions—especially in Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and the Carolinas—have reported abortions related to exposure to the leptospire organism,” he says.

It took a while to get momentum going toward a vaccine, and Zoetis finally brought it to the marketplace.

“Even though it is not labeled for abortion, it looks like it would be protective, and prevent the shedding of leptospires into the environment and prevent the potential symptoms of the other syndromes,” he says.

Brown has spoken on several panel discussions since Zoetis launched the vaccine in late October 2015. He and Dr. Craig Carter (University of Kentucky) talked about the data for this vaccine and how well it has been tolerated by horses. “One problem with the cattle vaccine—which some horse owners were using to try to prevent abortions in mares—is reports of intense reactions in some horses were given that vaccine, or any of the other cross-species vaccines,” he says.

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cattle vaccine in horses is the fact that cattle are much more resistant to the effects of endotoxin. Horses don’t tolerate the cattle vaccine very well, so you don’t want to use it on a mare that might founder when exposed to endotoxin,” says Brown.

“The equine vaccine is designed specifically for horses, and the safety studies went well. They reported only one reaction out of about 2000 horses, and it was a mild reaction,” he says.

He and Dr. Carter collaborated earlier on studies to help show the need for an equine vaccine. “We had a couple of years in which the horse industry here suffered significant losses due to lepto infections and abortions. There was also a high prevalence of renal disease in young horses (weanlings/short yearlings) during the winter months, especially in 2006,” says Brown.

“Here in Kentucky, we see abortion problems from December through February. During the last week in February the number of cases generally drop off. We think this has a lot to do with the wildlife population; this is where we are getting the greatest exposure and risk. Our problems in horses coincide with breeding season for skunks and raccoons in this region—when these animals are moving around more. As I travel the countryside during those winter months in our 5-county central Kentucky region I see a huge increase in dead skunks and raccoons in the road. During their wandering they probably present a greater exposure risk for the horses in this area, with contaminated urine close to where those horses feed or water,” he explains. Cases of leptospirosis in horses escalate during this time.

“The group at University of Kentucky

Vaccine Recommendations

“Zoetis recommends primary immunization followed with a booster 4 weeks later, then potentially vaccinating in the spring and fall, in highly prevalent areas. For us, where it’s seasonal, we may recommend that horse owners vaccinate in late September or October and then booster the mares accordingly. The vaccine company’s recommendation was primarily for spring and fall traveling for performance horses. Some of it has to do with the activity level of the horses and their potential exposure rate,” says Brown.

Leptospirosis is a disease that has risk of exposure even for horses that never leave home or never have interaction with any other horses, however, if wildlife or other animals on the home farm are shedding leptospires. “It is also hard to know all the risk factors for recurrent uveitis (moon blindness). We don’t understand that part of it very well, regarding how it occurs, and if stress factors into it to some degree,” he says.

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did a great job in looking at this. We had a situation about that time at a large Thoroughbred farm where a number of compromised foals were born with lepto infections and renal disease. That farm lost newborn foals and diagnostics found a high prevalence of the lepto serovar grippotyphosa in those mares. They tied this to raccoons, and recovered the organism from some fenceline feeders the mares were using at those barns where they had a high number of cases. They captured some of the raccoons along the creek, and those raccoons were all infected.” Raccoons eat the horse feed and were probably urinating where the horses were eating.

“We began to look at this farther, wondering what the national prevalence might be for exposure in horses.

Every time we talked to the drug company about producing an equine vaccine they didn’t think there was enough opportunity to recover investment costs--because they thought lepto only occurred in a few locations,” says Brown.

“Craig Carter felt strongly that we know about it here because we are looking for it, and that many other places don’t have the benefit of seeing the aborted fetuses like we do, or don’t test enough horses. He devised a study to look at this across the nation, using serum left over from Coggins testing.” Dr. Carter got about 30 labs to share a couple ccs of serum from Coggins tests and run them with the micro-agglutination titers of lepto to see if there were some positives.

“In virtually every state they tested, he found prevalence of serum antibodies in those samples. Those horses had been exposed and infected, because they had mounted a response,” says Brown. This was a huge eyeopener regarding the prevalence of lepto in the national equine population.

“I sit on a committee here for the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association and I’m the liaison for their Scientific Advisory Committee. We had money left over from our research on Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS) that we periodically use as seed money for other issues that are important for the horse industry relative to reproductive problems. So the Kentucky Thoroughbred OwnDr. Stuart ers and Breeders (KTOB) group invested about Brown $10,000 on the sero-prevalence study—which demonstrated that it’s not just a local problem,” he says.

This study got the attention of Zoetis and they recognized that the disease is a big problem nationally—a common disease that can lead to blindness in horses, abortions, etc. “Through their representatives, Zoetis identified some hot spots in the U.S. where they were seeing a lot of cases, such as the Genesee River Valley area in New York, some of the areas in northern Missis-

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shedding,” Brown says.

“This prevented a reservoir situation. One of the things that causes a reservoir of this disease in horses is that the leptospires get into the kidneys and are shed in urine. This potentially exposes herdmates to infection. The vaccine reduces the exposure rate of other horses if a mare gets infected and actually aborts with lepto. For a strategy of trying to protect the herd from the disease, the vaccine provides that benefit, as well, by reducing the shedding,” he explains.

“It’s difficult to ascertain how long infected horses might actually shed. Most of us think that the vaccine is a proactive way to prevent this disease. Up until now, in Kentucky, we were drawing tens of thousands of titers every year, trying to find the high titers. We do these horses multiple times, in the herd. And when we find them, we’d start treating those horses. But this is after the fact; they are already infected and shedding the pathogen; we were just constantly managing via the rearview mirror. The vaccine gives us the potential to be proactive, rather than reacting to the problem after it occurs,” Brown says. ■ ANDERSON PHOTO

sippi, the Memphis area in Tennessee, and in the Carolinas. They were able to collect additional data from these locations, and got more sera from some of these places, to do more testing,” says Brown.

“They looked for the predominant serovar, which was pomona. It had the biggest number of clinical cases associated with it. I have also been curious as to whether the cases associated with grypotyphosa are on the rise, but these cases have been a distant second compared to the number of cases of pomona in national prevalence.”

“It’s interesting, watching the titers. I have three large herds of broodmares that have been vaccinated since the vaccine became available in late October. We are seeing some cross reactivity with the vaccine to some of the other serovars. Vaccine titers only go up to about the 100 to 800 range. Natural infection usually causes much higher titers, up to 100,000 or more. But we are also seeing lower titers to some of the other serovars, and our assumption has been that there is some cross-reactivity between the parent organism and the various sub-types,” Brown says.

There have been questions regarding whether vaccination titers will cloud the ability to diagnose a horse with active infection. “On a scale of gradation, however, there is quite a difference in the titer level we see in the vaccinated horse versus natural infection. We may be able to differentiate the two, because of the magnitude of response to natural infection. A high titer would indicate natural infection,” he explains.

He has talked with the vaccine company, looking at some of the serum titers after vaccination, pointing out the low level of some of the serovars besides pomona. “We are wondering if it might actually be protective. It will be interesting to see if we can recognize farms that vaccinated versus farms that didn’t, in the prevalence of infection in a year that might be likely to cause exposure,” he says.

“One of the impressive things about this vaccine is that the model they used to challenge horses with it (to determine effiLeptospirosis abortion cacy) was an intraperitoneal model. This is a significant way to expose a horse to this infection.

In those studies, 15 of the 16 control horses that received saline instead of vaccine shed leptospires in their urine for many days after they were infected. None of the horses that received the actual vaccine and were then experimentally infected shed it in their urine. In only one of those horses were they able to actually recover any pathogens (and at a very low level) from the renal tissue. The vaccine prevented

fetus-liver damage

The Dangers of Lepto for Pregnant Mares

If a mare is exposed to leptospirosis during pregnancy she may not show signs of disease herself but the foal may be lost. The outcome may depend on which stage of pregnancy she became exposed. She may abort, or give birth to a compromised foal if exposed in late gestation.

“This is another thing we don’t understand very well. Here in Kentucky, if the exposure rate is high from late November through the first part of February, we see a lot of mares that are in their second or third trimester by that time. We’ll see some mares abort, prior to 9 months gestation, but also see some with compromised neonates if the mares were exposed closer to term,” says Brown.

“It may also be dose dependent, on the amount of exposure. We don’t know whether the serovar type makes a difference in the outcome. Our learning progress has been slow. We are still using the same methodology for serum titer detection that has been around since the mid-1960’s. There hasn’t been any dramatic improvement in our ability to assess or diagnose leptospirosis other than using the micro-agglutination titers, which are highly technically challenging.

A person needs a lot of experience to know how to read them and how to discern the significance of the findings.” Another challenge, in determining whether a horse has lepto, or whether an abortion was due to lepto, is that not very many regions have a laboratory that can do these tests.

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ertainly, summer is a time when many look to cool off by taking a dip in a pool, the ocean, or the springs so they are able to chill down from the summer heat. This is one time of year when I am reminded of what a wonderful state Florida is and how much it has to offer people and horses. Mineral-rich soils and high-permeability afford the horses’ good grass and offer no real mud. The temperate climate and permeable land enables humans the ability to ride and train horses essentially all year. The gorgeous springs throughout the state, which stem from the permeable ground, also help add to the beauty.

When a farm or training center is fortunate enough to have a spring on the property, it can be the centerpiece of the farm, so long as it is absolutely getting correct care to keep it preserved and protected.

In case you are unaware, springs are essentially natural “openings” to the water (aquifer) that we all drink, meaning both horses and humans. Springs are “karst” features that are prevalent in Florida; other karst features can include caves, disappearing streams, and sinkholes. “Karst” defines geologic features formed by the dissolution of soluble bedrock, such as limestone or other types of bedrock. Because of these karst features, some careful farm management needs to be practiced to help protect the water from acquiring any excess nutrients, run-off and erosion.

Best farm management practices involve restricting land applications from being too close to springs or karst features. The “200 Foot Rule” is always a good guideline to follow, meaning that 200 feet should be a minimum distance used as a guide for land-applying fertilizer, manure, lime, etc., near the karst features. It’s important to understand that the closer the distance the land application is to these environmentally sensitive areas, the greater the potential for that foreign substance to run-off or leach. When this happens, nutrients are unable to be properly taken up by soil or utilized by vegetation. Soil-testing to understand correct manure applications/fertilizer amounts, using slowrelease fertilizers, composting manure/stall waste prior to 82 THE FLORIDA HORSE • AUGUST 2016

any spreading and safely containing it on an impervious flooring are all best management practices (BMPs). These practices are meant to control the nutrients that could negatively affect the water in the springs.

Something that is often overlooked, but still important is the natural aquatic vegetation found growing around springs.

Although they are often mowed short, these native wetland plantings can be very beautiful and enhance a property.

They additionally provide food, shelter and a breeding habitat for fish and wildlife. Native aquatic plants can further help improve water quality by taking up and utilizing excess nutrients and oxygenating water. In fact, local and state governments and water districts are now more commonly using a practice known as “phytoremediation”, which essentially means removal of nutrients through plants; it has been showing some great promise, with good successes happening throughout Florida and in other states when the plantings are around storm water ponds. If your farm has a spring, it’s important to only use native/ Florida-friendly aquatic vegetation when planting. Non-native varieties can become “invasive” plants, with no natural enemies to control their spread. If there is any interest in planting aquatic plants, it is highly recommended to contact a specialist to be certain to only plant the correct types of vegetation.

Florida is a beautiful state that many horses call home.

When managed properly, karst features (like our springs) and any native/Florida friendly vegetation can go a long way to help the whole farm and our water quality. You can always contact me or your local Extension agent if you ever need any help with springs, karst features, or any other questions.

As always, keep up the good management practices! ■

Jamie Cohen • 352-671-8792 Farm Outreach Coordinator UF IFAS/Marion County Extension Service jamiecohen@ufl.edu.

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“Turns out , the next morning it was 85 degrees, and I s with most summer mornings, Dave Erb got in a round of golf a few days ago, just before had all I could do to get the horse to go around the track,” entertaining a couple of youngsters with sto- Erb said. “He was really pooped.”

Still, Needles was good enough to win the Derby a ries of days gone by. week later, beating archrival Fabius by less than a length.

He shoots in the 80s.

In recounting another story, Heath said that, in the He’s also 92 years old, checking in at about 115 pounds, his riding weight when he and Needles won the Derby winner’s circle, federal marshals approached 1956 Kentucky Derby and Belmont after sweeping the Fontaine over a matter of back alimony: Only payment in full, all $3,000, in cash, would keep him out of jail.

Florida Derby and the Flamingo.

Heath and Dudley pooled their money, paid the fine Still sharp, still incisive and witty, he recently sat down for a phone conversation with a stenographer and with and set Fontaine loose to enjoy the evening.

Years later, they discovered that Fontaine, made flush Bonnie Heath III, whose dad, in partnership with his friend Jack Dudley, owned the 1956 champion, well-known as from an earlier wager, had plenty of money on his person, more than enough to pay the debt, but that he opted inthe first Florida-bred to win the Kentucky Derby.

When Needles went on his fabulous run 60 years ago, stead not to check Dudley and Heath’s generous impulse.

“After we learned that he had all that money on him the younger Heath was 6 years old, a regular at the barn and a frequent rider of the stable’s lead pony Rusty; Erb was 32. when he claimed he didn’t, I asked my father, ‘Weren’t That a Floridian, even one who had taken Saratoga’s you upset?’ and he said, “No, if he had paid his own fine, prestigious Hopeful the year before, would roll into that wouldn’t have been Fontaine.’”

Louisville as the Derby favorite to me that I’ll never was a source of considerable skepticism and some amuse- forget … He said, ‘Dave, I’ve ridden all the best riders in ment to locals; that he would the country, and you were the best I rode. —Dave Erb leave as the victor created a colFontaine’s appreciation for the occasional bluff, and the lective psychic disturbance that sent tremors throughout 2nd Amendment, figures into another story, as Heath tells it: the bluegrass.

“He and his second wife, a Ziegfeld girl, had gone to a “I was at the Kentucky Derby years later, in the ‘80s, and even then you could sense, by the way they treated casino in Saratoga. It got late and he wanted to leave but his [Florida breeders and owners], what some of those Hard wife didn’t want to go just yet, so he had his car brought up Boots thought of us,” he said. “They weren’t very friendly and, after awhile, growing impatient, he pulled out his gun, and when I mentioned it to my father, he just told me, ‘You fired into the air and dropped to the ground. His wife came should have been there in ’56 and seen what it was like out, became hysterical, and started screaming, ‘Somebody shot Jumbo, someone shot my ‘Jumby!’ After a minute or when we took their trophy from them.’” two, Fontaine opened his eyes and asked, ‘Can we go now?’”

It wasn’t easily taken.

Heath and Erb remain in regular contact, and Erb’s The colt’s trainer was the colorful Hugh Fontaine, a World War I fighter pilot with three distinguished service memory and fondness of the character who gave him a crosses and a rigid adherent to a Saturday-to-Saturday leg up can’t be any clearer or deeper.

Through deep emotions detectable over the phone, he training regimen. Erb recalled that he had lobbied to have the horse worked on Friday, eight days before the race – said “I was with Mr. Fontaine on his deathbed and he said “The horse was just feeling so good,” he said – but something to me that I’ll never forget … He said, ‘Dave, Fontaine insisted on sticking to his regimen, keeping to a I’ve ridden all the best riders in the country, and you were the best I rode.” ■ schedule he had promised the press corps.

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by Gary West Gary West is an award–winning turf writer who has covered horse racing for more than 30 years in many publications including The Dallas Morning News and Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. He currently writes for ESPN.com and several other publications on a freelance basis.

If ordinary horsemen and bettors continue to have only a whispered influence, they’ll continue to vote with their dollars; if takeout rates and purses and sales all remain tilted, the people who are essential to the sport’s future will abandon it.

n overwhelming and inescapable wave of populism is sweeping across the Western world. You can be forgiven for not noticing. National and even global events typically pass unnoticed at the racetrack.

The Daily Racing Form still includes news briefs on its second page, but only a few inches of them, their brevity having become something of a running joke, a self-conscious laugh at the sport’s insular attitude. The stock market could crash, the North Koreans test an atomic weapon and the NASA rovers collide on Mars, but a few inches should suffice to cover it all because what really matters is the sale at Ocala. Stubborn insularity remains one of the sport’s charms, but also one of its weaknesses.

Horse racing probably won’t notice this tidal wave of populism. But everything’s interconnected. Already the wave has begun to wash over us all. Will it be cleansing?

And what does populism have to do with horse racing anyway? Well, perhaps plenty.

But first some clarifications. Populist movements, which are inevitable in democracies, generally contend that a group of elites has deprived worthy people of rights, or opportunities or even property. The elites can be almost anybody, but are generally perceived to have inordinate power and influence, often because of wealth, birth or privilege.

Now, about that wave. With its largest turnout in more than 20 years, the United Kingdom recently voted overwhelmingly for Brexit. Yes, it was an assertion of sovereignty. But the Brexit vote, more than anything, was an expression of the UK’s opposition to the elites of the European Union. In this country, the wave of populism has buoyed the presidential candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Yes, political support can contain a multitude of reasons, but a vote for Sanders has been, as much as anything, a vote against the Wall Street elites, and a vote for Trump a vote against the political elites.

Bettors vote, too, but with their dollars, and they’ve been voting against elitism in horse racing for many years. Since 2003, handle on American racing has dropped 46 percent when adjusted for inflation, from $19.76 billion ($15.94 billion in 2003 dollars) to $10.67 billion last year, according to The Jockey Club figures.

Even since 2013, when adjusted for inflation, handle on American racing has dropped 4.6 percent.

Owners, too, vote with their dollars, especially those discerning owners for whom dollars are finite. Writing

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in the Thoroughbred Daily News about a recent yearling sale, the estimable Bill Oppenheim pointed out that the market was strong at the top, but had neither a middle nor a bottom. The reason, he concluded, was a “shortage of buyers.”

Bettors and owners are leaving the sport just as surely as the UK is leaving the European Union. The knee-buckling decline in handle and the “shortage of buyers,” of course, aren’t due only to populism. But make no mistake: A resentment of elites is one of the reasons for the departures; the populist wave that has swept into every corner of society has contributed to the sport’s declines. Horse racing is still widely and popularly, if somewhat mistakenly, regarded as the sport of kings, or at least the sport of sheikhs and plutocrats. And the most recent expressions of populism should serve as warnings against continued decline.

I’ve always considered horse racing the most democratic of professional sports. But perception is everything. And although I’m no populist, even I have to concede that stentorian elites populate many of horse racing’s most powerful and significant policy-making boards as well as most of its regulatory commissions.

As populist presidential candidates like to point out, the systems are broken, with everything seemingly tilted in an elitist direction. That’s true, too, of horse racing, and the sport must change if it’s to prosper in this era of populism. If ordinary horsemen and bettors continue to have only a whispered influence, they’ll continue to vote with their dollars; if takeout rates and purses and sales all remain tilted, the people who are essential to the sport’s future will abandon it.

But that’s not inevitable. In his book Faith in Action (published in 2002 by the University of Chicago Press), sociologist Richard Wood argues that populism can bring together groups and individuals of diverse views. And that’s happening. In Minnesota, for example, the horsemen and Canterbury Park came together to lower the racetrack’s takeout. And Canterbury is outperforming other racetracks in the region. At Kentucky Downs, groups have come together to create a program that beckons both horsemen and bettors. And the Horseplayers Association named Kentucky Downs the No. 1 racetrack in North America.

Only by spreading the power, influence, opportunities and wealth among more people can the sport prosper. ■

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