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2014 FTBOA
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AWARDS
2014 FLORIDA BREEDER OF THE YEAR
2014 LEADING OWNER BY FLORIDA-BRED EARNINGS
OCALA STUD
JACKS OR BETTER FARM
(J. Michael O'Farrell Jr., President) For the fourth time in the last five years, Ocala Stud was named the Florida Breeder of the Year. Ocala Stud was the 2014 leading Florida breeder by Florida-bred earnings with $2,318,486. On the season, Ocala Stud was represented as a breeder by Florida-bred graded stakes winner Asia Express and Florida-bred multiple Grade 1 stakes-placed Calculator. Additionally, the partnership of Ocala Stud, Ebert Vans Inc. and Edward Wiest bred 2014 Florida-bred stakes-placed winner Schivarelli. Asia Express, a 2011 colt by Henny Hughes out of the Running Stag mare Running Bobcats, had another outstanding season racing in Japan. Asia Express won the Leopard Stakes (G3-JPN) by three and a half lengths on August 10. He was also second in the Fuji TV Sho Spring Stakes (G2-JPN) to earn $606,007 on the season. Asia Express was sold for $230,000 by Ocala Stud at the 2013 OBS March juvenile sale and currently races for Yukio Baba. Named the 2013 champion 2-year-old colt in Japan, Asia Express has career earnings to date of $1,464,947. Calculator, a 2012 colt by Ocala Stud stallion In Summation out of the Alphabet Soup mare Back to Basics, showed plenty of talent in 2014. He was twice second in Grade 1 stakes to American Pharoah, who went on to be earn the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old
(Fred & Jane Brei) Fred and Jane Brei’s Jacks Or Better Farm led all owners by Florida-bred earnings with $1,935,927. Jacks Or Better Farm runners posted 32 wins, 35 seconds and 32 thirds in 196 starts. Carrying the distinctive purple with gold polka dots Jacks Or Better Farm silks were six homebred stakes winners. That total also made Jacks Or Better Farm the 2014 leading breeder by number of
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The O’Farrells of Ocala Stud (above) and Jane & Fred Brei of Jacks Or Better Farm (at right)
colt. Calculator posted runner-up finishes to American Pharoah in both the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and Frontrunner Stakes (G1). He banked $133,500 on the season and was named the 2014 Florida-bred champion 2-yearold colt. Ocala Stud sold Calculator for $132,000 at the 2014 OBS April juvenile sale. Current trainer Peter Miller signed the ticket for current owner Richard Pell. Schivarelli, a 2011 colt by Montbrook out of the Trippi mare Alotofappeal, was third in the Millions Classic Preview Stakes at Gulfstream Park West. He earned $161,750 on the season. Kantharos, who stands at Ocala Stud, was the 2014 leading active Florida freshman and juvenile sire. A graded-stakes winning son of Lion Heart out of the Southern Halo mare Contessa Halo, Kantharos recorded 2014 progeny earnings of $868,968. He was represented by Florida-bred stakes winner Mr. Jordan and six stakesplaced horses. Ocala Stud was also named the Florida Breeder of the Year in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The historic operation was founded in 1956 by a nine-man syndicate that included the late Joe O'Farrell Sr.
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