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CONTENTS October 2020 VOL 63/ISSUE 8

DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS 6 7 32

FROM THE BOARDROOM FLORIDA FOCUS FTBOA MEMBER UPDATE —By Tammy A. Gantt

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FLORIDA-BREDS AROUND THE COUNTRY

National Florida-bred statistics

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LEADING FLORIDA SIRES

FEATURES 12

Win Win Win Lives Up to His Name With Triumph in Forego

LIVING UP TO HIS NAME —NYRA Press Release

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Breeze On By Takes the Affirmed Florida Sire Stakes

EASY BREEZY

—By Tammy A. Gantt

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Princess Secret wins the Susan’s Girl Florida Sire Stakes

SUSAN’S GIRLY PRINCESS —By Tammy A. Gantt

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For In Reality, the Florida Sire Stakes Series is a family affair.

Three of the six FSS races are named after him, his dam My Dear Girl and his daughter Desert Vixen

REALITY SHOW

—By JoAnn Guidry

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Q&A WITH FTBOA PRESIDENT GREG WHEELER —By Brock Sheridan

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Mouth & Tongue Injuries in Horses

EQUINE CARE

—By Heather Smith Thomas

COVER PHOTOS OF PRINCESS SECRET WINNING THE FSS SUSAN’S GIRL AND INSET OF BREEZE ON BY WINNING THE FSS AFFIRMED: LAUREN KING CONTENTS PHOTO OF MARCH TO THE ARCH WINNING THE KING EDWARD STAKES: MICHAEL BURNS

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From the FTBOA Boardroom The FTBOA Board of Directors met via Zoom on Aug. 21, 2020. The first portion of the meeting, during which the board considered the proposed 2021 Annual Awards Plan, was open to the public for observation and comment, but no public comments were offered.

The proposed Plan would establish breeder awards at 10% of the purse for first-place finishers, with stallion awards also set at 10%.

After board review and discussion, the board voted to accept the proposed 2021 Annual Awards Plan as presented, after which the public portion of the meeting concluded.

Warren Husband, general counsel, provided the board with a legal/regulatory update focused on the pending litigation surrounding Calder’s plans to halt thoroughbred racing but to continue operating slot machines under Calder’s summer jai alai permit.

The board then received a briefing on the FTBOA annual meeting, which will be held on Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the meeting will be held via Zoom only. Regular members will receive notice by e-mail with instructions on how to register for the meeting. Members are required to keep their email addresses on file with the FTBOA current at all times. The annual

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meeting has been noticed previously in trade publications and member communications.

In conjunction with the annual meeting, there are five director vacancies on the FTBOA board to be filled, for three-year terms extending until October 2023. Pursuant to the association’s Bylaws, the board of directors nominated the following five candidates for these vacancies — Fred Brei and Milan Kosanovich, as well as incumbents Bobby Jones, Frances Vanlangendonck, and Dr. Fred Yutani. Each candidate agreed to run and to serve as an FTBOA director. No petitions were filed by members seeking to qualify as a candidate. As provided in the Bylaws, because there are only five candidates for the five director vacancies, members will not be required to cast ballots and these five candidates will be deemed elected to office upon the presiding officer calling the FTBOA’s annual meeting to order.

The board also recognized outgoing directors, president Greg Wheeler and Barry Berkelhammer, for their service to the association.

The latest FTBOA industry impact video and Florida thoroughbred history moment commercials were highlighted, both of which were produced during the pandemic.

The board was reminded that the Florida Sires Stakes continues at Gulfstream Park with the second leg on Aug. 29 and the finals on Sept. 26. Two $25,000 FSS Win stakes are also on the schedule for Sept. 6 as part of the Florida-bred day at Gulfstream.

The board received an update on Florida Thoroughbred Charities fundraisers. Due to the pandemic, FTC will not be hosting a golf tournament and dinner in 2020, but FTC has replaced this fundraiser with the sale of a donated Horse Fever horse in early 2021. The Horse Fever public art project began 20 years ago thanks in large part to the support of the FTBOA. The sale of the horses to the community throughout the year funded the Marion Cultural Alliance, which issues grants to arts and cultural organizations.

The board was briefed on the award of FTC scholarships to students for the 2020-2021 academic year. Students who are FTBOA members, the children of FTBOA members, or the employees or children of employees of FTBOA members are eligible to apply annually.

Finally, the board received a report regarding the FTBOA’s Horse Capital of the World® trademarks, and the FTBOA’s efforts to protect and use those trademarks. ■

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Florida FOCUS

compiled by Jane Murray

Team Hanley’s 2-year-old filly Joy’s Rocket was impressive in her stakes debut at Woodbine Racetrack on Aug. 1, as the Florida-bred took off in the $100,000 My Dear Stakes to win by two-and-three-quarter lengths under Luis Contreras.

Joy’s Rocket launched to the lead in the five-and-a-half-furlong Tapeta test and clocked fractions of :21.94 and :45.44 while prompted

by Rocket Reload. The Steve Asmussen trainee shook off her main rival in the stretch and won her first stakes outing by nearly three lengths in 1:05.10.

Favored Road to Romance pressed threewide early but settled into stalking position behind the front-runners and then made a bid moving into the stretch to get up for second-place, with Rotary rallying to her outside for third.

Emmeline rounded out the superfecta with Rocket Reload, supplement Queen Rhonda and Silent Mamba completing the run down.

Joy’s Rocket was the 8-5 second choice after winning at first asking over Churchill Downs’s dirt track in sloppy conditions on June 28. In the My Dear, she returned $5.50 to win.

“She was very professional pretty much the whole way. From the beginning of the race

Florida-bred Joy’s Rocket

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to the end, she was so professional and I was very confident with her,” Contreras said. “I saw the race at Churchill when she won. It was a muddy track and she just went to the lead. I wasn’t too worried because horses with this kind of talent, I think it’s easy to adjust to whichever track they go.”

Bred in Florida by Weston Thoroughbreds Training & Sales, Joy’s Rocket is by Anthony’s Cross out of Queenie’s Pride by Special Rate. ■ —By Woodbine Press Office

Deliberate March to the Arch Wins Woodbine’s King Edward Live Oak Plantation’s March to the Arch steamrolled up the long stretch of the Woodbine Turf Course to wear down front-running Admiralty Pier to win the US$134,808 King Edward

The Jockey Club Projects Foal Crop of 19,200 in 2021 The Jockey Club Press Release The Jockey Club is projecting a 2021 North American registered thoroughbred foal crop of 19,200. The estimation for the 2020 foal crop remains at 20,500.

The foal crop projection, traditionally announced in mid-August, is computed by using Reports of Mares Bred (RMBs) received to date for the 2020 breeding season. RMBs are to be filed by Aug. 1 of each breeding season.

“The Jockey Club delayed publication of the estimation of the 2021 foal crop to provide stud farms that may have been affected by COVID-19 additional time to submit their RMBs,” said Matt Iuliano, The Jockey Club’s executive vice president and executive director.

Additional foal crop information is available in The Jockey Club’s online fact book at jockeyclub.com/factbook.asp and in the online state fact books.

Stallion owners who have not returned their RMBs for the 2020 breeding season are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. Interactive Registration, which enables registered users to perform virtually all registration-related activities over the Internet, is the most efficient means of submitting RMBs and is available at registry.jockeyclub.com. ■

Stakes (Grade 2) on Aug. 15 for his second stakes victory this year. The Florida-bred son of Arch also won the $150,000 Sunshine Millions Turf at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 18.

Ridden for the first time but to perfection

by Rafael Hernandez, March to the Arch was in no hurry from post two in the one turn mile King Edward on the E.P. Taylor turf course.

Meanwhile Tampa Bay Stakes (G3)-winner Admiralty Pier and Silent Poet, who were second and first respectively in the seven furlong Connaught Cup (G2) on grass at Saratoga on July 11, went to the front from the start.

Admiralty Pier clocked the first quartermile in :23.09 while and half-length in front of Silent Poet in second as March to the Arch galloped along last of eight on the rail. Admiralty Pier maintained the same margin through a half-mile in :46.23 as March to the Arch had one horse beat moving into Woodbine’s sweeping turn.

But Hernandez began to let out a notch on March to the Arch and kept the 5-year-old gelding on the inside around the unique far turn at Woodbine. The ground saving trip put March to the Arch three lengths behind Admirality Pier turning for home with Silent Poet still second on the outside.

As Admirality Pier went by the threeeighths pole, he still had daylight on his rivals when Hernandez tipped March to the Arch to the outside where he responded immediately with a notable acceleration to the lead before they passed the final furlong marker. March to the Arch extended his lead to two-and-ahalf lengths in a final time of 1:32.28 on the firm turf as Admirality Pier finished second, two lengths to the good of Silent Poet in third.

They were followed in order by Mr Ritz (GB), Delaware (GB), Dream Maker, Eskiminzin and Argentello (Ire).

It was the third stakes win on the day for Woodbine’s leading rider Hernandez, who also rode Pink Lloyd to victory in the Bold Venture Stakes and won the Plate Trial with Clayton.

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Florida FOCUS Blessing, by To Honor and Serve; 3-year-old filly Pretty and Fast, by Tiznow; unraced 2year-old colt Live Oaks Triumph, by Kitten’s Joy; and an unnamed yearling filly by Quality Road. ■ —By Brock Sheridan

Florida-bred March to the Arch

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every time. He's just really special,” Sullivan said. “You know, the race at Churchill [June 20 Wise Dan Stakes when March to the Arch finished sixth behind winner Factor This] was a really tough race; a lot of good horses came out of that race, so it looks a little better, but he's just such a nice horse. He tries every time.”

March to the Arch won the 2019 version of the Wise Dan Stakes.

“Rafael rode a great race—three stakes in a row for him today, so he’s certainly riding well,” Sullivan added. “I just thought he rode a really smart race, took his time, waited until he got his spot. I think he came out of the gate a little awkward, bumping with another horse but Rafael’s so smart, he doesn’t get panicked, just took his time and waited for the right moment to pull the trigger.”

Sent to the post at 7-2, March to the Arch paid $9.60 to win.

The King Edward was the seventh career win for March to the Arch from 23 starts and the $79,144 first-place check pushed him to $698,238 on his lifetime money line.

March to the Arch is out of the gradedstakes-winning mare Daveron (Ger), by Black Sam Bellamy (Ire). Daveron has also produced graded-stakes-winner Global Access,

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Fresh off a victory in last month’s Trillium Stakes, Live Oak Plantation’s homebred filly Souper Escape doubled up in Grade 3 stakes action winning the $125,000 Seaway Stakes on Aug. 16 at Woodbine Racetrack.

It was also a two-stakes weekend for Charlotte Weber and her Live Oak Plantation as March to the Arch won the King Edward Stakes Saturday at Woodbine. Both Souper Escape and March to the Arch were also bred in Florida by her Live Oak Stud.

Luis Contreras was reunited with the Michael Trombetta trainee, who was cutting

back in distance from a mile-and-one-sixteenth to seven furlongs for the Seaway, another main track stakes event for fillies and mares 3-years-old and older.

Gamble’s Candy shot through at the rail to take the lead from the quick-leaving Sister Peacock through a :22.65 opening quarter and she held the lead to the half in :45.21 while Souper Escape stalked the top pair in third.

Contreras made his move approaching the final turn, tipping Souper Escape three-wide alongside the leaders, and the four-year-old Medaglia d’Oro filly drew off to win in 1:22.10.

Amalfi Coast and Painting rallied from the backfield to finish second and third, just noses apart one length behind. Another Time headed Sister Peacock for fourth while Charmaine’s Mia, Miss Mosaic and Gamble’s Candy completed the order of finish.

“There was a lot of speed in the race, so I didn’t want her to go and fight with the speed

Thoroughbred Owner Conference to be Held Virtually During Breeders’ Cup Week OwnerView announced today that the seventh Thoroughbred Owner Conference, which was scheduled to be held in Lexington, Ky., in the week leading up to the Breeders’ Cup, will be conducted in a virtual format on Nov. 3-4, 2020. The conference, presented by Breeders’ Cup, Bessemer Trust, and Dean Dorton, was originally planned for July 19-22, 2020, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. “We are committed to offering the owner conference in a safe format for attendees, so we made the decision to move our event online given the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Gary Falter, project manager for OwnerView. “Registrants will be able to watch nine panels on a range of topics relevant to thoroughbred ownership and submit questions to our expert panelists from the comfort of their home or office.”

The registration fee for the virtual conference is $425. For more information about the owner conference, including the full schedule of panels and registration, please visit ownerview.com/event/conference or contact Gary Falter at gfalter@jockeyclub.com.

OwnerView is a joint effort spearheaded by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to encourage ownership of thoroughbreds and provide accurate information on aspects of ownership such as trainers, public racing syndicates, the process of purchasing and owning a thoroughbred, racehorse retirement, and owner licensing.

The need for a central resource to encourage thoroughbred ownership was identified in the comprehensive economic study of the sport that was commissioned by The Jockey Club and conducted by McKinsey & Company in 2011. The OwnerView site was launched in May 2012. ■ —The Jockey Club Press Release

Florida-bred Souper Escape

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like crazy,” Contreras said after his second career Seaway Stakes win. He also won the Seaway in 2017 with Ami’s Mesa. “[Souper Escape] relaxed behind those horses and I just took my time to make the right move.”

Horse Farms Forever Welcomes the Quail Roost Foundation as Supporters Horse Farms Forever is pleased to announce the generous contribution of the Quail Roost Foundation to support the conservation of Marion County’s horse farms and the Farmland Preservation Area. The Foundation was founded to honor the memory of Harriet and Elmer Heubeck, Jr. The Heubecks are considered true pioneers in the Florida thoroughbred horse industry and were partners in marriage and business for more than 63 years. They passed away less than two months apart in 2003, but their legacy lives on with the Quail Roost Foundation. In the 1940s, the Heubecks managed Rosemere Farm, the first thoroughbred horse farm in Marion County. In the early 1960s, they built and managed Hobeau Farm, as well as their own farm, Quail Roost, where

Souper Escape, who also won the 2019 La Lorgnette Stakes over Woodbine’s Tapeta course, now boasts six victories and has earned $269,908 from 16 career starts.

She paid $6.20 to win as the 2-1 bettors’ choice.

Souper Escape is by Medaglia d’Oro out of Cry and Catch Me, by Street Cry (Ire).

Cry and Catch Me, who won the 2007 Oak Leaf Stakes (G1) at the Santa Anita Oak Tree meeting, has had three other runners, all of which are winners.

The Live Oak team is likely looking forward to her next likely starter in Cash In a Flash, an unraced 2-year-old colt by Uncle Mo who has two bullet works at Woodbine in recent weeks. Cry and Catch me has also produced an unnamed yearling filly, also by Uncle Mo. She was bred to Tapit in 2020. ■ —By Woodbine Press Office

In the days before the Grade 3 Philip H. Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park, trainer Brad Cox told the track’s publicity department that

the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile on Nov. 7 at Keeneland was the ultimate goal for his multiple graded stakes-winner Warrior’s Charge.

Following the running of the mile-andone-sixteenth event on Aug. 22 that attracted a short field of four 3-year-olds and older, the plan remained on schedule—it just arrived via an unplanned path.

Warrior’s Charge crossed the finish line of the Iselin a length-and-a-half behind 9-2 third choice Pirate’s Path, but was placed first by the track stewards through the disqualification of the later for interference in deep stretch.

The field broke evenly in the Iselin and Warrior’s Charge and jockey Paco Lopez went to the front from post two but were quickly passed on their immediate outside

by Pirate’s Punch and Jorge Vargas Jr., who left from post three.

Pirate’s Punch was able to wrestle the lead away from Warrior’s Charge as the compact field moved into the clubhouse turn with less than three lengths from start to finish.

Leaving the turn and passing the first two-furlong marker in a controlled :24.10,

they raised thoroughbreds, cattle, and exotic game. Quail Roost Farm was so unique as it brought together one of Florida’s best-known thoroughbred breeding and training venues, a large purebred and commercial beef operation, and one of the finest private exotic game preserves in the nation.

Elmer is most well-known for building and managing Hobeau farm, owned by Jack Dreyfus. Elmer also broke and trained the young horses at the farm, which were then they were sent to the track with trainer Allen Jerkens. Kerry recalls that his dad was a wellrespected trainer. One trainer mentioned that when they received horses from Elmer, they were ready to go to the track in two days.

Hobeau’s legacy is embedded in a little known horse named Onion that was owned and bred by Dreyfus and trained at the track

by Jerkens. Onion is one of only two horses

that beat Secretariat in a race after he won the Triple Crown. The second horse to beat Secretariat, Prove Out, was also trained by Jerkens. King Ranch bred Prove Out, but Hobeau Farm was his owner.

Kerry, Elmer’s son, grew up on Rosemere, which was owned by Carl Rose, and managed by Elmer until early 1961. It was a thousand acres, and when you drive on Highway 200, passing the intersection with Shady Lane, you are traveling the northernmost border of the original property.

However, Rosemere was sold and all but 26 acres of the 1,000-acre farm are covered in concrete and commercial buildings.

The Heubeck family held a deep love for the land upon which they lived and worked. Witnessing the loss of the beloved Rosemere Farm, Kerry was inspired to protect Quail Roost, his family’s farm, with a conservation easement. ■ —Busy Byerly, Horse Farms Forever

Warrior’s Charge Awarded Victory In Philip H. Iselin

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filly in Minetta and an unnamed yearling filly, both by Journeyman Stud’s leading Florida sire Khozan. She has a live full brother to Warrior’s Charge at her side currently and was bred to Medaglia d’Oro in 2020.

He earned $120,000 for owners Ten Strike Racing, a partnership founded by Marshall Gramm and Clay Sanders located in Memphis, Tenn., and Sol Kumin’s Madaket Stables LLC of New York City.

His career earnings are now $835,310 and he paid $3 for a $2 win ticket.

If the post-race analysis proves trouble free for Warrior’s Charge, he is back on track for the Breeders’ Cup Mile—just not quite as planned. ■ —By Brock Sheridan

C Z Rocket Home First in Pat O'Brien Stakes at Del Mar Tom Kagele’s C Z Rocket, a classy, old veteran who seems to have found a new lease on life since he was claimed for $40,000 at Oaklawn Park in April, continued his rebirth at Del Mar Aug. 29 when he went gamely through the stretch to capture the Pat O’Brien Stakes by half a length.

The Florida-bred 6-year-old gelded son of City Zip won his fourth race in a row since the claim, the previous three having come against claiming and allowance company in Kentucky. He picked up a check for $90,000 from the $150,000 purse in the Grade 2 stake that pushed his bankroll up to $431,641.

The bay ran the seven furlongs in 1:22.25 and, as the 11-10 favorite, paid $4.20, $2.60 and $2.20 across the board.

The victory added more accolades to an accolade-filled summer for his rider and trainer – Flavien Prat and Peter Miller, respectively.

“He broke well and usually he doesn’t. The pace was slow and Flavien had him in the perfect spot.” Miller said. “Tom Kagele (owner) actually called me [about claiming the horse] and I said, ‘His DENVER PHOTO

“Paco had the horse where he needed to Warrior’s Charge had claimed a half-length lead ahead of Pirate’s Punch to his outside be, up close or on the lead,” Cox said. “Piwith another two lengths back to Bal Har- rate’s Punch took off after us and I thought we bour and Just Whistle as the quartet raced were able to battle back and get in front of him but I’m not sure he ever did, even though two by two down the backstretch.

Warrior’s Charge took a half-length lead he hung in there with him. Maybe we were ahead of Pirate’s Punch into the second turn going to come back. Obviously the stewards after a :47.76 half-mile but Pirate’s Punch thought we were. We were fortunate to come began his assault on the outside and reversed out on the front end of this. The horse that the margin to a half-length in his favor as the crossed the wire first ran a tremendous race. pair picked up the pace while clicking off six I honestly thought he was a horse to contend with and he obviously was. furlongs in 1:11.17.

“It was an unfortunate way to win a race, Warrior’s Charge fought back on the rail and the two leaders went by the eighth pole I guess you could say. But we’ll take. Now in tandem as Pirate’s Punch and Vargas began we’ll see how he comes out of it.”

Warrior’s Charge earned his fifth victory to crowd their foes into tighter quarters.

Approaching the wire, Pirate’s Punch had from 11 career starts and if all is well with a short lead but drifted in on Warrior’s the 4-year-old bay in the days following the Charge again, this time forcing Lopez to Iselin, remains on track for the Breeders’ stand up and check. Pirate’s Punch finished a Cup Mile.

“He will ship back to Kentucky [Sunday] length-and-a-half in front of Warrior’s Charge and the steward’s inquiry light began and we’ll see how he is,” he said. “I think to flash on the infield tote board moments we’ll look at one more race [before the Breedafter the race. Soon Lopez lodged his claim ers’ Cup Mile] but we’ll see how he comes of foul against the winner as the objection out of this first.”

Warrior’s Charge was bred in the Sunshine sign was also now up as well.

The steward’s eventually disqualified Pi- State by Al Shaquab Racing and is by rate’s Punch for the incident near the wire, Munnings out of Battling Brook, by Broken promoting Warrior’s Charge into the winner’s Vow. Warrior’s Charge is the first foal for Batcircle. Pirate’s Punch was placed second tling Brook, who has an unraced 2-year-old with Bal Harbour another length-and-a-half back in third. Just Whistle was fourth. Mind Control and Wait for It were scratched.

The final time was 1:43.37 on the fast track. “[Pirate’s Punch] came in on me pretty good,” Lopez said. “I had to completely stand up and stop riding. I think the stewards did the right thing. I think my horse was still trying hard. If had a little room he would have come back to win because he’s a fighter.”

Cox also agreed with the Florida-bred Warrior’s Charge (light blue silks) steward’s call.

Hot Blooded Scores in Proud Man Palm Beach Racing’s Hot Blooded scored his second victory in his young career when he won the $75,000 Proud Man Stakes at Gulfstream on Aug. 29.

The son of Declaration of War is out of Hot Cappucino, by Medaglia d’Oro. He was bred in Florida by Hallmarc Stallions LLC. He is now 3-2-0-0 for the year and has earnings of $84,640. His two prior starts were maiden special weights for trainer Carlos David.

Hot Blooded stalked the leaders early on and took command in the stretch to draw clear by two-and-a-quarter lengths. The bay colt covered the mile on the firm turf in 1:36.68 and paid $8.00, $4.40 and $3.00 across the board.

Finishing second was Kenneth E. Fishbein’s Boca Boy and Castle King, owned by Jerry Campbell, was third in the field of nine Florida-breds. ■ —By Jane Murray

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Queen Nekia Victorious in Dance to Bristol at Charles Town Ken Copenhaver’s Queen Nekia seems to have found her stride as she captured the $150,000 Dance to Bristol Stakes by one length at Charles Town on Aug. 28.

The Florida-bred 5-year-old daughter of Harlington out of the Double Honor mare All Night Labor, picked up her second win this year out of six starts, five of which were stakes. She picked up a check for $90,000

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form is bad right now, but he’s a runner.’ You could see he had run some really fast races. I like old class horses that have shown talent.

If you can get them going in the right direction they can run back to past form. Tom claimed him and the rest is history.”

The stakes win was the fifth stakes win of the meet for trainer Miller and his second (2015, Appealing Tale) in the Pat O’Brien. He now has 34 stakes wins at Del Mar. C Z Rocket has won four straight since being claimed for $40,000. It was owner Kagele’s 50th birthday and the 11th wedding anniversary for Miller and his wife, Lani.

“We saw that he’d been breaking slow in his races, so we were prepared for that. But he broke well today and we were right in the race. Then the pace wasn’t that fast, so we were right there. When I asked him, he was good. He’s a willing horse,” jockey Flavien Prat said.

Prat registered his 12th stakes win of the meet, just one away from the Del Mar record of 13 set by Rafael Bejarano in 2012. Miller picked up his fifth stakes win of the session and his meet-leading 22nd tally in the 21st day of racing.

“Yes, this is my 12th stakes win this summer at Del Mar,” Prat said. “I’ve been riding good horses for good connections. That surely makes things easier.”

C Z Rocket was bred in Florida by Farm III Enterprises LLC. Finishing second was Lane’s End Racing and Hronis Racing’s Flagstaff, while Dan

Agnew, Gerry Schneider and John Xitco’s Law Abidin Citizen ran third.

The O’Brien was a Breeders’ Cup “Win & You’re In” race guaranteeing the victor entry into the $2-million BC Dirt Mile with all fees paid. That race will be run on Sat., Nov. 7 at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. ■ —By Del Mar Press Office

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from the $150,000 purse that pushed her 2020 bankroll up to $145,283.

Her lifetime record now stands at 28-9-5-7 with $415,358 in purse earnings.

The dark bay or brown mare ran the seven furlongs in 1:25.54 over a fast track and paid $16.60, $7.40 and $4.60 across the board.

Trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. has moved the mare up to stakes company this year after claiming her on Dec. 6, 2019 at Gulfstream for $25,000.

Finishing second was Evan and Scott Dilsworth’s Lady T N T and Happy Tenth Stable’s Florida-bred Getouttamyway ran third.

The $1.20 favorite, Florida-bred A Bit of Both, challenged the leaders at the half but faded and finished fourth.

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Win Win Win Lives Up to His Name With Triumph in Forego NYRA PRESS RELEASE espite a heavy downpour of rain just minutes before post time, Win Win Win did just that, coming from well off the pace and passing up five rivals through an assertive stretch run to take the Grade 1, $300,000 Forego presented by America’s Best Racing at Saratoga Race Course.

Florida-bred Win Win Win, a 4-year-old son of Hat Trick, owned by Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation was initially last and 161⁄4 lengths back of the 11-horse field.

Around the far turn over a sloppy track, jockey Javier Castellano engaged his charge at the three-eighths pole while Complexity and True Timber battled for the lead. At the top of the stretch, Castellano angled Win Win Win, still last, nine wide and in pursuit as Complexity established a one-length lead with True Timber still fighting to the inside. ; In the final strides to the wire, Win he dropped so far back. I thought he was Win Win found a new gear and powered home a half-length winner in a absolutely out of the race. But then final time of 1:21.71. turning for home, he came back. It’s just Castellano, who scored his first Forego victory since piloting Mass unbelievable. —trainer Mike Trombetta Media to victory in 2005 was impressed. “What an amazing horse. I’m truly honored to ride the horse and very blessed with the way everything went,” Castellano said. “He was very far back and made a huge run to win the race. Not too many horses can do that.”

The victory was the first graded stakes triumph for Win Win Win, who increased his earnings past the half-million dollar mark to $601,600.

Trainer Mike Trombetta had been anxious to get his horse back to the seven-furlong distance over the main track and was thrilled to see him display such an effort.

“It’s a distance he likes, but he doesn’t have the best gate speed,” Trombetta said. “The way this track has been playing, it’s very hard to close. Well, what he did, I haven’t seen the whole meet.”

Trombetta said he was a bit concerned when Win Win Win was so far back.

“I honestly don’t know what to say; he dropped so far back,” Trombetta said.

“I thought he was absolutely out of the race. But then turning for home, he came back. It’s just unbelievable.” ■

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n its nearly 40 year history, 13 horses have swept the Florida Sire Stakes. The question remains will one of the leading owners and breeders in the series, Gil Campbell and his wife Marilyn’s Stonehedge LLC, add a male sweep to their list of accomplishments in the series with Breeze On By. Gil Campbell’s first sweep was with filly Scandalous Act in 2013.

The Campbells have felt the joy of winning two legs, but also the loss with near sweeps on a trio of occasions starting in 1996 with Blazing Sword. The horse won the Dr. Fager and then the Affirmed but not the In Reality. Racing as a homebred of Gil Campbell’s in 2002, Ivanavinalot won the last two legs in the series, and now has an FSS race named in her honor at Tampa Bay Downs.

In 2013 when Scandalous Act was in the process of her sweep, it almost appeared it would be a double sweep, a feat never done before. History was denied as the homebred My Brown Eyed Guy was upset by Best Plan Yet in the In Reality. Since then Stonehedge has lined up wins in the series with Well Defined in 2018 and Liam’s Lucky Charm and Lenzi’s Lucky Lady in 2019.

On Aug. 29, Breeze On By led a superfecta of

horses for Stonehedge at Gulfstream Park with a dominating seven-and-a-half length victory in the $200,000 Affirmed, the second leg of the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes, for juveniles sired by FTBOA registered Florida stallions, making him the odds-on favorite to beat in the finals on Sept. 26.

Quickly moving up the Florida Sire Stakes top trainer list, Ralph Nicks also capped a personal milestone with the race winning his fourth consecutive running of the Affirmed when he saddled Breeze On

Superfecta Sire Stakes for Stonehedge

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By. The son of Cajun Breeze out of Miss Primetime

by Fusaichi Pegasus also gave Nicks his eighth Florida Sire Stakes success since 2016 while providing Gil Campbell and Stonehedge Farm a combined total 16th victory in the tradition-rich series.

Campbell has bred and raced horses in the series under his name and under Stonehedge.

The team won the $100,000 Dr. Fager, the first leg of the Florida Sire Stakes on Aug. 1. That day Breeze On By also provided Nicks with another milestone, his 600th victory and eighth FSS win.

Cajun Breeze has also produced 2018 FSS Dr. Fager Stakes winner Cajun Firecracker out of Clara Bow by Way West (FR) for owner Michael Yates and

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In the Dr. Fager, Breeze On By was tested by Gatsby who made a menacing outside challenge leaving the turn into the homestretch. The second-place finisher managed to put his head in front in mid-stretch, but Breeze On By fought back gamely to win by a length.

“It was a big race,” Nicks said. “He got tested. You never know what kind of grit they’re going to show until they’re put in that position. [Gatsby] got the jump on us and he fought back. That was impressive.”

“They’re nice horses.

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breeder Shadybrook Farm. Cajun Breeze began his stud career at Stonehedge Farm in Williston, Fla in 2015.

The son of Congrats out of Cajun Dawn, by Awesome Again, Cajun Breeze has a half-sister Cajun Delta Dawn

by Kantharos. She won the 2016 FSS Susan’s Girl for local breeders Curt Mikkelsen and Patricia Horth.

“I just feel blessed to be in Florida for seven years and win this many [Sire] Series,” said Nicks, who also captured the Affirmed the previous three seasons with Soutache (2017), Garter and Tie (2018) and Liam’s Lucky Charm (2019). “I learned early on that you need to be a part of this and was lucky to have owners send me some talented horses and it’s worked.”

The Nicks-trained Big Daddy Dave and Seazan finished second and third, respectively, while the Kathleen O’Connelltrained Top Boss finished fourth to round out the Stonehedge superfecta.

O’Connell is the one to aspire to for Nicks in the twoyear-old series. She has 12 wins followed by Eddie Plesa, Jr. and Emanuel Tortora with 11 wins, just below Frank Gomez with 14. The leading trainer by far in the series is Stanley Gold with 20 wins who hit his stride in 2009 and has won at least one race annually, with rare exception, since then.

The Aug. 29 win put Nicks in with the likes of O’Connell and Gold as FSS powerhouses. O’Connell won five out of six in the series in 2013 for Gil and Marilyn Campbell. Her first win in the series was in 1996.

Gold dominated the series in 2009 to 2011 and again in 2014, winning 16 of 24 races between 2009 and 2014.

In the Affirmed, Breeze On By, the 4-5 favorite ridden by Emisael Jaramillo, broke alertly from the starting gate but was beaten for the early lead by Gatsby, the 5-2 second choice. Gatsby showed the way down the backstretch under an urging ride by Hector Berrios. Breeze On By pressed the pace setting fractions of :22.14 and :44.22 for the first half mile before putting away the tiring pacesetter on the turn into the homestretch and drew away to a more than comfortable victory.

Breeze On By, undefeated in three starts, ran the seven furlongs in 1:22.75. Big Daddy Dave made a wide bid of the final turn and finished second, two-and-a-half lengths ahead of a late-rallying Seazan.

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nothing will be a gift, but it’s nice to have a horse this talented and have those options in front of you,” said Nicks.

“Mr. Campbell has been one of the big breeders in Florida for a long time. He’s put a lot of money and effort into it,” Nicks said. “He deserves it.”

The Affirmed Stakes was named for the sole Triple Crown champion from Florida, Affirmed, who won in 1978. Named the 1977 two-year-old and 1978 threeyear-old champion colt, he was also 1979 Older Male of the Year and Horse of the Year in 1977, 1978, and 1979. His owner and breeder was Harbor View Farm, owned by Louis Wolfson, a financier that Time magazine in 1956 labeled the first modern corporate raider. He was a self-made millionaire before he was 29 years old. ■

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was able to rate and sit there with Big Daddy Dave in the hunt and could have pushed if he needed to, but he will settle and follow if he needs to.”

Breeze On By is scheduled to make his bid to sweep the Florida Sire Stakes in the $400,000 In Reality, the mile-and-a-sixteenth series finale on Sept. 26. With a victory he would join a long list of horses including Three Rules (2016), Scandalous Act (2013), Fort Loudon (2011), Awesome Feather (2010), Jackson Bend (2009), Big Drama (2008), Aclassysassylassy (2004), Sir Oscar (2003), Express Tour (2000), Nancy’s Glitter (1997), Seacliff (1995), Naked Greed (1991) and Smile (1984).

“Doing this series is tough on them and we’ll see.

There are two other horses in this race that ran well so

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Florida-breds Equine State Economic Impact

$11.7 billion economic impact Third largest state in horse population 113,079 jobs 717,000 acres $1 billion in thoroughbred sales (OBS 2010-18)

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By TAMMY A. GANTT rincess Secret shook off her upset in the $100,000 FSS Desert Vixen on Aug. 1 and a stretch-long bid on Aug. 29 by a relentless Oh Deborah to score a hard-earned victory in the $200,000 FSS Susan’s Girl.

Princess Secret, who finished second in the first leg of the Florida Sire Stakes Series as the even-money favorite for owner/trainer Daniel Pita, came through in the Susan’s Girl, scoring by threequarters of a length over Oh Deborah as the 6-5 favorite. The daughter of Florida’s 2019 leading

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Making her first start since winning her July 19 debut by three-and-one-quarter lengths, Oh Deborah finished four lengths clear of thirdplace finisher Go Jo Jo Go. Princess Secret was purchased for $30,000 at the 2019 OBS October sale from Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Bloodstock Services.

She debuted at Gulfstream Park with an impressive four length triumph on May 7. The Floridabred filly returned two months later to finish a close second against the boys in the first allowance race for two-year-olds of the Spring/Summer meet to earn favoritism while facing fillies in the FSS Desert Vixen.

She set an early pace before being overtaken by Go Jo Jo Go in the stretch.

“This is hope for when you go to the sales and pick yearlings. We don’t have millions of dollars.

We always try to get some sort of bargain. She was a nice purchase by a stallion that seems to get nice runners. We were lucky enough to get her,” Pita said.

Pita is confident that Princess Secret will carry her speed around two turns in the $400,000 My Dear Girl, the mile-and-a-sixteenth finale of the Florida Sires Stakes series on Sept. 26.

“I think breeding is going to be the biggest factor in the next leg of the series. I think she showed it today,” Pita said. “Hopefully, she’ll come out of the race in good order and we’ll see you in four weeks.”

freshman and juvenile sire Khozan, chased longshot pacesetter Lyrical during fractions of :22.64 and :45.22 for the first half-mile before moving to the lead on the turn into the homestretch, only to immediately meet an outside challenge from the Stonehedge homebred, Oh Deborah.

Princess Secret responded gamely to jockey Miguel Vasquez’s urging from the half to the stretch, eking out only a head lead at each point of call, to close down Lyrical. She showed a professional racehorse performance when she later took on Oh Deborah to win by one-and-three-quarter lengths. She completed seven furlongs in 1:23.02.

“She’s a very gutsy filly. She doesn’t like to lose,” Pita said.

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Gritty Filly Princess Secret Fights Hard in Susan’s Girl Win

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We feel very “ blessed to still be doing what we love. Ocala is the best place in the world to raise a racehorse and we want to continue to bring quality stallions here.

Khozan is by Distorted Humor out of Delta Princess,

by A.P. Indy and is a half-brother to champion Royal Delta. Entering stud in 2016, he is a top five nationally ranked second crop sire with five stakes winners, $2,247,212 in earnings, and 46 winners from 79 runners through Sept. 8. Prior to stud, Khozan was one of the top lots at the Fasig-Tipton Florida sale of two-year-olds in training in 2014, selling to Al Shaqab Racing for $1 million. Khozan made two starts winning by three-andthree-quarter lengths and then by 12¾ lengths.

His stakes winners include Liam’s Lucky Charm, winner of the $200,000 Florida Sire Stakes Affirmed Division in 2018; Airbus, winner of the G1 Clasico Polla de Potrillos in Peru; Sebs Princess, winner of the Louisiana Jewel Stakes at Delta Downs; Go Jo Jo Go; and Princess Secret.

Interestingly, although Stonehedge’s Oh Deborah was beaten by Princess Secret, they still won. They own 25% of Khozan and stand the stud at Journeyman Stallions in Ocala, Fla.

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It’s there where the Fernung’s use their knack for finding success in the series. In 2014, the series was at one point referred to as the “Journeyman Stud edition” because so many runners from the farm’s stallions ran so well in the series. The stallions sired the winners of all six inaugural Florida Sire Stakes races plus a onetwo finish and two one-two-three finishes. In 2014, Sing Praises by Hear No Evil won the Dr. Fager and Of Course by Awesome of Course was second. Both stood at Journeyman Stud and were property of Fred Brei’s Jacks or Better Farm, the current series leader with 16 wins. Third was Jaiden’s Best by Journeyman Stud’s four-time Florida Stallion of the Year Wildcat Heir.

The Affirmed Stakes included Brei’s Twotwentyfive A by Awesome of Course, followed by Brei’s Sing Praises and Wildcat Heir’s Jaiden’s Best. The In Reality Stakes finish was again Sing Praises in first followed by Royal Squeeze by Wildcat Heir. The Desert Vixen Stakes winner in 2014 was another Hear No Evil, but a filly this time, Leap Year Luck, who also

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oughbred Breeders’ Association president Fred W. Hooper, Florida breeding industry columnist Chuck Tilley and Tartan Farms president John Nerud. In the inaugural 1982 Florida Stallion Stakes, Lasater’s contention proved prophetic. Lasater Farm stallions Raise a Bid and Great Above were well-represented by their progeny, accounting for four wins in the six-race series.

El Kaiser, by Raise a Bid, won the Dr. Fager Stakes and Affirmed Stakes. Crystal Rail, by Great Above, tallied wins in the Desert Vixen Stakes and Susan’s Girl Stakes.

“It was kind of surreal watching horses sired by stallions at our own operation all these years later, win the Florida Sire Stakes and remembering back to that conversation Dan had with Kenny Noe,” said Crystal Fernung. “We feel very blessed to still be doing what we love. Ocala is the best place in the world to raise a racehorse and we want to continue to bring quality stallions here, it only makes sense to capitalize on the two together.” ■

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finished third in the Susan’s Girl. The Susan’s Girl winner was Jose Pinchin’s Holywell by Exclusive Quality who also went on to win the My Dear Girl Stakes and was followed up by third place finisher Awesome Ice

by Awesome of Course.

The Fernung connection was not new to the FSS program. They literally go back to the very beginning when it was called the Florida Stallion Stakes. Originally conceived in 1979 by then Ocala-based breeder/owner Dan Lasater, Brent Fernung was an eyewitness to history as Lasater Farm’s broodmare manager.

“I actually sat in on the conversation that Dan had with Calder’s Kenny Noe [then-president of the track],”said Fernung. “What Dan wanted was a series of races to showcase his farm’s stallions and Noe told him that a private series like that wasn’t going to happen.”

Fernung added that Lasater then said, “Then let everyone run in my race. We’ll outrun them anyway.”

Lasater’s idea came to fruition through the efforts of Calder Race Course management, then Florida Thor-

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KENTUCKY DERBY Needles–1956 / First Florida-bred Derby winner Carry Back–1961 • Foolish Pleasure–1975 Affirmed–1978 • Unbridled–1990 • Silver Charm–1997

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PREAKNESS Carry Back–1961 Affirmed–1978 Codex–1980 Aloma’s Ruler–1982 Gate Dancer–1984 Silver Charm–1997 Afleet Alex–2005

BELMONT Needles–1956 • Hail To All–1965 • High Echelon–1970 Affirmed–1978 / First Florida-bred to win the Triple Crown Conquistador Cielo–1982 • Afleet Alex–2005

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acehorses, like people, are often judged by the company they keep. From the very beginning In Reality was in the best of company. Bred and raced by the Mrs. Frances A. Genter Stable, In Reality was foaled on March 1, 1964, at Ocala-based Tartan Farms.

On April 6, Tartan Farms homebred Dr. Fager was foaled at the operation. The two foals even shared Rough’n Tumble bloodlines; he was Dr. Fager’s sire and In Reality’s dam sire. A rivalry that began between two foals racing against each other in their paddock would soon extend to the racetrack over the span of three seasons. And both would end up back at Tartan Farms when their racing careers ended, standing stud and producing more future rivalries.

Tartan Farms general manager and trainer John Nerud had a hand in the breeding that led to In Reality. In the fall of 1961, Nerud brokered a deal that had Harry Isaacs selling his Brookfield Farm homebred multiple stakes winner Intentionally to a syndicate headed by William L. McKnight. The latter founded Tartan Farms in 1960 and Nerud was looking for a stallion to

stand at the farm. Nerud had apparently found what he was looking for in Intentionally, a 1956 black colt by Intent out of My Recipe, by Discovery. After the sale, Nerud took over the training of Intentionally with good results. In two starts carrying the Tartan Farms silks, Intentionally beat Florida-bred Carry Back in the 1962 Palm Beach Handicap and Seminole Handicap at Hialeah. Intentionally was then retired to stand the 1962 breeding season at Tartan Farms.

The following year, Mrs. Genter sent her grand Florida-bred champion My Dear Girl, by Rough’n Tumble –Iltis, by War Relic, to be bred to Intentionally. Bred by Ocala Stud, Mrs. Genter and her husband Harold had bought My Dear Girl privately as a weanling. She was born on Mrs. Genter’s birthday, February 17, and named after a phrase Harold Genter fondly used when addressing his wife: “Now, my dear girl.” On the racetrack, My Dear Girl became a multiple stakes winner and was named the 1959 North American

For In Reality, the Florida Sire Stakes Series is a family affair. Three of the six FSS races are named after him, his dam My Dear Girl and his daughter Desert Vixen.

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In Reality after winning the 1967 Florida Derby

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champion 2-year-old filly. That honor made her only the second Florida-bred to date to have earned a national title.

Florida-bred Needles had been the first in 1955 when he was named the North American champion 2-year-old colt.

No doubt there were high expectations for My Dear Girl’s Intentionally colt. Named In Reality, the colt did indeed become a first-class racehorse.

RIVALRY BEGINS

Trained by Melvin “Sunshine” Calvert, In Reality broke his maiden quickly and just as quickly moved into stakes company. On Aug. 6, 1966, he posted a second to Great Power in the Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Two months later, he and Dr. Fager met for the first time in the Cowdin Stakes on October 5 at Aqueduct. In Reality had the lead in deep stretch of the seven-furlong sprint, but Dr. Fager displayed his phenomenal speed in a furious rally. Dr. Fager won by three-quarters of a length over In Reality with Successor third.

In Reality would record his first stakes win a little more

In Reality 1964 bay horse by Intentionally – My Dear Girl, by Rough’n Tumble CAREER RACE RECORD/EARNINGS 27-14-9-2/$795,824 CAREER STAKES WINS 1966 Pimlico Futurity 1967 Florida Derby 1967 Jersey Derby 1967 Choice Stakes 1967 Hibiscus Stakes 30 THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2020

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Breeder/Owner: Mrs. Frances A. Genter Stable Trainer: Melvin “Sunshine” Calvert

1967 Rumson Handicap 1967 Fountain of Youth Stakes 1968 Metropolitan Handicap 1968 Carter Handicap 1968 John B. Campbell Handicap

In Reality

than three weeks later. He won the $75,000 Pimlico Futurity on Oct. 29 at Laurel Park, defeating Successor with Proviso third. In Reality’s winning time for the eight and a half furlongs was 1:45. In Reality closed out his juvenile season with four wins, including a stakes win, two seconds in a pair of stakes and banked $185,040.

Given some time off, In Reality made his sophomore debut in the Hibiscus Stakes on Jan. 21, 1967, at Hialeah Park. He notched his second stakes win, beating Reason to Hail with Native Guile third. Winning time for the seven furlongs over a muddy track was 1:23.80.

That victory was followed by seconds in the Florida Breeders’ Stakes to Biller and in the Flamingo Stakes to Reflected Glory, both at Hialeah.

Calvert next moved his charge over to Gulfstream Park, where In Reality garnered some headlines by winning two key Kentucky Derby preps. On March 22, In Reality won the Fountain of Youth Stakes with Biller second and Reason to Hail third. On April 1, he encored that with a victory in the $100,000 Florida Derby, winning by length-and-a-half over Biller with Reason to Hail third. Despite notching those two wins in Kentucky Derby prep races, Calvert bypassed the Run for the Roses in favor of the Preakness Stakes on May 20 at Pimlico.

Meanwhile, Nerud had kept Dr. Fager at Aqueduct and away from the Kentucky Derby prep races with no intentions of running in the Triple Crown events. So while In Reality would not have to meet Dr. Fager in the $150,000 Preakness Stakes, he would have to take on the mighty Damascus. The latter prevailed, winning the Preakness Stakes by two-and-a-quarter lengths over In Reality with Proud Clarion third. Damascus would go

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CLOSING OUT A CAREER

Back at the races as a four year old, In Reality started slowly with thirds in the Royal Palm Handicap and Seminole Handicap at Hialeah. Then he shifted gears and put together an impressive three-stakes race winning skein, again asserting his talent and class.

On April 20 at Bowie Race Course, In Reality won the $100,000 John B. Campbell Handicap over Barbs Delight with Peter Piper third. His winning time for the eight-and-a-half furlongs was 1:42. Next up was the $50,000 Carter Handicap on May 20 at Belmont Park.

In Reality won by a length-and-a-half over Tumiga with Mr. Washington third. For the seven furlongs, In Reality stopped the clock in 1:21.80.

Ten days later, In Reality again found the winner’s circle, winning the prestigious $100,000 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park. In Reality won by a lengthand-a-quarter over Advocator with Full of Fun third.

Winning time for the mile test was 1:35.

For the final time, In Reality would take on arch rivals Dr. Fager and Damascus in the Suburban Handicap on July 4 at Aqueduct. In Reality broke awkwardly, took a bad step and while gamely racing on was never a factor in the race. In fact, he had injured a foot and was immediately retired. On the season, he had posted four wins, including three stakes, one second and two thirds to earn $194,800.

With career earnings of $795,824 on 14 wins, including 10 stakes, nine seconds and two thirds, In Reality was sent to Tartan Farms to ready for the 1969 breeding season.

Dr. Fager raced until November, became a millionaire and collected honors as the 1968 North American Horse of the Year, champion older male, champion sprinter and champion grass horse. Dr. Fager would also start his stud career in 1969 at Tartan Farms, alongside old rival In Reality. Both would go on to have successful stud careers, although unfortunately Dr. Fager’s was cut short. On August 5, 1976, Dr. Fager died from a lethal bout of colic; he was 12. Among his 35 stakes winners were Florida-bred national champions Dearly Precious (1975 champion 2-year-old filly) and Dr. Patches (1978 champion sprinter).

In Reality would produce 20 crops with lifetime progeny earnings of $28,401,484. He recorded 83 black-type stakes winners, including 28 graded stakes winners, and three champions. The latter included Florida-bred Desert Vixen, who collected Eclipse Awards as 1973 champion 3-year-old filly and 1974 champion older mare. Desert Vixen was inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame in 1979. In Reality also sired Florida-bred millionaire Smile, who garnered the 1986 Eclipse Award as champion sprinter, and Known Fact, who was named the 1980 champion 3-year-old colt in England.

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on to win the Belmont Stakes and be named the 1967 North American champion 3-year-old colt.

Only 10 days after his Preakness Stakes runner-up finish, In Reality would once again meet up with Dr. Fager in the $100,000 Jersey Derby on May 30 at Garden State Park. Only two other horses, Air Rights and Gallant Moment, went into the starting gates. But somehow a four-horse field became a bizarre traffic jam going into the clubhouse turn. With Dr. Fager on the lead, Air Rights and Gallant Moment bumped twice. In Reality, who was running second just inside Dr. Fager, was forced to steady and then came in on Air Rights and Gallant Moment on the outside. Seemingly, Dr. Fager had avoided the fracas and rolled on to win by six-and-a-half lengths. On the tote board, the steward’s inquiry light flashed. Moments later to everyone’s surprise, Dr. Fager was disqualified to fourth and In Reality was awarded the win.

Again freshened, In Reality didn’t start again until the Rumson Handicap on July 12 at Monmouth Park. He won the Rumson Handicap, stopping the clock in 1:10.20 for the six furlongs. Less than two weeks later, In Reality captured the $50,000 Choice Stakes at Monmouth Park with a winning time of 1:43.80 for the eight-and-a-half furlongs.

And then In Reality faced off again with his two rivals, Damascus and Dr. Fager. On August 5, he was second to Damascus in the $100,000 American Derby at Arlington Park. A month later, In Reality was second to Dr. Fager in the $250,000 New Hampshire Sweepstakes Classic at Rockingham Park. In winning by a one-anda-quarter lengths, Dr. Fager had set a track record of 1:59 4/5 for the mile-and-a-quarter. Dr. Fager would be named the 1967 North American champion sprinter.

In Reality closed out the 1967 season with a second to High Tribute in the $50,000 Jerome Handicap on Sept. 13 at Aqueduct. A model of consistency and class, In Reality had posted six stakes wins and six seconds in stakes in 12 starts and earned $415,984.

Mrs. Frances A. Genter with a painting of In Reality

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It has been 20 years since Ocala’s record-breaking public art project and auction of 53 juried art horse statues first adorned the streets of Ocala. Artists and a generous business community came together to raise more than $1.5 million for the arts and 27 other local charities with Horse Fever, founding the Marion Cultural Alliance (MCA). In 2005, MCA created a traveling herd ‘Horse Fever in Motion’. To commemorate the Horse Fever 10th year anniversary in 2011, MCA created a new herd featuring 31 new artists’ designs. Since its inception, the FTBOA has played an important role and the 20/20 herd is once again presented by the MCA and the FTBOA. To purchase a horse, learn about the events or to show support, visit https://mcaocala.org/.

In 2021, Clockwork Fury donated by Journeyman Stallions will be auctioned off at the March Ocala Breeders’ Sales to raise funds for Florida Thoroughbred Charities and MCA. FTC supports the thoroughbred retirement program at Lowell Correctional Institute which changes the lives of inmates and gives retired thoroughbreds a lifelong home.

Horse Farms Forever (HFF) will hold a Conservation Summit presented by Brook Ledge Horse transportation in partnership with Ducks Unlimited and the American Farmland Trust on Nov. 19 at Golden Ocala. Former Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam, CEO, Ducks Unlimited, will introduce the topic of land conservation and the importance of protecting Florida’s agricultural lands for future generations. Billy Van Pelt II will present the American Farmland Trust’s report ‘Farms Under Threat: The State of the States’ about the loss of prime agricultural lands across the nation with a focus on the Southeast and Marion County.

The purpose of the Summit is to inspire community leaders and landowners to protect the horse farms and agricultural lands that are fundamental to Marion County’s global brand as the Horse Capital of the World®. A workshop will be held in 2021 to discuss how other communities have developed long-range plans that balance economic development with protecting agricultural lands and quality of life. The long-term goal is to strengthen Marion County, Florida’s comprehensive plan by developing a Rural Land Management Plan. In addition, HFF hopes to inspire a private land conservation ethic by holding a workshop for landowners about conservation easements. Information will be provided about the tax incentives of conservation easements and other private land conservation options.

The Summit has limited seating and the event will be live-streamed. To register visit https://www.horsefarmsforever.com/conservation-summit/.

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The Florida Horse editor-in-chief Brock Sheridan sat down with Greg Wheeler, the outgoing president of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’Association (FTBOA), to reflect upon his time in office and on the state of the thoroughbred industry as it continues to navigate the coronavirus pandemic.

BS - It’s hard to believe that this month you will complete your one-year term as FTBOA’s president and board of directors chairman. What are some of your biggest takeaways from the experience?

GW - The dedication and drive that the board members and staff display every day in running this operation are truly exceptional.

As the ground suddenly began to shift under our feet early this year, senior management identified all aspects of what was or might be changing within our industry due to the spread of the coronavirus. The board, the staff, and our key Tallahassee-based advisors then got to work studying the potential outcomes, even as the circumstances were changing daily. We were actually able to look forward through the fog of multiple uncertainties, make a plan, implement it, and maintain the flexibility to modify that plan as needed.

As I look around at many of the other thoroughbred states and jurisdictions, I would venture to say that we have fared better than most. So, my biggest takeaway would be that I have seen firsthand, from a unique vantage point, that the leadership, staff, and membership of the FTBOA are as strong as I have seen in any group or association I have ever been around.

BS - Unfortunately, over half of your term as president has taken place during the coronavirus pandemic and accompanying recession. From your perspective, how did these new challenges and uncertainties impact you, your farm, your work, your presidency, the FTBOA, and the industry?

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GW - We have all been impacted by the pandemic, every single one of us. My wife, Donna, and I are the epitome of a small farm owner and breeder. Like many small operations, we don’t necessarily have the financial backing, clout, or fortitude that larger outfits may have to endure such a lengthy shutdown of the economy. Also, like most, we live from sale to sale, and we pray for those monthly breeder award checks. For us, as it was for so many, the sales were tough, and the cut in the breeder awards structure stung. It has hurt and it’s been a struggle.

However, I am an optimist at heart. I am absolutely not accepting these times as a “new normal.” I feel strongly that in the coming months ahead, we — as a country, as a society, and as a community — are going to overcome this daunting challenge. Our economy and our industry will once again be vibrant and strong.

In the interim, we need to take the proper steps to prepare ourselves, our farms, and our outfits for those brighter days ahead.

BS - Now that you’ve served as a board member and in almost every FTBOA officer position, what are your observations on the work, services, and programs undertaken by the FTBOA, both before and during the pandemic?

GW - FTBOA’s services have always run like a well-oiled machine. Working with such a small team, efficiency has always been a top priority and FTBOA has mastered that. During the spring, FTBOA operations were impacted as the team began to work remotely, but the group’s advance planning ensured that there would be no interruption of services at such a critical time for our members.

Two registration deadlines occurred while the FTBOA offices were closed to the public, and a third “relief ” deadline was added by the board in the midst of the pandemic, and FTBOA operations ran smoothly through

Greg Wheeler it all. For those who came to the FTBOA offices for the August foal registration deadline, they were greeted with a shady picnic table and a fan, an outdoor paperwork drop box, and a doorbell to call a staffer to assist them, if needed. FTBOA communications continued through a variety of methods, including mailings and publications with more digital placements, texts, and e-mails. While the FTBOA office was closed to the public, the staff continued to deliver the same high level of service our members have come to expect.

One of the biggest impacts to our community was the cancellation of the FTBOA’s annual awards gala. This signature event honors those who have achieved so much in our industry, and the absence of that stage on which to celebrate their accomplishments was a real letdown. However, thanks to some creativity, board members and staff found a way to distribute many of the awards at the winners’ farms and businesses and still honor their success. These presentations were an important recognition of their hard work, even in the midst of a pandemic, and the photographs will preserve the memory of this unusual time in all of our lives.

Additionally, the loss of our member day at Tampa, our fundraisers for Florida Thoroughbred Charities, and our charity golf outing, all of which give us a chance to enjoy each other’s company, were equally disappointing. However, these events will be back again.

With no live events to use as a vehicle for our charity auctions, our charity committee chair Valerie Dailey has been working actively with our staff to put together the FTBOA’s first virtual auction. We know that with adversity comes innovation. Hopefully, we will find an even larger online audience to support our initiatives on thoroughbred retirement, educational scholarships, and other industry and community charities, raising even more dollars than we have in the past.

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At minimum, the online auction will create more national awareness of these programs.

BS - You started your term asking for greater participation from our membership, friends, and community in supporting Florida Thoroughbred Charities, Florida Thoroughbred PAC, Florida Equine Communications advertising, and FTBOA sponsorships and memberships. As you near the end of your term, would you like to re-visit that discussion one more time?

GW - Of course, it’s imperative, especially during these trying times, that we give as much as possible, wherever and whenever we can. I understand that it’s particularly difficult under the current circumstances, but it’s vitally important. Florida Thoroughbred Charities supports and helps those who are in need and struggling in our own community. These people are our neighbors, our co-workers, and our friends. I feel strongly that it’s our duty and our responsibility to support Florida Thoroughbred Charities with every means at our disposal.

In regard to our political action committee (PAC), right now and in the coming months, it is crucial for our Association and our industry to wholeheartedly support the PAC. Needless to say, the state budget has been decimated by the pandemic. Many cuts are on the horizon. We need to do everything possible and use every tool at our disposal to protect the interests of the Florida thoroughbred breeder and owner.

Our talented lobbying team in Tallahassee, led by Matt Bryan at the direction of our CEO Lonny Powell, represents our interests as breed-

going to wholly paraphrase “CotI amCampbell when he said, ‘Pound for pound, the Ocala horsemen are some of the best in the world.’ I would have to agree!

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ers and owners and are our voice before the state legislature. The legislators need to be continuously educated on the many facets of our unique industry and updated on the latest developments. There will be new faces in Tallahassee after this next election. In this tight fiscal environment, the battle for funding and support is going to be fierce. Our team is going to need every ounce of support that we can give them as an Association. I’ve seen firsthand the work they do within the halls of the Capitol.

Quite frankly, they need every ounce of assistance that we can muster. We need to empower them in any manner possible. Our PAC is fighting for each of us.

I’d also like to thank the advertisers who have continued to run ads in our publications this year. They’ve benefitted additionally from the transition of Wire to Wire Racing Digest to a daily digital publication during the pandemic and the broader audience that move created, with print copies available during the OBS sales in June and July.

Digital publication also means that advertisers are being seen worldwide thanks to email delivery of each and every issue. I would also like to encourage those who have not advertised recently to place some ads to promote your business and, in turn, support the industry. A healthy Florida Equine Communications, a subsidiary of the FTBOA, makes for a healthy FTBOA that can do even more to promote the Florida thoroughbred and encourage industry investment in the state.

As for the FTBOA’s sponsors and members, thank you for your continued support. It was disappointing that the FTBOA’s annual awards gala could not be rescheduled, but our sponsors have been key allies through it all. The support has been appreciated, and it will help ensure that our next gala is produced at the same high caliber we have all come to expect. I cannot say enough about how the sponsors are so supportive financially year-to-year and year-after-year, making our events world class and something we can all be very proud of.

The need of members for our services has never been greater. Our staff has reported handling more member calls than ever before.

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During the shutdown, our member services staff continued to operate, taking calls from members who were uncertain about what actions to take in response to the virus, who needed assistance with federal and state pandemic assistance programs, or who just needed to hear a steady and reassuring voice.

As president, I can confidently tell members that the FTBOA is here for you and that your membership in this organization is important. If you are reading this and you have never been a member, please join today, and if you have not renewed your membership, it is not too late to do so. Finally, if you are a member who is among the 20% or so who wait to renew until it is foal registration time each year, you are truly missing out on two-thirds of your membership benefits. Mark it on your calendar to renew in January and you will be pleased you did. My final plea is to current members.

I know each of you know someone who has expressed an interest in the wonderful world of thoroughbreds, so please help them join or, better yet, give them the gift of membership.

BS - Tell us a little bit about the professional work you and your wife Donna do when you are off the farm. Also please share a little bit about your farm.

GW - Donna and I are physical therapists by trade. We both earned our Master of Science degrees in Physical Therapy from Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. Currently, Donna owns her own outpatient physical therapy clinic, Empower Physical Therapy, on SW 60th Avenue in Ocala. She looks out of her front window across the street to the paddocks of Winding Oaks Farm. She specializes in orthopedics and neurological and vestibular disorders. She is also a certified nutritional physical therapist. By the nature of her practice, coupled with her horse background and equine knowledge, she has treated and taken care of many horsemen and horsewomen who are probably reading this article right now.

I am currently working for Encompass Home Health, Inc. We see patients in their homes, as well as at assisted living facilities and memory care facilities. I have an expansive territory where I drive 600 to 900 miles per week, and I supervise a group of physical therapy assistants.

If I may digress a bit here, I’d also like to touch on what I am seeing in the field in regard to COVID-19. While every death from COVID-19 is a tragedy, strictly from my observations, it seems to me that we actually have a relatively good handle on this disease when it comes to treatment and recovery. But the collateral damage stemming from this pandemic is also very real and very tragic, and I’m afraid it’s not going away anytime soon.

The isolation of our family members in assisted living facilities and nursing homes is taking its toll. And our adolescents are facing challenges that are difficult for most of us to comprehend. During a recent two-week span, I knew two patients in assisted living and two teenagers who attempted suicide. Fortunately, they were not successful. Tragically, however, a friend and colleague of mine was successful in his attempt. He leaves behind a wife and two children. In each situation, the underlying theme was despair and an absolute loss of hope.

So, I’m reaching out to my community of Florida horse people. Please, check on your family, and do it today. Check on your kids, grandkids, parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. Check on your riders, your grooms, and your hotwalkers. If you have a family member in a nursing home or assisted living facility, go visit them, even if it’s through a pane of glass. If you can’t visit, then call. Bear in mind that the emotions and psyches of our teenagers are more fragile than they might initially admit, and quite frankly, they have not developed the coping skills necessary to handle such stressful times.

While talking with your child is important, it is even more important to talk with their friends. Your child may not come to you when they are in trouble, but their friends will. Our most vulnerable, our children and our greatest generation, need us now more than ever.

BS - What has been your favorite or most memorable moments with your thoroughbreds so far?

GW - I would say that two moments really stand out. When first hearing this question, the image that immediately popped into my mind was of foaling babies. To this day, I am still in awe when all has gone well and a foal has been successfully delivered. I look at

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what just happened and think, “I can’t believe This area is wholeheartedly a thoroughthat that just came out of that! Only 11 months bred community in every aspect of the busiago, that was just a clump of cells, and it’s now ness, from top to bottom. I remember talking a walking, talking, nursing 120 pounds (or so) to Donna when we first moved here. Even just going to the grocery store or getting gas of bouncing baby horse. That’s crazy!”

We have also had the privilege of breeding at the Shell station, you can feel and sense the a graded stakes horse that went on to race in “horse energy” around this town and its the Breeders’ Cup. Jordy Y was from the first neighboring communities. It’s a palpable incrop of Congrats, and she was out of our mare dustry vibe that seems to course through your Debt Free. We sold the filly at the Fasig-Tipton veins and it’s unmistakable, especially when you first arrive here from somewhere else.

July yearling sale.

I’d also like to add that the quality and skill She was trained and campaigned by Wayne Catalano. She placed third that year in of the Central Florida horsemen and horsea photo finish in the G3 Alcibiades at women is second to none. I am going to wholly Keeneland. She had trained and performed paraphrase Cot Campbell when he said, “Pound well enough that Wayne entered her in the for pound, the Ocala horsemen are some of the best in the world.” I would have to agree!

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies race.

Also, when it comes to racing and breeding We had my brother and sister-in-law meet us in Louisville and our dear friends Wayne programs, Florida’s are as solid as you will find and Margaret McFarland came with us as well. anywhere. Florida-breds are winning across the Jordy Y had a bad break from the outside post country and competing well at signature race out of the gate and didn’t finish so well, but meets like Gulfstream Park’s winter meet.

The myth circulated elsewhere that Florida that was the race in which Florida-bred Awesome Feather pulled away from the field and won The Florida thoroughbred industry has been going away in a brilliant fortunate through the world’s recent upheaval showing. The following and Florida-breds are still being showcased day, we stayed for all of because of the efforts of those people and the Cup races, including the Classic, where Zenyorganizations, along with the FTBOA. atta was nosed out at the wire by Blame. That was as thrilling a sporting stallions don’t produce has been shattered the event as I have ever been a part of...coming last two winter and summer meets at Gulfaround the turn and down the stretch, 120,000 stream Park. Florida-breds by Florida sires people let out a deafening roar while all stand- are producing more than 70% of the Floridaing in their seats. Then, within an instant, those bred award recipients. We’ve got to keep peo120,000 people went silent. It was amazing. ple focused on the facts when horses are going through the sales ring — for the breedBS - At the end of the day, why, in your ers, Florida sires offer the best value, and, for opinion, should people invest in, breed, own the buyers, they produce great racehorses.

In addition, the Florida Sire Stakes’ lucraand/or race Florida-breds?

GW - That’s an easy one. Florida offers tive purse structure and bonus program means the best of all worlds in regard to the full scope more money for Florida-sired horses than of the thoroughbred business. Of course, the their counterparts. One recent example was superior quality of the mineral rich grass and on Sept. 6 at Gulfstream Park. Florida-breds water found throughout our Central Florida running for $75,000 in the Sheer Drama and farmland is well documented. And our Florida the Benny the Bull Stakes, who were also FSS weather – while hot in the summer, just like horses, had the opportunity for $25,000 win everywhere else these days — is conducive to bonuses. Noble Drama and Heiressall took training year round. I believe 17 of the 18 those bags of money home.

Surprising to some, but not to those of us Kentucky Derby entrants passed through Marwho breed, race, train, and sell Florida-breds, ion County on their way to Louisville.

Florida consistently has had more stakes winners in recent years by percentage of foal crop than any other state. With the Floridabred Incentive Fund (FBIF), additional funds are placed in races of all levels celebrating the excellence of Florida-breds and rewarding industry members.

Even in the Kentucky Derby, Floridabreds hold the record of having the most winners of the event, excepting its namesake state, despite Florida’s relative youth as a thoroughbred center. Our horses have also won more than their fair share of Breeders’ Cup races and the Florida-bred bloodlines of Unbridled run through many generations of Breeders’ Cup winners’ pedigrees.

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In addition to Gulfstream, the road to the Kentucky Derby also leads through Tampa Bay Downs. Many early prep races set the groundwork for emerging favorites including many Florida-breds headed to the classics.

In closing, I’d like to express my profound thanks to the Florida tracks and horsemen who continue to find a way to race and to OBS for continuing to host sales. The Florida thoroughbred industry has been fortunate through the world’s recent upheaval and Florida-breds are still being showcased because of the efforts of those people and organizations, along with the FTBOA. I am grateful to have been a part of it all. ■ THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2020 37

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Mouth & Tongue Injuries in Horses

By HEATHER SMITH THOMAS

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orses sometimes experience mouth or tongue injuries--punctures from sharp objects, an accident with a bit, something jammed between the teeth or a broken tooth. A common injury is being kicked in the jaw or incisors when horses live in groups. This may result in fracture of a tooth, laceration of gums, cheeks or surrounding tissue, or may cause nerve damage that leaves the tongue and/or lip drooping on that side.

Melinda Freckleton, DVM, Firestar Veterinary Services, Catlett, Va. says there is often bleeding, and it looks like there’s more blood than there really is, because it’s mixed with saliva. “The horse drools more because of the taste of blood and may try to spit it out rather than swallow it,” she says.

“Some mouth injuries are hidden, however. We may do a colic exam or try to discover why a horse is uncomfortable or isn’t eating. If there’s something wedged between the teeth or impaled in the tongue, it may not be found until more common problems have been ruled out and the veterinarian takes a look farther into the mouth,” says Freckleton. A speculum is used, to hold the mouth open for deeper inspection.

Signs may be subtle; perhaps the horse is not eating, or doesn’t seem right, or is vaguely uncomfortable. One veterinarian tells of a horse that was treated for ulcers for 30 days because the horse was off feed and grinding its teeth. When the owner brought the horse in to the clinic, the

veterinarian looked in the mouth to check the teeth and saw part of a plastic pop bottle lodged between the teeth and the cheek.

Horses are notorious for finding ways to injure themselves. A fall may result in splitting a lip or chipping/fracturing a tooth. Curious horses chew on all kinds of things. Injuries can be caused by a horse chewing on a bucket and getting the handle snap hooked onto the corner of the mouth.

TONGUE INJURIES

“There are many ways tongue injuries can happen, including rough use of a bit, or tying with reins and the horse pulling back,” says Freckleton. A horse wandering loose with a bridle, dragging the reins, may step on a rein and jerk his head up, cutting the tongue with the bit. “Occasionally a trainer lets a young horse wear the bit for awhile in the stall, to get used to the feel of it. If the horse snags the bit on something, this could cause severe injury.”

A horse may accidentally bite his tongue if he falls or suffers a blow or kick that closes the teeth on the tongue. A cut tongue can be difficult to suture and the repair may come apart. You can’t immobilize the tongue like you might immobilize the sutured skin on a foot or leg with a cast or bandage. “Mouth tissues are constantly bathed in saliva, which also tends to break down sutures,” says Freckleton. “Motion of the tongue itself may undo suture knots. We try to suture a cut tongue, and there are many successes, but there are also failures,” she says.

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Though tongues bleed dramatically when cut, this sign may be missed—if the horse is swallowing blood rather than spitting it out, or is at pasture and not observed and it’s stopped bleeding before you see the horse.

“The tongue may heal on its own in an odd position,” says Freckleton.

Tongue and cheek lacerations may occur if teeth are sharp. “Usually these cuts aren’t deep, but irritation of rubbing against the sharp tooth may cause chronic ulceration and soreness. Yet you might not notice the problem unless it bleeds,” she says.

A severe mouth or tongue injury may bleed profusely if it’s deep. If the main artery is cut, there will be dramatic blood loss. This is an emergency; the horse must be sedated and the wound ligated. This can be challenging, however, due to lack of working space inside the mouth.

Dr. Bruce Connally, an equine veterinarian in Colorado, has seen many tongue injuries during his 40 years as a veterinarian. Most had already healed--discovered when looking into the mouth for some other reason. “I’ve seen huge ulcers and holes in tongues caused by sharp, misplaced teeth,” says Connally. “One horse was brought to me because he was constantly drooling whenever he had a bit in his mouth. I sedated the horse and took a look.

He’d gotten kicked some time earlier, which pushed one of his lower cheek teeth so that it was leaning inward, poking under his tongue.

He had a hole about two inches in diameter in the bottom of his tongue,” says Connally.

With a bit holding the tongue down, the horse couldn’t lift his tongue away from the sharp tooth. “That was a hard one to figure out because I couldn’t see the hole. But when I finally stuck my hand in his mouth and felt around, I could feel it. Then I rolled his tongue over enough to see it. I ground that tooth down and he no longer had the irritation and drooling.”

Occasionally something sharp in the feed can poke into the tongue or tear it. “We often see foxtail abscesses in tongues, and sometimes stickers and sticks jammed into the tongue. I’ve pulled pieces of wire out of 40 THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2020

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sooner than later, in hopes to minimize any tongues,” Connally says.

“A few years ago I examined a horse that deviation as it heals. There are horses in every was salivating and eating oddly. When I got discipline that do fine, however, with oddmy hand back a ways in the mouth I was able shaped tongues due to old injuries.”

There have been some unusual cases. In to find and pull out a 2 ½ inch piece of wire that was stuck into the side of the tongue—al- one instance, a mare bit off her tongue during most as far back as the last cheek tooth. When a dental exam. It’s common practice when hanwe got the wire out, the horse did fine.” The dling a horse’s mouth for dental work to hold horse’s tongue is agile and horses are good at the tongue out the side to keep the mouth open sorting foreign material out of their feed or spitwhen doing a ting out strange things, mouth examination and holding the tongue out but sometimes somethe side of the mouth is to hold onto the tongue thing sharp may injure or and halter together. Even if the horse doesn’t poke into the tongue.

If a horse bites off bite his tongue if he tries to pull away, there is part of the tongue it usu- danger of pulling on the tongue hard enough ally heals. “As long as to paralyze it. —Dr. Bruce Connally the missing part is in front of the frenulum—the little tether at the for easier access to look at or work on the teeth. base of the tongue at the back—the horse usu- The mare’s owner was holding onto her tongue ally does well,” says Freckleton. “He can still in the usual fashion, but the mare jerked backeat. You can’t reattach a piece if it’s com- ward and the tongue came off in his hand. She pletely gone. If the cut-off portion is still bit it in two as she clamped her teeth and pulled hanging there, we usually try to reattach it. back. The veterinarian sutured it back together, The tongue has a good blood supply, and it’s but five days later the tongue came off again; the repair wasn’t successful. The severed edge amazing how well it can heal.”

Even if part of the tongue is gone, the healed well, and the mare was left with a stub horse can still eat and drink; the rest of the of tongue in the back of her mouth.

For the first ten days after the accident, this tongue is mobile enough for swallowing and maneuvering food. A tongue or mouth injury mare was fed through a stomach tube because may necessitate change in feed, depending on the owner was afraid she would not be able to the injury. Sometimes the horse must be kept eat. Then she was put back out on pasture and on soft feeds that are easy to chew and swal- had no trouble grazing.

“The important thing when doing a mouth low. In other instances, you need to feed longstemmed hay that won’t get packed into examination and holding the tongue out the side of the mouth is to hold onto the tongue certain areas of the mouth.

“Even when we reattach them, resultant ir- and halter together. Even if the horse doesn’t regularities in the tongue can create difficul- bite his tongue if he tries to pull away, there is ties in bitting. This is good reason for getting danger of pulling on the tongue hard enough any kind of tongue laceration taken care of to paralyze it,” says Connally.

Tongue Surgery Dr. Tia Nelson, a veterinarian in Helena, Mont. bought a horse many years ago at an auction. “She’d been raced and all she knew how to do was run. She was hard mouthed, and when I looked into her mouth I saw she had a deep tongue laceration that had healed.

This might have happened if someone used a double-twisted wire snaffle, cutting the tongue with the bit.”

About 10 years ago, Nelson worked on a stallion that suffered severe tongue injury. The

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MOUTH INFECTIONS

Horses sometimes get deep, nasty ulcerations in the mouth. “These may become infected, especially in an immune-compromised or older horse, or one with Cushing’s,” says Freckleton. “A healthy horse probably wouldn’t get infected because the mouth has such good blood supply and the wound is continually flushed with saliva. The tongue keeps moving material out of the laceration. But I’ve seen immune-suppressed horses and some older Cushing’s horses that developed infected lacerations.”

Horses don’t get as many mouth abscesses as cattle because they do a better job of sorting out foreign material or sharp seed awns that can puncture or get stuck in the mouth tissues. On occasion a puncture occurs, however, and an abscess may develop. “Our practice sees at least one or two abscessed tongues each year,” says Freckleton. Stickery weeds,

foxtail, cheat grass and other plants with sharp seed awns sometimes get baled in hay, and if the horse isn’t able to sort them out, these may puncture or become embedded in mouth tissues. Usually you don’t find the offending sliver. It disintegrates or gets pushed out with the pus that forms around it.

LIP INJURIES

A small lip injury, split or laceration usually doesn’t need treatment because these tissues heal quickly. “When in doubt, call your veterinarian to see if suturing might enable it to heal faster or more cosmetically,” says Freckleton. “Some lacerations should be repaired as quickly as possible.”

On one occasion, a horse suffered mouth injury when turned out wearing a halter. The horse caught the halter on something and pulled back, ending up with the noseband jammed in the corner of the mouth--where it injured the lip tissue. This was resolved by removing the halter and applying ointment to the cut in the corner of the mouth.

Injury may result from using a chain shank (through the mouth) too aggressively.

If a person yanks too hard, this may tear the corners of the mouth. Inappropriate use of a twitch may cause injury if the twitch has a wire loop.

If a horse is restrained with that type of twitch and pulls away, the thin wire can cut Bit scar through the skin of the lip.

Oral, lip and face wounds generally heal faster than wounds on the rest of the body, because there’s more blood circulation. Surgical repairs are rarely needed because often these tissues realign themselves fairly well. An exception might be a fractured jaw that’s displaced; it needs surgical intervention to wire the jaw back into place.

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owner had two stallions, kept next to each other. They were quarreling and one stallion grabbed the other stallion through the fence, by his tongue. “It was a bizarre injury, cutting the tongue all the way through, more than halfway across,” says Nelson.

“I wanted to try suturing it back together, and thought if I could protect the stitches while it started to heal, we could give it a chance. His tongue healed perfectly,” she says. That horse had no problems eating or drinking, and today you’d never guess he had an injury.

The tongue is very flexible and agile, with strong muscles. “The part we see is flat, but there’s a big lump at the back that aids in swallowing,” says Connally. “A horse that has lost much of the tongue will eat differently, but generally does ok. If a cow loses her tongue, she starves, because she uses it to pull food into her mouth.” Horses can grab feed with their teeth, and pull things into their mouth with their lips.

The bulge at the back of the tongue, used as an aid in swallowing, is generally still there; most injuries occur farther forward.

“About the only thing that could harm the tongue at the rear of the mouth would be an abscess or something caused by sharp feed as the horse was ready to swallow. The rear part of the tongue is attached to the epiglottis, so a severe injury clear at the back could interfere with swallowing,” Connally says.

FOREIGN OBJECTS WEDGED/IMPALED IN THE MOUTH

“Even though horses are good at sorting out foreign material in their food (compared to a cow that wads everything in and tries to swallow it), and generally leaves behind sticks or tiny bits of glass or metal, once in awhile

we have to pull splinters or chunks of metal out of the tongue,” says Freckleton.

She sent one horse to a referral hospital because the tongue was swollen. “We suspected something was in it but couldn’t find it. They found a small sliver of metal, using xray, then put the horse under general anesthetic to retrieve it,” she says.

“On one farm call, the barn manager told me about a farm where she used to work, where everyone wore walkie-talkies. Someone’s walkie-talkie had fallen off in the stall of a young colt and he’d wedged it between his teeth. They had to sedate the horse and pry it out of his mouth,” she says.

Foals are notorious for chewing on things and occasionally suffer mouth injuries. “We sometimes see sticks or other things wedged between their teeth, or wedged and stabbed into the tongue, or wedged against the roof of the mouth. Usually you suspect something’s wrong because the horse is making mouth faces and trying to dislodge the object. If the horse looks like he’s trying to spit something out and can’t, you need the veterinarian to look into the mouth,” says Freckleton.

In one horse, the veterinarian found a piece of wire 10 centimeters long embedded under the tongue where the horse was unable to dislodge it. The wire had been there awhile and was deeply embedded. That horse had to be referred to an equine hospital for surgical removal of the wire. In another situation, a foal picked up a small hypodermic needle that had been lost in the stall bedding. It was lodged in his mouth and he was given a local anesthetic to remove the needle, after using ultrasound to locate it.

Depending on where a mouth injury is, it may result in paralysis if certain nerves are damaged. A major nerve runs under the tongue on either side, and may be affected if a foreign object is jammed against it and punctures or lacerates it. If this nerve is damaged, the horse has a hard time using his tongue for eating and drinking. Damage to this nerve may also result in paralysis of the lower lip. ■ THE FLORIDA HORSE • OCTOBER 2020 41

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

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

Dam

Breeder

Date Track Finish

Tap It to Win Collusion Illusion Joy's Rocket Go Jo Jo Go Breeze On By Princess Secret Gatsby Freak Boca Boy Thousand Words Tiger Blood Ambassador Luna Garter and Tie Royal Squeeze Bellera Imprimis Girther Up in Smoke Blue Mistress Monforte Alfie Solomons March to the Arch Souper Escape Key Biscayne Joy's Rocket Golden Pal Warrior's Charge Bucky's Drama Queen Nekia Getouttamyway C Z Rocket Win Win Win Princess Secret Breeze On By Oh Deborah Big Daddy Dave Go Jo Jo Go Seazan Hot Blooded Boca Boy Castle King

Onepointhreekarats Natalie Grace Queenie's Pride Flashy Flirt Miss Primetime Golden Horseshoe Star Recruit Miso Blue Baliwink Pomeroys Pistol Sarah Cataldo Spanish Ambassado Garter Belt Mop Squeezer Habiboo Shoppers Return Tea Dancer Therese Sapphire Mine She's a Ketch Meets Expectations Daveron (GER) Cry and Catch Me Boa Twelve Queenie's Pride Lady Shipman Battling Brook Bucky's Prayer All Night Labor She'll Be Right Successful Sarah Miss Smarty Pants Golden Horseshoe Miss Primetime Vivacious Val Alluring Lady Flashy Flirt Sea Lady Hot Cappucino Baliwink Joyful Wager

Live Oak Stud Donald R. Dizney LLC Weston Thoroughbreds Training & Sales Stonehedge LLC Stonehedge LLC Brent & Crystal Fernung Arindel Arindel Carol Hershe Hardacre Farm Brent & Crystal Fernung Voodoomon Racing Jacks or Better Farm Inc. Gary Aiken Hardacre Farm LLC Craig L. Wheeler Farm III Enterprises LLC John D. & Carole A. Rio Helen & Joseph Barbazon Westbury stables LLC Darsan Inc. Live Oak Stud Live Oak Stud Arindel Weston Thoroughbreds Training & Sales Randall E. Lowe Al Shaquab Racing Gerald & Mary Bennett Porter Racing Stable LLC Off The Hook Partners LLC; Thomas Coleman & Doheny Racing Stable Farm III Enterprises LLC Live Oak Stud Brent & Crystal Fernung Stonehedge LLC Stonehedge LLC Stonehedge LLC Stonehedge LLC Susan Kahn Hallmarc Stallions LLC Carol Hershe Mary Ellen Coenen

8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/2/20 8/2/20 8/2/20 8/2/20 8/5/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/10/20 8/15/20 8/16/20 8/16/20 8/19/20 8/21/20 8/22/20 8/24/20 8/28/20 8/28/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20

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

3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 7 4 4 8 4 6 2 3 3 3 3 5 4 3 2 2 4 3 5 4 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Tapit Twirling Candy Anthony's Cross Khozan Cajun Breeze Khozan Brethren Brethren Prospective Pioneerof the Nile Cowtown Cat Brethren Brooks 'n Down Wildcat Heir Bernardini Broken Vow Brody's Cause The Big Beast Handsome Mike Carpe Diem Kantharos Arch Medaglia d'Oro Brethren Anthony's Cross Uncle Mo Munnings Big Drama Harlington Cross Traffic City Zip Hat Trick (Jpn) Khozan Cajun Breeze Winslow Homer Khozan Khozan Khozan Declaration of Wa Prospective Verrazano

SAR DMR WO GP GP GP GP GP GP DMR ELP ELP GP GP SAR SAR DMR SAR GP GP PID WO WO SAR SAR SAR MTH PID CT CT DMR SAR GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP GP

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

Race Name

Grade/ Value Earnings

H. Allen Jrkns S. Pres. by Runha 1/$300,000 Bing Crosby S. 1/$251,500 My Dear S. $101,200 FTBOA Florida Sire Desrt Vixen S. $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Dr. Fager S. $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Desrt Vixen S. $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Dr. Fager S. $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Desrt Vixen S. $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Dr. Fager S. $100,000 Shared Belief S. $98,000 Runhappy Preview Turf Sprint S. $95,000 Ky. Downs Preview Ladies Sprint $94,250 Opening Lead S. $60,000 Opening Lead S. $60,000 Summer Colony S. $82,450 Troy S. 3/$200,000 Best Pal S. 2/$151,000 Longines Test S. 1/$291,000 Martha Washington S. $100,000 Not Surprising S. $100,000 Tom Ridge S. $75,400 King Edward S. 2/$178,850 Seaway S. 3/$127,750 Saratoga Oaks Invitational S. $500,000 Bolton Landing S. $85,000 Skidmore S. $85,000 Philip H. Iselin S. 3/$190,000 Lady Erie S. $74,250 Dance to Bristol S. $150,000 Dance to Bristol S. $150,000 Pat O'Brien S. 2/$151,000 Forego S. Pres.by America's Best 1/$300,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Susan's Girl S. $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Affirmed S. $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Susan's Girl S. $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Affirmed S. $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Susan's Girl S. $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Affirmed S. $200,000 Proud Man S. $75,000 Proud Man S. $75,000 Proud Man S. $75,000

$60,000 $150,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $20,000 $20,000 $11,000 $11,000 $60,000 $14,700 $14,550 $11,880 $5,940 $10,200 $24,000 $30,000 $36,000 $19,600 $19,600 $7,500 $105,000 $75,000 $60,000 $17,000 $46,750 $120,000 $7,500 $89,100 $14,850 $90,000 $165,000 $120,000 $120,000 $40,000 $40,000 $22,000 $22,000 $44,640 $14,400 $7,200

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show F M F C G F

4 7 4 4 5 4

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track

Finish

Value

Earnings

Sidney's Candy Eskendereya Creative Cause Paynter Passion for Gold Union Rags

Like a River Unicorn Kid Divine County High Speed Goldie Grand Illumination Song Track

Helen & Joseph Barbazon Sally J. Andersen; L. Richard Kent & John Waterman Brereton C. Jones Best A Luck Farm LLC Helen & Joseph Barbazon Helen & Joseph Barbazon

8/1/20 8/1/20 8/2/20 8/5/20 8/5/20 8/5/20

LAD CMR LS LS PID BTP

2 2 1 3 3 2

$20,800 $13,818 $40,061 $42,480 $31,680 $15,200

$3,800 $2,940 $24,780 $4,673 $3,200 $3,040

Collusion Illusion/Bing Crosby S. / G1

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March to the Arch/King Edward S. / G2

Win Win Win/Forego S. / G1

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Shallow River Pure Lemon She's Divine Vangilder Whistle Me Home Union Song

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name Unnamed Soldier Homers Magic My Little Rosy Campy Cash Tio Gangue Amansa Guapo Double Medal High Proof Golden Bayers Venezuelan Hug Shamrocket Tree Shaker Powerful Venezuela Kingston Time El Asesino Our Slick Chick Infuriated Wishful Quality Bucky's Drama Olive Kat El Venue Lady Panda Hauntedbythemusic Rattlesnakerose Chase the Music Sea Anna Dream Zafir Striking Moon Homers Magic Scared Warior Arba Prince Blue Tappitty Tappitty Messiah Big League Benny Souper Scat Daddy Shallow River Extreme Caution Zoot Suit Universal Payday Whistle Me Home My Lovely Girl Wild Medagliad'oro Absolute Love Campy Cash

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

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

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track

Soldat Winslow Homer Handsome Mike Race Day Congrats He's Had Enough Medaglia d'Oro Bourbon Courage With Distinction Constitution Tonalist Silver Tree Poseidon's Warrior Graydar Majestic Warrior Eskendereya Big Drama Exclusive Quality Big Drama Drill Tale of the Cat Animal Kingdom The Big Beast Rattlesnake Bridge Tiago Fast Anna Scat Daddy Palace Malice Winslow Homer Poseidon's Warrior He's Had Enough Soldat Tapit Anthony's Cross The Big Beast Scat Daddy Sidney's Candy Value Plus High Cotton To Honor and Serve Passion for Gold Poseidon's Warrior Medaglia d'Oro Graydar Race Day

Ardara Forest Magic Goodbye Beautiful Cash Reserve Ederle Jupiter Tasmania Double Tapped Lulu Quatorze Holiday Ashley Downtown Diva Zehoorr Papa's Pumpkin Gold Point Gal Sexy Suzy One in the Chamber Wicked Uno Lake Louise Wishful Melody Bucky's Prayer Kalambaka Queen Great Venue Girl Gone Crazy Usual Manner Shanghai Rose Hip Hop Girl A Sea Trippi Funny Bay Roxie Fast Moon Forest Magic Sasha's Fierce Got Dimples J. L.'s Princess My Typhoon (Ire) Verse Choir Load Up West Side Dancer Like a River Hometown Discount Yes It's Valid Our Candy Striper Grand Illumination Orlyana Queen Unbridled Humor Time for Love Cash Reserve

Woodford Thoroughbreds Stonehedge LLC Ponder Hill Inc. John B. Penn Farm III Enterprises LLC Mighty White Stallion LLC Bridlewood Farm Martha Mallicote Deborah A Silveira Orlyana Farm Rustlewood Farm Inc. Michele & Scott Markward Orlyana Farm Destiny Oaks of Ocala Equest Thoroughbreds Inc. GoldMark Farm LLC Harold L. Queen Charlie Runion Gerald & Mary Bennett Get Away Farm Rustlewood Farm Inc. Destiny Oaks Sorrento Oaks Farm Inc Diana Wellman GreenwoodFarm.biz Bobby Jones Equine LLC Nina Theodora Camperlengo Southwind Stables Inc. Stonehedge LLC Helen & Joseph Barbazon Janice Marilyn Clark CESA Farm Live Oak Stud Sun Thoroughbred Stable Oakleaf Farm Ocala Stud Helen & Joseph Barbazon John E. Shaw Summerfield & Rustlewood Farm Live Oak Stud Helen & Joseph Barbazon Orlyana Farm Live Oak Stud Steve Feiger John B. Penn

8/6/20 8/6/20 8/7/20 8/7/20 8/7/20 8/7/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/9/20 8/9/20 8/9/20 8/10/20 8/10/20 8/11/20 8/11/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/15/20 8/15/20 8/15/20 8/16/20 8/17/20 8/17/20 8/20/20 8/20/20 8/20/20 8/20/20 8/21/20 8/22/20 8/22/20 8/22/20 8/23/20 8/24/20 8/24/20 8/26/20 8/27/20 8/27/20 8/27/20 8/28/20 8/28/20 8/29/20

CT TDN EVD CT CMR CMR WO PRM GPR SAR SAR MTH PRX MNR LAD LAD PRX LS DEL DEL LS MTH DEL DEL WYO FE MNR WO TDN TDN BTP CMR WO RP RP WO LAD ARP ARP LRL PID CT SAR BTP CT

Gulfstream Park Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association • Lonny Powell – CEO, Executive Vice President • Brock Sheridan – Editor-in-Chief • Tammy Gantt – Associate Vice President, Membership Services & Events Director • E. Jane Murray – Assistant Vice President, Administration & Operations

• Michael Costanzo – Asst. Racing Secretary • Peter Aiello IV – Track Announcer

Ocala Breeders’ Sales • Tom Ventura – President • Kevin Honig – Mutuels

Breeder • Rick Heatter

Double Diamond Farm • Bob White – Farm Manager

Finish

Value

Earnings

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

$28,000 $21,500 $30,800 $28,000 $14,896 $14,896 $78,611 $31,500 $4,300 $74,000 $74,000 $48,625 $42,010 $17,088 $20,500 $20,500 $45,500 $42,480 $42,375 $42,375 $41,300 $48,125 $42,375 $40,740 $9,800 $20,291 $16,910 $78,012 $23,000 $22,500 $15,200 $10,780 $70,710 $30,000 $30,000 $80,027 $20,500 $13,050 $15,000 $48,972 $33,040 $28,000 $74,000 $15,200 $28,000

$2,775 $12,900 $3,300 $5,600 $8,816 $1,520 $13,500 $18,600 $516 $40,700 $8,880 $9,500 $8,000 $10,324 $12,300 $4,100 $27,000 $8,476 $25,200 $8,400 $24,540 $9,500 $8,400 $4,620 $5,880 $3,280 $10,324 $7,425 $13,800 $12,900 $9,120 $6,380 $13,500 $17,643 $3,235 $7,425 $12,300 $1,305 $9,000 $23,940 $6,400 $5,600 $8,880 $9,120 $17,360

Tampa Bay Downs • Allison DeLuca – Racing Secretary • Autumn Charley – Racing Office

Trainers • Todd Pletcher • Chuck Simon • Matthew O’Connor

International Sound Corp.

• James Pelrine – Vice President, Business Operations

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show Horse Name Mystery Bank Seazan Chitu Me Too Tara Starship Voyager Tiz Enough Galileta Raining Sunshine Shang's Sister Dem a Wonder Awesome Machine Fury Song Edward He's Sofine Honey Beest Mr. Nobody Captain Yenner Isolate Boomer Poppy's Pride Bunchkins Raise the Rent Yafa Restofthestory Crystal Coast R Man Joe She's Honorable Castle King Chess's Dream Tiger Blissful Change Waterloo Sunset Fury Song Awesome Indra Pepper Wyatts Warrior Street Shadow Mr. Nobody Captain Yenner Fastdriven Elusive Amelia My Uncle Titan Sky Proposal Mona Stella Timetastic Alluring Rumba Orange Theory Busch Latte Tiz Enough Khozys Crown Ampersand Mon Petit Chou Dem a Wonder Special Princess American Quality Souper Energizer Lili's Song Jade Empress Starship Voyager Goodbye Gaby Fearless Girl Tannin Celestial Cheetah Lt. Junior Grade Mishpocha Swamp Witch Haddy Poppy's Pride Lost a Legend Doo Wop Don Change of Custody Restofthestory Psychic Ability Bunchkins Hercules Splash Cash Good Fight Fort Drum Nicholas Rose

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

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

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

The Big Mystery Khozan Chitu Brethren Big Drama He's Had Enough Amira's Prince (Ire First Dude Paynter Hello Broadway Awesome of Cour Fury Kapcori Maclean's Music The Big Beast He's Had Enough Bahamian Squall Mark Valeski Gone Astray Khozan Biondetti Malibu Moon Handsome Mike Jess's Dream Animal Kingdom Kantharos Iqbaal Verrazano Jess's Dream Dialed In Treasure Beach (G Congrats Fury Kapcori Awesome of Cour Tapiture Poseidon's Warrior The Factor He's Had Enough Bahamian Squall Overdriven Cross Traffic Bahamian Squall Liam's Map Will Take Charge Fury Kapcori Mucho Macho Man First Dude Cairo Prince He's Had Enough Khozan Speightster The Big Beast Hello Broadway Bahamian Squall Exclusive Quality Hat Trick (Jpn) Liam's Map Shanghai Bobby Big Drama Adios Charlie Bahamian Squall Mineshaft Social Inclusion Field Commission Speightstown He's Had Enough Khozan Vancouver (Aus) Dialed In Will Take Charge Jess's Dream Adios Charlie Biondetti Brethren Uncaptured Afleet Alex Declaration of War Fort Larned

English Bank Sea Lady Spanish Gem Tizmetizyou Miss Grandiose Tiz Four Dreamingofleta Due to Shine Yankee Victoria Aiden's Lil Devil Holy Cowgirl Wishful Melody Water in the Pond Bop She Bop Bring Me Luck Silk Ridge Tranquil Song Belle of Camden Lovely Lexi Love You Bunches Conquest Sweetride Red Baroness Holiday Flare Crystian d'Oro City in Sky Deserving Honor Joyful Wager Achalaya Sally's Song Jeekers Lava Falls Wishful Melody Darjeeling Doctor Doctor Command Perfectio Street Crew Bring Me Luck Silk Ridge Sammie Billex Doux Silk Ridge Siren Cove Divine Trick Ma'am Maw Dance the Rumba Chippi Day of Obligation Tiz Four Crowninshield Majestic Maria Take Me to Zuber Aiden's Lil Devil Indy Crown American Swagger Earth Shaking Sonja's Angel Guard the Empire Miss Grandiose Inpending Danger Vidi Vici Irish Lute Dandy Dulce Shanagarry Aerocat Pyrite Grand Slam Lovely Lexi Diamond Eye Pleasant Ring Janetstickettocats Holiday Flare Future Story Love You Bunches Darby Rose Siena's Splash Gospel Girl Apres Ski Rosebud's Ridge

Gelfenstein Farm Susan Kahn Irish Eyes Stable-Verbarctic Farm Arindel Carl Bowling & Hallmarc Stallions LLC Addison Clare Silva Jr. Charles & Maritza Weston Marti Erin Haught Kris R. Del Giudice Rohan Crichton Jason DaCosta Charlie Runion English Range Farm Gail Rice Rick Sutherland Hi-Tide Farm LLC Woodford Thoroughbreds Arindel Stonehedge LLC Fred & Sara Lynn Yutani Westbury Stables LLC Tropical Racing LLC Ocala Stud Hallmarc Stallions LLC Rich Averill & AbraCadabra Farms Wesley Ward Mary Ellen Coenen Loren Nichols Arindel Helen & Joseph Barbazon; Edward Seltzer & Beverly Anderson Arindel Charlie Runion Sue's Farm II LLC & Richard Nancarrow Keith C. & T. J. Dickey Casey Seaman Hardacre Farm Rick Sutherland Hi-Tide Farm LLC Juvenal L. Diaz Southern Wives Partners Maura R. Welsh & Cedar Gate Farm LLC John David & J. Michael O'Farrell, Jr. & William J. Terrill Bridlewood Farm Wendy Pape Jim Ballinger William P. Sorren SJT Racing Stable LLC Addison Clare Silva Jr. Brent & Crystal Fernung Sally J. Anderson Ocala Stud Rohan Crichton J D Farms Horse Research Center Live Oak Stud John B Penn George Kerr & Tim Odonohue Carl Bowling & Hallmarc Stallions LLC Joanne Margaret Crowe Karen Blaho Donarra Thoroughbreds LLC Michelle Redding Edward A. Seltzer; Beverly Anderson & Jayson Horner Hardacre Farm Linda L. Schroetlin Stonehedge LLC Eli Gindi; Sam Kassin; Millennium Farm & Winchell Thoroughbreds John B. Penn Destiny Oaks of Ocala Ocala Stud Red Oak Stable Fred & Sara Lynn Yutani Arindel Verbarctic Farm Rustlewood Farm Inc. Lambholm; Joel Greenfield & Joe Allen LLC Herman Wilensky

8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/1/20 8/2/20 8/2/20 8/2/20 8/3/20 8/3/20 8/3/20 8/4/20 8/4/20 8/4/20 8/6/20 8/6/20 8/6/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/8/20 8/9/20 8/9/20 8/9/20 8/11/20 8/11/20 8/11/20 8/11/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/12/20 8/13/20 8/14/20 8/15/20 8/15/20 8/16/20 8/16/20 8/17/20 8/18/20 8/20/20 8/20/20 8/22/20 8/22/20 8/22/20 8/22/20 8/22/20 8/22/20 8/23/20 8/23/20 8/23/20 8/23/20 8/23/20 8/23/20 8/24/20 8/24/20 8/25/20 8/25/20 8/27/20 8/27/20 8/27/20 8/27/20 8/28/20 8/28/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/29/20 8/30/20 8/30/20

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Track Finish SAR GP DMR GP GP GP GG GP GP GP TDN MNR MNR PID MNR MNR GP GP GP WO SAR GP GP GP GP AP GP GP GP IND MNR MNR FP PID TDN EMD MNR MNR MNR CBY CMR MTH GP GP GP ASD PID GP IND SAR GP GP GP MTH MTH WO SAR GP GP GP CTM DEL FP IND FP GP GP GP BTP GP MTH WO GP PRM LAD SAR GP

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

Value $72,000 $59,000 $56,500 $45,000 $45,000 $45,000 $27,350 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $20,000 $14,880 $14,880 $29,700 $14,725 $13,640 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $74,792 $72,000 $46,000 $46,000 $46,000 $44,900 $27,000 $58,000 $58,000 $54,000 $31,000 $15,035 $14,880 $10,000 $30,500 $20,000 $19,130 $15,035 $15,035 $15,035 $24,000 $11,000 $45,625 $44,000 $42,100 $42,100 $15,932 $30,100 $44,900 $31,000 $69,840 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $44,350 $44,350 $76,911 $66,960 $47,000 $47,000 $47,000 $16,753 $46,725 $15,360 $31,000 $17,760 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $14,100 $59,000 $44,750 $112,667 $54,000 $30,500 $19,590 $72,000 $44,900

Earnings $39,600 $43,000 $6,600 $27,500 $9,800 $4,900 $15,600 $36,000 $10,400 $5,000 $12,000 $1,550 $1,550 $6,000 $1,550 $1,550 $31,000 $10,000 $4,600 $7,700 $8,640 $11,600 $12,400 $5,600 $28,900 $5,400 $38,000 $11,600 $38,000 $18,600 $3,100 $3,100 $6,000 $6,000 $2,000 $3,700 $8,990 $3,100 $1,550 $14,400 $2,200 $28,500 $12,000 $9,400 $4,700 $1,440 $6,000 $28,900 $6,200 $39,600 $36,000 $10,000 $5,000 $27,000 $6,750 $42,000 $14,400 $28,900 $10,200 $5,100 $1,690 $8,000 $2,400 $6,200 $1,200 $36,000 $10,800 $5,400 $1,410 $43,000 $4,500 $14,000 $38,000 $18,150 $3,900 $14,400 $28,900

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The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through September 8, 2020. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

LEADING FLORIDA SIRES

Name

Farm Name

Sire Name

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

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg Avg

2yo Sold

Khozan

Journeyman Stallions

Distorted Humor

$2,239,105

79

46

3

3

0

$2,247,212

Princess Secret

Brethren

Arindel

Distorted Humor

$1,552,085

99

42

2

2

1

First Dude

Double Diamond Farm

Stephen Got Even

$1,576,128

109

47

4

5

Adios Charlie

Ocala Stud

Indian Charlie

$1,307,981

83

39

2

Big Drama

Oakton Farm Stallions

Montbrook

$1,129,411

84

39

Treasure Beach (GB) Pleasant Acres Stallions Galileo (Ire)

$1,113,296

134

Wildcat Heir

Deceased

Forest Wildcat

$1,031,798

The Big Beast

Ocala Stud

Yes It's True

Handsome Mike

Pleasant Acres Stallions Scat Daddy

$194,300

20

$25,500

16

$42,625

$1,619,285

Ambassador Luna $128,550

2

$10,500

8

$4,838

0

$1,579,881

Ready to Runaway $106,150

11

$9,518

6

$20,083

4

1

$1,309,085

Jean Elizabeth

$189,398

4

$5,625

3

$10,500

0

0

0

$1,130,600

Bucky's Drama

$80,500

3

$5,833

1

$45,000

34

2

2

2

$1,129,258

Raymundos Secret $125,400

9

$3,178

3

$12,400

71

29

4

4

0

$1,033,434

Heir Ball

$126,420

$994,638

47

28

2

2

0

$994,638

Up in Smoke

$173,318

10

$42,600

7

$33,500

$851,770

68

29

0

0

0

$854,186

Sir Seamus

$73,030

1

$2,000 1

$16,000

Awesome of Course Ocala Stud

Awesome Again

$826,168

55

23

1

1

0

$826,168

Shivaree

$271,385

Field Commission

Solera Farm

Service Stripe

$666,820

55

24

0

0

0

$726,820

Lil Commissioner $81,060

Cajun Breeze

Stonehedge Farm South Congrats

$617,761

22

9

2

3

0

$624,461

Breeze On By

High Cotton

Pensioned

Dixie Union

$362,821

40

16

1

1

0

$362,991

Lilac Lace

Greatness

Solera Farm

Mr. Prospector

$338,737

21

11

1

2

0

$344,218

Lady's Island

Bahamian Squall

Double Diamond Farm

Gone West

$290,862

28

8

0

0

0

$320,025

Assertiko

Chitu

Bridlewood Farm

Henny Hughes

$232,616

28

8

0

0

0

$241,048

Amira's Prince (Ire) Pleasant Acres Stallions Teofilo (Ire)

$236,419

18

10

0

0

0

Fury Kapcori

Journeyman Stallions

Tiznow

$227,744

22

7

1

1

Hear No Evil

Private

Carson City

$189,271

15

8

0

Backtalk

GoldMark Farm

Smarty Jones

$181,009

19

8

Iqbaal

Ward Ranch

Medaglia d'Oro

$170,799

13

Jess's Dream

Ocala Stud

Curlin

$147,690

Young Brian

Oakton Farm Stallions

Hard Spun

Fort Loudon

Ocala Stud

Gary D

2yo Avg

9

$3,033

5

$19,900

2

$6,000

1

$17,000

$69,490

7

$3,786

4

$10,500

Nenita

$30,860

20

$13,010

8

$37,750

$236,419

Sister Otoole

$44,125

0

$227,744

Napa Rules

$48,890

8

$3,250

2

$2,500

0

0

$189,271

Toni Ann's Miracle $56,023

0

0

0

$181,009

Backcat

$38,758

5

0

0

0

$170,799

Johnny Cab

$43,405

11

2

0

0

0

$147,690

Restofthestory

$55,400

21

$13,533

11

$25,455

$86,286

8

3

0

0

0

$86,286

Heavenly Blessing $26,150

Awesome of Course

$84,578

6

2

0

0

0

$84,578

Happy Loudon

$43,660

Ming Farm

Successful Appeal

$83,720

6

3

0

0

0

$83,720

Midtown Rose

$42,660

Finale

Oakton Farm Stallions

Scat Daddy

$69,490

14

4

0

0

0

$69,490

Shio

$16,275

1

$16,500

Brooks 'n Down

Private

Montbrook

$69,330

7

2

0

0

0

$69,330

Two Cents Worth

$24,260

In Summation

Ocala Stud

Put It Back

$69,236

16

3

0

0

0

$69,236

Awsum Roar

$34,540

1

$5,500

The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through September 8, 2020. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

$223,000 $40,500 $156,020

LEADING FLORIDA 2ND CROP SIRES

Name

Farm Name

Sire Name

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

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg Avg

2yo Sold

Khozan

Journeyman Stallions

Distorted Humor

$2,239,105

79

46

3

3

0

$2,247,212

The Big Beast

Ocala Stud

Yes It's True

$994,638

47

28

2

2

0

Bahamian Squall

Double Diamond Farm

Gone West

$290,862

28

8

0

0

Chitu

Bridlewood Farm

Henny Hughes

$232,616

28

8

0

Amira's Prince (Ire) Pleasant Acres Stallions Teofilo (Ire)

$236,419

18

10

Princess Secret

$194,300

20

$25,500

16

$42,625

$994,638

Up in Smoke

$173,318

10

$42,600

7

$33,500

0

$320,025

Assertiko

$69,490

7

$3,786

4

$10,500

0

0

$241,048

Nenita

$30,860

20

$13,010

8

$37,750

0

0

0

$236,419

Sister Otoole

$44,125

0

n/a

Fury Kapcori

Journeyman Stallions

Tiznow

$227,744

22

7

1

1

0

$227,744

Napa Rules

$48,890

8

$3,250

Young Brian

Oakton Farm Stallions

Hard Spun

$86,286

8

3

0

0

0

$86,286

Heavenly Blessing $26,150

0

n/a

n/a 2 n/a

2yo Avg

n/a $2,500 n/a

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