Florida Horse Magazine October 2016

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BAHAMIAN SQUALL

FIRST DUDE

by Stephen Got Even–Run Sarah Run by Smart Strike

by Gone West–Midway Squall by Storm Bird

Placed or won 13 from 17 starts Multiple Graded Stakes Winner

Placed or won 11 stakes & Graded Stakes Graded Stakes winner

Thank you Breeders!

The best is yet to come!

Donald R.Dizney

visit-www.doublediamondfarm.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Dude/130049330338431 899 S.W. 85th Ave., Ocala, FL 34481 • (352) 237-3834 Fax: (352) 237-6069 Standing: First Dude & Bahamian Squall • Contact Roger Brand, Jimmy Alexander or Melissa Anthony for stallion inquiries

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CONTENTS October 2016

VOL 59/ISSUE 8

DEPARTMENTS 6 8 57 59

—By Brock Sheridan

BROCK TALK

FLORIDA FOCUS LEADING SIRE LISTS Country-wide Florida-bred statistics

AROUND THE COUNTRY

66 68 70

FTC GOLF TOURNAMENT

72

DRIFTING OUT

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WAYS OF THE WEST

MEMORY LANE: 1987 —By Tammy A. Gantt

FTBOA MEMBER UPDATE —By Mike Mullaney —By Gary West

FEATURES & COLUMNS 24

FLORIDA SIRE STAKES

FSS re-cap

—By Mike Mullaney

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Flatter Colt Tops OBS August Yearling Sale —By Brock Sheridan

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Immortal Wink retires to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Second Chance Farm.

—By Ben Baugh

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SUCCESS OF OCALA INITIATIVE

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OBS AUGUST SALE

FOREVER HOME

OLD WARRIORS These grinding Florida-breds have garnered the title 'Old Warriors' this year.

—By JoAnn Guidry

SHEER RELAXATION Sheer Drama retires back to Queen’s farm in Ocala —By Mike Mullaney EQUINE CARE Gastic Ulcers in foals

—By Heather Smith Thomas

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the Brock talk

For the Love of the Game M

Brock Sheridan

Editor-in-Chief Florida Equine Communications

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There are two segments of our industry that are integral to the success and survival of the sport and, interestingly, they reside on opposite sides of the spectrum.

any people in the thoroughbred industry like to make the short sighted statement that “There would be no horse racing without [Fill in the blank].” Yes it is true there would be no horse racing without trainers, jockeys and racetracks, and others who like to make that boast, but the same can be said of grooms, hot walkers, manure removal personnel, night security guards, janitors and a whole host of others less glamorous positions.

The industry is made up of and relies on a wide array of vocations.

What most of the above mentioned folks have in common, however, is that they are, in fact, in vocational positions—that is to say that they get paid for those jobs.

However, there are two segments of our industry that are integral to the success and survival of the sport and, interestingly, they reside on opposite sides of the spectrum. They also have in common one very important quality in that neither relies on horse racing to make a living. In general, they are participants in the thoroughbred game for the sole purpose of enjoyment.

I’m talking about owners and the wagering public. While some make a profession out of the game of owning or betting on thoroughbreds, for the most part, they are in it for the love of the game.

This is not to say that jockeys, breeders, trainers, track managers, etc., don’t love the sport. Believe me, most in this game are in it because they love it. It’s just that they are not in horse racing solely because they love it – they also have to earn a living in the game or find some other means of support.

But owners and punters, in general, participate in the thoroughbred industry with “blinkers off.” In other words, that most them understand the financial losing aspect of their participation but play anyway.

The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association has several programs designed to attract new owners to the sport. They were active participants in the National Thoroughbred Owners’ Conference at Gulfstream Park in January and work with the Thoroughbred Owners’ and Breeders’ Association national office to offer discounts to FTBOA members for their Florida seminars. The FTBOA also coordinates with the University of Florida for discounted educational programs. For example, FTBOA is vital to the annual Florida Equine Institute and Allied Trade Show in Ocala. FTBOA services provide a wide array of resources for new owners, including Florida state tax incentives to name but a few of the many owner benefits offered by the Association.

In coming months, you may also be struck by the FTBOA

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billboard campaign that will be seen on Florida interstate highways and key airports.

I must also recognize the relatively new forms of ownership such as syndications and limited liability partnerships that have become so popular in recent years. They reduce risk while increasing affordability which creates thoroughbred ownership opportunities for many more who wish to enjoy the sport from barn area to the winners’ circle. With a little research and due diligence, it is easy to find fractional racehorse ownership groups that offer sound business plans with a detailed prospectus that is very forthcoming about initial investment and other potential costs.

There are several ownership syndicates and partnership groups available to prospective thoroughbred owners, each offering several different types of ownerships with different costs, objectives and plans.

In any case, whether one is buying yearlings as an individual owner or claiming older horses as part of a syndicate, it is important to recognize that thoroughbred ownership requires large doses of optimism and dreams combined with several pounds of realistic expectations in order to maximize the enjoyment of owning a thoroughbred.

Much the same can be said of the horse player. The uncertainty of horse ownership is compounded for the player in that they must also deal with takeout – the amount of money that is deducted from each wagering pool for tracks, purses and taxes before the winners’ share is calculated and dispersed.

In general, the takeout for simple win, place and show bets can be as low as 14.95 percent at Woodbine but rarely exceed 18 percent. Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs rank among the nation’s most affordable tracks with a 17 percent take out on win, place and show wagers and offer a 20 and 20.5 percent take out of exacta wagering respectively. At many tracks, exotic bets such as pick 4, pick 5 and pick 6 wagers often reach up to and at times exceed 25 percent, although Gulfstream’s Rainbow 6 has a 20 percent take. Tracks often tax these more exotic wagers at higher rates because even with the high takeouts, they will generate the large payoffs that attract action.

But also like the thoroughbred owner, the thrill of cashing a winning bet is often an experience that is unmatched in other sports. It is not just the financial reward that makes it such a gratifying experience. There is also the sense of accomplishment and success that plays into the experience.

In any case, without the owners and bettors, the ultimate end users in the thoroughbred industry, there would be no horse racing. ■

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Florida FOCUS by Mike Mullaney

Florida-bred Stallwalkin’ Dude

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The Spa waters once again proved a tonic for the 6-year-old Stallwalkin’ Dude, who on Aug. 12 repeated last year’s success in the $100,000 Tale of the Cat. He won by 1½ lengths, outkicking his fa-

vored stablemate Chief Lion. The first two across the wire were Florida-breds and both are trained by David Jacobson.

The remarkable Stallwalkin’ Dude, bred by Maria Haire of Ocala, scored his 15th victory from 43 career starts, boosting his career earnings to $828,352. It was his 11th victory from 28 starts since Jacobson – who co-owns the veteran runner in partnership with Head of Plains Partners LLC – claimed him from Hardacre Farm for $16,000, taking him out of a turf race Sept. 20, 2014, at Gulfstream Park.

Jacobson has sole ownership of Chief Lion, whom he claimed four starts ago for $62,000. The 6-year-old son of Wildcat Heir, bred by Harold Plumley, has won two of those races with a second and a third.

“Stallwalkin’ Dude ran down a really good horse,” Jacobson said. “He has been a great horse for us and done an amazing job. He showed his true class in this race and obviously likes this track,” where he is two for two.

The winner is a son of City Place out of the Dare and Go mare Chelle Spendabuck and he’s the sixth of nine named foals from his dam, who has dropped six winners in all.

Second dam Harvest the Gold produced Love Lock, winner of Hollywood Park’s Grade 1 Starlet and the Golden Rod and Debutante, a pair of Grade 3s at Churchill Downs, with placings in the Oak Leaf (G1) and Schuylerville (G2).

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Another of Harvest the Gold’s offspring, Miss Pleasant, was graded-stakes placed.

Third dam Turn the Blade produced a pair of stakes-placed offspring.

The usually smooth-breaking Stallwalkin’ Dude wasn’t so smooth under Joe Bravo in the Tale of the Cat, spotting most of his nine rivals a headstart, trailing well off the pace set by second-choice Dads Caps.

The leader was under intense pressure while posting early fractions of :21.97 and :44.97 in the six-furlong affair and Chief Lion, never far back, made the front as the field straightened for home.

Meanwhile, Bravo, who remained patient while guiding his horse along the rail, moved Stallwalkin’ Dude out a bit on the turn, then swung five wide for his charge down the stretch.

Stallwalkin’ Dude hooked Chief Lion at the sixteenth pole and eased away. “As any real handicapper could see, the race set up very, very good for him,” said Bravo, “but all plans went out the window in the first jump when he stumbled. I guess he grabbed his quarter leaving the gate, but he’s such an old pro, he relaxed, nothing fazed him.

David gave me the best horse to play with and he just ran them over.”

Chief Lion finished a comfortable 2¼ lengths ahead of third-place Easy to Say. Overlooked at 8-1, Stallwalkin’ Dude, the co-highweight at 124 pounds, paid $18.20 after running the distance in 1:10.05. The winner’s share was $60,000. ■

Victory in Quick Call Follows Casse’s Induction Into Hall The day after his induction into Canada’s racing Hall of Fame, Ocala-based trainer Mark Casse notched another stakes victory Aug. 4, this one coming right across the street from the American Hall of Fame at Saratoga Race Course.

Holding Gold, the Florida-bred he trains for Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation, got up just in time to win the $100,000 Quick Call, a 5½-furlong turf test for 3-year-olds.

Holding Gold had won two of his first three

starts: Both wins coming over Woodbine’s Polytrack course, with his defeat occurring in the only main-track effort of his career, a 6½furlong event at Saratoga last year.

He was the runner-up in last two starts, the first in the $100,000 Tom Ridge over the Presque Isle synthetic, and the most recent a placing at Woodbine in his turf debut going seven furlongs on June 25.

He bounced out of that race with three solid works, including a brilliant, best-of-47 five-furlong breeze of :59 1/5 at Woodbine on July 16.

“He’s a pretty nice horse,” Casse said. “My biggest concern was a little bit of the cutback [in distance from his last race], but I felt pretty good down the backside … we were only a length or two behind.

“He’s a homebred for Mrs. Weber, so that makes it even more special.”

Favored at 8-5, Holding Gold broke well under Julien Leparoux and they allowed second-choice Too Discreet to set the early pace, sitting third, just behind fellow Florida-bred Expected Ruler. Too Discreet continued to lead through fractions of :21.99 and :44.44 for the half-mile, but the pack was closing in on him.

Florida-bred Holding Gold

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‘Dude’ Repeats in Spa Stakes

Just as third-choice Commend made an outside move to grab second, Leparoux asked more of his mount from between horses. Too Discreet submitted along the inside, and Holding Gold reached the front at the sixteenth pole. In a stirring display of courage, he edged Commend by a head at the finish.

“He broke sharp out of the gate,” said Leparoux. “I let Joel [Rosario, aboard Too Discreet] cross over on me and I was right where I wanted to be.”

Too Discreet held for third, a length behind the runner-up, and Expected Ruler was fourth in the eight-horse field.

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Banke, O’Farrell Elected to The Jockey Club Board of Stewards Barbara Banke and J. Michael O’Farrell Jr. have been elected to the board of stewards of The Jockey Club, filling the expired positions of Stella F. Thayer and Peter S. Willmott.

Banke is a thoroughbred owner and breeder and proprietor of Jackson Family Wines, based in Santa Rosa, California. She serves on the boards of the Breeders’ Cup, Thoroughbred Owners’ and Breeders’ Association, Barbara Banke

and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, has been a member of The Jockey Club since 2013 and is a member of the Florida Thoroughbred Owners’ and Breeders’ Association. She owns Stonestreet Stables, which J. Michael O’Farrell Jr. has campaigned the winners of 100 stakes races, including horses of the year Curlin (2007, 2008) and Rachel Alexandra (2009), and is a leading developer of stallions, including Curlin, Kantharos, Carpe Diem, Maclean’s Music and Astrology. Her Lexington-based Stonestreet Farm is a leading commercial breeder and has produced the winners of 38 graded stakes and more than $38,000,000 in purses. She also has her Stonestreet Training and Rehabilitation

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winner Incinerate, who numbered the Bed o’ Roses (G2) among her victories, and the granddaughter of stakes winner Horsafire.

Holding Gold’s multiple stakes-winning half-brother High Blitz is by Lucky Lionel. ■

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Don’t Be So Salty, Bust Another, Save the Drama and Tiz Long Gone completed the order of finish.

The winner went the distance in 1:01.84 and paid $4.80. Adding the $60,000 first prize to his totals, his 6-3-2-0 record has brought his owner $148,512.

Holding Gold is a son of the Australian Horse of the Year, $3.6 million earner and multiple Grade 1-winning Lonhro and he is out of the American Grade 1-winning mare In the Gold, by Golden Missile.

In the Gold took the Gazelle (G1) and Beaumont (G2) and placed in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), Bonnie Miss (G2) and Davona Dale (G2), with thirds in the Test (G1) and Acorn (G1).

Holding Gold is the fifth of six named foals, the fifth winner and the second stakes winner produced by In the Gold, whose sixth foal, the 2-year-old Elusive Quality filly Halensville, has yet to start.

In the Gold is a daughter of graded-stakes

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Making ‘Dreams’ Come True If you look into the pedigree of Yourdreamsormine, you’ll will come across that grand old Tartan mare Turtle Cove, the fourth dam of the Aug. 27, $75,000 Groomstick Stakes winner.

But black-type deep into the ancestral tree goes only so far and, in the case of Yourdreamsormine, it went as far as $37,000 at the 2014 OBS June sales ring, where trainer Bill Kaplan purchased him from the All Dreams Equine consignment for Ione and H.J. Elkins of Hollywood, Fla. Milt Wolfson, his current trainer, remembers his evaluation of the horse – it wasn’t very good – and he was happy to let Kaplan take him.

Looking back, Wolfson remembered him as a “funny-walking horse.”

Kaplan’s retirement last year led to another sale of Yourdreamsormine who – despite his victory in the 2015 Unbridled division of the Florida Sire Stakes – once again attracted little attention.

However, this time around, Wolfson went as far as to make a qualified offer.

“I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, I’ll take him and train him for two weeks, no charge to you. If I like him, I’ll buy him.’ And that’s what I did,” he said.

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stakes – and a pair of runner-up showings.

Favored at 6-5 in the Groomstick was El Deal, who would prove to be a stubborn pacesetter in the seven-furlong event, posting a :22.62 opening quarter-mile before allowing Mr. Baker to hang a :44.87 half-mile. El Deal came right back, then fought it out with a rallying Yourdreamsormine until the winner came clear late, scoring by 1¾ lengths.

Tyler Gaffalione was aboard the winning son of Mr. Sekiguchi, whose first prize of $46,035 lifted his career total to $344,185.

“The race set up perfectly. We talked about it in the paddock and we thought those two would go up and hook each other,” he said.

“We decided to sit off them and let him make his run like he normally does.”

Final time was 1:22.22.

El Deal held second by 2¾ lengths over Bullet Gone Astray.

Yourdreamsormine paid immediate dividends for Wolfson right out of the box, winning the May 13 Bull Gator by three.

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Center in Summerfield, Fla. O’Farrell owns and operates Ocala Stud, the oldest active Florida Thoroughbred farm, in Ocala, Fla. Ocala Stud has bred and sold more than 150 stakes winners throughout its history. O’Farrell has served on the boards of organizations including Breeders’ Cup Ltd., the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association, and Florida Equine Publications. He is the chairman of Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company. ■

Florida-bred Yourdreamsormine

“That was like celebrating Christmas that day,” Wolfson said. “After so many other trainers turned him down, it was like getting a pat on the back.”

Wolfson, who calls Yourdreamsormine the best older horse on the grounds at Gulfstream, added: “I tell you what, I haven’t had this much fun in a long time. This horse has so much heart. That’s half the battle. You have to respect a horse like that.”

Yordreamsormine is a son of the Forbidden Apple mare Fly Apple Shu, whose half-brother Put Back the Shu was a stakes winner. Third

dam Milaoshu produced Galic Boy, a multiple stakes winner and multiple course-record holder in the Midwest who earned $538,706, most of that coming from turf racing.

In addition to Milaoshu, Turtle Cove, a daughter of Dr. Fager, also produced Great Neck, winner of the Grade 1 Canadian International and a multiple graded-stakes winner on the grass of $430,156; European stakes winner Pink Turtle, graded-stakes placed Cope of Flowers and stakes-placed Cove Dancer. ■

Florida-bred a ‘Prince’ at Evangeline Downs The Florida-bred juvenile Thegreatcollection didn’t take long to make the leap from unraced to maiden-claimer winner to stakes winner, capturing the $60,000 Evangeline Downs Prince Stakes on Aug. 27, barely 20 days after winning under a $16,000 tag at Gulfstream Park.

The winner is the first and only foal of the 9-year-old Cincinnati Trophy winner Cactus Cadillac, a daughter of the Hennessy stallion Cactus Ridge. Thegreatcollection was sired by Saint Anddan and the Prince winner was bred by his owners, Kathleen Amaya and Alexandro and Rafaele Centofanti.

Their colt could prove something special: At Gulfstream he broke his maiden after a horrific trip – pinned on the rail, steadied at the halfmile pole, then again on the turn, then once more as he split horses nearing the furlong marker – and yet he still prevailed by 11⁄2 lengths, getting 51⁄2 furlongs in 1:05.32, at better than 7-1, under M.R. Ramirez.

A sloppy and sealed track, and six furlongs, greeted Thegreatcollection in the Prince, but this race, although not uneventful, was probably easier than his maiden.

While Ramirez’ name was on the overnight, Colby Hernandez was in the saddle when Thegreatcollection broke last in the eight-horse field, ducking in after the break and settling at the back of the pack as Shacklefords Storm grabbed the early lead through fractions of :22.58 and :46.95. Envoyer, the 2-1 second choice, seized the lead from the

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Florida FOCUS tiring pacemaker and he appeared to have the race in the bag but Thegreatcollection was rolling. He cut the corner on the turn, found room along the rail and easily came clear in the lane to win by 41⁄2. Longshot Dixieland Native closed for second and 8-5 favorite US Officer came along for third, three-quarters of a length farther back.

Time for the race was 1:12.81. In winning his second race from as any starts, Thegreatcollection added $36,000 to his bankroll, which is now $46,400.

Efren Loza Jr. trains the winner. Once again he went off at better than 7-1, paying $17.40.

Cactus Cadillac, who earned $141,897 in her career, is a daughter of the quality racemare Plum Country, whose four added-money victories included the Grade 3 Davona Dale and the Susan’s Girl leg of the Florida Sire Stakes. She placed second in the other two legs, the Desert Vixen and My Dear Girl, and was also second in the Grade 2 Astarita. ■

Live Oak Millionaire Za Approval Retired Live Oak Stud homebred Za Approval has been retired sound after a career that saw him amass $1,394,666.

“Za Approval is yet another extraordinary member of a family that has been especially gratifying to Live Oak Stud,” said owner and breeder Charlotte Weber.

Za Approval has returned home to Live Oak Stud in Ocala, Fla.,

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where he will join his half-brother – Florida-bred Revved Up – in retirement. They are two of three Live Oak millionaires from the With Approval mare Win Approval. The other is Miesque’s Approval, who now stands stud in South Africa.

Another half-brother, Florida-bred World Approval, is currently one of the top North American turf horses in training. ■

Big Paydays Await Our Way The 3-year-old who won the $100,000 Better Talk Now Stakes at Saratoga Aug. 28 is a vastly different racehorse than the one who managed only one in-the-money finish from his first four starts.

Our Way has now won two straight, both at Saratoga, and his camp can boast of a 3-1-1 record from his last five races.

Trainer Jimmy Bond told Florida Horse: "He's coming together and getting better. The horse has really matured."

Off as the 3-1 second choice to 5-2 favorite Hammers Vision, Our Way settled into a stalking position in the last third of the six-horse field, six lengths back as Dragon Bay posted fractions an opening quarter-mile of :23.83 and followed with a half in :48.15 and six furlongs in 1:12.40.

With a quarter-mile left, both Conquest Big E and Our Way moved up on the leaders and they continued their surge into the stretch where a faltering and stumbling Dragon Bay bounced off the rail near the sixteenth pole.

Those miscues created some havoc for those behind Dragon Bay, but Our Way was way too good to need a blocking guard, finding his best stride deep into the stretch and coming away from Hammers Vision to win by 2¼ lengths.

“I was able to save some ground and follow Johnny [Velazquez, aboard Hammers Vision],” said winning rider Jose Ortiz. “At the quarter pole I swung out and had a ton of horse. He exploded.”

The winner paid $8.10 after clocking 1:34.75 for the mile, a distance that Bond said will suit his horse just fine.

Dragon Bay finished third but was disqualified for interfering with Mighty Mo, who was awarded the show spot.

Bred by Farm III Enterprises of Morriston, Fla., Our Way is a son of Tizway out of Point Given’s multiple stakes-winning daughter She’s Sensational.

“He’s going to be a serious horse this fall,” Bond said. “He’s really getting it together now.”

The $60,000 first prize from the Better Talk Now boosted the brown gelding’s earnings to $163,390 for his owner, Bond’s longtime client, William Clifton Jr. Clifton raced and Bond trained Tizway, winner of the 2011 Metropolitan and Whitney, both Grade 1s.

Clifton purchased Our Way from Parrish Farms as a 2-year-old out of the March 2014 OBS auction for $140,000. Parrish had purchased him as a yearling the previous September for $42,000 at Keeneland.

Bond told The Florida Horse that Our Way “wasn’t really coltish, just … a very bad boy” his first few trips to the starting gate, for morning preps and for his first race, and so he gelded his youngster and “a lot

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of the gate guys were clapping after we did it.”

Our Way is the third of six foals by the 12year-old She’s Sensational, whose most recent two foals are a yearling by City Zip and a weanling by Will Take Charge. She is in foal to Into Mischief.

The family is replete with black-type on the grass.

Second dam Blushing Issue also dropped multiple Grade 1 (American Oaks and Del Mar Oaks) winner and $950,400 earner Lady of Shamrock as well as Smooth Jazz, winner of the Commonwealth Breeders’ Cup (G2).

Third dam Gold Issue is also the dam of the $659,177 winner Royal Chariot, winner of the Hollywood Turf Cup (G1) and the G2 Del Mar Invitational, and the French stakes winner Johnny Mountain; Fourth dam Sea Sands took Group 2 and Group 3 events in France, and among her foals was Future Storm, winner of Grade and Group 3 events in the U.S. and Italy.

Major winners continue on down the line to Our Way’s well-regarded sixth dam, Legendra.

It’s been a good few months for Farm III Enterprises, which bred the OBS June-sale record, $800,000 yearling colt by City Zip, out of Successful Sarah, by Successful Appeal. The youngster came out of the Stephens Thoroughbreds consignment. ■

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Live Oak Plantation’s hard-luck Floridabred Awesome Slew benefited from great support and patience from back home, good ground to fight on and brilliant on-track generalship to turn the $300,000, Grade 3 Smarty Jones Stakes into a rout Sept. 5.

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Breaking from the far outside in the field of 14 3-year-olds, with a short run to Parx’ first turn, Paco Lopez hustled the Live Oak homebred out of the gate, easily cleared his field, slowed the pace to a walk in the second and third quarters and strolled to the wire, the winner by seven easy lengths.

It was a surprising win for most of those playing the race – Awesome Slew paid $23.80 – and Lopez, who approached the Smarty Jones with the same aggressive strategy that riders’ take into quarter-horse match races, received the credit he deserved, but there is much more to it than that, according to trainer Eddie Plesa.

“That’s why they call it ‘Team Live Oak,” he told The Florida Horse. “Paco gets credit, I get credit, but there are so many more people who don’t get the public credit that they deserve, and it starts at the top with [Live Oak owner] Charlotte Weber. And there’s the Live Oak general manager in Ocala, Bruce Hill, and the manager of the Training Division, Joe Ambrosia, and all the staff they have there. They have been doing an incredible job there for quite a while.”

Plesa also lavished credit on the colt, whose promise has been compromised by a series of misfortunes, including injury and ailment. Impressive in winning his debut at Monmouth last year at 8-5, confidence was high, despite his 17-1 odds after drawing the rail in the 10-horse field set for Saratoga’s Sanford Stakes (G3) last year. Off ninth, he closed nicely and finished fourth, just two lengths behind the winner in a roughly run renewal in which Uncle Vinny, eventually named the state’s champion juvenile of his generation, was elevated to victory.

It was an impressive showing for Awesome Slew, but ankle chips sidelined him from further accomplishments in 2015. He had fully recovered – “100%,” Plesa said – but, no sooner was he ready to contest Gulfstream’s series for 3-year-olds, he was sidelined by a bout of colitis.

He came back in the spring at Monmouth, winning his comeback race at six furlongs by three, then ran third there in Donegal Moon’s

Pegasus (G3) on June 19. Expectations were high once again for the Haskell (G1), again despite his 32-1 odds, but a sloppy track undid his chances and, as has been well documented, provided the perfect footing for Exaggerator, who finished 32 lengths ahead of the Live Oak colt.

“He couldn’t stand up over that track,” Plesa said, while also acknowledging that the race may have been, in hindsight, a bit ambitious.

“But I’ll tell you one thing,” he continued, “this horse has been short-changed since last summer.”

Finding fast footing in the Smarty Jones, Lopez did a masterful job of clearing the field at the break and he and his horse whistled along after an opening quarter in :23.14, backing up the pace with a :47.74 half-mile and 1:12 six furlongs. He gave his mount one right-handed tap in the lane, perhaps more out of habit than necessity, and they easily held safe the late moves of Wild About Deb and Seeking the Soul.

Awesome Slew hit the wire in 1:42.92.

The 2-1 favorite, Sticksstatelydude, was fourth.

The Smarty Jones also provided a measure of revenge for Awesome Slew; Uncle Vinny was nearly 14 lengths back in ninth.

Lopez, the Eclipse Award-winning apprentice rider of 2008, was riding quarter horses in Florida in 2007.

“It’s a good feeling, winning a race like this with a horse who has endured what this horse has, and Paco deserves a lot of credit, for sure, but the ‘good feeling’ is that we all stuck together as a team,” Plesa said, “and it all starts with Mrs. Weber, who has an incredible amount

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“Right now,” he said Wednesday, “all I can say is that the horse came back 110%, just the way you would want him to.”

Awesome Slew – who has won three of his six career starts and has earned $255,820 – is out of Live Oak Stud’s 12-year-old multiple stakes-winning, graded-stakes placed mare Slewfoundmoney, who has also produced the graded-stakes placed, and earner

of early $300,000, Souper Lucky.

Slewfoundmoney is out of Borodislew, a Seattle Slew mare who won a pair of graded stakes at all three major Southern California racetracks in the mid ‘90s while earning 679,781. In addition to Slewfoundmoney, Borodislew produced graded-stakes winners Canadian Frontier and Seeking Slew.

The third dam, French-bred Breath Taking, was a group-stakes winner in France. ■

In Memoriam Tom Chiota, 70: Past President Was Integral to Success of OBS

By Mike Mullaney The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. suffered another inestimable loss Aug. 28 with the passing of Tom Chiota, past president of the auction house and an integral figure in helping turn the audacious dreams of its founders into reality.

The native of Winthrop, Mass., was 70.

With Mr. Chiota’s arrival in Ocala in 1978, OBS – which was then in its fourth year – began a growth spurt that elevated it from a local sales venue to its present standing as a world-class operation that attracts interest from all racing precincts, nationally and internationally.

The substantial growth in reputation and prestige was accompanied by business expansion as well: During his tenure, OBS added a feed business and an inter-track wagering outlet, constructed 23 more barns and two racetracks, and added a day of live racing as well. It also purchased Ocala jai-alai.

Mike O’Farrell, longtime OBS board member and head of a family enjoying its 60th year of breeding horses at their Ocala Stud, said Mr. Chiota was the right man at the right time: “Exactly what we needed,” he said. “He ran a tight ship and was tough, but he was also fair.”

Curret OBS president Tom Ventura, who worked alongside Mr. Chiota, said his “steady hand in a turbulent business was vital for the growth and success of OBS.” Mr. Chiota retired from formal duties in 2011 but remained with OBS as a consultant.

Professionally and personally, Mr. Chiota enjoyed a close relationship with Norm Casse, the visionary who helped create OBS. The elder Casse passed away March 6 at 79.

“My Dad and Tom were very good friends,” said Casse’s son, Mark, “and he was a good friend of mine since I was about 10 years old. Tom was one of those guys who always put OBS first. He was always working, and his integrity was second to none. His first concern and his first worry was always OBS. He made sure that everything was kept on track, kept in focus.”

“I’ve known that he had been ill for a while and, on my drives back and forth from the barn to my house, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about Tom and my father, and another close friend of theirs and mine, Dr. Gordon Layton [of Paris, Ky.], who also passed away [Aug. 28]. Three old friends and now they are together again.”

Mr. Chiota is survived by his wife of 48 years, Lorraine Chiota of Ocala; daughter Dr. Nicole Chiota-McCollum of Charlottesville, Va.; grandchildren, Owen and Alec McCollum; siblings Anthony Chiota of The Villages, Alice Farrell of San Antonio, Texas, Joseph Chiota of North Adams, Mass., Maryanne Caporale of Ipswich, Mass., and Janet Chiota of Milan, Italy, and many nieces and nephews. ■ 16 THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2016

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‘Dude’ una vez más en el clásico de Spa

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Las aguas de Spa demostraron ser un tónico para Stallwalkin’ Dude de seis años de edad, quien el 12 de agosto defendió el éxito obtenido el año pasado en el premio Tale of the Cat de 100,000 dólares.

Ganó por un cuerpo y medio, superando a su predilecto compañero de línea, Chief Lion. Los dos primeros en cruzar la meta fueron criados en Florida y son entrenados por David Jacobson.

El notable Stallwalkin’ Dude, criado por Maria Haire de Ocala, alcanzó su victoria número 15 de un total de 43 carreras corridas, acumulando un total de 828,352 dólares en su historial. Fue en su victoria número 11, de un total de 28 carreras, que Jacobson — quien comparte la propiedad de este viejo guerrero junto a Head of Plains Partners LLC— se lo compró a Hardacre Farm por 16,000 dólares, sacándolo de una carrera sobre hierba el 20 de septiembre de 2014 en Gulfstream Park.

Jacobson tiene la propiedad exclusiva de Chief Lion, quien según él ha ganado cuatro carreras, por 62,000 dólares. El hijo de Wildcat Heir de 6 años de edad, criado por Harold Plumley, ha ganado dos de esas carreras, en las que obtuvo un segundo y tercer puesto.

“Stallwalkin’ Dude derrotó a un muy buen caballo”, dijo Jacobson. “Ha sido un magnífico caballo para nosotros y ha hecho un excelente trabajo. Mostró su verdadera categoría en esta carrera y es evidente que le gusta esta pista”, donde ganó en las dos carreras que disputó.

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quien ha engendrado a seis ganadores en total.

La segunda madre Harvest the Gold dio a luz a Love Lock, ganador de Starlet de Grado 1 en Hollywood Park y de Golden Rod y Debutante, un par de carreras de Grado 3 en Churchill Downs, en donde obtuvo la clasificación para Oak Leaf (G1) y Schuylerville (G2).

Otra cría de Harvest the Gold, Miss Pleasant, se clasificó para el clásico.

La tercera madre Turn the Blade engendró a un par de potrillos que clasificaron para el clásico.

A pesar de largar usualmente primero, no fue el caso de Stallwalkin’ Dude bajo Joe Bravo en la carrera Tale of the Cat, donde les dio ventaja a gran parte de sus nueve rivales, quedando bien a la zaga del ritmo establecido por el segundo favorito Dads Caps.

El líder quedó bajo intensa presión al alcanzar las primeras fracciones de :21.97 y :44.97 en este certamen de seis furlongs y Chief Lion, nunca muy atrasado, pasó al frente a medida que se aproximaba a la meta.

Mientras tanto, Bravo, quien conducía a su caballo con paciencia a lo largo del barandal, desplazó un poco a Stallwalkin’ Dude sobre la curva, para luego cambiar de hilera y así apurar el paso en la recta.

Stallwalkin’ Dude alcanzó a Chief Lion en el puesto decimosexto y lo dejó rezagado.

“Tal como podría ver cualquier handicapper real, la carrera empezó muy, muy bien para él”, dijo Bravo, “pero todos los planes quedaron desvirtuados en el primer salto, cuando trastabilló. Supongo que se enganchó la cuartilla al dejar la largada, pero es tan profesional y experimentado que se relajó, nada lo perturbó. David me dio el mejor caballo para competir y él simplemente sorteó los obstáculos”.

Chief Lion terminó cómodamente con 2¼ cuerpos por delante de Easy to Say, que quedó en tercer lugar.

Subestimado por 8 y 1, Stallwalkin’ Dude, quien compartía el peso máximo en 124 libras, pagaba 18.20 dólares después de correr la distancia en 1:10.05. El premio ganador fue de 60,000 dólares.

Se retiró el millonario de Live Oak, Za Approval Za Approval, criado en Live Oak Stud, ha sido retirado a salvo luego un una extensa y exitosa carrera en las pistas que le permitió a este macho castrado de 8 años acumular 1,394,666 dólares en premios a lo largo de seis años de competencias.

“Za Approval es otro extraordinario miembro de una familia que ha sido especialmente gratificante para Live Oak Stud”, dijo la propietaria y criadora Charlotte Weber.

Za Approval ha regresado a casa a Live Oak Stud en Ocala, Fla., donde el popular macho castrado se reencontrará con su medio hermano, también retirado —Revved Up, criado en Florida. Son dos de los tres millonarios criados en Live Oak que provienen de la yegua Win Approval, hija de With Approval. El otro millonario es Miesque’s Approval, la cría más exitosa de Win Approval que se quedó con la Breeders’

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Cup Mile (G1) de 2006 en Churchill Downs para Live Oak, en camino a acumular un total de 2,648,879 dólares en su carrera. Miesque’s Approval es actualmente un semental en Sudáfrica.

Otro medio hermano criado en Florida, World Approval, es actualmente uno de los más destacados competidores sobre hierba en entrenamiento en Norteamérica. World Approval, de 4 años, obtuvo el clásico Grado 1 de Naciones Unidas en Monmouth Park el mes pasado, y está tratando de convertirse en el cuarto millonario para Live Oak de la yegua blue hen, Win Approval. World Approval lleva acumulado un total de 863,450 dólares a la

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Banke y O’Farrell electos para integrar la junta de comisarios de la carrera de The Jockey Club.

Barbara Banke y J. Michael O’Farrell Jr. han sido electos para integrar la junta de comisarios de la carrera de The Jockey Club, ocupando las bancas de Stella F. Thayer y Peter S. Willmott.

Banke es propietaria y criadora de pura sangres, y dueño del viñedo Jackson Family Wines, con sede en Santa Rosa, California.

Ella integra las juntas de la Breeders’ Cup, la Asociación de Propietarios y Criadores de Pura Sangres, el Museo Nacional y el Salón de la Fama del Hipismo, y ha sido miembro de The Jockey Club desde 2013, y es miembro de la Asociación de Propietarios y Criadores de Pura Sangres de Florida. Es propietaria de Stonestreet Stables, que ha producido los ganadores de 100 clásicos, inclui-

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dos los caballos del año Curlin (2007, 2008) y Rachel Alexandra (2009), y es una destacada desarrolladora de sementales, que incluye a Curlin, el semental de Ocala Stud, Kantharos, Carpe Diem, Maclean’s Music y Astrology. Su granja Stonestreet, con sede en Lexington, es una importante criadora comercial y ha producido los ganadores de 38 clásicos y ha acumulado más de 38,000,000 en premios.

Barbara Banke También cuenta con su Centro de Entrenamiento y Rehabilitación Stonestreet en Summerfield, Florida.

O’Farrell es dueño y operador de Ocala Stud, la granja de pura sangres en funcionamiento más antigua, en Ocala, Fla. Ocala Stud ha criado y vendido más de 150 ganadores de clásicos a lo largo de su historia.

O’Farrell ha integrado las juntas de organizaJ. Michael ciones como la BreedO’Farrell Jr. ers’ Cup Ltd., la Asociación de Propietarios y Criadores de Pura Sangres, la Asociación de Propietarios y Criadores de Pura Sangres de Florida y las Publicaciones Equinas de Florida. Es presidente de la Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company.

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fecha. Miesque’s Approval —un zaino—es el único no castrado de los cuatro hermanos, los cuales estaban o están liderando las competencias sobre hierba en sus respectivas divisiones en un punto de sus carreras.

Za Approval disfrutó de su mejor momento en 2013 cuando tenía 5 años, lo que incluyó un fuerte desempeño como subcampeón frente a Wise Dan, Caballo del Año y poseedor del récord en Santa Anita, en la Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) en esa ciudad. Terminó solo tres cuartos de cuerpo atrás, con lo que obtuvo un 103 Beyer Speed Figure por su desempeño, que representa el punto culminante de su trayectoria. Fue una de las cinco actuaciones Beyer consecutivas de tres dígitos para Za Approval, quien se retiró con un total de siete Beyers de tres dígitos en su historial.

De 34 carreras, Za Approval se quedó con nueve victorias, nueve segundos puestos y cuatro llegadas en tercer lugar. Previo a su esfuerzo como subcampeón en la Breeders’ Cup, él obtuvo victorias consecutivas en el clásico Appleton (G3) en Gulfstream Park y el clásico de Red Bank (G3) en Aqueduct, además de una victoria en el clásico Knickerbocker (GG3) en Belmont.

By Ghostzapper, Za Approval y sus hermanos representan la tercera generación de crías de Live Oak de esta condecorada familia. La segunda madre, Negotiator, fue criada por Live Oak en 1974.

Convirtiendo ‘Sueños’ en realidad Si uno observa el pedigrí de Yourdreamsormine, se encontrará con esa gran yegua de Tartan, Turtle Cove, la cuarta yegua del ganador de los 75,000 dólares de Groomstick Stakes del 27 de agosto.

Pero la cualidad de ganador de clásicos solo llega un poco hacia atrás en el árbol genealógico y, en el caso de Yourdreamsormine, llegó a 37,000 dólares en el círculo de ventas de junio de 2014 en la OBS, donde el entrenador Bill Kaplan lo compró de la consignación de All Dreams Equine para Ione y H.J. Elkins de Hollywood, Fla. Milt Wolfson, su entrenador actual, recuerda su evaluación del caballo —no era muy bueno— y él se mostró contento de que Kaplan lo entrenara.

En retrospectiva, Wolfson lo recordó como un “caballo de andar extraño”.

El retiro de Kaplan el año pasado dio lugar a otra venta de Yourdreamsormine, quien — a pesar de su victoria en la división Unbridled del clásico Florida Sire en 2015— una vez más llamó poco la atención.

No obstante, esta vez, Wolfson solo a realizó una oferta condicional.

“Dije, les diré lo siguiente, me lo quedo y lo entrenaré durante dos semanas, sin cargo alguno para usted. Si me gusta, lo compraré’.

Y eso es lo que hice”, relató Wolfson.

Cabe decir que Wolfson está conforme con la manera en que se dieron las cosas para el ejemplar criado en Bridlewood, quien ahora es propiedad del establo NTS: Después de ganar Groomstick, el potro de 4 años cuenta con tres victorias, incluidos dos clásicos, y un par de llegadas como subcampeón.

Favorecido con 6 y 5 en Groomstick estuvo El Deal, quien resultó ser un terco marcador del ritmo en este evento de siete furlongs, anotando :22.62 en cuarto de milla de apertura antes de permitirle a Mr. Baker anotar :44.87 en la media milla. El Deal venía inmediatamente después, para luego luchar contra el avance decisivo de Yourdreamsormine, hasta que el ganador cruzó la meta sacando una ventaja de 1¾ cuerpos.

Tyler Gaffalione estaba sobre el hijo ganador de Mr. Sekiguchi, cuyo primer premio de 46,035 dólares elevó el total de su carrera a 344,185 dólares.

“La carrera se desarrolló a la perfección.

Hablamos al respecto en el prado y pensamos que esos dos subirían y se engancharían entre sí”, dijo. “Decidimos sentarnos lejos de ellos y dejarlo recorrer el trayecto como lo hace habitualmente”.

El tiempo final fue de 1:22.22.

El Deal llegó en segundo puesto, sacándole 2¾ cuerpos a Bullet Gone Astray.

Yourdreamsormine generó inmediatos dividendos para Wolfson, ganando la Bull Gator del 13 de mayo por diferencia de tres.

“Aquello fue como celebrar Navidad ese día”, dijo Wolfson. “Después de que tantos otros entrenadores lo rechazaran, fue como recibir una palmeada en la espalda”.

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Gulfstream, añadió: “Le diré lo siguiente, hacía mucho tiempo que no me divertía tanto.

Este caballo tiene tanta pasión. Esa es la mitad de la batalla. Uno debe tener respeto por un caballo como este”.

Yordreamsormine es hijo de Fly Apple Shu, la yegua de Forbidden Apple, cuyo medio hermano Put Back the Shu fue un ganador de carreras clásicas. La tercera madre Milaoshu engendró a Galic Boy, un múltiple ganador de clásicos y un plusmarquista en múltiples pistas en el Medio Oeste, que acumuló 538,706 dólares en premios, la mayoría de lo cual provenía de carreras sobre hierba.

Además de Milaoshu, Turtle Cove, una hija de Dr. Fager, también engendró a Great Neck, ganador de Canadian International de grado 1 y un ganador de múltiples clásicos de grado sobre hierba de 430,156 dólares; el ganador del clásico europeo Pink Turtle, el clasificado para el clásico de grado Cope of Flowers y el clasificado para el clásico Cove Dancer.

Caballo de Florida se convierte en «Príncipe» en Evangeline Downs Thegreatcollection, un juvenil criado en Florida, no demoró en dar el salto de nunca haber competido a ganar una carrera para no ganadores, para luego convertirse en ganador de una carrera clásica, y quedarse con los 60,000 dólares del clásico Prince de Evangeline Downs, el 27 de agosto, apenas 20 días después de ganar Gulfstream Park donde había menos de 16,000 dólares en premios.

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nessy, Cactus Ridge. Thegreatcollection era el hijo de Saint Anddan y el ganador de Prince fue criado por sus propietarios, Kathleen Amaya and Alexandro y Rafaele Centofanti.

Su potro podría demostrar ser algo especial: Ganó por primera vez una carrera en Gulfstream, luego de un viaje horrendo — encerrado contra el barandal, llevado a mano por el jinete en el poste de media milla, luego nuevamente sobre la curva, luego una vez más cuando separó a los caballos que se acercaban al marcador de furlong —y aun así se impuso por 11⁄2 cuerpos, realizando 51⁄2 furlongs en 1:05.32, con un mejor resultado que 7 y 1, debajo de M.R. Ramirez.

Una pista descuidada y cerrada, y seis furlongs le dieron la bienvenida a Thegreatcollection en Prince, carrera que, si bien no fue tranquila, fue probablemente más sencilla que su versión para no ganadores.

Si bien el nombre que se manejaba en las apuestas era el de Ramirez, Colby Hernandez estuvo en la silla de montar cuando Thegreatcollection largó último en el campo de ocho caballos. Se agazapó tras la largada y se quedó al final de la manada mientras Shacklefords Storm tomaba rápidamente la delantera con fracciones de 0:22.58 y 0:46.95. Envoyer, la segunda opción 2 a 1, tomó la delantera con respecto el cansado líder y parecía tener la carrera ganada, pero Thegreatcollection estaba demasiado veloz. Tomó el camino más corto en la curva, encontró un lugar sobre el barandal y se abrió camino en la pista con facilidad, para ganar por 41⁄2. El improbable ganador Dixieland Native cerró segundo, y el favorito 8 a 5 US Officer terminó tercero, tres cuartos de cuerpo atrás.

El tiempo de la carrera fue de 1:12.81. Al ganar su segunda carrera, Thegreatcollection sumó $36,000 a sus ganancias, que ahora suman $46,400.

Efren Loza Jr. entrena al ganador. Una vez más salió mejor que con 7 a 1 y pagó $17.40.

Cactus Cadillac, quien ganó $141,897 a lo largo de su carrera, es hija de la yegua de carrera de calidad Plum Country, cuyas cuatro victorias con dinero agregado incluyen el Grado 3 de Davona Dale y la rama de Florida Sire de las clásicas carreras Susan’s Girl.

Clasificó segunda en otras dos ramas, Desert Vixen y My Dear Girl; y salió segunda en el grado 2 de Astarita. ■

Grandes días de pago le esperan a Our Way El caballo de carrera de 3 años que ganó $100,000 el 28 de agosto, Better Talk Now, es muy diferente del que solo logró llegar entre los tres primeros una vez en sus cuatro primeras carreras.

Our Way ha ganado dos rectas, ambas en Saratoga, y su grupo puede jactarse de su récord de 3-1-1 en sus últimas cinco carreras.

“Está respondiendo y mejorando”, expresó su entrenador, Jimmy Bond. “Realmente ha madurado”.

Si bien arrancó como la segunda opción 3 a 1 al favorito 5 a 2 Hammers Vision, Our Way se acomodó en la posición de competidor en los últimos tres campos de seis caballos, seis cuerpos atrás, mientras que Dragon Bay alcanzaba fracciones en cuarto de milla de apertura de 0:23.83 y siguió con media en 0:48.15 y seis furlongs en 1:12.40.

Cuando quedaba un cuarto de milla, tanto Conquest Big E como Our Way avanzaron hacia los líderes y siguieron acelerando hacia la recta, donde un vacilante y trastabillado Dragon Bay rebotó en el barandal cerca del poste número dieciséis.

Esos errores generaron confusión para aquellos que estaban detrás de Dragon Bay, pero Our Way era demasiado bueno para necesitar de alguien que lo bloqueara; encontró su mejor tramo en la recta y se alejó de Hammers Vision para ganar por 2¼ cuerpos.

“Pude ganar un poco de terreno y seguir a Johnny [Velazquez, jinete de Hammers Vision]”, contó el ganador Jose Ortiz. “En el cuarto poste, me las arreglé para abrirme y obtuve un caballo de una tonelada. Explotó”.

El ganador pagó $8.10 después de marcar 1:34.75 para la milla, una distancia que Bond dijo que se adaptaría bien a su caballo.

Dragon Bay terminó tercero, pero fue descalificado por interferir con Mighty Mo, quien recibió el tercer puesto.

Criado por Farm III Enterprises, Our Way

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madre del ganador de $659,177 Royal Chariot, ganador de la Hollywood Turf Cup (grupo 1) y del Del Mar Invitational (G2), y del ganador de carreras francesas Johnny Mountain.

La cuarta madre, Sea Sands, participó en eventos de Grupo 2 y Grupo 3 en Francia; entre sus hijos se encuentra Future Storm, ganador de eventos de grado y Grupo 3 en los Estados Unidos y en Italia.

La línea de grandes ganadores continúa hasta la prestigiosa sexta madre de Our Way, Legendra.

Han sido algunos meses bastante buenos para Farm III Enterprises, quien crió al récord de venta de OSB de junio, el potro de un año de $800,000 de City Zip, de Successful Sarah, hijo de Successful Appeal. El potro surgió de las consignaciones de Stephens Thoroughbreds.

¡Excelente rendimiento!

Awesome Slew, el desafortunado caballo de Live Oak Plantation criado en Florida se benefició del gran apoyo y paciencia del hogar, el buen terreno para seguir luchando y un desempeño general brillante en la pista para convertir el Smarty Jones de Grado 3 del lunes, con premio de $300,000, en una victoria contundente.

Largó desde el extremo exterior del campo de 14 caballos de 3 años, con un trecho corto hasta la primera curva de Parx. Paco Lopez apuró al caballo criado en Live Oak al salir del cajón, limpió fácilmente su camino, bajó el ritmo en el segundo y tercer cuarto y se paseó hasta la meta; resultó ganador por siete cuerpos con facilidad.

Fue un triunfo bastante sorprendente para los que participaban en la carrera —Awesome Slew pagó $23.80—, y Lopez, quien se acercó a Smarty Jones con la misma estrategia agresiva de los jinetes de los duelos de caballos de cuarto de milla, recibió el crédito que merecía; pero es mucho más que eso, según el entrenador Eddie Plesa.

“Por eso lo llaman ‘el equipo Live Oak’”, dijo a Wednesday The Florida Horse. “Paco se lleva el crédito, yo me llevo el crédito, pero hay mucha más gente que no se lleva el crédito público que se merece, y el primero en la lista es Charlotte Weber [dueño de Live Oak]. También están el Gerente General de Live Oak en Ocala, Bruce Hill, y el Gerente de la División

de Entrenamiento, Joe Ambrosia; y todo el equipo que tienen detrás. Hace bastante tiempo que realizan un trabajo increíble”.

Además, Plesa colmó de reconocimientos al potro, cuya promesa estuvo en peligro debido a una serie de hechos desafortunados, que incluyen una lesión y una enfermedad.

Impresionó al ganar en su debut en Monmouth en 8 a 5 el año pasado, había mucha confianza, a pesar de sus probabilidades de 17 a 1 después de chocar con el barandal en el campo de diez caballos, en las clásicas carreras de Stanford, en Saratoga, el último año.

Largó noveno, se acercó amigablemente y terminó cuarto, tan solo dos cuerpos detrás del ganador, en la renovación de una dura carrera en la que Uncle Vinny, eventualmente nombrado el campeón juvenil del estado de su generación, obtuvo la victoria.

Fue una llegada impresionante para Awesome Slew, pero una fractura de tobillo le quitó

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es hijo de Tizway y She’s Sensational, hija de la ganadora de múltiples clásicos Point Given.

“Será un caballo muy importante este otoño”, expresó Bond. “Está mejorando mucho”.

El premio de $60,000 de Better Talk Now elevó las ganancias de este pardo castrado a $163,390 para su dueño, William Clifton Jr., cliente de Bond desde hace un largo tiempo.

Clifton introdujo a Tizway en las carreras y Bond lo entrenó, en 2011, y este caballo ganó la Metropolitan y la Whitney, ambas de Grado 1.

Clifton adquirió a Our Way de Parrish Farms cuando tenía 2 años, en la subasta de OBS de marzo de 2014, por $140,000. Parrish lo había comprado cuando era un potro de un año, en septiembre del año anterior, por $42,000 en Keeneland.

Bond le dijo a The Florida Horse que Our Way “no había sido realmente juguetón, tan solo... un chico muy malo” durante sus pocos viajes al cajón de largada, durante las preparaciones matutinas y durante su primera carrera, entonces, castró a su potro y “muchos de los tipos de los cajones aplaudían después de que lo hicimos”.

Our Way es el tercero de seis potrillos de la yegua de 12 años She’s Sensational, cuyos dos últimos potrillos son un potro de un año de City Zip y un recién destetado de Will Take Charge. Está preñada de Into Mischief.

La familia está llena de black types en el pasto.

La segunda madre, Blushing Issue, también superó a la repetidas veces ganadora de carreras de Grado 1 (American Oaks y Del Mar Oaks) y de $950,400, Lady of Shamrock, y a Smooth Jazz, ganador de la copa Commonwealth Breeder (G2).

La tercera madre, Gold Issue, también es

Florida-bred Awesome Slew

la posibilidad de obtener más logros en 2015.

Se había recuperado por completo —“100 %”, dijo Plesa—, pero en cuanto estuvo listo para competir en la serie de Gulfstream para caballos de 3 años, un ataque de colitis lo dejó afuera.

Regresó en la primavera en Monmouth, ganando su carrera de regreso a seis furlongs por tres, después, terminó tercero la carrera Pegasus (G3) del 19 de junio que ganó Donegal Moon. Una vez más, las expectativas eran altas para la Haskell (G1), nuevamente a pesar de sus posibilidades de 32 a 1, pero una pista descuidada anuló sus posibilidades y, tal como está documentado, brindó la posición perfecta para Exaggerator, que terminó 32 cuerpos adelante del potro de Live Oak. “No podía pararse en esa pista”, explicó Plesa, y también reconoció que la carrera pudo THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2016 21

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haber sido, en retrospectiva, un poco ambiciosa.

“Pero, les diré algo —continuó—, este caballo se ha visto desfavorecido desde el último verano”.

Lopez encontró rápidamente la posición perfecta en la Smarty Jones; hizo un trabajo

magistral de despejar el campo en la largada, y él y su caballo pasaron silbando por la pista después de un cuarto de apertura en 0:23.14, respaldando el ritmo con una media milla de 0:47.74 y seis furlongs de 1:12. En la pista, le dio a su caballo una palmada con la mano

EN CONMEMORACIÓN Tom Chiota, 70: El expresidente fue fundamental para el éxito de OBS

By Mike Mullaney El 28 de agosto, la Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. sufrió otra invaluable pérdida con la muerte de Tom Chiota, el expresidente de la casa de subastas y una figura fundamental que ayudó a convertir en realidad los audaces sueños de los fundadores.

Este nativo de Winthrop, Massachusetts, tenía 70 años.

Con la llegada de Chiota a Ocala en 1978, OBS —que en ese momento tenía solo cuatro años— comenzó un crecimiento increíble gracias a que pasó de ser un punto de ventas local a ser la actual empresa de operaciones de primera categoría que atrae el interés de todos los distritos de carreras, tanto nacionales como internacionales.

El crecimiento sustancial de su reputación y su prestigio también fue acompañado de una expansión de negocios: Durante su permanencia, OBS añadió un negocio de alimentos y un puesto de apuestas interpista, construyó 23 establos más y dos hipódromos, también agregó un día más de carreras en vivo. También adquirió Ocala jai-alai.

Mike O’Farrell, antiguo miembro de la junta de OBS y el jefe de una familia que disfruta su sexagésimo año como criados de caballos en su Ocala Stud, dijo que Chiota estuvo en el lugar correcto en el momento correcto: “Era exactamente lo que necesitábamos”, expresó. “Administró la empresa con mucha eficiencia; era muy riguroso, pero también era justo”.

El actual presidente de OBS, Tom Ventura, quién trabajó junto a Chiota, contó que su “mano dura en un negocio turbulento fue fundamental para el crecimiento y el éxito de OBS”.

Aunque Chiota se retiró de las actividades formales en el año 2011, continuó trabajando con OBS como consultor.

Chiota tenía una estrecha relación, tanto profesional como personal, con Norm Casse, el visionario que ayudó a crear OBS. El respetado Casse falleció el 6 de marzo a la edad de 79 años.

“Mi padre y Tom fueron muy buenos amigos —expresó Mark, el hijo de Casse—, y también fue un muy buen amigo mío desde que tengo 10 años. Tom era uno de esos tipos que siempre ponía a OBS en primer lugar. Trabajaba todo el tiempo, y su integridad era inigualable. Su principal interés y su principal problema siempre era OBS. Se aseguraba que todo fuera siempre por el buen camino, de que todo estuviera bajo control”.

“Sabía que había estado enfermo por un tiempo y, mientras manejaba hacia el granero y de regreso a mi casa, pasaba mucho tiempo pensando en Tom, en mi padre y en otro amigo íntimo de ellos y mío, el dr. Gordon Layton [de Paris, Ky.], quien también falleció el [Agosto 28]. Tres viejos amigos que ahora están juntos otra vez”.

A Chiota le sobreviven su esposa de 48 años, Lorraine Chiota de Ocala; su hija, la dra. Nicole Chiota-McCollum, de Charlottesville, Virginia; sus nietos Owen y Alec McCollum; sus hermanos Anthony Chiota, de The Villages, Alice Farrell, de San Antonio, Texas, Joseph Chiota, de North Adams, Massachusetts, Maryanne Caporale, de Ipswich, Massachusetts, y Janet Chiota, de Milán, Italia; y muchos sobrinos y sobrinas. ■ 22 THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2016

derecha, quizá más por costumbre que por necesidad, y juntos contuvieron con facilidad los últimos movimientos de Wild About Deb y Seeking the Soul.

Awesome Slew llegó a la meta en 1:42.92.

El favorito 2 a 1, Sticksstatelydude, salió cuarto.

La Smarty Jones también le dio a Awesome Slew la posibilidad de vengarse un poco; Uncle Vinny estaba casi 14 cuerpos atrás en la novena posición.

Lopez, el aprendiz de jinete ganador del premio Eclipse Award de 2008, montaba caballos de cuarto de milla en Florida, en el año 2007.

“Ganar una carrera como esta, con un caballo que ha superado todo lo que le pasó, es una buena sensación. Y Paco se merece mucho crédito, por supuesto, pero la ‘buena sensación’ es que estamos todos juntos en equipo; y todo empieza con la señora Weber, quien tiene una enorme paciencia y nos permite hacer nuestro trabajo”, expresó Plesa.

Además, contó que ella, él y Hill debatirán la posibilidad de una carrera en la Parx Derby (G2) de $1 millón el 24 de septiembre.

“En este momento, todo lo que puedo decir es que el caballo volvió a estar al 110 %, tal como queríamos”, le dijo a Wednesday.

Awesome Slew —que ganó tres de sus seis carreras y acumuló $255,820— es hijo de Slewfoundmoney, la yegua de 12 años de Live Oak Stud que ganó varias carreras clásicas y clasificó para el clásico. Slewfoundmoney también es madre del Souper Lucky, quien clasificó para el clásico y ganó los primeros $300,000.

Slewfoundmoney es hija de Borodislew, una yegua de Seattle Slew que ganó un par de clásicos de grado en todas las pistas mayores del Sur de California a mediados de los años 90 y ganó $679,781. Además de Slewfoundmoney, Borodislew engendró a los ganadores de las carreras clásicas, Canadian Frontier y Seeking Slew.

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Familiar Faces

in Winners’ Circle

By MIKE MULLANEY lazquez gave Three Rules his cue, rolling up to overwhelm our familiar faces were back in Gulfstream the pacemaker and practically cantering home on 1:23.89 Park’s winners’ circle Sept. 3, with validation over a track listed as “fast.” Off at 2-5, he paid $2.40.

Velasquez, with bigger, future prizes in mind, made coming to Three Rules, Cajun Delta Dawn and R Kinsley Doll as they neared a sweep of their respective a point of keeping his mount interested even when the Florida Sire Stakes races, and vindication coming to outcome was no longer in doubt.

“I wanted [Herecomesthedude] to go and keep Awesome Banner, who numbed his supporters when he [Three Rules] three or four lengths off. I didn’t want to lost the first leg of his division at 1-20.

The big day for Florida-breds showcased two gifted move, but my horse wanted to go to the lead and he did juveniles in Cajun Delta Dawn and Three Rules in the it easy,” he said. “I hit him so he doesn’t get too confi$300,000 Susan’s Girl and like-valued Affirmed, and a dent, because maybe next time he will be running pair of 3-year-old speedsters in R Kinsley Doll and Awe- against better horses. He needs to stay ready for that. I some Banner in the $150,000 Jewel Princess and Prized wanted to keep his mind on business.”

The 6-1 second choice Front Loaded came along to stakes. All four of the FSS races were at seven furlongs. get second, a length in front of In another highlight of the day, a fifth Florida-bred, the From the first time I breezed Legacy Azteca. Herecomesthedude faded to last of seven. tough older turf mare Pink him, I told everybody, ‘This is “From the first time I breezed Poppy, beat open company in 1 the best horse I’ve ever trained. ’ him, I told everybody, ‘This is the $75,000 Wasted Tears at 1 ⁄16 miles in the infield.

What more can I tell you? He the best horse I’ve ever trained,’” After Three Rules had won was in total control of the race said trainer Jose Pinchin. “What more can I tell you? He was in his second start, owner Bert from the break.

Anytime he total control of the race from the Pilcher confided to The Florida wanted he could have gone break. Anytime he wanted he Horse that the horse his Shade Tree Thoroughbreds had co- [to the lead].

—trainer Jose Pinchin could have gone [to the lead].”

On the night of his birth, bred with Geoff Roy and Tom Fitzgerald of Toronto was named with the three com- Pilcher said, the colt stayed up all night to play, which he interpreted as a signal that this youngster was destined to mandments of racehorse ownership in mind.

“Rule number one, win! Rule number two, win! And be something very special. He said he had it in mind to sell the colt, and he had the paperwork in hand, and was rule number three, well, you get the idea,” he said.

You can add a fourth win to that mantra after the son at OBS, but at the last minute he had a change of heart.

Obviously enjoying the triumphs of the best horse he’s of Northwest Stud stallion Gone Astray won a huge purse with minimal effort, scoring easy as he pleased by 5½ been involved with, Pilcher said he is still equivocal, eslengths, in hand, under Cornelio Velazquez. The com- pecially as the offers increase in frequency and amount.

It’s fair to say that the price skyrocketed after the bined margin of his victories has reached 21 lengths.

Three Rules had won the opening leg of the FSS, the Affirmed.

“You know, I can’t make up my mind. I want to [keep six-furlong Dr. Fager, by seven lengths.

Herecomesthedude took the early initiative in the Af- him], but then again, he’s such a valuable animal, and firmed and set fractions of :22.24 and :44.87 before Ve- how can a guy as broke as I am keep a horse worth this

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Florida Sire Stakes kind of money,” Pilcher said. “But that’s what I’m planning to do unless something crazy happens.”

The $180,000 first prize boosted Three Rules’ earnings to $380,640.

Three Rules – who easily handled Gunnevera, subsequent Grade 2 Saratoga Special winner, in his debut – is the fifth of five named foals, all winners out of the winning 11-year-old Full Mandate mare Joy Rules. The mare has a yearling filly by Woodford Thoroughbred stallion Soldat and this year gave birth to colt by Fort Larned.

Next up for Three Rules: His bid to sweep the FSS in the 1 1 ⁄16-mle, $500,000 In Reality, also at Gulfstream, on Oct. 1.

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While Three Rules has been the toast of South Florida, Cajun Delta Dawn, whose victories have been in lock step with her male counterpart, has been playing something akin to a female Rodney Dangerfield, disrespected despite

her three-for-three record heading into the Susan’s Girl.

Wandering eyes were dazzled by Sweet Tooth Haven’s maiden-breaking performance – which netted an 80 Beyer Speed Figure – and she was sent off as the 1-2 choice. The contender being trained by 18-time FSS winner Stanley Gold did nothing to detract from her chances.

Lu Lu Laura posted a first quarter in :22.24 in leading the field of six through the first quarter with Cajun Delta Dawn, 5-2 on the board, in closest attendance and Sweet Tooth Haven right there as well.

Cajun Delta Dawn grabbed the lead approaching the turn, beat back a bid from Sweet Tooth Haven midway on the turn, and coasted home by five lengths, by far the largest victory margin of her career.

She got the seven furlongs in 1:24.91 over a wet-fast and sealed track.

Stormy Embrace was second, followed by US Diva.

Florida-bred Three Rules continues his winning spree in taking the Affirmed.

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Sweet Tooth Haven faded to fourth, three lengths there with two feet of water in it, so I needed something like this to perk me up a little bit.” farther back.

He and Patricia Horth co-bred the filly.

Trainer David Fawkes, who had to say goodbye to Cajun Delta Dawn had won her previous races by a one superstar, the retired Florida Horse of the Year Sheer Drama, a few days before the Susan’s Girl, was relieved half-length and her two others, including the FSS’ Desert Vixen, by a neck. Her rider, Juan but not surprised by her effort.

“She gave me more confiShe gave me more confidence Leyva, wasn’t complaining dence than in any of her other than in any of her other races. It about a cushion this time around.

“It was pretty easy. From the races,” he said. “It was an imwas an impressive race.

She was get-go, I got her into the race pressive race. She was just galjust galloping along, enjoying and, once I got there, she was just loping along, enjoying herself.” dragging me the whole way. I The victory was especially herself. —trainer David fawkes said, ‘Man, this is going to be a gratifying for her owner and breeder, Curtis Mikkelsen, considering the travails walk in the park,’ and sure enough it was,” he said.

“She felt great in the stretch.” that Hurricane Hermine put him through on the eve Cajun Delta Dawn boosted her earnings to $381,105. of the Susan’s Girl.

“I have a house over on the Crystal River, and I went She paid $7.80. over there Thursday night at 5 and everything looked okay.

Said Mikkelsen: “This makes up for [a flooded The storm surge was only four feet,” said Mikkelsen. house]. Maybe not to my wife, but to me it does.”

Cajun Delta Dawn is the seventh named foal of the Then it became six feet. Then 10 feet.

“Wiped out my house,” he said. “My house is sitting Awesome Again mare Cajun Dawn, who also has year-

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Former claimer R Kinsley Doll hung another loss on last year’s champion juvenile filly Ballet Diva with her neck victory over that rival in the Jewel Princess.

In their last meeting, the Aug. 6 Three Ring, Ballet Diva broke hearts when finishing sixth at 1-2. This time around it was R Kinsley Doll who was favored, 6-5 as opposed to 9-5 on her rival.

A daughter of Bridlewood Farm stallion Big Drama, R Kinsley Doll stalked Ballet Diva and Sweet Khaleesi early through fractions of :22.36 and :45.30. This time around, though, Ballet Diva was resilient. After putting Sweet Khaleesi away she battled all the way to the wire, just losing in the last few strides. She had 1¾ lengths on third-place She’s Incredible as Sweet Khaleesi dropped back to fifth in the six-horse field.

The time for the seven furlongs was 1:24.75 over a wet-fast sealed track.

Picking up $90,000 for the victory, R Kinsley Doll boosted her earnings to $238,085. Tyler Gaffalione rode.

Florida-breeding patron Richard Averill hasn’t had much luck naming his horses after his daughters, but “Kinsley” came through this time.

“This might be the first time it ever worked out,” Averill said, family in tow. “It’s an awesome feeling to have the whole family here, friends, and to win with a horse named after my daughter and to have her be here, that probably doesn’t happen to too many people.

“That Ballet Diva is a nice filly and I knew that she wasn’t going to put in a clunker like she did last time. I just told Tyler, ‘Ride your race, sit back, make that one run,’ and he did.”

Averill owns the filly, who paid $4.40, in partnership with Silver Oak Stable. She’s trained by Ralph Ziadie.

R Kinsley Doll is the first of three foals out of the 9year-old Medaglia d’Oro mare Honest Gold, a daughter of the graded-stakes placed mare Honest Answer, herself a sibling to the multiple Grade 1-winning I Ain’t Bluffing and Canadian champion 2-year-old Truth of It All. This is the family of champion mare Smart Deb.

HALLANDALE BEACH - Gulfstream Park’s total handle on the second leg of the $2.9 million Florida Sire Stakes - which featured victories by undefeated juveniles Three Rules and Cajun Delta Dawn - was up 46.81% over last year.

Total handle on the first two legs of the threerace series is up 35%.

Saturday’s total handle on the program, which featured six stakes races and victories by Three Rules in the $300,000 Affirmed and Cajun Delta Dawn in the $300,000 Susan’s Girl, was $8.101 million, up from $5.518 in 2015. Total handle on the first leg of the Sire Stakes, on Saturday, Aug. 6, was $7.768 million, compared to $6.244 million The racing was in 2015. fantastic through“The racing was fantastic throughout the enout the entire af- tire afternoon and there was great energy and ternoon and there enthusiasm throughout the entire facility,” said was great energy P.J. Campo, Vice President of Racing for The and enthusiasm Stronach Group and General Manager of Gulfthroughout the en- stream Park. “We had memorable performances tire facility. on track by our equine athletes. We want to thank P.J. Campo, Vice President of Racing for The Stronach the breeders, owners Group and General Manager and horsemen for their of Gulfstream Park. great support and our fans for making it an incredible day. We can’t wait for the Sire Stakes finale on Saturday, Oct. 1.”

Lonny T. Powell, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association, said: “The FTBOA is thrilled to see our Florida Sire Stakes for Florida-breds skyrocket so much in wagering handle.

PJ and his “PJ and his Gulfstream crew do such a great job Gulfstream crew in putting on our show: They have been super partdo such a great ners and share our mandate to promote the sport job in putting on as well as our state-breds. I also thank our current our show … I also Board of Directors at FTBOA for their leadership thank our current and vision for growing the FSS and many of our Board of Direcother popular programs that are designed to create tors at FTBOA for opportunity for Florida breeders and owners.” their leadership The third and final leg of the Florida Sire Stakes and vision. for the juveniles will feature the $500,000 In Real- Lonny T. Powell, FTBOA CEO and Executive Vice President ity and $500,000 My Dear Girl stakes.

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State-breds a Huge Hit With Gulfstream Players

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ling and weanling colt and filly, respectively, by Pleasant Acres stallion Treasure Beach. Cajun Delta dawn’s siblings include Sunshine Millions Distaff winner Mom’z Laugh, Sunshine Millions Sprint-placed Cajun Breeze and graded-stakes-placed Peace at Dawn.

Next up for Cajun Delta Dawn, the 11⁄16-mile, $500,000 My Dear Girl on Oct. 1, also at Gulfstream. She’ll attempt to become the second Fawkes charge to sweep an FSS series, joining Eclipse champion Big Drama.

Her trainer doesn’t appear to lack confidence: “It sure doesn’t look like it’s going to be a problem,” he said.

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Trainer Mark Casse had a big day Sept. 3, winning a maiden at Saratoga with Casses Story, the 2-year-old that Live Oak Stable owner Charlotte Weber named for his late father, Norm Casse; then deadheating in the

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Florida-bred R Kinsley Doll, named after owner Richard Averill’s daughter Kinsley, (inset) captured the Jewel Princess.

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in South Florida while the boss was in Saratoga, said: “He was always the horse that everyone was trying to beat. It’s easier to try to make someone lose than to win, but with the outside post we were able to take him back and let them burn themselves out. We were going to let the horse tell us what he wanted to do. If he came out and wanted to go up there, then we were going to let him. If he didn’t, we wanted to save him and let those guys go.”

Awesome Banner is a son Awesome of Course out of the Zamindar mare Miranda Stands, she a half-sister to the multiple South Florida stakes winner Scrubs.

Awesome Banner is a graded-stakes winner in open company, having won the Hutcheson Stakes (G3) and Swale Stakes (G2) earlier this year. After earning a $90,000 first prize from the Prized, he has five wins from nine career starts and earnings of $422,335. He paid $3.40 to his backers.

WASTED TEARS

Arindel Farm’s homebred Pink Poppy dogged 4-5 favorite and fellow Florida-bred Daring Kathy early, then flashed the old form that saw her win the 2015 Sunshine Millions Distaff

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Grade 1, $350,000 Spinaway with Pretty City Dancer, then five minutes later tallying in the Prized with the enigmatic Awesome Banner.

Wide throughout, Awesome Banner showed a determination that has, at times, been lacking of late, grinding down Mr. Kisses to win by a neck.

Mr. Kisses was on top of, or setting, the pace throughout the seven-furlong race, through fractions of :22.50, :44.82 and 1:09.26. He was a difficult foe to catch, but Tyler Gaffalione aboard Awesome Banner seemed to have him measured.

“He made me work a little bit, but he was much more comfortable today with the outside post,” Gaffalione offered. “I didn’t have to use him as much.

I could just sit back and let them duel early. When I asked him for run on the turn, he gave it to me. He was so game. He kept digging in.”

Dream of Me, who had shocked the 1-20 Awesome Banner in the first leg of the FSS, the Aug. 6 Unbridled, was third, 3½ lengths behind the runner-up.

Awesome Banner, a Jacks or Better Farm homebred, hit the wire in 1:22.88.

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Florida-bred Awesome Banner triumphs in the Prized

Turf, scoring by three-quarters of a length over fellow Florida-bred Kiss to Remember. Dad’s Princess was third and Daring Kathy dropped to fifth.

She paid $9.40 and the $44,640 prize brought her career earnings to $292,501. She got the 11⁄16 miles in 1:42.21.

She had won the Spook Express over the course and distance on July 2, breaking an 11-race losing streak that

had stretched back to her Sunshine Millions victory. Her record reads 5-0-5 from 21 career starts.

Ronny Werner trains Pink Poppy.

Edgard Zayas gave the 5-year-old daughter of Tiznow a perfect ride. Her dam, the 17-year-old Rahy mare Boa, also produced Grade 1-placed Liquidity. She hasn’t had a foal since 2014 but was bred to Colonel John this year. ■

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he Ocala Breeders’ Sales company conducted their annual August Yearling Sale on Aug. 23-25 with a Selected session being held on the first day and Open sessions conducted on the following two days.

For the two Open sessions conducted on Aug. 24-25, 371 horses sold for a total of $3,083,000, compared with 404 grossing $5,456,400 a year ago. The average price was $8,310, compared with last year’s $13,506 while the median price was $4,500, compared with $9,500 in 2015. The buyback percentage was 37.7%; it was 19.8% a year ago.

The first six-figure horse to pass through the ring and top seller was Hip 24, a colt by Flatter out of Madoffwiththecash, by Dixie Union that brought $210,000.

Madoffwiththecash is a full sister to Grade 2 winner Nothing But Fun, who is also a stakes-producer of B Shanny. The colt was consigned by Stuart Morris, agent and Stan Hough signed the ticket as an agent for Kevin Plank’s Sagamore Farm.

“He was our pick out of the entire sale,” Hough said.

“He’s by Flatter, who we like and he was our first choice after looking at him several times.”

Going for $200,000 was Hip 99, a bay filly by champion 3-year-old Bernardini out of the stakes-winning mare Seacrettina, by Sea of Secrets. Seacrettina is also a half-sister to graded-stakes-placed Ramsgate. Consigned

by Baccari Bloodstock LLC, agent, she was purchased by Justin Casse of Ocala acting as an agent.

Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stable LLC and M.V. Magnier went to $160,000 to get Hip 133, a Florida-bred colt from the first crop of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winner and champion 2-year-old Shanghai Bobby. He is out of the Boston Harbor mare Sydney’s Kiss, making him a half-brother to stakes winners Katie’s Kiss and Stonestreet Song and stakes-placed Truest Legend. He

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mered down at $120,000 as the second to the last horse of the day. Consigned by Francis and Barbara Vanlenagendonck’s Summerfield, the bay filly is by Grade 1 winner MaAugust Yearling Sale jestic Warrior out of Holiday Shopping, by Harlan’s Holiday. Holiday Shopping is also a was consigned by Francis and Barbara Vanlanhalf-sister to stakes winner and graded stakesgendonck’s Summerfield and was also bred by placed Fifth Avenue and stakes placed Shopthe Vanlangendoncks of Morrison. Banke will tate. SGV Thoroughbreds was the buyer. likely send the colt to her Stonestreet Training Topping all Open session sellers was a and Rehabilitation Center in Summerfield.

Florida-bred colt by Ocala Stud stallion KanBill Rigney went to $155,000 to buy Hip tharos, who is currently the fifth leading third 174 under the name of his Rigney Racing crop sire nationally, brought a bid of $80,000 LLC based in Louisville, Ky. The dark bay or from Nick de Meric of de Meric Sales in brown filly is from the first crop of Florida sire Ocala. Sold as Hip 412, the colt is out of the Soldat, who stands at Woodford ThoroughCloud Hopping mare Miss Skeetd, which breds in Reddick who also consigned the filly. makes him a full brother to Florida-bred Mr. She is out of the stakes-winning mare BalJordon, winner of the Grade 3 Pegasus domera, by Doneraile Court, making the filly Stakes. Miss Skeetd is also a half-sister to a half-sister to multiple graded-stakes winner stakes winners Rizzi Girl and Papi Chullo Big John B and graded stakes winner Circle and stakes-placed Bond Princess. He was Unbroken. She was bred in Florida by Joe and consigned by Summerfield, agent of MorrisPhyllis Bryant’s BryLynn Farm, Inc., also loton and was bred by Phil and Karen cated in Reddick.

Matthews of Ocala.

“She is going to go with Bill Recio at “Actually, my son Tristan [de Meric] Classic Mile and then we plan to race her in picked out his full Florida with my trainer, Phil Bauer,” Rigney said.

He was our pick out of the entire sale. He’s by Flatter, brother, Mr. Jordan, so there is obviously a bit of “She is a beautiful horse who we like and he was our first choice after looking at a family interest there,” with a nice walk.” On buyNick de Meric said. “We ing a filly by Soldat, him several times. —agent Stan Hough are also big fans of this Rigney remarked, “I think Point (GB). The bay colt, who was consigned young stallion [Kantharos] and we particuI got a good deal. She looks fabulous.”

Hip 56 brought a final bid of $150,000 by Beth Bayer, agent, is a half-brother to larly liked the physical specimen this young from trainer Peter Eurton of Southern Califor- stakes winners Here’s Johnny, Glitter City and horse was. He is a very correct, athletic colt.”

At the Selected session held Aug. 23, 150 nia, who purchased the colt for CRK Stables. Wild Forest Cat. Rick Sutherland of Ocala horses sold for a total of $5,802,300 compared He is a Florida-bred from the first crop by was the breeder.

Marion Montanari, who has Marion Hills with 150 horses bringing $6,774,500 at the Haskell Invitational (G1) winner Paynter, out of Oral Argument, by OutoftheBox making Farm in Ocala, went to $135,000 to get Hip 127, 2015 Selected Yearling Sale. The average price him a half-brother to stakes-placed Tupancy a Florida-bred filly by Scat Daddy. Consigned was $38,682, down 14.3 percent compared Links. Oral Argument is a half-sister to Grade by Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck’s Sum- with $45,163 last year. The median price was 3 stakes winner Closing Argument. Bred by merfield, agent, the dark bay or brown filly is $25,000 compared with $35,000 a year ago alFrance and Irwin J. Weiner of Ocala, the bay out of the Street Cry (Ire) mare Street Crew, a though 15 horses went for six figures this year half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Critical compared to just 11 in 2015. The buyback colt was consigned by Janie Roper, agent.

“He just has a lot of scope about him,” Eu- Eye, graded-placed Glamorista and stakes- percentage was 32.7%; it was 21.9% in 2015.

OBS has cancelled their October sale due rton said. “He’s bright. I liked the bottom side placed Personal Pete. She was bred by Amy Tarto construction at the facility. Their next rant’s Hardacre Farm LLC located in Ocala. and Paynter was a very good horse.”

“Well, first of all, she’s a Scatt Daddy,” thoroughbred auction will be the 2017 WinCitra’s J.B. and Kevin McKathan as FHMB went to $150,000 for Hip 144, a dark bay or Montanari said. “And second, she just checked ter Mixed Sale, including a Horse of Racing brown colt by the very popular young sire all the boxes. She had a great walk and there Age section, scheduled for Wednesday through Friday, Jan. 25 -27. The 28th annual Uncle Mo, who is currently the second leading just wasn’t much not to like about her.”

Going through the ring late in the day was OBS Championship races will beheld on sire in North America behind only Tapit with just his second crop on the track. The colt is out not a detriment for Hip 272 who was ham- Tuesday, Jan. 24. ■ of the Fair Skies mare Two Foxie, who has also produced Grade 3 stakes winner Maddalena and graded stakes-placed Haley’s Lolipop.

Maddalena is also the dam of Grade 2 winner Bern Identity and stakes-placed Agresivo and Battle of Evermore. He was consigned by Stuart Morris, agent.

“Of course we really like the sire,” J.B. McKathan said. “He’s very balanced and physical. He’s got good conformation and he just looks very fast to me.”

Also hitting the $150,000 mark was Hip 227, a dark bay or brown filly by Uncle Mo out of Dark Nebula, by Exchange Rate. She was consigned by Imagine…, of Ocala, and purchased by Moneyballs Racing and Sales.

Hip 245 was another who went for $150,000. H.H., Agent signed the ticket on the dark bay or brown colt by Gemologist out of Evening Sun, by Dixie Union. She was consigned by Select Sales acting as an agent for Machmer Hall and Grey Dawn Stables.

St. Elias and J.J. Crupi, agent put in a final bid of $145,000 for Hip 184, a Florida-bred son of Gemologist out of Bon Caro, by Bon

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Forever Home

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Immortal Wink retires to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Second Chance Farm in Marion County, Florida

By BEN BAUGH

Florida before making the preponderance of his starts he depth of feeling co-breeder Kathy Von Ger- in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, but as an 8-yearhard has for ‘Little Wink,’ when you hear the old began racing at Camarero Racetrack in Puerto Rico, emotion in her voice as it chokes the ability to where he would make 31 starts. His last win came during his 9-year-old campaign. He made his final start, a get the words out in describing the retired racehorse.

Little Wink is Immortal Wink, a gelding by Gim- fourth-place finish in a six furlong race on Jun. 22, 2016. meawink, and out of the Loach broodmare Uppermost Immortal Wink retired with 16 wins from 142 starts, 14 Inmymind, bred in Florida by Von Gerhard and Best A seconds and 27 thirds, earning $111,193.

Kelley Stobie, a physical therapist in Puerto Rico, Luck Farm. The diminutive bay, with the feisty personality and sound constitution that would have made Old who is familiar with the trainer roster at the racetrack, Ironsides enviable, is more than just another racehorse, was contacted by Michelle Blodgett, a psychologist in and it took a team of people to bring the him back to south Florida who became aware of Immortal Wink Marion County and his forever home at the Thorough- through a Twitter account with the handle @Notbred Retirement Foundation’s Second Chance Farm at CloudyAllDay, one that tracks thoroughbreds, those durable campaigners, who have made an ample numthe Lowell Correctional Institute.

A Twitter account, a psychologist in south Florida, an ber of starts. Stobie went to check on the condition of equine physical therapist in Puerto Rico, the owners of a the horse and to see if the current trainer would be willbed and breakfast, quarantine facility and air transporta- ing to retire the small gelding with the big heart. The tion company, concerned followers of a blog and his co- horse was being campaigned in Puerto Rico by Edwin breeders were among the people that made a dream a reality.

I went over to see the horse. I couldn’t believe he was 10 years old.

But how did these people He looked like a little quarter horse, nice and hefty. He was such a sweet come together to make a differhorse.‘We have to get this horse and get it re-homed.’

—Kelley Stobie ence, in helping the little horse with the big heart, the durable campaigner who made Ramos Racing, with the father owning Immortal Wink 142 starts, find his way back home? Communication, and the son conditioning him.

“I contacted the trainer, and luckily he was also the social media and personal contact all played a part in engineering the plan that would bring Immortal Wink owner of the horse,” said Stobie. “I went over to see the horse. I couldn’t believe he was 10-years-old. He looked back to Marion County.

Originally campaigned By Charles Fontana, Immor- like a little quarter horse, nice and hefty. He was such a tal Wink made his debut at Calder Race Course during sweet horse. I said, ‘We have to get this horse and get it his juvenile campaign, and appeared to have broken his re-homed.’”

The owner wanted $1,000 for Immortal Wink, and maiden at Suffolk Downs before a disqualification would alter his placing. He finally achieved his initial social media would play a large role in securing the necvictory in December of 2008, with the win coming at essary funding to put things in motion. An @NotCalder. It would be the first of 16 wins in a career that CloudyAllDay follower pledged $1,000 to turn the fulcrum, and Immortal Wink’s possible return to the place would span nine years.

Immortal Wink would campaign mostly in Florida he was foaled and raised was becoming more of a reality.

Blodgett had come across a YouTube video of Imprimarily racing at Calder and Tampa Bay Downs before being claimed by conditioner Pablo Andrade as a mortal Wink from 2013 that had been posted on CAN4-year-old for V.A. Racing, LLC. He initially stayed in TER, where his previous owner was trying to sell him.

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It was through a friend at R.A.C.E. Fund that Blodgett contacted Stobie while simultaneously reaching out to Barbi Moline at Florida TRAC. “It was Barbi who said, ‘If you fly him to Florida, I’ll take him.’” Blodgett said. “’Don’t worry about him having somewhere to go.’ So, then when I approached Kelley, she went and approached the owner and he said he would sell him for $1,000. I went back and private messaged the woman who pledged $1,000, who said her offer was still good. I built the YouCaring.com account, we went live and within a week we had $7,000 in donations.”

It was Stobie, through her efforts with Greg and Linda Jackson’s Save the Horses Inc., a program Stobie managed for 10 years and finds her now serving in a volunteer capacity, that the process would continue to go forward in having Immortal Wink brought back to Florida. The Jacksons own Alegre, an equine horse transportation company, and would facilitate Immortal Wink’s relocation.

The money not only went toward the purchase price, but the transportation, x-rays and veterinary care.

“The vets said he was incredibly sound, and his legs look great for a horse that has made so many starts,” Blodgett said.

But securing Immortal Wink’s retirement wasn’t with-

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out drama, said Von Gerhard. Immortal Wink had been entered for one final start, so he would have to go postward again before transitioning to the next phase in his life.

“We were on pins and needles, hoping he would come out of the race right,” said Von Gerhard. “Thank God! Knock on wood. After running 142 times, that horse came out sound.”

And only 10 days after his final race, Immortal Wink would make the next part of his incredible journey in returning to Florida, eventually being introduced to his new surroundings at Florida TRAC. Von Gerhard and her husband would make their way to the facility the following week, and on July 9th, she would be reunited with the horse she knew from his nascent stages, from foal to 2-year-old.

“I always called him Little Wink,” said Von Gerhard, who proceeded down the shedrow calling out ‘Little Wink.’ “Pretty soon his head pops up. It was almost like, ‘I know that voice. And I know she has goodies.’ And with everyone standing in the shedrow, I said, ‘Is he already here?’ They [said], ‘yes.’ I [replied], ‘I want to kiss him (laughing).’”

The depth of the bond between Von Gerhard and Immortal Wink was such that she wanted to see him near the place he was foaled, so she would be able to visit the him whenever possible. The nearly two month let down time at Florida TRAC let Little Wink adjust, but he seemed to take most everything in stride.

“At the time, there wasn’t room for him at the facility and I really wanted him in Ocala because I lived so close,” said Von Gerhard. “We kept following up with them and Susan Salk [with Off the Track Thoroughbreds]. And then when they said they had room for him in Lowell, I contacted Brookledge, and we had him shipped up here.”

The dream became a reality when Immortal Wink stepped off the van on a sunny afternoon, and walked into the shedrow with the same confidence he displayed when stepping out on the racetrack. He went into his stall with absolutely no problem, and seemed to acclimate nicely to a barn that was home to multiple graded stakes winners and millionaires.

It’s his calm demeanor that allows him to fit into any environment. Blodgett visited Immortal Wink at Florida TRAC once a week and would hand-graze him. She and Von Gerhard talk nearly every day.

Immortal Wink, because of his laid back demeanor, was paired in a large paddock at Florida TRAC with a horse that displayed a nervous disposition and was bullied by the other horses. But Little Wink was able to calm the other horse’s nerves. But he was no pushover, and the other horses respected him when he wanted to be left alone, said Blodgett.

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“Kathy and I have bonded over this,” Blodgett said.

“We talk a lot about it. It helps me. I was really bawling.

I’ll miss seeing him, but I feel a lot better because I know Kathy will be there. She’ll visit him, and I’ll get reports on him, just to know that he’s doing well.”

However, that same calm demeanor that played a role in his longevity at the racetrack will be welcomed by those caring for him at the TRF Second Chance Farm in Lowell.

The psychological benefits the inmates derive from being around the horses, not only provides them with a skill set so they can rejoin the workforce when they’re released into society, but helps them emotionally, Blodgett said.

But it’s no surprise to Immortal Wink’s breeders that his easy going nature allowed him to adapt readily to new situations and environments. When he was in the nascent stages of his career, during the breaking and training process and then going forward, it was his professionalism that helped him stand out.

“He just went with the training program,” said Von the whole road he’s taken the past couple of months.

Gerhard. “He knew what was going on. He raced at nu- Shelley sends me pictures all the time. He just looks so merous racetracks.” happy. It makes me feel so good.”

John Evans was the recipient of the Thoroughbred Von Gerhard and Best A Luck Farm’s Tom and Lori Fackler, Immortal Wink’s breeders, know his family well, Charities of America’s Award of Merit earlier this year, having claimed his dam Uppermost Inmymind at Penn and enjoyed success for many years as a thoroughbred National, and in addition to that Von Gerhard has his trainer. Evans has been the farm manager of the TRF’s grand dam on his maternal side, Parallel, a daughter of Second Chance Farm in Lowell for more than 11 years.

It was Evans who had purchased Immortal Wink’s Big Bronk.

It was that professionalism, a bit of an attitude and a sire, six-time stakes winner Gimmeawink as a yearling.

“I bought him in 2001 when I was representing a sense of purpose that left an imprint on his breeders’ minds. He sensed he was unique because of the adora- farm called Rosegrove,” Evans said. Gimmeawink tion that was bestowed upon him, said Best A Luck would later go onto stand in Ocala at Hidden Point Farm.

However, it was Immortal Wink’s arrival at the TRF’s Farm’s Lori Fackler, who was very happy that Immortal facility in Lowell on Aug. 26, 2016 that still resonates Wink would be returning to Florida.

“He had a really good mind.” Fackler said. “He was through the barn’s walls and shedrow, not only because always a little bit spoiled because Kathy was big on it’s the next phase of the horse’s life, but the happiness treats. When you went into the barn and go out into the felt by others, particularly Von Gerhard. paddock and call him, he got a little bit more attention “I think I’ll be coming over here driving John nuts,” because of her. He did everything right. We don’t race Von Gerhard said. “I’ll be coming over as long as he puts horses if we can help it, and that’s why we sold him. We up with me. Little Wink definitely will.” ■ did try and race the next one.”

Immortal wink was the fourth of five horses Stobie has been able The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Owners’ Association, Florida Department of Correcto send back to the states, it has tions, Florida Thoroughbred Charities and the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation partnered 16 been an emotional road for her, but years ago to provide a farm that changes the lives of retired thoroughbreds and women. knowing that Immortal Wink is in The Florida Department of Corrections provides the land and labor at no cost and the FTBOA a loving and caring environment is supports the farm’s horse care expenses and equipment through its charitable arm, The Florida comforting to everyone who has Thoroughbred Charities. The program operates with funding based on funds for one vocational been involved in the effort. teacher. Feed, hay, equipment, etc. are acquired through donations and partnerships with Florida “With these older racehorses, Thoroughbred Charities. To make a monetary donation, donation of services or equipment, or to there are changes and they just set up an endowment to assist in funding the program, contact the Florida Thoroughbred Charities don’t want to race anymore,” at 352-629-2160 or write 801 SW 60th Avenue, Ocala FL 34474. said Stobie. “I’ve cried along

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Success of Ocala Initiative

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n early August, the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation announced the completion of the organizational funding of the Ocala Initiative. The initiative was designed to garner support from horse farms and equine businesses, as well as individual donors, to advance equine research.

Florida-based organizations raised $100,000, and we are hoping individuals will contribute another $100,000 to match that total.

The Ocala Initiative, the brainchild of the late Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps, was conceived early one morning in Saratoga in August 2015.

I was a new employee of Grayson at the time, and Mr. Phipps, as a board member and former chairman, spent more than an hour and a half at the Phipps family barn with me, helping to advance my understanding of our work.

When our meeting was complete, we went to the training track in his golf cart. Mr. Phipps saw Niall Brennan, who breaks the Phipps family’s horses.

He asked Niall if he thought Grayson could raise $100,000 from equine organizations in and around Ocala. Brennan said “yes,” and Mr. Phipps kindly suggested I get to work.

Over the next few weeks I put together a proposal and began considering possible partners. Brennan was an invaluable ally in this work, helping to guide my understanding of farms and businesses in the equine world around Ocala and throughout Florida.

I first reached out to Tom Ventura, the president of the Ocala Breeders’

Sales Co. Ventura was quick to join forces with Grayson in support of the initiative.

Next I contacted Lonny Powell of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association. We talked about projects that Grayson had undertaken to establish best practices for dealing with various equine health challenges. Powell recognized the value of this research to his members. We had two strong partners on-board.

With Brennan’s assistance I then set up a series of meetings in and around Ocala. Over the next several months I met with countless organizations in the equine world in terms of both the various competitive disciplines and the industries that support them.

Mike O’Farrell of Ocala Stud signed on. Then Craig Bernick of Glen Hill Farm and J.J. Pletcher of Payton Training Center joined the effort. Donald and Irene Dizney of Double Diamond Farm agreed to be our signature partner.

Brennan continued to guide the process.

Mr. Phipps passed away in early April. His death was a profound loss for our sport, for The Jockey Club, and for Grayson. We lost a man who really cared about the industry, but more importantly we lost a man who really cared about the horse.

Brennan and I shared emails about Mr. Phipps’ passing. It was a sad day around The Jockey Club offices in New York City and Lexington and Brennan’s farm.

The Phipps family named Grayson (as well as The Jockey Club Safety Net

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Foundation) as the charities of choice for donations, and we received a great deal of support in his honor.

The initiative had now taken on even greater meaning as it became another way to honor Mr. Phipps’ memory.

In June, Tampa Bay Downs and Gulfstream Park came on board as partners in the Ocala Initiative. We then needed just one more organization to reach the $100,000 mark.

Brennan was very excited to hear the news, and while we were talking, he offered to do something extraordinary. He himself, on behalf of Niall Brennan Stables, wanted to make the final gift. This would complete the Ocala Initiative.

It made Mr. Phipps’ dream a reality and honored his lifelong commitment to equine health. It was a special moment that spoke to what we can do when we marshal our resources to work for the welfare of the horse.

As we begin our solicitation of individuals in the Ocala area to match the $100,000 we raised via Florida-based organizations, we have plans to bring this model to other equine communities around the country.

It’s a credit to Mr. Phipps and to Brennan that we have achieved this much. We hope others will follow their example as we work to improve the health of the horse and the health of the Thoroughbred industry. ■

Garrett Gleeson is the director of development and major gifts for the GraysonJockey Club Research Foundation.

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Last Chance Payment $10,000 by May 1 of the Horse's 2-Year Old year, if the horse has not started a race (regardless of any previous payment submitted)

FTBOA Florida Stallion Registration Fee:* February 15 - $2,000 (or August 1 - $3,000, or November 15 - $10,000)

* In year foal conceived Note: The FTBOA Board of Directors approved an expansion of the FSS program that would make out-of-state foals eligible beginning with FTBOA Florida stallion registrations of 2017 for foals of 2018, pending regulatory approval by the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering. Fees and purses will differ.

For more information go to www.ftboa.com or e-mail floridasirestakes@ftboa.com

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By JOANN GUIDRY

F

or myriad reasons, racehorses can have a relatively short racing shelf life. Some are just not suited, mentally or physically, for the rigors of the sport. Others excel early on and

then burn out quickly. A select few reach the high echelons of racing, only to then become more valuable as a stallion or a broodmare than a racehorse.

Then there are the old warriors. Usually geldings, they race on way past the industry's usual “best-by” date, often changing hands through the claiming ranks or private sales. They become barn and fan favorites, always giving it their best even in defeat. Some dip their hooves in stakes company with varying degrees of success.

But on they run because being a racehorse has become their job.

In the 2016 racing season to date, six Florida-breds have definitely earned the title of “Old Warrior.” For the purpose of this article, a horse had to be at least 7-years-old and won at least one stakes race in 2016 to date. Claiming their “Old Warrior” medal at this writing are: Big John B, African Rose, Grande Shores, Manchurian High, Stormofthecentury and Too Clever by Half.

Grande Shores and Manchurian High are making the list for the second consecutive season. The elder statesmen of the group at age 8 are Grande Shores, Manchurian High, Stormofthecentury and Too Clever by Half; African Rose and Big John B are both 7. Three are geldings

The racehorse versions of the Energizer Bunny, six Florida-breds in the 2016 racing season to date have earned the title of “Old Warrior.”

(Big John B, Manchurian High and Stormofthecentury); two are mares (African Rose and Too Clever by Half) and Grande Shores is the lone stallion.

Careerwise as a group to date, the 2016 Old Warriors have made 263 starts, won 84 races, tallied 20 stakes wins, posted 32 stakesplacings and earned a total of more than $3.4 million. Grande Shores has made the most career starts with 58 and Stormofthecentury the fewest with 33. African Rose and Too Clever by Half are tied with the most career wins at 17. African Rose has the most career stakes wins with seven. Big John B, the only graded stakes winner in the group, is the leading career money earner with $849,770.

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Big John B has earned $849,770

BIG JOHN B As a multiple graded stakes winner, Big John B is the most accomplished of the 2016 class of Old Warriors.

But he began his racing career in the claiming ranks before blossoming into a top-notch graded stakes performer at age 5. After being claimed for $50,000 by current owner Michael House at the 2014 Keeneland spring meet, Big John B captured that season's Del Mar Handicap (G2) on the turf. In 2015, he won the Del Mar Handicap (G2) again, as well as the Cougar II Handicap (G3).

In those two seasons, Big John B also posted a third in the John Henry Turf Championship Stakes (G2) and a second in the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes (G2).

Big John B opened the 2016 season with a third to Da Big Hoss in the John B. Connally Turf Cup Stakes (G3) on Jan. 30. A little less than four months later, he

BIG JOHN B 2009 bay gelding by Hard Spun – Baldomera, by Doneraile Court Breeder: BryLynn Farm Owner: Michael House Trainer: Phil D'Amato 2016 Race Record/Earnings: 4-1-0-1/$82,595 2016 Stakes Record 1st – Tokyo City Cup Stakes (G3) 3rd – John B. Connally Turf Stakes (G3) Career Race Record/Stakes Wins/Earnings: 40-15-6-5/4/$849,770 48 THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2016

scored the fourth graded stakes win of his career.

Trained by Phil D'Amato, the versatile gelding won the Tokyo City Cup Stakes (G3) by two and a quarter lengths over Class Leader. His winning time for the 12 furlongs was 2:28.79.

Bred by BryLynn Farm, Big John B is by Hard Spun out of the Doneraile Court mare Baldomera, who is also the dam of graded stakes winner Circle Unbroken. Consigned

by Flying Fish, agent, to the 2011 OBS June juvenile sale, Big John B was bought for $30,000 by F. Thomas Conway.

In 40 starts to date, he has posted 15 wins, six seconds and five thirds for career earnings of $849,770.

AFRICAN ROSE Indeed a rose by any other name, African Rose carries the sweet scent of racing success. The 7-year-old Bwana Charlie mare has posted 17 wins, including seven stakes wins and been stakes-placed six times in her career to date. With 40 starts to her credit, she has banked $521,866 in career earnings.

Out of the Red Bullet mare Darby Rose, African Rose was bred by Heliligbrodt Racing Stable. As a 2-year-old, she was sold for $7,500 to Tom McKenna that August in the Heliligbrodt Racing Stable Dispersal.

After winning a pair of stakes in 2015, African Rose opened up 2016 on a winning note. On Jan. 2 at Sunland Park, she won the Bold Ego Handicap by two and a half lengths over Chanteline. Her winning time

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for the five and a half furlongs was 1:03.32.

That stakes win proved to be African Rose's only start this season for owner Judge Lanier Racing. Trained by Miguel Hernandez, African Rose collected $39,000 for the Bold Ego Handicap win.

GRANDE SHORES The only Old Warrior still raced by his breeder, Grande Shores has notched an iron-horse 58 starts to date. A model of consistency, he has posted 15 wins, 18 seconds and seven thirds to have earned to date $618,499. Included in his wins total are three stakes wins; he has been stakes placed 15 times, three of those coming in graded stakes company.

African Rose (left) has bankrolled $618,499 Grande Shores (below) has earned $521,866

AFRICAN ROSE 2009 bay mare by Bwana Charlie – Darby Rose, by Red Bullet Breeder: Heliligbrodt Racing Stable Owner: Judge Lanier Racing Trainer: Miguel Hernandez 2016 Race Record/Earnings: 1-1-0-0/$39,000 2016 Stakes Record 1st – Bold Ego Handicap Career Race Record/Stakes Wins/Earnings: 40-17-6-5/7/$521,866

2008 bay horse by Black Mambo – Sexy Stockings,

by Tabasco Cat Breeder/Owner: Jacks Or Better Farm Trainer: Mark Casse 2016 Race Record/Earnings: 9-1-2-2/$141,930 2016 Stakes Record 1st – Sir Shackleton Stakes 2nd - Wild And Wonderful Stakes 3rd – Hal's Hope Stakes (G3) 3rd – Fred W. Hooper Stakes (G3) Career Race Record/Stakes Wins/Earnings: 59-15-19-7/3/$628,499

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Manchurian High (right) has earned $497,943 while Stormofthecentury (below) has totaled $556,828

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Warriors

A Jacks Or Better Farm homebred. Grande Shores kicked off the 2016 season on Jan. 9 with a third to Mishwawish in the Hal's Hope Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park.

He followed that with a third to Tommy Macho in Fred W. Hooper Stakes (G3) on February 6 at Gulfstream Park.

On April 2, Grande Shores was in the winner's circle for the Sir Shackleton Stakes at Gulfstream Park. He

MANCHURIAN HIGH 2008 chestnut gelding by The Daddy – Corredor's Wind, by El Corredor Breeder: Greg Norman Owner/Trainer: Lilli Kurtinecz 2016 Race Record/Earnings: 4-1-2-0/$106,350 2016 Stakes Record 1st – Florida Sunshine Millions Turf Stakes 2nd-- Old Man Eloquent Stakes Career Race Record/Stakes Wins/Earnings: 43-10-5-9/4/$497,943

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won by a length and three-quarters over Squadron A. His winning time for the seven furlongs was 1:22.96. To date, Grande Shores has earned $121,930 this season on one win, one second and two thirds in eight starts.

Grande Shores is by Black Mambo out of the multiple stakes-producing Tabasco Cat mare Sexy Stockings, also a Jacks Or Better homebred. Grande Shores is a half-brother to Grade 1 millionaire Jackson Bend, stakes winner Garter Belt, as well as stakes-placed Southern Barbecue and Brighton Lane.

A $1,000 yearling purchase at the 2009 OBS August yearling sale, Manchurian High has to date become a multiple stakes winner and graded stakes-placed earner of $497,943. Consigned by Hoofprints Bloodstock, agent, Rey de Oros and Jose L. Ramirez signed the ticket for the bargain-priced yearling by The Daddy out of Corredor's Win, by El Corredor.

Manchurian High showed promise early on in his career. He posted a third in the 2010 Saratoga Special Stakes (G3) and a third in the 2012 Laurel Turf Cup Stakes. In 2014, he had a breakout season, coming back to win the Laurel Turf Cup Stakes. Also that season, he was third in both the W.L. McKnight Handicap (G3) at Gulfstream Park and John's Call Stakes at Saratoga.

Raced and trained by Lilli Kurtinecz, Manchurian High captured the 2015 Florida Sunshine Millions Turf Stakes. He followed that with another third in the John's Call Stakes at Saratoga.

In 2016, Manchurian High added a bookend victory in the 2016 Florida Sunshine Millions Turf Stakes on Jan. 16 at Gulfstream Park. The 8-year-old chestnut gelding won by half a length in 1:44.89 for the eight and a half turf test.

Bred by Greg Norman, Manchurian High also posted

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a second this season in the Old Man Eloquent Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 15. He has has seasonal earnings to date of $106,350.

STORMOFTHECENTURY Another bargain yearling, Stormofthecentury was sold for $1,700 at the 2009 OBS August yearling sale. To date, the graded stakes winner has career earnings of $556,828.

Bred by the Universtiy of Florida Foundation, the Dark Kestrel gelding was consigned by the UFlorida Equine Sciences Program, agent. Jose L. Ramirez signed the ticket.

In 2013, Stormofthecentury made Gator Nation proud when he captured the Turf Monster Handicap (G3). He followed that with a second in the 2014 Pennsylvania Governor's Cup Stakes at Penn National.

This season Stormofthecentury won the Karl Boyes Memorial Stakes by two lengths on June 20 at Presque Isle Downs. His winning time was 1:03.86 for five and a half furlongs. Campaigned by Ruberto Racing Stable, Stormofthecentury is trained by Luis Ruberto.

Out of As of Now, by Blue Buckaroo, Stormofthecentury has to date banked $69,580 this season on one win and two seconds in five starts.

STORMOFTHECENTURY 2008 bay gelding by Dark Kestrel – As of Now, by Blue Buckaroo Breeder: University of Florida Foundation Owner: Ruberto Racing Stable Trainer: Luis Ruberto 2016 Race Record/Earnings: 5-1-0-2/$69,580 2016 Stakes Record 1st – Karl Boyes Memorial Stakes Career Race Record/Stakes Wins/Earnings: 33-10-5-2/2/$556,828 Clever by Half has seasonal earnings to date of $77,998 on four wins and one second in seven starts.

Bred by Fransisco Gardea, Too Clever by Half was consigned by Top Line Sales, agent, to the 2009 OBS August yearling sale. Buyer H.H.T.S. signed the ticket for $44,000. In the 2010 OBS March juvenile sale, the filly was consigned by Halcyon Hammock Farm, agent.

Buyer Buzz Chace, agent, purchased her for $200,000.

In 49 career starts to date, Too Clever by Half has notched 17 wins, seven second and three thirds for career earnings of $410,489. ■

EDITOR'S NOTE: All statistics through September 19, 2016.

TOO CLEVER BY HALF In her 46th career start, Too Clever by Half became a stakes winner in dominating style. On Feb. 15, the 8-yearold With Distinction mare rolled to a nine-length victory in this season's Lady Bird Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The Mark Valentine colorbearer stopped the clock in 1:23.92 for the seven furlongs. Trained by Jorge Navarro, Too

2008 bay mare by With Distinction – Clever Moranda, by Clever Trick Breeder: Francisco Gardea Owner: Mark Valentine Trainer: Jorge Navarro 2016 Race Record/Earnings: 7-4-1-0/$77,998 2016 Stakes Record 1st – Lady Bird Stakes Career Race Record/Stakes Wins/Earnings: 49-17-7-3/1/$410,489

To Clever By Half has totaled $410,489

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No Drama

Just Sheer Relaxation Sheer Drama retires

back to Queen’s farm in Ocala

By MIKE MULLANEY

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rriving at her Ocala birthplace happy, healthy and very wealthy, Sheer Drama resumed residence at breeder/owner Hal Queen’s place Aug 31, having been retired after a career that netted her nearly $1.7 million in earnings, three Grade 1 scores and a title as the reigning Florida-bred Horse of the Year.

Now 6, Sheer Drama’s next challenge will be to become nearly as good a producer as her magnificent mother, Florida’s twicenamed Broodmare of the Year Riveting Drama, who leads the life of a pensioner at the Queen farm.

“She got here around 4 in the morning and she has some weight on her. Boy, does she have some weight on her!” Queen said. “We’ve got her about 300 or 400 yards from Riveting Drama. We’ll let her down a bit. We handwalked her, and we’ll keep hand walking her the next few days, then put her in a circular paddock and let her graze on some green grass.

“She looked great when she got here … she sure has a lot of weight on her.”

Sheer Drama was the last of nine named foals that the now 24-year-old Riveting Drama birthed, following a line of stakes winners that included Drama’s Way; Little Drama, who took the Susan’s Girl leg of the Florida Sire Stakes, and Big Drama, Eclipse champion sprinter of 2010 when he took the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1). As a juvenile he swept the Florida Sire Stakes se-

ries and also scored in the $750,000 Delta Jackpot (G3). At 3 he set a Gulfstream track record with seven furlongs in 1:20.88 and at 5 rewrote the record book again there with six furlongs in 1:08.12. He closed out with earnings of $2,746,060 and is now one of Florida’s better-known stallions.

In all, Riveting Drama’s nine foals earned more than $5.78 million while racing in North America and Japan.

Sheer Drama’s contribution to that amount was $1,691,040 after winning seven of 24 starts with eight seconds and two thirds.

In her championship campaign last year, Sheer Drama scored in consecutive Grade 1s, taking the Delaware Handicap, then scoring again in Saratoga’s Personal Ensign, turning her back on such good ones as the Eclipse champion 3-year-old filly of 2014 Untapable and eventual Breeders Cup Distaff champion Stopchargingmaria.

The daughter of the Queen-raced gradedstakes winner Burning Roma finished a disinterested eighth in her most recent effort, last Saturday’s Ballerina, signaling that her interest in racing may be waning.

She started out the year in great form, beating Stopchargingmaria and another Breeders’ Cup winner, the Female Sprint champion Wavell Avenue, in the Grade 1 Madison at Keeneland.

David Fawkes, who trained the mare and drove her from track to track, dropped her off on his way from Saratoga to Gulfstream. ■

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Gastric

By HEATHER SMITH THOMAS quine gastric ulcers were first recognized in horses more than 30 years ago. Excess acid in the stomach can lead to erosions and ulcerations of the lining.

Now we know that gastric (stomach) ulcers affect many horses in stressful performance careers, even though some horses do not show obvious signs. Some of the early scientific papers also looked at ulcers in foals. Reports in the Equine Veterinary Journal in 1989 and 1996 by Dr. Michael J. Murray and associates stated that gastric ulcers affect up to 93% of racehorses, about 60% of horses in other performance careers, and up to 59% of foals— particularly foals raised in confinement.

Further studies showed that incidence of ulcers in show horses and pleasure horses was higher than horse owners suspected. Subtle symptoms may go unnoticed, or may be mistaken for other problems. The best way to properly diagnose this condition is to look inside the horse’s stomach with an endoscope.

Signs of ulcers in foals are thought to include intermittent colic or diarrhea, rough hair coat, poor growth, or drooling. Discomfort may be shown by grinding the teeth, lying on the back to try to ease abdominal pain, or interrupted nursing. The foal may suckle vigorously for a moment and then halt abruptly, presumably due to pain in the stomach.

Not much research has actually been done, however, on ulcers in foals. Dr. Chris Sanchez, University of Florida, says there is very little recent data. “Early studies on neonates posed some concern for horsemen because there was data showing that ulcers in foals could perforate without showing any other clinical signs. But this doesn’t happen very often. The incidence of this problem is not very high, and there is good data to show that sick neonates (less than 2 to 4 weeks of age) have stomach pH profiles that are not as acidic as those of healthy foals. This goes against the general thinking about ulcers,” she says.

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Ulcers in Foals very sick human infants, for instance, antacid use also increases the risk for diarrhea and other infections. The acid in the stomach is there for a reason, and often people tend to forget that,” she explains.

In neonatal foals, the risk of ulceration is

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“Most of us now think that the primary reason very young foals get ulcers is that they are sick and septic, with a lack of perfusion to the stomach. Ulcers in young foals are more sickness-associated rather than acid-associated.

There was a multi-center study by Martin Furr and several other authors (from various veterinary clinics in the U.S. and one in Australia) showing that ulcer prophylaxis (medication to prevent ulcers) in the neonatal foal actually increased the risk for diarrhea in that population, and there was no correlation between antacid use and survival. Many veterinarians no longer recommend prophylactic omeprazole treatment for sick foals in the early neonatal period,” says Sanchez.

“This is pretty consistent with data from other species (including humans) as well. In

Pyloric stricture postop GDUD

not very high. There are many factors involved. Some of the things we used to think of in terms of ulcer signs may actually be something else. Grinding the teeth, for instance, is a general sign of discomfort/pain and may be due to something other than ul-

cers. “We’ve now gone away from thinking that this is just ulcers,” says Sanchez.

“Gastric ulcer syndrome in weaning-age foals can be associated with colic, or with teeth-grinding or excess salivation, and often seems to affect the small intestine as well as the stomach. Many of the ulcers we see in this age group seem to be associated with a problem in gastric outflow, hence the term gastroduodenal ulcer disease (GDUD). It primarily starts in the small intestine, and the stomach ulcer is more of a symptom rather than the primary cause,” she says.

“There are a couple different studies looking at survival rates in these foals, one from Rood and Riddle and one from Hagyard. The studies showed that in many of these foals if the duodenum becomes ulcerated to the point

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where it begins to stricture it then causes an outflow ob- ulceration (squamous and glandular) is more like what struction to where the stomach can’t empty. Those foals we see in the adult horse. “Ulcers in weanlings, yearneed surgery and can do very well after surgery, but they lings and young horses in training is very similar to adult horse ulcers. There is not much prevaalso have the potential for many comlence data that’s very current, however. plications,” she explains.

Most of the yearling prevalence data are “The Rood and Riddle data shows from the 1980’s and 1990’s. Whether that if these foals make it past the first these data are still accurate or not is hard year of life after the surgery, they can go to say. But from what we do know, ulon and do well, and be just as able to race cers in yearlings look the same and act as any normal foal. It might be a tough Normal stomach greater curvature the same as ulcers in adult horses, and go for a while, but they can do well in the long term. This is different from the problem we consider respond similarly to treatment. For all intents and purto be gastric ulcers in adult horses, because in these foals poses, yearlings would be considered similar to adults because by that time their diets are similar and the stomthe small intestine is affected,” says Sanchez.

We are still not sure exactly what causes GDUD. ach is physiologically the same as that of an adult horse,” she explains.

“Some of the studies that have looked at “So how serious are these ulcers?

GDUD indicate there might be an assoThis is one of the questions we struggle ciation with rotavirus, but there is not a with. The ulcers are there, but which lot of good evidence to show what the ones are a problem? Are they all a probdefinitive risk factors are, in that populem? Do they all need to be treated? We lation. Most of our thinking is still just just don’t have good answers to these clinical impressions or speculation.

There are probably multiple factors in- Severe non-glandular ulcerations questions. Based on clinical signs, many of these horses respond to treatvolved. There are a lot of proposed risk ment, but if they don’t have clinical factors, but weaning stress does not seem signs, it’s hard to say,” she says. to be of major importance in GDUD “There is good data looking at the use specifically, as most affected foals are of proton pump inhibitors (drugs such as still on the mare. It seems to occur more omeprazole that cause significant and on larger breeding farms, but maybe this long-lasting reduction of gastric acid is just because they are the ones that do production) in young foals, weanlings, etc. The biggest something about it (and it’s reported more),” she says.

“Since there have not been any case-control studies, things that are different in the early neonatal period is I am always a bit hesitant to say that [occurrence is more making sure you keep on top of this systemically. If you frequent on large breeding farms] is actually true. Clin- are watching these youngsters closely and a foal is showing signs of ulcers, then you should definitely treat them ical impressions can be wrong, as we all know.”

Once foals get beyond the first few weeks of life and when they are young, but we are moving away from prepast the risks for gastro-duodenal ulcer disease, gastric ventative treatment in the younger population,” she says.

“People also need to understand the clinical signs, and how gastroduodenal ulcer disease in the weaning age foal has a tendency to become serious very quickly. To me Dr. Carol Clark, Peterson and Smith Equine Hospital, Ocala, Florida, says the the things that are most important for horse owners to standard treatment for equine ulcers is omeprazole, and many horsemen also know are understanding the signs of gastroduodenal use omeprazole to try to prevent ulcers, but it’s expensive. Thus some people ulcer disease and recognizing that early treatment is imuse generic or compounded formulations rather than the original Gastrogard.

“It’s important to also know that not all formulations of omeprazole are portant—and that there is the potential need for surgical equally effective,” says Clark. “Compounded omeprazole (though it is therapy if there is an outflow obstruction. Some cases cheaper) is generally not as effective as Gastrogard. The buffering mechanism may require euthanasia if they aren’t going to have suris a proprietary technique that is not easy to accomplish. The company that gical therapy. People need to realize that this is a syncreated Gastrogard worked very hard to make sure it happens, and this is what makes the drug more active and effective. At best, you get only 25% efficacy drome that is a little different, that doesn’t happen very from compounded or generic forms. If you are using the whole tube in an adult often, but can be very traumatic when it does.” horse, you will get some benefit for prevention because we only need a quarter It is very important to work with a veterinarian if a dose for prevention. If you are trying to treat active ulcers, however, generic young horse has ulcers, for proper diagnosis and treatproducts won’t work very well,” she says. ment. ■ SANCHEZ PHOTO

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The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through September 9, 2016.

Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

LEADING FLORIDA SIRES

HIGH COTTON

WILDCAT HEIR

WITH DISTINCTION

Farm Name

Sire Name

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

Wildcat Heir

Deceased

Forest Wildcat

$3,927,021

203

109

3

3

1

$3,996,181

Chief Lion

$159,935

30

$31,050

32

$44,906

High Cotton

Ocala Stud

Dixie Union

$2,067,455

150

66

3

3

0

$2,082,137

April Gaze

$110,060

25

$24,364

35

$47,886

Name

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg 2yo Avg Sold

2yo Avg

With Distinction

Hartley/DeRenzo T'Breds

Storm Cat

$1,835,433

118

53

2

2

0

$1,858,564

We're All Set

$118,280

12

$12,750

3

$36,667

First Dude

Double Diamond Farm

Stephen Got Even

$1,666,479

82

41

1

1

0

$1,666,479

Flora Dora

$159,250

36

$22,236

30

$47,400

In Summation

Ocala Stud

Put It Back

$1,652,788

98

47

2

2

1

$1,655,999

Calculator

$254,960

9

$11,889

14

$17,300

Awesome of Course Ocala Stud

Awesome Again

$1,360,292

72

35

2

4

1

$1,360,292

Awesome Banner

$300,835

8

$24,938

11

$32,545

Gone Astray

Northwest Stud

Dixie Union

$1,263,616

77

31

2

4

0

$1,263,616

Three Rules

$200,640

26

$19,862

24

$39,800

A. P. Warrior

Prestige Stallions

A.P. Indy

$1,185,524

82

42

1

1

0

$1,205,265

Annie Rocks

$81,225

3

$3,333

3

$8,167

Big Drama

Bridlewood Farm

Montbrook

$1,147,587

56

33

1

1

0

$1,151,827

R Kinsley Doll

$104,160

9

$44,778

11

$37,364

Exclusive Quality

Journeyman Stud

Elusive Quality

$1,145,816

94

44

0

0

0

$1,149,530

Dreaming of Neno

$64,180

6

$4,983

9

$12,000

Two Step Salsa

Get Away Farm

Petionville

$1,133,936

76

33

2

2

0

$1,140,178

Two Step Time

$107,935

7

$10,571

8

$23,250

Greatness

Prestige Stallions

Mr. Prospector

$842,469

58

29

0

0

0

$858,861

Great Smoke

$103,590

3

$16,833

3

$75,000

Montbrook

Deceased

Buckaroo

$807,243

62

32

0

0

0

$815,331

Schivarelli

Adios Charlie

Ocala Stud

Indian Charlie

$724,897

34

18

1

1

0

$812,569

R Luckey Charlie

$122,864

22

$19,245

24

$42,571

Yesbyjimminy

Bridlewood Farm

Yes It's True

$651,651

36

21

1

1

1

$654,193

Coppa

$121,800

1

$8,000

4

$25,250

Burning Roma

Prestige Stallions

Rubiano

$622,023

30

19

1

1

1

$622,023

Sheer Drama

$252,200

West Acre

Deceased

Forty Niner

$618,288

19

12

2

2

1

$618,288

Always Sunshine

$173,900

Cool Coal Man

Journeyman Stud

Mineshaft

$565,235

40

22

0

0

0

$565,235

Matt King Coal

1

$2,500

4

$11,375

Hear No Evil

Ocala Stud

Carson City

$465,580

29

13

1

1

0

$465,580

Ballet Diva

1

$8,000

Flashstorm

Northwest Stud

Storm Cat

$414,191

29

15

1

1

0

$421,076

Abounding Legacy

$95,255

11

$5,673

2

$6,700

J P's Gusto

Journeyman Stud

Successful Appeal

$369,106

17

11

0

0

0

$369,106

Epic Journey

$59,510

4

$17,750

3

$14,333

Wagon Limit

Bridlewood Farm

Conquistador Cielo

$342,234

10

4

1

1

1

$342,234

Delta Bluesman

1

$5,000

Silver Tree

Vegso Racing Stable

Hennessy

$322,145

24

11

0

0

0

$322,145

Tree Shaker

Crown of Thorns

Woodford Thoroughbred

Repent

$241,021

19

7

0

0

0

$241,021

Atara

$40,594

Concorde's Tune

Deceased

Concorde Bound

$221,462

20

9

1

1

0

$225,264

Grey by You

$91,310

United States

Northwest Stud

A.P. Indy

$205,076

21

6

0

0

0

$205,076

U S Diva

$64,000

Senor Swinger

La Mancha Thoroughbred

El Prado (IRE)

$203,459

24

10

0

0

0

$203,459

Senorita Sparkplug

$27,070

Factum

Stonehedge

Storm Cat

$199,791

20

9

0

0

0

$199,791

Lisa's Secret

$35,355

Iqbaal

Ward Ranch

Medaglia d'Oro

$177,142

11

4

0

0

0

$177,142

Big City Dreamin

$44,400

Three Wonders

Deceased

Storm Cat

$161,222

9

4

0

0

0

$161,222

Two Wonders

$82,995

Telling

Prestige Stallions

A.P. Indy

$158,597

15

4

0

0

0

$158,978

Telling Tony

$62,280

Forty Grams

Vales Farm

Distorted Humor

$141,359

9

3

0

0

0

$141,359

Chloe's White Soxs

$56,316

Backtalk

Bridlewood Farm

Smarty Jones

$132,808

14

4

0

0

0

$132,808

Cold Snack Thirty

Hal's Image

Get Awy Farm

Halo's Image

$125,828

8

5

1

1

0

$125,828

Jamie's Dancer

Mach Ride

Bridlewood Farm

Pentelicus

$117,134

11

4

0

0

0

$117,134

Mach My Day

The Green Monkey

Hartley/DeRenzo T'Breds

Forestry

$112,059

13

5

0

0

0

$112,059

Don't Tell Vanessa

$32,672

Overdriven

Ocala Stud

Tale of the Cat

$102,281

16

2

0

0

0

$103,415

Red Crescent

$31,400

Straight Man

Signature Stallions

Saint Ballado

$103,016

10

5

0

0

0

$103,016

Unflinching

$44,280

Hello Broadway

Ups and Downs Farm

Broken Vow

$100,643

13

8

0

0

0

$100,643

Trouble With Girls

$25,553

$82,910

$80,200 $104,270

$236,600 $69,055 5

$11,500

3

$78,400

8

$7,900

4

$12,800

4

$36,375

1

$20,000

1

$285,140

6

$4,617

2

$45,000

$41,796

8

$7,738

3

$10,933

$53,320

1

$1,000

1

$3,000

$51,020

1

$1,200

18

$12,056

1

$14,000

17

$60,500

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The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through September 9, 2016. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

LEADING FLORIDA 2YO SIRES

HIGH COTTON

GONE ASTRAY

WILDCAT HEIR

Name

Sire Name

Farm Name

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

Gone Astray

Northwest Stud

Dixie Union

$432,904

28

6

1

2

0

$432,904

Three Rules

High Cotton

Ocala Stud

Dixie Union

$421,789

34

12

0

0

0

$421,971

Callie California

$53,000

25

$24,364

35

$47,886

Wildcat Heir

Deceased

Forest Wildcat

$325,337

28

10

0

0

0

$325,337

Jewel Heist

$57,000

30

$31,050

32

$44,906

First Dude

Double Diamond Farm

Stephen Got Even

$210,174

23

4

0

0

0

$210,174

Historical Tablet

$41,400

36

$22,236

30

$47,400

Adios Charlie

Ocala Stud

Indian Charlie

$171,862

16

4

0

0

0

$173,274

Zipping

$49,000

22

$19,245

24

$42,571

Iqbaal

Ward Ranch

Medaglia d'Oro

$154,002

8

3

0

0

0

$154,002

Big City Dreamin

$44,400

1

$285,140

In Summation

Ocala Stud

Put It Back

$121,502

12

3

0

0

0

$121,502

Awsum Roar

$46,000

9

$11,889

14

$17,300

Overdriven

Ocala Stud

Tale of the Cat

$102,281

16

2

0

0

0

$103,415

Red Crescent

$31,400

18

$12,056

17

$60,500

Backtalk

Bridlewood Farm

Smarty Jones

$78,657

7

2

0

0

0

$78,657

Cold Snack Thirty

$41,796

8

$7,738

3

$10,933

LEADING FLORIDA 2ND CROP SIRES

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg Avg

2yo Sold

$200,640

26

$19,862

24

$39,800

The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through September 9, 2016. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

GONE ASTRAY

FIRST DUDE

2yo Avg

BIG DRAMA

Name

Sire Name

Farm Name

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

First Dude

Double Diamond Farm

Stephen Got Even

$1,666,479

82

41

1

1

0

$1,666,479

Flora Dora

$159,250

36

$22,236

30

$47,400

Gone Astray

Northwest Stud

Dixie Union

$1,263,616

77

31

2

4

0

$1,263,616

Three Rules

$200,640

26

$19,862

24

$39,800

Big Drama

Bridlewood Farm

Montbrook

$1,147,587

56

33

1

1

0

$1,151,827

R Kinsley Doll

$104,160

9

$44,778

11

$37,364

Adios Charlie

Ocala Stud

Indian Charlie

$724,897

34

18

1

1

0

$812,569

R Luckey Charlie

$122,864

22

$19,245

24

$42,571

J P's Gusto

Journeyman Stud

Successful Appeal

$369,106

17

11

0

0

0

$369,106

Epic Journey

$59,510

4

$17,750

3

$14,333

Crown of Thorns

Woodford Thoroughbreds

Repent

$241,021

19

7

0

0

0

$241,021

Atara

$40,594

5

$11,500

3

$78,400

Factum

Stonehedge Farm

Storm Cat

$199,791

20

9

0

0

0

$199,791

Lisa's Secret

$35,355

4

$36,375

1

$20,000

Iqbaal

Ward Ranch

Medaglia d'Oro

$177,142

11

4

0

0

0

$177,142

Big City Dreamin

$44,400

1

$285,140

Telling

Prestige Stallions

A.P. Indy

$158,597

15

4

0

0

0

$158,978

Telling Tony

$62,280

6

$4,617

2

$45,000

Backtalk

Bridlewood Farm

Smarty Jones

$132,808

14

4

0

0

0

$132,808

Cold Snack Thirty

$41,796

8

$7,738

3

$10,933

Vineyard Haven

Woodford Thoroughbreds

Lido Palace (CHI)

$87,399

9

3

0

0

0

$87,399

Sweet Tooth Haven

$24,000

2

$5,100

3

$23,567

Field Commission

Solera Farm

Service Stripe

$85,557

8

3

0

0

0

$85,557

Ten Hut

$32,950

11

$14,273

7

$18,214

Rodman

Deceased

Malibu Moon

$68,138

5

3

0

0

0

$68,138

Rods Song

$20,665

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Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg Avg

2yo Sold

2yo Avg

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

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—STAKES RACES Win/Place/Show Horse Name

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track Off ID Pos Race Name

Grade/ Value

Earngs

3

Tizway

She's Sensational

Farm III Enterprices LLC

8/29/16

SAR

1

Better Talk Now S.

$100,000

$60,000

Moment of Delight F

4

A. P. Warrior

Sweetness

Jimmy Randolph

8/28/16

GP

2

Added Elegance S.

$75,000

$14,550

Yourdreamsormine C

4

Mr. Sekiguchi

Fly Apple Shu

Bridlewood Farm

8/27/16

GP

1

Groomstick S.

$75,000

$46,035

Mr. Jordan

G

4

Kantharos

Miss Skeetd

Philip Matthews & Karen Matthews

8/27/16

MTH

2

Philip H. Iselin S.

3/$101,000

$20,000

Go Around

C

4

Medaglia d'Oro

Mediation (IRE)

Vegso Racing Stable

8/27/16

CBY

2

Brooks Fields S.

$75,000

$15,000

Stallwalkin' Dude

G

6

City Place

Chelle Spendabuck Maria M. Haire

8/27/16

SAR

3

Priority One Jets Forego S. 1/$700,000

$70,000

Bullet Gone Astray

C

3

Gone Astray

Permanent Makeup Joe Carroll & Kris Carroll

8/27/16

GP

3

Groomstick S.

$75,000

$7,425

Perhaps a Pie

F

4

Tale of Ekati

Royal Stimulus

8/14/16

EMD

1

Emerald Distaff H.

$65,000

$35,750

Stallwalkin' Dude

G

6

City Place

Chelle Spendabuck Maria M. Haire

8/12/16

SAR

1

Tale of the Cat S.

$100,000

$60,000

Chief Lion

G

6

Wildcat Heir

Pretty Indian

Harold J. Plumley

8/12/16

SAR

2

Tale of the Cat S.

$100,000

$20,000

Old Time Hockey

G

7

Smarty Jones

Grat

Glen Hill Farm

8/10/16

SAR

3

Birdstone S.

$100,000

$10,000

Three Rules

C

2

Gone Astray

Joy Rules

Shade Tree Thoroughbreds Inc Geoff Roy & Tom Fitzger

8/6/16

GP

1

Florida Sire Dr. Fager S.

$200,000 $120,000

Cajun Delta Dawn

F

2

Kantharos

Cajun Dawn

Curtis Mikkelsen & Patricia Horth

8/6/16

GP

1

Florida Sire Desert Vixen S.

$200,000 $120,000

R Kinsley Doll

F

3

Big Drama

Honest Gold

Palm Beach Racing

8/6/16

GP

1

Florida Sire Three Ring S.

$150,000

$90,000

Dream of Me

C

3

High Cotton

Darn That Girl

McKathan Bros.

8/6/16

GP

1

Florida Sire Unbridled S.

$150,000

$90,000

Daring Kathy

M

5

Wildcat Heir

Dare to Mambo

John Eaton & Steve Laymon

8/6/16

GP

1

Soaring Softly S.

$75,000

$45,570

Blessed Halo

C

2

Kantharos

Halo's Mirage

Curtis Mikkelsen & Patricia Horth

8/6/16

GP

2

Florida Sire Dr. Fager S.

$200,000

$40,000

Lu Lu Laura

F

2

Circular Quay

Arealhotlover

Gilbert G. Campbell

8/6/16

GP

2

Florida Sire Desert Vixen S.

$200,000

$40,000

Sweet Khaleesi

F

3

Maimonides

Calorie

Arindel Farm

8/6/16

GP

2

Florida Sire Three Ring S.

$150,000

$30,000

Awesome Banner

C

3

Awesome of Course

Miranda Stands

Jacks or Better Farm Inc.

8/6/16

GP

2

Florida Sire Unbridled S.

$150,000

$30,000

Pancake

F

3

Corinthian

Gran Senorita

Arindel Farm

8/6/16

GP

2

Soaring Softly S.

$75,000

$14,700

Front Loaded

G

2

Kantharos

Frontier Franny

Arboritanza Racing LLC Jolane Weeks

8/6/16

GP

3

Florida Sire Dr. Fager S.

$200,000

$22,000

U S Diva

F

2

United States

Destiny's Diva

Northwest Stud

8/6/16

GP

3

Florida Sire Desert Vixen S.

$200,000

$22,000

Dixieland Dudes

F

3

First Dude

Dixieland Fantasy

Dizney Double Diamond LLC

8/6/16

GP

3

Florida Sire Three Ring S.

$150,000

$15,000

Call to Honor

G

3

High Cotton

All Saint's Day

Tracy Pinchin

8/6/16

GP

3

Florida Sire Unbridled S.

$150,000

$16,500

E B Ryder

M

6

Bluegrass Cat

Back to Earth

Farnsworth Stables LLC

8/6/16

GP

3

Soaring Softly S.

$75,000

$7,350

Distinction Bird

F

2

With Distinction

Dare I Dream

Dr. Rick Erwin & Janet Erwin

8/5/16

CMR

3

Eduardo Cautino Insua S.

3/$38,520

$3,852

Holding Gold

C

3

Lonhro (AUS)

In the Gold

Live Oak Stud

8/4/16

SAR

1

Quick Call S.

$100,000

$60,000

COGLIANESE PHOTO

Stallwalkin’ Dude/Priority One Jets Forego S. (G1)

Kristine L. Mitchell and McKathan Bros.

Three Rules/FSS Dr. Fager S.

Cajun Delta Dawn/FSS Desert Vixen S.

LESLIE MARTIN PHOTO

G

LAUREN KING PHOTO

Our Way

Sex Age

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Florida-Breds Aro

The Country und

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show Horse Name Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Pos

Off Value

Northern Freeway

G

4

Northern Afleet

Freeway Fun

Liam Benson & Mayo West Farm

8/29/16

MNR

1

$18,032

$10,672

Mister Blue

G

4

Imperialism

Marista

Victor Kresic

8/29/16

MNR

2

$18,032

$3,680

Cowboy Legend

C

3

Cowtown Cat

A True Star

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

8/29/16

MNR

3

$18,032

$1,840

Quattrocento

G

4

Sardegna

Musical Hit

Bruno Schickedanz

8/28/16

WO

1

$71,320

$35,160

Salsita

M

5

Two Step Salsa

Spanishcreek

Alfredo D. Gonzalez

8/28/16

DMR

1

$62,690

$37,200

J Z''s Diva

F

3

Cowtown Cat

Starship Diva

Laurence Leavy

8/28/16

MNR

2

$18,032

$3,680

Choctaw Chuck

G

5

Bwana Charlie

Taylor's Choice

Virgilio Lopez

8/28/16

PID

3

$32,670

$3,300

New Orleans Lady

F

3

Unbridled's Song

Witch Princess

Dale Kalmar Brian Kalmar & Unbridled''s Song Syndicate

8/27/16

AP

1

$26,400

$15,840

Video Mov

G

4

High Cotton

Betsy Blue

Michael T. Beach

8/27/16

CMR

1

$8,830

$5,226

Victory to Victory

F

2

Exchange Rate

Points of Grace

Live Oak Stud

8/27/16

WO

2

$76,194

$14,900

Downtown Cowboy G

4

Cowtown Cat

Darlin Dixie

Jacqueline J. Diamond & Gary L. Mahon

8/25/16

PID

1

$28,320

$16,800

Nopalito

G

4

Two Step Salsa

Haut Monde

Get Away Farm

8/25/16

PID

2

$28,320

$5,600

American Luxury

G

3

United States

Tips On Tipping

Northwest Stud

8/25/16

CT

2

$24,500

$4,900

Plenty of Chrome

F

3

Big Drama

Miss Kneehigh

Patricia Generazio

8/25/16

FL

2

$17,000

$3,400

Salsa Dog

G

4

Two Step Salsa

Homesteader

Manuel Andrade

8/25/16

PID

3

$28,320

$2,800

Wild Aspen Flower

M

8

Aspen Ridge

Buckflower

University of Flordia Foundation & Brett St. Amand

8/24/16

MNR

2

$19,665

$4,140

Black Circle

G

8

Black Mambo

Circle of Friends

Pedro Sarabia

8/23/16

MNR

3

$24,598

$2,510

Mystic Cotton

G

3

High Cotton

In Awe

Rick Sutherland

8/22/16

PID

2

$27,920

$5,600

Gasparilla Float

M

5

Wagon Limit

Gasparilla Parade

Stella Thayer

8/22/16

TDN

3

$31,500

$2,450

Performance Bonus C

4

Discreetly Mine

Unlimited Pleasure

Ocala Stud

8/21/16

SAR

2

$95,000

$19,000

My Discretion

4

Discreetly Mine

Heathersdaddysbaby B.P.N.

8/20/16

GG

1

$30,528

$16,200

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name

Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Do Not Enter

G

5

Keyed Entry

My Favorite Rose

Linda Schroetlin

8/20/16

AP

1

$29,568

$15,840

Cold Snack Thirty

G

2

Backtalk

Passeporta

Lynn Jones

8/20/16

MNR

1

$15,552

$9,396

Wildwood Dancer

G

4

Pomeroy

Dancing Elaine

Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson

8/20/16

AP

3

$29,568

$2,904

Screaming Back

G

2

Backtalk

Songandaflash

C & A Racing

8/20/16

MNR

3

$15,552

$1,620

Conquest See Ya

C

3

Adios Charlie

Unlimited Pleasure

Ocala Stud

8/19/16

WO

1

$66,494

$35,160

Hammer the Bay

G

7

Half Ours

Quelle Surprise

Haras Santa Maria de Araras S.A.

8/19/16

RP

1

$40,000

$23,745

Lizzie Belle

M

7

Wilko

Stormagain

Adena Springs

8/19/16

BTP

3

$16,500

$1,650

Hall o'' Glory

G

4

Graeme Hall

Cedar Rose

Mary Robinson

8/19/16

BTP

3

$15,000

$1,500

Major Drama

C

3

Big Drama

Diva Dyna

Bryan Hilliard

8/17/16

TDN

1

$23,000

$13,800

Hardrock Eleven

G

6

Rock Hard Ten

Stark Beauty

Farm III Enterprises & Off The Hook Partners LLC

8/17/16

SAR

2

$65,000

$11,700

Naughtytoo

M

5

Valid Reprized

Naughty Dreadlocks Thomas J. Lane DVM

8/16/16

ABT

1

$1,000

$530

Colonel Mary

M

7

Patriot Act

Hot Bucks

Michaelyn Gamble & Kathryn Lombardi

8/16/16

ABT

2

$1,000

$260

Tacoma Park

G

5

Sky Mesa

Wife Support

Hickstead Farm

8/15/16

PID

1

$27,920

$16,800

Heza Fast Cat

G

6

Double Honor

Kitty Cat Wins

Kimberly DePasquale

8/15/16

PID

2

$27,920

$5,600

New Threads

F

3

High Cotton

Breaking Storm

Gloria G. Tobin & Todd C. Tobin

8/15/16

PID

3

$34,440

$2,800

Man About Town

G

4

Montbrook

Atticus's Woman

Big C Farm

8/15/16

PID

3

$27,920

$2,800

Bon Heir

F

4

Wildcat Heir

Bon Lil

Marablue Farm LLC

8/15/16

TDN

3

$24,500

$2,450

Remembertobreathe G

5

D'wildcat

Sanctioned

Irish Eyes Stable & Verbarctic Farm

8/14/16

EMD

1

$23,100

$12,375

Derek Adrian

C

2

In Summation

Petunia Face

Dennis E Foster

8/14/16

CMR

1

$12,065

$7,444

Save the Drama

G

3

Big Drama

Powerful Two Punch Kirk Laneve

8/14/16

PID

2

$28,710

$5,800

St. Joe Bay

G

4

Saint Anddan

Dream Ride

Bonnie Heath Farm LLC

8/14/16

DMR

3

$70,970

$7,800

Less Than Perfect

G

4

Pleasantly Perfect

Special Date

Aureliano Noguez - Morales

8/14/16

PID

3

$28,710

$2,900

Sr. Quisqueyano

G

6

Exclusive Quality

Royal Navy

Do-Little Farm LLC

8/13/16

TDN

1

$23,000

$13,800

Macho Oro

C

3

Macho Uno

Vicky

Dale Kalmar & Lynn Kalmar

8/13/16

HP

3

$9,310

$950

Wild Woo Who

C

4

Offlee Wild

Cindy Woo Who

Thomas L. Croley

8/10/16

DEL

1

$38,500

$22,800

Knotty Wild Girl

F

4

Wildcat Heir

Gloomy Knot

Cashel Stud Inc.

8/10/16

PRM

1

$21,560

$11,700

Plenty of Chrome

F

3

Big Drama

Miss Kneehigh

Patricia Generazio

8/10/16

FL

2

$17,000

$3,400

Video Mov

G

4

High Cotton

Betsy Blue

Michael T. Beach

8/10/16

CMR

2

$12,204

$2,491

Burning Time

G

7

Burning Roma

Lil's Time

Harold Queen

8/10/16

CMR

3

$12,204

$1,245

Masterofthehouse

C

3

Backtalk

Smart Exchange

Amaury Piedra

8/8/16

PID

2

$27,920

$5,600

Gasparilla Float

M

5

Wagon Limit

Gasparilla Parade

Stella Thayer

8/8/16

TDN

3

$30,000

$2,300

Crimson Moon

F

3

Bellamy Road

Crystal Minuet

Kinsman Farm

8/7/16

WO

2

$68,706

$11,720

Forever Wandy

F

3

Hold Me Back

Advance Glory

Pamela Edel

8/7/16

CMR

3

$8,830

$901

Put It Back Jack

G

3

Put It Back

Ariel Bright

Stride Rite Racing Stable Inc. & NTS Stable Inc.

8/6/16

CT

1

$24,000

$14,340

It''s a Factum

F

3

Factum

Really Appealing

William F. Murphy & Annabel Murphy

8/6/16

MD

1

$3,700

$2,183

Rick''s Boy

G

4

Flashstorm

Repentina

Northwest Stud

8/6/16

PEN

2

$29,500

$5,900

Riley Coyote

G

4

Pomeroy

True Glitter

Curtis Mikkelsen& Patricia Horth Gordon Reiss & Lindie

8/6/16

CT

2

$24,500

$4,900

Forge Ahead Franki G

4

Mass Media

Sanctioned

Verbarctic Farm

8/6/16

ELP

3

$37,440

$2,600

Vestibule

G

5

Graeme Hall

Moonshot

Cheryl Janine McGuire & James P. McGuire

8/5/16

CBY

1

$34,605

$20,400

Salsa Dog

G

4

Two Step Salsa

Homesteader

Manuel Andrade

8/4/16

PID

2

$27,920

$5,600

Discreet Lover

C

3

Repent

Discreet Chat

Woodford Thoroughbreds

8/2/16

PRX

1

$55,788

$31,200

Hey Jabber Jaw

G

4

Mineshaft

Storm Prospect

Sienna Farms LLC

8/1/16

FL

2

$16,900

$3,380

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Sex Age

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Deanira

F

2

Double Honor

Phaedra

SCF Inc

8/30/16

MNR

1

$13,536

$8,178

Warrior''s Magic

C

2

Majestic Warrior

Cordoba

Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman

8/30/16

FP

2

$12,600

$1,800

Smokinwatchstopper C

2

General Quarters

Extremadura

British Mist Breeding & Racing

8/29/16

DEL

1

$34,375

$20,400

Super Power

G

3

Super Saver

Tiz Twentyfour K

Destiny Oaks of Ocala

8/29/16

MNR

2

$13,677

$2,820

Hot and Heavy

G

2

Yesbyjimminy

Miss Kenai

Thomas L. Croley

8/29/16

DEL

3

$34,375

$3,740

Noble Venezuela

R

2

Wildcat Heir

Bayou Mist

Orlyana Farm

8/28/16

GP

1

$49,000

$31,000

Ledbetter

G

2

Stay Thirsty

Nikki's Choice

Kris DelGiudice

8/28/16

TIM

1

$31,360

$18,240

Heat Road

C

3

Bellamy Road

Heat Exposure

Woodford Thoroughbreds

8/28/16

PID

1

$26,930

$16,200

Sunshine N Shadow

C

2

Wildcat Heir

Folk Art

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

8/28/16

GP

2

$49,000

$10,400

Wild Wigglin Jack

G

2

Iqbaal

Wildcat Wiggle

Dennis Ward

8/28/16

TIM

2

$31,360

$6,720

Rafter One

C

2

Wildcat Heir

Forgiven

Maharg Management Inc.

8/28/16

DMR

3

$61,725

$7,200

Toss the Tub

C

2

The Factor

Bet On the Blue

Hal Snowden Jr.

8/28/16

TIM

3

$31,360

$3,520

Tamarack

F

3

Giant Oak

Wild Meggie Meg

Sherry R. Mansfield & Kenneth H. Davis

8/28/16

MNR

3

$13,818

$1,410

Zipping

G

2

Adios Charlie

Miss Zip

Laurin Stable Inc.

8/27/16

GP

1

$50,000

$31,000

Gone Till Dawn

F

2

Gone Astray

Seasoning

Gerald James

8/27/16

GP

1

$40,000

$24,000

Make Big Plans

G

3

Tapit

Mutually Benefit

Glen Hill Farm

8/27/16

PEN

1

$30,267

$17,100

Hot and Wild

F

2

Wildcat Heir

Hot Canary

Marilyn McMaster

8/27/16

ASD

1

$12,500

$7,200

He''s the One

G

2

General Quarters

Thunder Jewel

JSL Thoroughbreds

8/27/16

GP

2

$50,000

$10,400

R Naja

F

2

Exchange Rate

Chirimoya

El Batey Farm LLC

8/27/16

AP

2

$25,600

$5,120

Souper Catch

C

2

Bernardini

Cry and Catch Me

Live Oak Stud

8/27/16

SAR

3

$93,000

$9,300

Soul Singer

F

2

Flatter

Tricky Mistress

Craig Lawrence Wheeler

8/27/16

DMR

3

$61,725

$7,200

Unbridled Holiday

C

2

Harlan's Holiday

Song of Royalty

Don L. Ming

8/27/16

GP

3

$50,000

$5,000

Adonai Step

F

2

Two Step Salsa

So Proud

University of Florida Foundation

8/27/16

TDN

3

$21,500

$2,150

Dagney''s Revenge

F

3

Greatness

Dagney Darling

Elite Equine Inc

8/26/16

GP

1

$40,800

$25,800

Wild Cheers

F

2

Wildcat Heir

Trail of Cheers

David Kegley

8/26/16

TIM

1

$32,000

$18,240

Lupo''s Way

F

3

High Cotton

Queen Amira (GB)

Ocala Stud

8/26/16

GP

3

$40,800

$4,200

Socially Driven

F

2

Overdriven

Social Security

Dr. Myron Wilson

8/26/16

TIM

3

$32,000

$3,520

My Mystery

F

2

Colonel John

Mystery Bullet

Hickstead Farm

8/25/16

AP

2

$25,600

$5,120

Raja''s Legacy

F

2

General Quarters

Rajadesaminaux

Palm Beach Racing

8/25/16

DEL

3

$36,200

$3,740

Unbridled Harlan

F

2

Harlan's Holiday

Erin's Song

Sienna Farms LLC

8/25/16

AP

3

$25,600

$2,816

Citizen Cesar

G

2

Proud Citizen

Tiz Twentyfour K

Destiny Oaks of Ocala

8/25/16

BTP

3

$14,300

$1,430

Silver Diva

F

2

Circular Quay

Chippi

William P. Sorren

8/24/16

GP

1

$50,000

$31,000

Map Room

G

3

Artie Schiller

Holidaysatthefarm

Glen Hill Farm

8/24/16

DEL

1

$34,500

$20,400

Upatoi Bug

G

2

High Cotton

Slamsational

Craig L. Wheeler

8/24/16

PID

1

$27,130

$16,200

Backstage

F

2

Put It Back

At a Stage

Laurin Stable Inc.

8/24/16

GP

2

$50,000

$10,800

Ballyhoo Moon

F

2

Malibu Moon

Ballyhoo Kat (IRE)

Donald R. Dizney LLC

8/24/16

GP

3

$50,000

$5,400

Risk Reversal

G

4

Old Fashioned

Sailing Free

Destiny Oaks of Ocala

8/24/16

DEL

3

$34,500

$3,740

J''s Indian Charm

F

2

Adios Charlie

C. R. Pace

Adrienne Provost

8/23/16

PID

1

$28,140

$16,200

Fleet Dude

F

2

First Dude

Awesome Fleet

Donald R. Dizney LLC

8/23/16

IND

3

$32,000

$3,200

Tizatalker

G

2

Tizway

Chado

Lynne Boutte & Chris Boutte

8/23/16

PID

3

$26,930

$2,700

Loveyou Likethat

F

3

Crown of Thorns

Whirlwind Charlott

Woodford Thoroughbreds

8/22/16

MNR

3

$13,536

$1,410

Sherpa

C

2

Kantharos

Proud Brush

Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman

8/21/16

GP

1

$49,000

$31,000

Herecomesthedude

C

2

First Dude

Fondant

Juan Rodriguez

8/21/16

GP

1

$40,000

$24,000

Awesome Express

F

2

Awesome of Course

Express Fashion

Karen Silva

8/21/16

ELP

1

$31,039

$15,600

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Dam

Breeder

Date Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Independent Worker

C

2

High Cotton

Queen Amira (GB)

Ocala Stud

8/21/16

CMR

1

$11,050

$6,409

Apache Brave

C

2

Kantharos

Shoshone Girl

Maurice Miller LLC

8/21/16

GP

2

$49,000

$10,000

Fort Liberty

C

2

First Dude

Chancey Light

Norman Dellheim Peggy Dellheim & Pete Mattson

8/21/16

GP

2

$40,000

$8,800

Awesome Bay

C

2

With Distinction

Awesome Medicine

Just For Fun Stable

8/21/16

GP

3

$40,000

$4,400

Remember Willy

C

2

J P's Gusto

From Behind

Philip Matthews & Karen Matthews

8/21/16

CMR

3

$11,050

$1,105

Sweet Tooth Haven

F

2

Vineyard Haven

Smokin Again

Woodford Thoroughbreds

8/20/16

GP

1

$40,000

$24,000

Head for the Hills

F

3

Exclusive Quality

Folk Art

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

8/20/16

PEN

1

$30,267

$17,100

One of a Kind

C

2

Lemon Drop Kid

Come a Callin

Vegso Racing Stable

8/20/16

SAR

2

$83,000

$16,600

Aquemini

F

2

Wildcat Heir

Cry Hallelujah

Brent Fernung Crystal Fernung & Eugene P. Cahalan

8/20/16

GP

2

$43,000

$10,000

Gran Cherry

F

2

First Dude

Poppy's Baby Girl (GB) Murray Stroud

8/20/16

GP

2

$40,000

$8,400

Emperor John

C

2

Curlin

Neversaidiwassweet

Red Oak Stable

8/20/16

SAR

3

$83,000

$8,300

Pachamanca

F

2

Biondetti

Elusive Blackjack

Sergio Ripamonte

8/20/16

GP

3

$43,000

$5,000

Katinka

F

2

Kantharos

Classy City Lady

Wendy Christ & Kathie Haines

8/20/16

GP

3

$40,000

$4,000

High Five Cotton

C

2

High Cotton

Angelic Amanda

Dr. Rick Erwin & Janet Erwin

8/20/16

DEL

3

$34,375

$3,740

Shoshone Brave

G

3

High Cotton

Shoshone Girl

Maurice Miller LLC

8/19/16

GP

1

$40,800

$25,800

Majestic Gale

F

2

Majestic Warrior

Crystal Minuet

Kinsman Farm

8/19/16

ELP

1

$30,920

$15,600

Royal Pavilion

C

3

Gone Astray

Family First

Rick Sutherland

8/19/16

GP

2

$37,200

$8,760

Tropicat

C

3

Wildcat Heir

Chacana

Rustlewood Farm Inc.

8/19/16

GP

3

$40,800

$4,560

Passionate Talk

F

2

Backtalk

Icanseeclearly

Risen Star Farm

8/19/16

CT

3

$23,000

$2,280

Red Crescent

C

2

Overdriven

Give Glory to God

Pamela Edel & Edward Cahir

8/18/16

GP

1

$47,000

$31,000

Prima Star

F

4

Exclusive Quality

Dreamy Dream

Steve Tucker

8/18/16

CT

1

$23,000

$13,680

Wild Impulse

C

3

Wildcat Heir

Just Call Me Berty

Lambholm

8/17/16

DEL

1

$34,250

$20,400

Diablo''s Darling

F

3

Greatness

Deputy Darling

Mr. Amore Stables

8/17/16

FL

1

$20,600

$11,400

Warrior Song

F

3

Harlan's Holiday

More Oats Please

Sally J. Andersen

8/16/16

MNR

1

$13,395

$8,178

Heavenly Body

F

3

Leroidesanimaux (BRZ)

Body Talk

Lonnie Stokes

8/16/16

PID

2

$26,730

$5,400

Heat Road

C

3

Bellamy Road

Heat Exposure

Woodford Thoroughbreds

8/16/16

PID

2

$26,730

$5,400

Bonita Wynn

M

5

Marciano

Donna's Tour

T. Wynn Jolley & Mary Jolley

8/16/16

MNR

2

$13,395

$2,820

Rex''s Comprise

F

4

Comprise

Dr Rexsonshope

Rose Family Stable Ltd.

8/16/16

ABT

2

$1,000

$260

Hope Is Best

G

4

Shakespeare

Hope Street

Red Oak Stable

8/16/16

PID

3

$26,730

$2,700

Alisa''s Catch

F

4

Hal's Image

Caught Speeding

Rose Family Stable Ltd

8/16/16

ABT

3

$1,000

$120

Upatoi Bug

G

2

High Cotton

Slamsational

Craig L. Wheeler

8/15/16

PID

2

$26,930

$5,400

Calisi''s Warrior

C

2

A. P. Warrior

Calisi

Donna Schneider

8/15/16

MNR

3

$13,536

$1,410

Celtic Moonlight

F

2

City Place

A Penny At a Time

Irish Eyes Stable L.L.C

8/14/16

GP

1

$49,000

$31,000

General''s Jewel

F

3

General Quarters

Sinister Deance

Jerry Hills & Timothy McCarthy

8/14/16

MNR

1

$13,395

$8,178

Regal Sabellina

F

2

Regal Ransom

Sabellina

Woodford Thoroughbreds

8/14/16

CMR

1

$9,204

$5,447

Star Gala

F

2

Wildcat Heir

Joni Gala

Helen Barbazon & Joseph Barbazon

8/14/16

GP

2

$49,000

$10,400

Mrs Sport

F

2

Kantharos

Brandy Brandy

Carol Hershe

8/14/16

HST

2

$17,640

$3,600

In the Quay of Me

F

3

Circular Quay

Leonarda

Judy Karlin & George Santis

8/14/16

MNR

3

$13,395

$1,410

Tiz Boa

F

3

Tiznow

Boa

Arindel Farm

8/13/16

GP

1

$40,800

$25,800

Pretty Boy Flash

C

2

Gone Astray

Honour Isabel

Craig Wheeler Thoroughbreds

8/13/16

SAR

2

$83,000

$16,600

Publicist

F

4

Cowtown Cat

Tionesta

Linda Pastor & Robert Pastor

8/13/16

GP

3

$40,800

$4,200

Higuey

C

2

Haynesfield

Silky Noon

SJT Racing Stables LLC

8/13/16

TDN

3

$23,500

$2,150

Zero Zee

F

2

High Cotton

Vindy City

Woodford Thoroughbreds

8/12/16

SAR

1

$83,000

$49,800

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Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Vickies Drama

F

3

Big Drama

Volatile Vickie

Hidden Point Farm

8/12/16

PRM

2

$30,000

$5,960

Fired Up Sensation

F

3

Zensational

Pure Disco

Patricia Generazio

8/12/16

SAR

3

$83,000

$8,300

Compelled

F

2

War Front

Mutually Benefit

Glen Hill Farm

8/12/16

SAR

3

$83,000

$8,300

Point Streak

F

2

Majestic Warrior

Sweetest Song

SJT Racing Stable LLC

8/12/16

DMR

3

$64,035

$7,560

Neo Vibrant

C

3

High Cotton

Boxing Day

Sally J. Andersen

8/12/16

IND

3

$32,000

$3,200

Light the Night

C

3

Street Cry (IRE)

Namaste's Wish

Live Oak Stud

8/11/16

SAR

1

$83,000

$49,800

Downey

G

4

Bring the Heat

Nea Nea Denae

Wesley Ward & Jim Downey

8/11/16

PID

1

$26,730

$16,200

Caribou Club

C

2

City Zip

Broken Dreams

Glen Hill Farm

8/11/16

SAR

3

$83,000

$8,300

Paddy Point

F

3

Paddy O'Prado

Fancy Point

Kinsman Farm

8/10/16

WO

1

$55,455

$33,540

Tizatalker

G

2

Tizway

Chado

Lynne Boutte & Chris Boutte

8/10/16

PID

3

$26,325

$2,700

All Summed Up

F

3

In Summation

Load Up

Oakleaf Farm

8/9/16

PRX

2

$53,700

$10,000

Noted and Quoted

F

2

The Factor

Silver Cub

Gilbert G. Campbell

8/7/16

DMR

1

$63,690

$37,800

Elle Va

F

2

Biondetti

Little Heiress

Helen Marie Napolitano

8/7/16

PRX

1

$51,000

$30,000

Tonina

F

2

Pioneerof the Nile

Zarlanz

Get Away Farm

8/7/16

GP

1

$50,000

$31,000

Bitacora

F

2

Dominus

Shrimp Tempura

Brenda K. Jones

8/7/16

GP

1

$50,000

$31,000

Katira

F

2

First Dude

A Rose for You

Arindel Farm

8/7/16

GP

2

$50,000

$10,400

Silver Diva

F

2

Circular Quay

Chippi

William P. Sorren

8/7/16

GP

2

$50,000

$10,000

Devilish Romance

F

2

First Dude

Gator Brew

Dr. & Mrs. James Gamble

8/7/16

GP

3

$50,000

$5,400

Backstage

F

2

Put It Back

At a Stage

Laurin Stable Inc.

8/7/16

GP

3

$50,000

$5,000

Curves That Kick

C

3

Fairbanks

Lunachick

Rick Rudman

8/6/16

CT

1

$23,000

$14,260

Northern

C

2

Adios Charlie

Vicky

Dale Kalmar & Lynn Kalmar

8/6/16

SAR

2

$83,000

$16,600

Legacy Azteca

C

2

High Cotton

Sailin Cailin

Michael Chamberlain

8/6/16

GP

2

$43,000

$10,000

Zipping

G

2

Adios Charlie

Miss Zip

Laurin Stable Inc.

8/6/16

GP

2

$42,000

$10,000

Instant Celebrity

F

4

Sardegna

Celebrity Wanted

Bruno Schickedanz

8/6/16

HP

2

$8,415

$1,700

Rebel War

C

2

In Summation

Dixie Gator Gal

William Churly & Ken Manness

8/6/16

DMR

3

$64,380

$7,560

Ohio

G

2

Overdriven

Double Bridled

Marco Medina

8/6/16

GP

3

$43,000

$5,000

Somethingelse

F

3

Leroidesanimaux (BRZ)

Gamecents

Family Broodmares III LLC

8/5/16

GP

1

$42,000

$25,800

Romantic Music

F

2

Maclean's Music

Heathersdaddysbaby B.P.N.

8/5/16

MTH

1

$34,120

$20,520

Diadura

F

2

Hard Spun

Daytime Promise

Inversiones FI LLC

8/5/16

AP

1

$28,774

$15,360

Lupo''s Way

F

3

High Cotton

Queen Amira (GB)

Ocala Stud

8/5/16

GP

2

$42,000

$8,400

Publicist

F

4

Cowtown Cat

Tionesta

Linda Pastor & Robert Pastor

8/5/16

GP

3

$42,000

$4,200

Shes Got the Look

F

2

Adios Charlie

Future Story

Red Oak Stable

8/4/16

GP

1

$40,000

$24,000

Yankee Perfection

F

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The program gives inmates an opportunity to learn equine skills so they can find farm employment after release. The farm celebrated its 15th year anniversary in 2015 to great success highlighted by a remarkable 99% recidivism rate. Our retired racehorses positively change lives. The farm is funded by Florida Thoroughbred Charities, a subsidiary of Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association.

CH Registration number (CH8627) issued by the Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.

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By JO ANN GUIDRY earnings’ total was multiple stakes winner Success Express, he year 1987 was a good one for Florida-based stal- who put $737,207 in the coffers. Following the announcelions. Crafty Prospector was North America’s leading ment of the Tartan Farms dispersal, Hold Your Peace was freshman sire by progeny earnings. Baldski was the relocated to Break Away Farm.

Tri Jet was Florida’s leading general sire with progeny leading juvenile sire in the country by number of winners.

Crafty Prospector, who stood at Happy Valley Farm, earnings of $2,730,529, which also had him finishing as the topped the freshman sire list with progeny earnings of ninth-leading sire in North America. Represented by eight $349,405. The son of Mr. Prospector was represented by 33 stakes winners, Tri Jet’s leading earner was Phantom Jet foals in his first crop to reach the racetrack. Of that number, with a bankroll of $280,958.

At the racetrack, Lost Code became the 12th Florida-bred 15 started, eight became winners and two became stakes winners. Crafty Prospector’s leading money earner was millionaire. After putting together a skein of seven stakes victories in a row, Lost Code ended the Crafty Wife, who banked $183,168. topped the season with earnings $1,115,218.

Other Florida stallions making the Top 10 on the national freshman freshman sire list with progeny Included in his stakes wins were vicsire list included: deceased Stiff earnings of $349,405. The son tories in the Arlington Classic (G1), Ohio Derby (G2), Illinois Derby Sentence (#3), Bucksplasher (#4) of Mr. Prospector was repre(G3) and St Paul Derby (G3). At and Island Whirl (#7). sented by 33 foals in his first year’s end, Lost Code was named the Farnsworth Farms’ stallion Bald1987 Florida-bred Horse of the Year ski posted 22 juvenile winners to crop to reach the racetrack. and champion 3-year-old colt. lead in that category nationally. By Of that number, 15 started, eight

By Codex out of Loss Or Gain, progeny earnings, Baldski was became winners and two

by Ack Ack, Lost Code was bred by ranked eighth with $625,838. His Mareinvest -83, Ltd. The breeding leading earner was Balquiria, who became stakes winners. entity included three general parttallied $147,900 on the season.

Florida’s leading juvenile sire was Hold Your Peace with nerships and 11 limited partners. Sold for $7,300 to Red Port progeny earnings of $836,772. That total placed him fourth Farm, agent, at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August 1987 leading freshman sire nationally, behind leader and former Florida stallion Mr. yearling sale, Lost Code was then sold privately for $30,000 Crafty Prospector Prospector. Earning the bulk of Hold Your Peace’s progeny to trainer Bill Donovan. The latter remained Lost Code’s trainer when ownership was switched to Wendover Stable.

Other 1987 Florida-bred champions included Show Dancer (older male); Coup de Fusil (older female); Firery Ensign (2-year-old colt); Flashy Runner (2-year-old filly); Without Feathers (3-year-old filly); Banker’s Jet (sprinter) and Talakeno (turf horse).

Florida-bred Gate Dancer, winner of the 1984 Preakness Stakes (G1), stood his first season at Ken Opstein’s Good Chance Farm. Bred by William R. Davis, the son of Sovereign Dancer out of Sun Gate, by Bull Lea retired with lifetime earnings of $2,501,705.

Florida-bred champion My Dear Girl was euthanized at 31. Bred by Ocala Stud and raced by Frances A. Genter, My Dear Girl was the 1959 North American champion 2year-old filly. By Rough’n Tumble out of Iltis, by War Relic, My Dear Girl produced stakes winners In Reality, Return to Reality, Dr. Carter and Superbity. ■

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Golf Digest Best New Golf Course nominee is site lorida Thoroughbred Charities will host a VIP Charity Golf Tournament at the new Adena Golf and Country Club on Monday, October 10 with morning and afternoon sessions in a four player scramble team format. Title sponsors for the charity event are Adena Springs, the Stronach Group and Gulfstream Park, all strong supporters of the thoroughbred industry. The opening of the luxury club was highly anticipated in golf circles and in the community last year and the Club has seen a healthy growth in memberships since then. In its second year at the Club, the tournament received positive reviews from those that played the immaculate course which complements the outstanding course clubhouse and amenities.

The course was nominated by Golf Digest as the best new golf course last year. The course was designed by Frank Stronach and Asa High serves as the course superintendent. The course has hosted a who’s who of sports celebrities and teams at the facility including Wayne Cashman, legendary hockey player from the Boston Bruins and captain of two Stanley Cup Championship Teams, Hall of Fame jockey Jacinto Vasquez who rode Derby winners Genuine Risk and Foolish Pleasure among other champion racehorses, University of Florida Head Football Jim McElwain, University of Florida Men's Golf Coach J.C. Deacon and

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Rich Smith, executive director/CEO of NFPGA and Jim Demick, executive director of the Florida State Golf Association “We are looking forward to hosting the tournament again in this luxurious setting. The venue provides a high end experience. Last year sold out,” said George Russell, president of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Owners’ Association of which Florida Thoroughbred Charities is a subsidiary.

The funds raised from the charity tournament benefit the thoroughbred retirement program at Second Chance Farm which gives a lifelong home to retired thoroughbreds and aids in the positive growth of women in the program. Over 120 women have graduated from the program and only two have returned to a correctional facility. The success rate is a key indicator the life changing program makes a difference.

(See the Farm & Service Directory 2015/16 for a full story on the program starting on page 125.) Proceeds also benefit student scholarships and support other local community organizations.

“The tournament has been supported by generous sponsors for many years and we are excited to work toward raising even more funds this year while golfers get a chance to play on this world caliber course“ said Greg Wheeler, FTBOA community, social and outreach committee chairman.■

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FTBOA MEMBER UPDATE

Keeping members informed

ANNUAL MEETING

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Be reminded that the Annual Membership Meeting at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20 is at the Marion County Ag Extension Auditorium 2232 NE Jacksonville Rd., Ocala. FTBOA encourages members to attend the meeting and reminds those who are regular members in good standing to vote if you have not already done so.

Keep in mind, your ballot must be in to the office address in the voting packet by 5 p.m. on by Oct. 19 or received in person on October 20 by the start of the meeting.

FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES GOLF TOURNAMENT AT ADENA NEAR SELL OUT

Thanks to the appeal of the Adena Golf & Country Club venue and thanks to the very generous support from the thoroughbred industry, the annual golf tournament is a near sell out for players (as of Sept. 12). There are still a limited number of gold and silver sponsorships available. Gold sponsorships include onsite signage and two luncheon tickets and silver sponsorships include a tee sign. For a sponsorship packet, visit www.ftboa.com or call 352-629-2160. To be placed on the team waiting list, please call asap.

FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS

Florida Thoroughbred Charities awarded $17,104 in scholarships to outstanding college students for the Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 school year. The scholarships range from $580 to $2,500 each. Recipients include: Karlie Bowling, Case Erwin, Cheyenne Frings, Celine

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Frings, Chloe Glaser, Alysha Halsteter, Mary Hennessy, Moises Herrera, Eric Hough, Chelsea Maida, Russell Marvin, Anthony McGill, Cheyanna Patrick, Bailey Parsons, Jade Robinson, and Jason Vinson.

In order to be eligible, students must have been FTBOA members, a child of an FTBOA member, an employee of or a child of members’ employees. In addition, students completed a scholarship application, met academic standards and must mainScholarship winner and jockey tain enrollment minimums.

FTC scholarships are made Cheyanna Patrick possible by a number of donors including the Quail Roost Foundation established in memory of Harriet and Elmer Heubeck, Jr., important contributors to the Florida thoroughbred industry. Additional funding comes from an endowment through the College of Central Florida, individual donations and fundraising charity events including the annual stallion season auction held each January, the Gala silent auction in March, a Memorabilia Sale held late September and the Fall golf tournament at Adena Golf & Country Club on October 10. The program’s success depends on community participation. In addition to student scholarships, the Florida Thoroughbred Charities also contributes to the Florida Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Marion County Lowell correctional facility farm, Second Chances. For more information on making a donation or setting up an endowment, please contact Florida Thoroughbred Charities at 352-629-2160 or e-mail info@ftboa.com.■ MOEHRING PHOTO

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Ever Evolving

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on’t let that picture fool you, this isn’t just another photo-shopped fish story. I actually did pull that monster – and a couple of his equally horrifying kinsmen – out of the infield lake at Gulfstream a few years ago when I worked publicity at Gulfstream Park.

We fished after hours, of course.

In control of the great fish is my trusted TV man Rob Tobin, whose aversion to holding a camera during off-theclock hours is almost as great as my aversion to holding anything that, with one well-aimed bite, might lead me to a deeper-than-desired knowledge of prosthetics.

The juxtaposition of the barracuda with the Gulfstream Park grandstand is meant to illustrate how an efficient, streamlined creation need not make many changes over 60 million years.

Racetracks, however, do need to evolve, and one would be hard-pressed to think of a better example of consistently being ahead of the times than Frank Stronach’s Gulfstream Park.

A business professor at Louisiana State University, once paraphrased Darwin: “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”

Beginning in the ‘90s, when seasonal employees said goodbye to one another on closing days at Hialeah, it had become a 50-50 proposition if that beautiful arena would be open for business the next season. You knew who owned it, but you didn’t know their intentions.

Through all his years on the main stage, no one has seriously questioned Stronach’s commitment to racing, at least not for any length of time.

Sure, there were snide remarks from cynics, but in time the critics among the horsemen, the media and the public at large began to see his reasoning.

Some of those critics now are drawing hefty paychecks from The Stronach Group, and they do so with faith, fervor and the zeal of converts.

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There’s a vision at 901 South Federal Hwy., one that a man like Jimmy Donn would likely appreciate. A landscaper, Donn was a shareholder in both Gulfstream and Hialeah and, when the original owner of Gulfstream went bust, he stepped in to assume command, take risks, make it one of the nation’s leading racetracks and pass along a healthy product to his son and grandson to operate for many, many years.

But the Donn days have been gone for more than 25 years.

While the GPS coordinates remain the same, anyone who thinks that this enterprise bares the stamp of anyone but Stronach is blind to the truth of this being the House that The Frank built. Some things to ponder: Gaming has become a workable and trustworthy partner with horseracing, a rarity in other precincts around the country;

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• A thriving retail operation that includes restaurants and shopping, a partnership that complements the racing and gaming product; And – in yet another example of an important, mutually beneficial partnership – a bustling Florida Sire Stakes business that is of tremendous importance to Gulfstream’s bottom line while igniting interest in the state’s thoroughbred industry.

We’re months away from the inaugural of yet another Stronach original, the $12 million Pegasus World Cup, another innovation that has once again awakened the feckless, but even seasoned opponents are reluctant to mock his latest creation, simply because they have learned one thing: You shouldn’t bet against Frank. ■

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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 StarTelegram. He currently writes for ESPN.com and several other publications on a freelance basis.

emember the insanity? The sport’s stakes structure was so crazy it encouraged something that looked like a lewd Thanksgiving Day celebration. To ensure themselves of having a representative in the Kentucky Derby, racetracks stuffed their 3-year-old stakes like so many turkeys. And then they lined up the zeroes to dance the hoochie coochie. Although there were only half as many 3-year-olds as older horses racing, the youngsters had nearly as many stakes opportunities, and they could run for significantly higher purses. A graded stakes for 3-year-olds typically offered $100,000 more than a graded stakes for older horses.

It wasn’t only perverse; it was also self-destructive.

But racetrack executives couldn’t help themselves. They wanted to smell the roses, too, if only empathetically.

And since Churchill Downs limited its Derby field to 20 starters based on earnings in graded stakes, racetracks stuffed the appropriate stakes with enough lucre to buy the local champion a ticket, often to the detriment of other divisions and ultimately the sport.

The situation got so bad in 2012 that if you owned an outstanding older male, an accomplished top-class veteran, you had just five American opportunities to race for a purse

It won’t work everywhere and could only be employed discerningly, but the Pegasus model is something other racetracks should examine. of $500,000 or more in the first six months of the year, including only one million-dollar enticement. In other words, if you had one of the best older horses in the country, your options were either retirement, resentment or global adventure. Everybody bemoaned the early retirement of the sport’s stars, but nobody gave those stars a compelling reason to continue racing. On the other hand, if you owned a promising 3-year-old colt or a not-very-promising-but-nevertheless-capable 3-year-old, or even a precocious colt that you knew was destined for a descent down the claiming ladder, for six months you could feast on a buffet of stakes races, a dozen in all, that offered a purse of $500,000 or more, including seven worth at least a million dollars.

It was unhealthy and unsustainable. In 2012, it was quite possible for a mediocre 3-year-old to earn black type while the older horses he couldn’t warm up remained marooned in the barn for months. Because of a factitious and unnatural order, the 3-year-old were the sport’s stars — shooting

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stars, as it happened, here one moment, but gone the next.

Churchill Downs did the sport a great service when it quelled the insanity by scrapping the Derby’s earnings criterion and replacing it with a points system. Since then, the situation has improved. And next year, with a stakes event that could represent horse racing’s greatest innovation since the Breeders’ Cup, the sport could advance significantly towards a healthy purse structure.

With the end of the arms race, racetracks have become more willing to dedicate purse money to divisions not mesmerized by gaudy jewels or baroque crowns — that is, to older horses. Since 2012, the number of American stakes races from January through June that offer older males a purse of at least $500,000 has increased 140 percent, from five to 12, including four of at least a million dollars. But, of course, some of those rich stakes, such as the Met Mile and the Stephen Foster, are also open to 3-year-olds. The number of similarly lucrative stakes available to 3-year-old males has also increased, but only 33 percent, from 12 to 16, including 10 of at least a million dollars.

The imbalance persists, but it’s not quite as extreme as it was four years ago. In the first six months of the 2016, 51 graded stakes open to three-year-old males offered purses averaging $367,647; during the same period, 65 stakes open to older males offered purses averaging $278,307.

And everything changes next year, with the inaugural running of the $12 million Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park. It could be the answer.

Consider the problem. Sports fans are eager to watch the biggest and brightest stars on the largest stage. But to do that, to remain in the popular awareness and enter the cultural mainstream, horse racing would have to focus on one division and basically deplete the purse account disproportionately in that direction. In other words, it would have to continue down the self-destructive path it was on in 2012. This would enable the sport to create a few extravaganzas, but it could devastate daily racing and, even more, seriously compromise the future.

But the $12 million allure of the Pegasus World Cup won’t come from the purse account. It originates from investors, who for a million dollars purchase a reserved place in the starting gate as well as an equity share in the event. Gulfstream, by the way, sold all 12 shares within a week. It won’t work everywhere and could only be employed discerningly, but the Pegasus model is something other racetracks should examine. ■

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