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CONTENTS September 2018 VOL 61/ISSUE 7

DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS 6 THE BROCK TALK 8 FLORIDA FOCUS 16 IN MEMORIAM: MARK SHUFFITT 24 FTBOA BOARD CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES 43 NATIONAL NEWS 44 FLORIDA-BREDS AROUND THE COUNTRY Country-wide Florida-bred statistics

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LEADING SIRES LEADING 1ST & 2ND CROP SIRES EL POTRO

—By Roberto Rodriguez

FTBOA MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

—By Tammy A. Gantt

FEATURES 18

DEEP ROOTS

Marking the 50th anniversary of Live Oak Stud, one of Florida’s and indeed the nation’s preeminent thoroughbred farms and training facilities —By Gary West

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HINT OF A WIN

Imperial Hint Obviously Best with impressive win in Vanderbilt —By Brock Sheridan

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FLORIDA SIRE STAKES: BANG BANG

Cajun Firecracker Explodes for Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager Upset —By Brock Sheridan

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JOCKEY CLUB ROUND TABLE

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EQUINE CARE:

The Jockey Club offers to support industry initiatives based on recommendations from McKinsey Nutrition for sale horses —By Heather Smith Thomas

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Another Fine Group of First Crop Stallions in Florida

By BROCK SHERIDAN

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ooking at the national list of leading first crop sires as of Aug. 19, we see that Florida may have the best Brock Sheridan group of freshman sires since First Dude, Big Editor-in-Chief Drama and Gone Astray all made the national top 10 Florida Equine Communications JOHN D. FILER PHOTO among first crop sires in 2015.

The national leader among first crop sires of 2018 is Goldencents followed by Ocala Stud stallion Uncaptured in the number two spot, Stonehedge Farm South’s Cajun Breeze is in fourth and Woodford Thoroughbreds’ He’s Had Enough making the top 10 at number six.

It is not unusual for Florida-based sires to receive a boost in the standings this time of year with the rich FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager and Desert Vixen divisions being run in early August. However, this year’s first round FSS winners, Desert Vixen champion Capture Your Dream and Dr. Fager winner Cajun Firecracker, are both from the first crop of their respective sires and that is a bit of a rarity.

But it is more than just the Florida Sire Stakes that is in play here.

Uncaptured, who is the sire of Capture Your Dream, does not count her as his top money earner. That title goes to Catherinethegreat, who took the Grade 3 Schuylerville at Saratoga on July 20. Bred in Florida by Wendy Crist and Kathie Haines, Catherinethegreat is out of the Carson City mare Classy City Lady and has won two of her three starts with her only loss coming in her first race when second behind Florida-bred Nancysaidso in a May 26 maiden special weight at Gulfstream.

She won her first race in her next start at Gulfstream Park on June 23 against special weight maidens.

Trained by Mark Casse for John Oxley, Catherinethegreat already has $136,300 in earnings from three races.

Cajun Breeze has an entirely different story as a young stallion. Unlike Uncaptured, Cajun Breeze was not a multiple graded stakes winning millionaire during his racing career.

Instead, the son of Congrats was a multiple stakes-placed runner who earned $246,860. And to say he has a small crop of runners is an understatement with his eight current 2-yearolds. Out of those eight progeny, five are runners of which three have won including Cajun Firecracker.

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competition at Gulfstream on April 13.

He’s Had Enough, who was second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) won by Shanghai Bobby and third in the Grade 2 Robert Lewis Stakes, is a son of record-breaking sire Tapit out of the Dixieland Band mare Amelia.

He already has four winners from his 20 starters so far with his leading money earner being Elgin Escape, a Florida-bred gelding bred by Mr. and Mrs. William A.T. Rainbow of Ocala. Elgin Escape has two starts having finished fifth against winner Good Good in a maiden special weight at Gulfstream Park in June, a race in which she got off to a slow start. But she came back strong in her second race, also a maiden special weight at Gulfstream, this time winning by two lengths on Aug. 4.

And while Uncaptured, Cajun Breeze and He’s Had Enough are all in the top six in the national rankings, one does not have to move too far down that same list before Florida Freshman sires Handsome Mike (Pleasant Acres Stallions) and Drill (Get Away Farm) show up ranked at number 14 and 16 respectively.

Only two other states outside Kentucky have a first crop stallion in the top 10 and these are New York and New Mexico which have the number seven and 10-ranked first crop sires respectively. One has to go all the way to the number 29-ranked first crop producer before another New York sire shows up and to 34 before another first crop stallion standing in New Mexico is seen. So breeders in those states have a much thinner first crop menu from which to choose.

Before we sign off, it is also notable that Arindel Farm’s Brethren is nationally ranked at number three on the list of leading sires of 2-year-olds in 2018. As of Aug. 19, the son of Distorted Humor has produced 10 juvenile winners with earnings of $524,832. His leading juvenile runner is Mrs. Crews, who races for Florida breeders Richard Thompson and Shadybook Farm Inc. She has won two of three starts including a maiden special weight at Gulfstream in July and a starter optional claiming race, also at Gulfstream on Aug. 17.

Congratulations to those of you who chose to breed to these now hot and nationally ranked Florida stallions and continued success with all of your broodmares. It looks like Florida breeders will have a nice selection of top bloodlines to choose from in the years ahead and plenty for which we can remain bullish on Florida thoroughbred breeding and racing. ■

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Florida FOCUS by Brock Sheridan

After trainer Aubrey Maragh claimed Florida-bred Unbridled Courage for $25,000 out of an optional claiming event on May 10 in which she was sixth, he quickly had enough confidence to enter her against stakes company for her first race under his care. The 6year-old mare responded with a big effort to finish second in the $100,000 Ginger Punch Stakes at Gulfstream on June 16 but her improvement was apparently not complete.

In her next race on July 14, Maragh had Unbridled Courage going against stakes fillies and mares again and this time, she put in a courageous effort to win the $75,000 Treasure Coast Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The Treasure Coast featured nine fillies and mares

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Florida-bred Unbridled Courage

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Unbridled Courage is Brave in Treasure Coast Victory

going a mile on the turf.

With Nik Juarez aboard, Unbridled Courage went to the post as the fourth choice in the wagering at 4-1 behind favorite No Sweat from the Todd Pletcher barn at 2-1. Christmas Past Stakes winner Lipstick City was 5-2 while Nicole’s Dream Stakes runner-up Island Reward was 3-1 among a competitive bunch.

Longshot Tegla broke out on top but Vendita quickly took over from post three with Princess Ariel and Tegla also out in front as they went into the clubhouse turn. Meanwhile Juarez had Unbridled Courage under a tight restraint and was eighth of nine early in the race.

Vendita and Princess Ariel led the field through a first quarter-mile in :24.11 and a half-mile in :47.60 as No Sweat moved up to challenge the leaders and Unbridled Courage began passing horses on the outside as they moved around the far turn.

No Sweat took the lead from Vendita turning for home as Unbridled Courage was also putting in a rally on the outside. As Vendita tired, No Sweat and Unbridled Courage locked up with three-sixteenths of a mile to run. Neither would succumb and they hit the finish with Unbridled Courage

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Axelrod picked up his first stakes win July 14 at Indiana Grand Racetrack as the 3year-old colt took the $500,000 Indiana Derby (Grade 3) in an upset win at odds 121 over one and one-sixteenth miles.

Making his first start outside of California where trainer Michael McCarthy is based at Santa Anita, Axelrod improved off of his runner-up performance behind winner Draft Pick in the Grade 3 Affirmed at Santa Anita on June 10 to take the Indiana Derby in a come-from-behind performance.

Jockey Florent Geroux had Axelrod relaxed after a slow start and running eighth of nine in the early stages of the Indiana Derby as Tom Ridge Stakes winner and Ohio Derby (G3) third Trigger Warning set the early pace with Joel Rosario aboard.

Blame the Rider raced just to the outside of Trigger Warning in second as they finished the first quarter-mile in a leisurely :23.65 and a half-mile in :47.86.

Trigger Warning began to seperate from his challengers as they raced around the far turn as Blame the Rider could not keep pace and Axelrod was beginning to move closer the contenders.

Into the stretch, Trigger Warning was more than two lengths in front of a late running Title Ready in second with Dark Vader and

Big Drink of Water Quenches Victoria Stakes Florida-bred Big Drink of Water took the $100,000 (US $78,128) Victoria Stakes June 14 at Woodbine Race Course in an upset victory over 2-5 favorite Armistice Day. After defeating special weight maidens at Presque Isle Downs in his second start, Big Drink of Water was sent North of the border by trainer Teresa Connelly for his stakes debut

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Axelrod Upset Winner of Indiana Derby

Axelrod also getting into the mix.

Trigger Warning fought off all challengers until the final strides when Axelrod got up for a neck vicory in 1:43 flat over the fast track. Trigger Warning was second with Title Ready third.

“There was a lot of speed in the race and it’s just how the race unfolded,” said Geroux on his slow start with Axelrod. “I didn’t feel like being between horses. That’s just how it is sometimes. When I began to move him in the turn, his heart started getting bigger and bigger. I just felt confident right about the three-eighths pole. Before then, not so much.

That was close at the end. I mean I’m not sure [about catching Trigger Warning]. But the last two jumps, my horse just kept running on.”

Axelrod, who races for Nick Casato’s Slam Dunk Racing, picked up his third win from eight starts and earned $290,000 to push his career bank to $330,925. By Warrior’s Reward out of the Elusive Quality mare Volatile Vickie, Axelrod was bred in Florida by Hidden Point Farm, Inc. Axelrod is also a graduate of the 2016 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Winter Mixed Sale where Casato purchased him from the Bobby Jones Equine consignment.

“We felt confident about him (Axelrod) going into the race,” said Natalie Roberts, who assisted McCarthy in Indiana. “He is a very classy, laid back and easy going horse.

We knew he was a closer and with a lot of speed in the race, we thought he would race well. As far as I know, he will be shipping back to California pretty soon unless the owners and trainer decide something else.”

Axelrod returned $26.80 to win, $9.80 to place and $6.60 to show. ■

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a neck in front of No Sweat in a time of 1:35.91. Lipstick City was third.

“I was told she wants to go long, so I listened,” said Maragh. “She’s a big, good-looking filly.”

Unbridled Courage is by Leroidesanimaux (Brz) out of Unbridled Temper, by Unbridled.

She was bred in Florida by Family Broodmares III LLC and she now races for owners Auricchio and Jacobson LLC/RaDon. She earned $44,640 for winning the Treasure Beach and she now has career earnings of $241,871. She has now won seven of 30 career starts.

She paid $10.80 to win, $5.40 to place and $3.60 to show. ■

Florida-bred Axelrod

Florida-bred Big Drink of Water

in the Victoria, where he was one of five 3year-olds going five and one-half furlongs on the Tapeta main track.

Big Drink of Water and jockey Pablo Morales were quick out of the gate from the inside post and were able to lead the sophomores into the first turn. Longshots Newfie Express and Wallace were able to apply pressure from second and third respectively with Crawl From the Bar moving up as they came out of the far turn after fractions of :22.51 for the first two furlongs and :45.66 for the half-mile.

Big Drink of Water had daylight on Crawl from the Bar into the stretch as Armistice Day was looking for running room and trying to put in a rally after running last early in the race.

Armistice Day finally got a clear running path but had by then run out of racetrack as Big Drink of Water raced under the wire two and three-quarter lengths in front of the former with Crawl From the Bar another three lengths back in third.

“He’s just a super talented horse. Every time I’ve been on him, I’m surprised how easily he does things and how comfortable he is.

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Florida FOCUS Victoria victory. “I had an idea before we got in the gate that I was going to find myself on the lead; he was just really ready, really sharp. We’ve been racing him and I know he’s super fit, I was not going to take the race away from him the way he broke. The fractions showed like he was going a little fast, but I swear it felt like I was floating.

“I honestly had a lot of confidence in this horse. I really, really liked him since day one and he just keeps proving me right.”

Bred in Florida by Woodford Thoroughbreds and by their second-crop stallion Soldat out of Vindi Princess, by Vindication, Big Drink of Water is owned by Endeavor Bloodstock LLC. It was his second win from three starts and the $60,000 (US $45,600) first place check increased his wallet size to $70,390.

“He’s been a phenomenal baby to train, just the easiest horse you ever wanted to have in your stable,” said Connelly, who celebrated her first Woodbine win. “Pablo loves him as much as I do so I was just ecstatic that he would come ride him and I didn’t even expect to be on the lead. I thought a horse named Wallace [formerly trained

by Connelly] would be there so it’s all Pablo. I let him call the shots.”

Big Drink of Water paid $22.60 to win and $4.40 to place. There was no show wagering. ■

Florida-breds One-Two as Always Sunshine Takes Hockessin Stakes

Florida-bred Always Sunshine

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Mark J. Von Mandel passed away at home in Ocala on July 13 at the age of 70.

A graduate of the University of Miami he owned and operated a successful motorcycle shop and Air Cargo service in Miami, Fla. After selling these businesses he moved to Ocala to pursue his passion of owning and breeding thoroughbreds. Mark successfully bred and raced Two’s a Jake, who won the 1999 City of Hialeah Stakes at Hialeah Park. He also bred and campaigned several other winners throughout his career. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends who also remember him as an avid motorcyclist.

Mark, we know you are smiling down upon us. ■ year-old took the six furlong Hockessin by three and one-quarter lengths over his fellow Sunshine State native Stallwalkin’ Dude, who was second. Always Sunshine also avenged his runner-up performance behind winner Struth in last year’s Hockessin Stakes.

The Man, who took an optional claiming race at Parx in his last race, was again quick from the start from post two with Always Sunshine and jockey Frankie Pennington joining them on the outside after breaking from post 11. Stallwalkin’ Dude was bumped heavy at the start and found himself last of seven after the leaders went the first quarter-mile in :22.77.

The Man and Always Sunshine led the field of seven around the far turn as Stallwalkin’ Dude moved up to a menacing third. Always Sunshine shook free from The Man and Stallwalkin’ Dude at the top of the stretch and went on to win in a time of 1:09.99 over the track rated as fast. Stallwalkin’ Dude was second with The Man another nose back in third.

It was the first win in six starts for Always Sunshine, who had won an optional claiming race at Monmouth Park on May 29. It was his seventh career win from 22 starts and his third stakes victory. He won the 2016 Maryland Sprint (G3) in the slop at Pimlico and the 2015 Dave’s Friend at Laurel.

“He’s always acted like a nice horse,” trainer Ned Allard said. “He’s had a number of minor issues. It was just hard keeping him completely together, but this year he’s been going super.

While not committing to a next race for Always Sunshine, Allard said the $100,0 Always Sunshine is by the late Stonehedge Farm South stallion West Acre out of Sunny Again, by Awesome Again. The bay horse earned $45,000 for the win and increased his career bank to $462,650.

He was bred in Florida by Gilbert Campbell who races Always Sunshine under the banner of Stonehedge Farm.

Always Sunshine went off as the 5-2 second choice behind favored Stallwalkin’ Dude at 2-1 and returned $7.40 to win, $3.80 to place and $2.80 to show. ■

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In his last two races, Florida-bred Always Sunshine has faced two of the top sprinters around in fellow Floridians Imperial Hint in the Grade 2 True North at Belmont Park on June 10; and Stallwalkin’ Dude in the $75,000 Hockessin Stakes for 3-year-olds and older June 14 at Delaware Park.

Always Sunshine was fourth after being impeded by an injured Westwood in the True North won by the Imperial Hint. But Stallwalkin’ Dude did not fare as well against Always Sunshine as the 6-

In Memoriam: Mark J. Von Mandel

Florida-bred Catherinethegreat

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Catherinethegreat Provides Riches For Connections in Saratoga’s Schuylerville It is said that the real Catherine the Great era is often considered the Golden Age of Russia.

The Florida-bred Catherinethegreat, however, has a ways to go before her reign on the track is considered as the Golden era for owner John Oxley and trainer Mark Casse. Oxley won the 2001 Kentucky Derby (G1) with Monarchos and the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) with Eclipse Award champion older female and Florida-bred Beautiful Pleasure while Casse is a Canadian Hall of Famer, nine-time Sovereign Award winner and counts two time Eclipse Award winning female turf horse Tepin among the 19 champions he has trained.

Nonetheless, Catherinethegreat put in a golden performance on opening day at Saratoga on July 20 as she won the Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes by four and one-half lengths. The $150,000 Schuylerville attracted a field of 10 2-year-old fillies going six furlongs on the main track.

She also provided a halcyon day for Ocala Stud stallion Uncaptured as she became the first black-type winner for her sire.

Catherinethegreat was bet down to the second choice in the wagering at 3-1, just behind Nonna Madeline at 2-1 from the Todd Pletcher barn.

Nonna Madeline had won her only start when she defeated special weight maidens by more than four lengths at Monmouth Park on June 23.

It took Catherinethegreat two tries to win her first race after finishing second behind next-out winner Nancysaidso in a maiden special weight at Gulfstream on May 26 over a sloppy track. She came back very strong in her second race, also on June 23 but at Gulfstream, when she demolished a group of special weight maidens by more than 10 lengths, again over a sloppy surface.

Catherinethegreat and jockey Jose Ortiz broke well from post

one while Nonna Madeline broke last, about a length behind the rest in the first strides.

Catherinethegreat was able to establish a well-placed position on the lead while Indiana Downs maiden winner Serengeti Empress applied pressure from between horses. Astoria Stakes runner-up Lady Apple raced just to their outside in the three-path while Nonna Madeline tucked in behind them on the rail.

Catherinethegreat and Ortiz began to put some daylight on the rest after a sizzling first quarter-mile in rapid :21.78 as Serengeti Empress chased in second with Lady Apple still third on the outside.

Catherinethegreat led by a full length after the half-mile in :44.74 but quickly extended that lead as they made their way into the stretch.

Nonna Madeline switched to the outside and tried to muster a challenge against Catherinethegreat but the Florida-bred was much the best and went on to win in a time of 1:09.98 with Nonna Madeline second and Congrats Gal making a late run to get third. Serengeti Empress, Lady Apple, Eyeinthesky, Fightress, Lonely Road, Tapping Pearl, and Blame the Frog completed the order of finish.

“Unfortunately, with the break we didn’t have a whole lot of choice but to go,” Casse said. “I talked to [jockey] Jose [Ortiz] about her this morning and I said if she breaks, you might have to go. It didn’t hurt our feeling that [Nonna Madeline] got away a little slow because she most likely

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Florida FOCUS Ocala Jockey Club International Wins Florida Sports Foundation Award The Ocala Jockey Club’s 2017 Ocala Jockey Club International 3-Day Event was honored with the “Small Market Event of the Year” award by the Florida Sports Foundation at the July 17 Marion County Board of County Commissioners’ meeting.

“We are excited to continue welcoming the athletes and their teams to the Horse Capital of the World™ for the Ocala Jockey Club International 3-Day Event,” said Marion County Board of County Commissioners Chairman Kathy Bryant. “Hosting high-quality athletic events such as this one is a great economic driver, and also a wonderful opportunity to introduce our community to visitors from around the world who might be experiencing Marion County for the first time.”

The Florida Sports Foundation, the state’s leading sports promotion and development organization, created this award as one of six awarded annually to recognize Florida’s communities and sports commissions for their outstanding efforts in the state’s sports tourism.

The 2017 Ocala Jockey Club International

In Memoriam: Betty King Passes Florida Horsewoman, Betty Ann Brinkman-King, passed on to Glory on July 22 in DeRidder, La., where she has made her home for the past six years. Prior to that, Betty made her home in Williston, Fla. for more than 40 years.

She and Joe King managed Howard Sam’s Waldemar Farm in Williston for more than two decades. During that time the farm produced many winners including the 1975 Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure.

She was a founding member of the Williston Horseman’s Association, Life member of the American Quarter Horse Association, past member of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association, past member of the Levy County, and Florida and National Cattlemen’s Associations. She was a barrel racer, fan of Rodeo and a monetary supporter of the Miss Rodeo America contests.

Betty continued her passion of breeding thoroughbreds until her passing moment, “Forever in the search of the perfect X factor.”

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations in Memory of Betty to go to “The Jockey Club’s Safety Net Foundation” – 40 E 52nd St (15th Floor), New York, NY 10022.

Betty is being cremated and will be brought home to Williston one day in the near future where her ashes will be set free on her beloved home grounds. ■ 12 THE FLORIDA HORSE • SEPTEMBER 2018

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would of hooked up with her early. I was nervous when I first saw the fractions and, after, I thought she’s a pretty good horse. Jose’s a top rider. He’s one of the best in the world. I don’t try to give too many instructions. I just try to get the best riders I can and let them to their job.”

Returning $8.40 for a $2 win wager and $4.30 to place and $3.60 to show, Catherinethegreat was one of three horses Casse saddled in the race. His other two entries, Eyeinthesky and Tapping Pearl, finished sixth and ninth, respectively. His son Norman, recently out on his own after serving as Mark’s longtime assistant, saddled seventh-place finisher Fightress.

“It’s weird [to run against his son], but it’s a great feeling,” Casse said. “Here we are at Saratoga, it doesn’t get any better at Saratoga.

The only thing that would’ve been better is if my dad had been here. … I’ve been watching the Schuylerville since I was a little boy and to think there were four Casse horses in there; it doesn’t get much better than that.”

Catherinethegreat, who is out of Classy City Lady, by Carson City, was bred in Florida by Wendy Christ and Kathie Haines.

She now has two wins from three starts and $136,000 in earnings. ■

Florida Sports Foundation Award recognizes Florida’s communities and sports commissions for their outstanding efforts in the state’s sports tourism

3-Day Event was the second annual 3-Day Eventing FEI-sanctioned competition at the horse farm community of the Ocala Jockey Club, held from Nov. 1619, 2017. This 3-Day eventing competition is an equestrian triathlon, with each horse and rider combination competing in dressage, show jumping and cross-country running over natural terrain and prepared obstacles that mimic large-scale natural challenges such as ditches, drops and fallen logs.

The Ocala Jockey Club International 3-Day Event has quickly established itself as a popular destination for top-level riders, with four of the five 2018 U.S. Eventing World Equestrian Team members having ridden in one or both of the first two editions of the event.

In recognition of its sports tourism value, the event has been generously supported with a grant by the Marion County Visitors & Convention Bureau (MCVCB).

The 2018 Ocala Jockey Club International 3-Day Event will take place Nov. 15-18. The CIC3*course is again designed by Mike Etherington-Smith, former head of British Eventing, and the course designer for the Sydney and Beijing Olympic Games. ■

Kevin Carmona Notches First Career Victory at Gulfstream Apprentice jockey Kevin Carmona notched his first career victory July 21 at Gulfstream Park, guiding longshot Art Major ($63.60) to an off-the-pace victory in the first race.

The 19-year-old graduate of Puerto Rico’s jockey school most recently worked as an ex-

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ercise rider for trainer Todd Pletcher, the de- respectful second behind fellow Florida-bred fending 15-time Championship Meet titlist, Imperial Hint in the $100,000 Horse Races for 13 months, during which time he galloped Now Sprint over six furlongs at Tampa on this year’s $1 million Florida Derby (G1) and March 25 before finishing fourth behind winner Mr. Jordan in the $100,000 Big Drama $350,000 Holy Bull (G2) winner Audible.

“I’m happy to win my first race at Gulf- Stakes at Gulfstream on May 12.

He was then transferred to the barn of stream,” said Carmona, who credited Pletcher and Gulfstream Park’s clerk of scales Victor trainer Victor Barboza who sent him against mid-level optional claimers on Sanchez for helping him June 29 at Gulfstream, where achieve his goal to become a he finished second to winner jockey in the U.S. Hy Riverside.

The breakthrough victory Florida-bred Deland But the son of Gotcha came aboard his 24th mount, Gold out of Star Brook, by to win, $4.40 to place and $3.20 to show. He a 3-year-old daughter of Montbrook was able to put it earned $45,570 for owner Ricardo Vallejo Munnings who chased the all together in the Coast is which increased his career bankroll to early pace while racing $268,249. He has now won 11 of 21 career Clear Stakes. three-wide into the stretch Coast is Clear favorite starts. Vallejo was able to purchase Deland for before drawing off to victory Conquest Big E, 6-1 choice a bargain price of $12,000 at the Ocala Breedby 1½ lengths in the 5½-furZipping and Florida-bred Mr. ers’ Sales August Yearling Sale in 2013 from long claiming race.

Jockey Kevin Carmona Jordan set the early fractions the consignment of Hawks Nest.

“Inside the quarter pole, a Deland was bred in Florida by Sherry R. hit him with the whip once and he finished as they went the first quarter-mile in :23.10 nice race,” said Carmona, who is represented and the half-mile in :44.97 with Deland and Mansfield and Kenneth H. Davis. ■ jockey Emisael Jaramillo chasing those by agent Pichi Garcia. ■ three from about two lengths further back March to the Arch Deland Breaks Through Steps Up in Toronto Cup in fourth.

With First Mainland Win As they moved around the far turn, Zipping Florida-bred March to the Arch won Florida-bred Deland picked up his first emerged from between horses and took a short his first stakes and his second consecutive win on the mainland and first black-type lead into the stretch as Deland began to move race July 28 at Woodbine Race Course as the stakes victory July 22 at Gulfstream Park as on the outside. Zipping began to draw clear of Live Oak Plantation homebred won the he won the $75,000 Coast is Clear Stakes. the field but as he approached the eighth-pole, $107,000 (US$81,962) Toronto Cup while The Coast is Clear was for 3-year-olds and Deland moved up to challenge. defeating seven rivals at one and one-sixDeland had all the momentum and went teenth miles on the turf. older going one mile on the main track and on to win by two lengths in a time of 1:35.86 featured a field of seven.

Trained by Mark Casse, March to the Arch Deland is a multiple Graded stakes win- over the fast track. Zipping held on for sec- came into the Toronto Cup after winning a ner in Puerto Rico where he won 10 of 15 ca- ond with Hy Riverside third. Mr. Jordan, first-level optional claiming race at Woodbine reer races including the Copa de Jose Diego Royal Holiday, Conquest Big E and Big in June, which was his second career win. The Stakes (G3-PR) and Copa Barbosa Memorial Daddy (Chi) completed the order of finish.

Toronto Cup was also the second time against “There was a lot of speed — 44 (seconds stakes company after finishing just a nose Stakes (G1-PR) at Hipodromo Camarero in 2016. However, those stakes are not recog- for the half-mile). It behind He’s Bankhelped my horse,” Barnized as black-type by The Jockey Club. able in the $100,000 Deland first traveled to South Florida for boza said. “The last DRF Bets Sophomore the Dec. 9 Clasico del Caribe at Gulfstream time, he set the pace Turf on Florida Cup Park but a foot injury kept him on the sidelines. and finished second day at Tampa Bay He then tried to make his first start on the but ran a good race.

Downs on Mar. 25 in mainland in a Tampa Bay Downs optional Today, he was very, his stakes debut. claiming race on Feb. 10, but he stumbled at very good.”

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Bella Vincenza is Beautiful in Added Elegance Florida-bred Bella Vincenza took her consistent form from the allowance and optional claiming ranks to stakes level competi14 THE FLORIDA HORSE • SEPTEMBER 2018

Florida-bred Bella Vincenza

In Memoriam: Brenda Kay Allen Jones Passes Brenda Kay Allen Jones passed away July 26 after a brief battle with cancer while surrounded by her family.

Jones was a well-respected horsewoman, lifelong animal lover, and devoted and beloved mother.

Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her family moved to Florida in 1962, but only after they promised to buy her a horse. This began her lifelong love affair with horses. From the beginning years with her husband Don, they had cows and cow horses that transitioned into games horses. From there they got into quarter horses where they had a successful breeding operation of show horses as well as race horses producing two AQHA champions. She finally found her ultimate passion with the Thoroughbred race horses. She found great success buying and selling yearlings, two year olds and breeding.

She had a great eye for Brenda Kay Allen Jones an athlete and it showed in the sales ring and on the race track. She loved fast horses and fast cars. She loved all of God’s creatures. She was constantly rescuing and raising abandoned, orphaned animals, from possums, raccoons to monkeys and a cougar, she raised them all.

She was a devoted mother to her daughter Danielle and her stepdaughter Lisa. She is preceded in death by her father Mac Allen. Survived by her husband Don Jones, daughter Danielle Jones, stepdaughter Lisa Donnelly, stepson Kevin Jones, Mother Bernice Allen, sister Donna Laburno, brothers Terry and Mark Allen, her grandchildren Joseph, Maxwell, and Jonathan Donnelly and many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to: The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance or the American Cancer Society. ■ FILE PHOTO

tion July 28 at Gulfstream Park as the 4-yearold filly won the $75,000 Added Elegance Stakes. The Added Elegance featured seven fillies and mares which had never won a stakes going seven furlongs for a purse $75,000.

In her last seven starts, Bella Vincenza had won four, including her last two, with three seconds. She came into the Added Elegance having won a first-level open allowance race at Gulfstream on May 28 by more than five lengths and a mid-level optional claiming race at Gulfstream on June 24 by a length and one-half.

Trained by Kathleen O’Connell for Pinnacle Racing LLC and Stein Racing LLC, Bella Vincenza was the second choice in the betting at 2-1 behind Musical Romance Stakes second Sweet Tooth Haven, who was 8-5.

She Takes Heart and jockey Tyler Gaffalione set the pace early in the Added Elegance getting a clear lead over Sweet Tooth Haven in second while going a quarter-mile in :23.58 and the half-mile in :48.87. Meanwhile Faith and Hope was third as Bella Vincenza and Luca Panici were content racing in fourth about three lengths from the front.

As they raced around the far turn, Panici sent Bella Vincenza to the outside where she began to make a run at the leaders. She Takes Heart continued to lead coming out of the far turn with Bella Vincenza making her bid on the outside and Sweet Tooth Haven also right there between horses. She Takes Heart held on until the final sixteenth of a mile before

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Boulanger, March to the Arch was in no hurry early in the race, settling mid-pack after breaking from post five as allowance winner and stablemate Lookin to Strike went to the front from post three. Longshot Inge followed in second with 2-1 favorite Rose’s Vision another length back in third after a quarter-mile in :24.38.

Lookin to Strike and Inge took them into the far turn after a half-mile in :47.82 while March to the Arch had dropped back and had one horse beat.

Turning for home, 7-1 choice Neepawa took over as the front-runners faltered and March to the Arch was hitting his best stride on the far outside wth Rose’s Vision also a threat while racing on the rail.

By mid-stretch March to the Arch was in his best stride and was able to draw off to win by a length and three-quarters over Rose’s Vision in second, three-quarter lengths ahead of Neepawa in third in a time of 1:48.07 over the course rated as good.

“He’s just a nice horse that can handle anything,” Boulanger said. “He’s got a pretty big move. The more you get to know him, you trust him that you’ve got to get him back and get him settled and he’ll come. He showed it today.”

Casse, who is a resident of Ocala and a nine-time winner of Canada’s Sovereign Award as the country’s top trainer, has now won five of the last eight runnings of the Toronto Cup. March to the Arch is by Arch out of Daveron (Ger), by Black Sam Bellamy (Ire) and he earned $60,000 (US$45,960) for the win and increased his career bankroll to $130,374.

March to the Arch has now won three of seven career starts.

March to the Arch paid $7.70 to win, $3.40 to place and $2.30 to show.

Flight Deck, Archaggelos O’Kratos, Lookin to Strike and Inge completed the order of finish. ■

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Broadway Run Wires Coronation Cup Field Broadway Run became the third Floridabred stakes winner in the first ten days of the prestigious Saratoga Race Course meeting when she led from start to finish to capture the $100,000 Coronation Cup Monday.

Broadway Run joined Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes winner Catherinethegreat and Grade 1 Vanderbilt winner Imperial Hint as Florida natives who have won stakes thus far at Saratoga this year.

The Coronation Cup saw a field of 10 3year-old fillies going five and one-half furlongs on the turf and Broadway Run wasted no time in going to the front after breaking evenly from post ten with Luis Saez aboard.

Florida-bred Broadway Run

In Memoriam: Harry Bono February 27, 1930 – July 27, 2018 Horseman, golfer, club manager It is with great sadness we report the passing of Harry Bono, the former owner of Turning Point Farm located in Ocala. Harry was the breeder of many fine thoroughbreds including stakes winner Saffronista, winner of the 2006 OBS Champion Filly Stakes and FTBOA champion Floridabred Delaware Township.

Harry and Louise Bono were also the winners of the Joe O’Farrell Memorial Award in Harry Bono 2001. ■ FILE PHOTO

Broadway Run led the field into the first turn ahead of Mominou in second with Flashly, Classy Dancer and Factorofwon also giving chase.

Moving into the far turn, Broadway Run got clear of Flashy in second with 7-2 favorite Mominou another length back in third with Classy Dancer fourth to her outside.

Around the turn and with a first quarter split in :22.60, Broadway Run was joined by Flashly to her outside as Alywow Stakes winner Originator began to make a late run from further back.

Broadway Run led into the stretch as Flashly tired with Originator and Lady Suebee trying to muster a challenge from the outside.

However, Broadway Run remained tenacious and hit the finish three-quarters of a length ahead of Originator in second with Lady Suebee third in a time of 1:03.67 over the turf course labeled good.

“I wanted to break running and if I was in the lead, I would take it,” Saez said after winning his second race on the card. “If not, I would sit right there. She’s pretty fast.

I work her and she’s a kind filly. [My plan was] to break and see what position we were going to end up. When I saw everybody take a hold, I went to the lead and she just kept on going.”

Broadway Run is trained by John Terranova for William Dennis Kenny Jr.’s Curragh Stables LLC and she was making only her third career start. She won her first race against special weight maidens at six furlongs

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Bella Vincenza was able to get past her and win by a length and one-half over the frontrunner, who finished second, two lengths ahead of Sweet Tooth Haven in third. The running time was 1:22.99 on the fast main track.

“She definitely likes the distance and she found a home at this distance on dirt. Sometimes it just takes a while to get to know them,” trainer Kathleen O’Connell said. “This is a good example of horses that aren’t going to be stars as 2-year-olds because they need time to mature.”

By the Woodford Thoroughbreds stallion Biondetti, who is Florida’s second leading third crop sire behind only Overdriven, Bella Vincenza earned $45,570 for the win and increased her wallet to $220,673. She has won seven of 25 career starts and returned $6.20, $3.40 and $2.60.

Amaluna, Schmiss, Doritza and Faith N Hope completed the order of finish.

Bella Vincenza, who is out of the Dixie Union mare Cascina, was bred in Florida by David Berman. She is also a two-time graduate of Ocala Breeders’ Sales having brought $20,000 from Woodford Thoroughbreds as a weanling out of the Caballo Grande consignment at the 2014 October Mixed Sale. Woodford then consigned her to the 2016 April Sale where Pinnacle and Stein picked her up for $66,000. ■

on grass at Belmont Park on May 5 before she was second to Mominou in a first-level allowance race at seven furlongs on the turf at Belmont on May 31.

“When they’re fast, they’re fast,” Terranova said. “She’s very classy and a goodminded filly. She’s just gone forward mentally and physically since we got here. We didn’t know if we were going to cut her back to 51⁄2 [furlongs] or stretch her out a little bit. She has that big heavy-body style. She looks [like] a sprinter. But we figured [for] another start, we’d at least run her short. If we need to stretch her out down the road, we will. Hopefully, she develops and we’ll have options down the road.”

Broadway Run is by Ocala Stud stallion Prospective and is out of the Montbrook mare Lady Carlotta. She was bred in the Sunshine State by Ocala Stud and has now won two of her three career races. She earned $55,000 for her run in the Coronation Cup which pushed her career earnings to $115,400.

Ocala Stud also consigned Broadway Run to the 2017 Ocala Breeders’ Sales April Sale where Curragh purchased her for $120,000.

Sent off at 5-1, Broadway Run returned $13.40 for a $2 wager.

Tesora, Closer Still, Mominou, Factorofwon, Classy Dancer, Brattata, and Flashly completed the order of finish. ■ THE FLORIDA HORSE • SEPTEMBER 2018 15

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IN MEMORIAM

Mark Shuffitt,

Longtime Extension Agent, Dies at 57

By CARLOS MEDINA

staff and my board will miss him. My thoughts and prayers go to his wife and his family,” Powell said.

PRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM OCALA STAR BANNER Another of his passions was the Southeastern Youth Fair. He ‘I think we’re all saddened by his passing. He had a lot of had a particular fondness for the 4-H lamb project. years still to give.’—FTBOA CEO, Lonny Powell “He raised all the funding for the lamb show. He had his hand or 28 years, John Mark Shuffitt helped Marion County’s in everything with the lamb show,” said Denise Deen, director owners of livestock raise their animals with an enthusiasm of the fair.

But Shuffitt was deeply involved in all aspects of the fair. He and genuine concern that instilled trust and respect.

Shuffitt died suddenly early Saturday morning, leaving behind enjoyed introducing young people to agriculture and livestock.

He was also very active in the local and nearly 30 years of dedication to Marion state cattleman’s associations and received County agriculture and a loving family. He numerous awards for his work in agriculture. was 57.

Shuffitt is survived by his wife, In Marion County, livestock mostly Suzanne, and daughters, Kate and Sarah. means horses, and Shuffitt was a mainstay “He enjoyed helping people. He like in the local industry, offering his expertise teaching and sharing knowledge,” Suzanne through the UF/IFAS Extension office. But Shuffitt said. he wouldn’t just dole out information; he’d On Monday, Suzanne and Kate rememmake sure to get the whole story first. bered Shuffitt and laughed as they recalled “He was an excellent extension agent. He his easy manner with his three “girls.” always asked a lot of questions. He wanted to “He was a very patient person with us,” get a full picture of what he was dealing with Kate said, remembering how she and her before he gave advice,” said David Holmes, sister would give their father a hard time. the director of the local extension office.

“At the same time, he could turn Holmes said he spoke to Shuffitt on Friaround and give you the look and it would day afternoon as he was working on his exMark Shuffitt make me cry because you knew you were pense report.

“It was just one of those passing conversations you have every in trouble,” she said.

Shuffitt, Suzanne remembered, was proud of his Southern drawl, day. I was shocked when I heard the news,” he said. “We will cowboy hats and boots. It threw people off, and he loved that. miss him.”

“He got an evaluation from one of his classes and it said, ‘For A native of Warren County, Kentucky, Shuffitt joined the local extension office in 1991, after working on a horse farm in Marion sounding like a hick, he was very informative.’ He thought that County. He earned a bachelor’s degree in animal sciences at West- was the greatest compliment,” she said.

Kate said she was often left scratching her head thanks to his ern Kentucky University and got his master’s degree in agriculextensive vocabulary. ture from the University of Florida.

“He was so articulate, but he didn’t look like he was going to “He was so enthusiastic about horses and his job and the horse people in Marion County. He was a fixture in the community. I be,” she said.

A memorial service for Shuffitt was held Aug. 16 at the Southknow he will be missed,” said Lonny Powell, executive vice president and CEO of the Ocala-based Florida Thoroughbred Breed- eastern Livestock Pavilion sales arena, 2232 NE Jacksonville Road, Ocala. Instead of flowers, the family asks for donations in ers’ and Owners’ Association.

Shuffitt wrote a monthly column for the Florida Horse, the Shuffitt’s name to the Southeastern Youth Fair Memorial Scholarship Fund, PO Box 404 Ocala, FL 34478.

FTBOA’s trade publication.

The fair plans to set up a scholarship in his name awarded to “He had a lot of interest in thoroughbreds. I think we’re all saddened by his passing. He had a lot of years still to give. I know my those who need help covering costs to enter the lamb show. ■ FILE PHOTO

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Marking the 50th anniversary of Live Oak Stud, one of Florida’s and indeed the nation’s preeminent thoroughbred farms and training facilities

By GARY WEST

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ifty years ago, Charlotte Weber came to Ocala looking for the perfect place to raise a family, put down roots, make a stand. With that goal in mind, the Philadelphia native already had looked far and wide, traveling with her husband, John C. Weber, to Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and California. But 50 years ago their search

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ended, in everlastingly salubrious weather beneath elegantly venerable live oaks.

And so this year marks the 50th anniversary of Live Oak Stud, one of Florida’s and indeed the nation’s preeminent thoroughbred farms and training facilities. The faces and horses there have changed, and much else, needless to say, in 50 years — relationships, expansion, children, capital improvements, divorce, more expansion, grandchildren.

The industry and racing have evolved dramatically, too, yielding inevitably if not happily to the relentlessness of modernity’s flux. But what distinguishes Live Oak from just about every place else is what hasn’t changed. The immutable sets Live Oak apart: Charlotte Weber and her approach to breeding and racing horses. Succinctly and simply stated, her approach is an uncompromising pursuit of excellence. And her primary metric for excel-

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lence is victory on the racetrack.

Weber’s homebred Yes, that sounds suspiciously brahma bull like PR puffery — the uncompromising pursuit of excellence — just the sort of thing you’d expect to hear in a television commercial Live Oak Stud for (fill in the name of your fa- 50th Anniversary vorite car) during a break in “American Ninja Warrior.” That’s the price of living in the Ironic Age. But Live Oak lives elsewhere: It resides in an era of great horse farms, great horses and great sporting people who forthrightly uphold the highest standards and patiently pursue the loftiest goals. In that regard, Live Oak is much older than 50 years.

Live Oak nods respectfully in its way to modernity, employing where appropriate the innovations and technologies needed, but, in truth, it has more in common with the great thoroughbred farms of the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s —such as Tartan, Greentree, Belair Stud, Rokeby, Sagamore, King Ranch, Idle Hour, Darby Dan and Calumet — than with changed my model, and I won’t change bemost of today’s commercial operations.

Live oak trees can stand for hundreds of cause of others’ expectations.”

Weber’s model is to breed horses for the years. They’re so tough and so durable that they were used in the construction of the hull racetrack, not the sales ring. Or, as she put it, of the USS Constitution, better known as her objective at her 4,500-acre farm is to “Old Ironsides.” And so the farm’s name, as it “breed for a classic horse.” And so she breeds turns out, describes more than the picturesque 30 or so mares each year, sending most of landscape; the name implies standards and them to stallions in Kentucky, and then develops their babies into the best racehorses goals that defy both time and deterioration.

“I want to play the game at the very high- they can be, while remaining realistic and reaest level,” Weber said, “and I insist on playing the game with integrity. … I haven’t ,

sonable, ever mindful that not every foal will become a racehorse and not every racehorse a stakes competitor. But every foal at Live Oak will get the opportunity to define itself and prove itself, no matter how much time or care or attention that might require.

“If you’re a horse, you want to be born here,” said Bruce Hill, Live Oak’s general manager. “Win, lose or draw, it’s life at the Ritz.”

Nobody at Live Oak is going to boast about a gaudy sales price trailing a conga line of zeroes, but everybody at the farm takes pride in stakes victories, especially Weber, for each is dearly achieved with years of effort.

And because she doesn’t send her yearlings through the sales ring, she’s indifferent to the stallions a la mode and to the whims and fashions that blow through the market. She’s more practical than fashionable. Her two turf champions, World Approval last year and Miesque’s Approval in 2006, are the living proof, for they’re both by stallions that were never especially popular. World Approval is a son of Northern Afleet. World Approval’s half-brother is by Miesque’s Son. It’s an approach that wouldn’t work for everybody, and Weber acknowledges that she’s fortunate, as a Campbell’s Soup heir, to have the resources to make it work for herself. But it’s not just the resources that make Live Oak successful as a farm and Live Oak Plantation as a racing stable; she doesn’t toss money at the game in the egotistical hope that some

you’re a horse you want to be born here. Win, lose or “Ifdraw, it’s life at the Ritz. ” —Bruce Hill, Live Oak’s general manager.

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celebrity and notoriety will rebound her way.

Live Oak succeeds because of the forceful personality that guides it. And beneath her conspicuous passion for the sport and her love for her horses, there’s a foundation of business acumen; beneath the high standards there’s a foundation of compassionate empathy.

“I’m the luckiest person in the world,” Hill said, “to be working here and doing what I love. I’ve never had a bad boss, but she’s the best. … She does right by the horse, and tradition is important to her. She loves this place, and her fingerprints are all over it…. There’s just some intangible something about some people that makes you want run through a brick wall or fight wild tigers for them. And she’s that person.”

It would be an easy task to gather supporting proof that Weber’s approach has been successful — 20 Grade 1 winners, including the two champions, Miesque’s Approval and World Approval, who both won the Breeders’ Cup Mile, as well as Sultry Song, who won the Woodward and the Whitney; Solar Splendor, who won the Man o’ War (twice) and the Turf Classic; High Fly, who won the Fountain of Youth and the Florida Derby; and To Honor And Serve, who won the Remsen, the Woodward and the Cigar Mile.

But in choosing a Live Oak standardbearer, Hill tapped Unbridled Humor. Being at Live Oak, he said, made all the difference with her. Then, early in her 2-year-old season,

training at Live Oak in preparation for going eighth in 2011. During this period, Live Oak’s to the racetrack to start her juvenile campaign, horses have won 395 races, or 18.45 percent of she made little progress, Hill recalled. She had their 2,140 starts, and have earned $25,314,209.

“She’s done it all, and she’s seen it all,” issues, small problems, first this and then that.

Veterinarians had recommendations; every- Mark Casse, Live Oak’s principal trainer, said body had suggestions; but Weber had the an- about Weber. “That’s what she brings to the table. You just want to win races for her; you swer: Turn the filly out and give her time.

Unbridled Humor would go on to become want to do the best you can for her because she gets it. And when one of her horses wins a multiple graded-stakes-winner.

Similarly, Zo Impressive, it was suggested a big race, everybody at the farm is elated, by an advisor to Live Oak, should not have . even entered early training because she was That’s what she brings to the table. You just want “too back in the knees.” to win races for her; you want to do the best you Instead, Weber did not can for her because she gets it. And when one of race Zo Impressive until January of her sopho- her horses wins a big race, everybody at the farm is elated, everybody, because she lets more year.

“She came back a everybody know.

—Mark Casse, Live Oak’s principal different horse,” Hill trainer on Charlotte Weber said, “and the next year she won the Mother Gooose (G1) (and fin- everybody, because she lets everybody know ished second in both the Acorn (G1) and the they contributed to it.”

Coaching Club American Oaks (G1)). At anIn October of 2016, just weeks before the Breeders’ Cup Championship races at Santa other farm, she might not have made it.”

Instead, Zo Impressive has gone on to be- Anita, Live Oak had two promising juvenile come the dam of graded-stakes-winner prospects: Victory to Victory, who had won Souper Tapit, who is still racing under the the Natalma Stakes, and Golden Hawk, who had just won the Grey Stakes by more than training of Mark Casse.

Over the last decade, Live Oak Plantation five lengths. But then, during routine trainhas secured its place among the nation’s top ing, Golden Hawk went down with a fracowners, ranking ninth last year and as high as tured leg. And on the morning of the

“She’s done it all, and she’s seen it all

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outside clients, and Weber will typiBreeders’ Cup, Casse recalled, he cally purchase a few prospects at had to scratch Victory to Victory sales, and so more than 100 horses, because of an abscess. sometimes much more, will usually When it comes to hopes and be at the farm — broodmares, badreams, horse racing can be a ruthless magician: Now you see them, Live Oak Stud bies, yearlings, lay-ups, retirees, vaand now they’re gone.

50th Anniversary cationers. Yes, vacationers. All the Live Oak racehorses come home “In two weeks, we went from having two Breeders’ Cup horses to having each year for a rest. Racehorses, like people, none,” Casse remembered. “But Mrs. Weber Weber said, need some time away from the wasn’t concerned about herself; she was con- stress of working or training.

“I know I need a change from time to cerned about all the people who work for her.

She understands that for many of these peo- time,” she said. “Shouldn’t they (the horses) ple these horses are like their children, and get a change from time to time, too?” World she was worried about them. And you know Approval, she pointed out, returned to Live what she said to me the morning we had to Oak after a subpar effort in June, when he scratch Victory to Victory? She said, ‘We’ll finished sixth in the Wise Dan Stakes at Churchill Downs. Plans get ‘em next year,’ and we did.”

Live Oak, Casse said, is indeed very much to send him to Dubai like the great thoroughbred farms of the first disrupted his schedule, half of the century. Even more remarkable she explained, robbed perhaps is that its growth has paralleled the him of his vacation. He didn’t travel overseas rise of the commercial breeder.

A year after Weber settled in Ocala, Ma- after all, but he neverjestic Prince won the Kentucky Derby in what theless showed the efmight have been a watershed moment. The fects of the disruption.

“He’s OK,” she said sale-topper at the Keeneland Select, Majestic Prince showed people of wealth that to stroll about World Approval, across the stage and into the national spotlight “But I don’t want to run as the winner of the Kentucky Derby they did- him if he’s just OK. n’t necessarily have to own a farm and nurture From him, we don’t a band of broodmares and wait years for a look for OK; we look moonshot’s chance. Frank McMahon didn’t for wow. Maybe at some wait; he bought his chance for $250,000. And point he’ll tell me that since Majestic Prince sold for an unprece- there are no more big dented, princely sum ($1.89 million in today’s races, no more wow dollars), he convinced breeders that there races, left in him. And then we’ll bring him home to stay.” could be a gold mine in their futures.

Last year, of course, World Approval had Since then, only 19 of the 49 Derby winners, or 38.77 percent, have been home-breds. more than a few wow races. A white flash that Actually, though, only about nine of those, or lit up the fall for racing fans from New York 18.36 percent, raced for the farm where they to California, he had a wow campaign, finwere foaled. But in the 49 years before Ma- ishing with authoritative victories in the jestic Prince, 28 Derby winners, or 57.14 per- Fourstardave Handicap (G1) at Saratoga, the Woodbine Mile (G1) in Canada and the cent, were home-breds.

Yes, Live Oak has much in common with Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at Del Mar. He’s expected to resume training soon. some of the great horse farms of the past, even though it began modestly enough in 1968 with But when the gelding retires to Live Oak, 1,100 acres. Equine extravagance wasn’t a he’ll be pampered and afforded lavish comgoal, but over the years the farm has had to forts, but not just because he earned a foradd barns and acres to accommodate a bur- tune on the racetrack. He’ll be pampered geoning horse population. Live Oak welcomes because it’s his birthright.

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Aside from Weber herself, the most important female at Live Oak has to be Win Approval. A home-bred daughter of With Approval, she won only two races in her career, but racing wasn’t her forte. She might look like an old gray mare, but she has become one of the sport’s great blue hens, having produced four millionaires: World Approval ($3,062,363 in earnings); Za Approval ($1,394,666); Miesque’s Approval ($2,648,879); and Revved Up ($1,548,653).

Two of the millionaires competed in stakes at age eight, and another at 10; so at six, World Approval might have some wow left in him.

After 50 years, Live Oak’s all about longevity.

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the spring,” Weber said, pointing out that one of her greatest joys is to have breakfast on her patio and watch the horses, streaks of gray and white across a green palette. Win Approval’s paddock is nearby; the millionaires’, too.

In 1978, as the farm was expanding and activities multiplying, Live Oak built a threequarter-mile training track. Today that’s where trainer Joseph Ambrosia gets the young horses started in their initial lessons. He’ll begin by breaking the early foals in late August, and from there he’ll go slowly, very slowly.

Also on the property are 22 homes, where many of the 60 farm employees live. Most have worked there for more than 10 years. And Live Oak has a commercial cattle herd, cared for attentively, just like the horses, Hill pointed out.

Years ago, Live Oak raised Clydesdales.

Working with the draft horses, Weber’s son Chester developed a passion for driving a carriage team. That passion led to international competition and then to a world championship. Weber’s granddaughter Chloe Reid, having competed on the international show jumping circuit and represented America at the Nations Cup Final in Barcelona, has fo-

cused on the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. As horses for the future, aiming for races that might not even have a definite place on the Weber said, everything’s deep into horses.

Live Oak Stud stands no stallions. It has, calendar, Weber has many more plans and dreams than worries. Like the though, in the past, had stalsport itself, she has an inexlions such as Medieval Man, haustible capacity for hope.

With Approval, Sultry Song, How could anybody last 50 Eltish and High Fly. And the years in this game without it? door’s open to standing stalAnd she’s so positive in her lions in the future. But their thinking, so optimistic, that absence from Live Oak Stud with her, hope becomes faith. somehow feels more fitting The foal crop will come than ironic. The Live Oak back, she predicted. She focus, after all, is on the race, hopes, she said, to see Live track and the winner’s circle, I like it all, I’m deep Oak win a Triple Crown race not the breeding shed and the into horses, but I love and more Breeders’ Cup sales ring.

Weber said she has con- the farm, especially races and perhaps a race in Dubai, and she hopes to see a cerns for this sport she loves in the spring, passionately. She worries, she — Charlotte Weber visionary emerge to guide racing towards its potential. said, about state lotteries, What is that potential exactly? Hard to say, about trainers who “don’t want to run their horses,” about integrity issues and about own- but the suspicion here is that the answer might ers who retire their stars prematurely without lie somewhere at Live Oak, and at farms like giving them the opportunity to develop as it, and that horse racing’s potential depends at least in part on people who lead by example. older horses.

But as somebody who’s developing race- And have led, for 50 years. ■

“I’m a racetracker ”

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FTBOA Board of Directors Candidate Biographies

NOMINATED BY THE FTBOA BOARD

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T. PAUL BULMAHN / Ocala Owner, GoldMark Farm An entrepreneur in various industries, Paul Bulmahn grew up with a love of horses. He opened GoldMark Farm, a 2,600 acre commercial thoroughbred training center with a three-quarter mile track, barns designed to stay cool, an equine saltwater spa, and Equivibe vibration plates in Ocala in 2006. His homebred, Soutache, won two legs of the 2017 Florida Sire Stakes and top graduates of breaking, training, and rehabilitation include Cross Traffic, Mylute, Shackleford, Dullahan, Karlovy Vary, Pluck, Gypsey’s Warning, Mr. Sidney, Backtalk, Elusive Lady, Timber Reserve, It’s Tea Time, Silver Max, and Private Zone.

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NICK DE MERIC / Ocala Owner, Manuden Farm/Eclipse Training Center / de Meric Thoroughbreds Nick grew up in England, showing ponies as a youngster and graduating to three-day eventing and point to pointing when he turned sixteen. After graduating from Bradfield College, he worked as a journalist in London for the Field Magazine, before studying Rural Estate Management at Cirencester Agricultural College in Gloucestershire. After this he did stints with English trainers R. C. Sturdy, Brian Swift and Roger Stack before moving to Australia and working for the legendary trainer Tommy Smith. Later he became interested by North American racing and sales, and in the early 1980s worked for Clay Camp, Lee Eaton and Fred Seitz before settling in Ocala by way of Louisiana, where he met his future wife, Jaqui. He and Jaqui rode for a number of farms in the Ocala area before marrying in 1983. Nick and Jaqui had their first two-yearold consignment that year and the fledgling business quickly grew into a major two-year-old training operation. Their graduates include You

and I, Chaposa Springs, Smokin’ Frolic, Wallenda, Forty One Carats, Ask The Moon, Capo Bastone, Currency Swap, Materiality, Annals of Time, War Story, Practical Joke, and Separationofpowers. Nick has also served on the board of OBS since 2001.

In 1992 they bought Eclipse Training Center adjacent to their Manuden Farm, now an accredited facility totaling 240 acres. Both their kids, Ali, now a member of the Rice clan, and Tris, who with his wife Valery, have become crucial partners in the operation. ■ LAURINE MAE FULLER-VARGAS / Morriston Owner, Cedar Lock Farm / Fuller-Vargas Racing Stable Laurine has devoted her entire life to thoroughbreds and the racing industry. She’s a third generation horsemen, and as a child, spent every moment possible in the barn or at the racetrack.

She learned everything from picking feet, walking hots and rolling bandages to rehabbing injured horses and galloping racehorses. At age 12, Laurine became Massachusetts’ youngest licensed owner and in 2008 her dreams came true when she saddled Ask Queenie, the richest Massachusetts-Bred in racehorse history, to her first win as a licensed trainer. From that point on there was no looking back… she knew she would never go a day without horses in her life. Laurine moved to her family farm in Florida in 2006. Her duties included all aspects of the industry including breaking/training babies, sales prep, breeding mares, foaling, race training and racing horses year round in Florida to aftercare of retired racehorses. Today, after many years of devotion and leadership, her grandfather’s legacy, the 65 acre Cedar Lock Farm is still a successful and thriving farm home to over 25 thoroughbreds. It is also home to the local beloved Run for the Ribbons. In 2014, she founded Run for the Ribbons Inc., a 501c3 program dedicated to improving the lives of OTTBs after their racing careers. Laurine truly cares about FILE PHOTO

for three-year terms running until October 2021. Pursuant to the Association’s Bylaws, the current Board of Directors nominated the following five candidates for these vacancies: (1) Paul Bulmahn; (2) Nick de Meric; (3) Laurine Mae Fuller-Vargas; (4) Richard Kent, incumbent; and (5) George Russell, immediate past president. Each candidate agreed to run and to serve as an FTBOA Director. The FTBOA Bylaws also allow a candidate to self-nominate by circulating a petition and obtaining 25 member signatures. One such petition was filed by Ms. Fuller-Vargas, with the Board of Directors subsequently deciding to include her in the Board’s slate of nominations. As provided in the Association’s 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 on Oct. 18.

the invention of a biomass reactor to turn horse manure into energy and is working to make the process useful for large and small horse farms alike. He supports many equine causes and community events, including hosting the Ocala Symphony at the farm and a Florida Horse Park fundraiser featuring Kate Chenery Tweedy. He has also contributed a positive industry voice to television interviews and is producing a documentary movie about the living Triple Crown jockeys.

He presently serves on the Texas State University Board of Directors of the College of Business Foundation and also on the Skywave Network LLC board. Paul earned a J.D. from University of Texas School of Law; and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business, Texas State University, which in 2000 named him a Distinguished Alumnus. ■

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RICHARD KENT / Ocala Owner, Kaizen Sales Kent moved to Ocala in 1990 to become general manager of Bridlewood Farm. During his tenture, Bridlewood Farm bred and raced Grade 1 millionaire Jolie’s Halo and purchased and sold Grade 1 winner Serena’s Song. In 1999, he became president and chief operating officer of Plumley Farms which in partnership with Ocala Stud stood Trippi, Sweetsouthernsaint and High Cotton. Also, Eclipse award winning Florida champion and Breeders’ Cup winner Dubai Majesty was bred, raced and sold during Kent’s tenure at Plumley Farms.

Upon the dispersal of Plumley Farm, Kent continued selling under the banner of Kaizen Sales and recently consigned Grade 1 Alcibiades winner and Florida champion Peace and War. He has been married to Lise for 30 years and they have three daughters Claire,

Tara and Julie. Julie is currently involved in the business as the sales coordinator for Brookdale Sales in Lexington.

A current board member, Kent notes that he represents many small and large Florida breeders at all sales and it is with their best interest in mind that he approaches his Board decisions. Kent is the chairman of the FTBOA Marketing/Communications committee which provided guidance for the 2018 national digital marketing campaign focusing on the reasons to buy, sell, own, breed and race Florida-breds and on the state incentive programs. ■ GEORGE RUSSELL / Reddick Owner, Rustlewood Farm Immediate past president of FTBOA, Russell was born and raised in South Florida. He and his wife, Karen, visited the area and were impressed with the area’s beauty, the slower paced lifestyle and the beautifully manicured horse farms. In 1987 they purchased 158 acres on Hwy. 225A and established Rustlewood Farm.

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the horses and the integrity of the industry and feels she has a lot to offer the FTBOA & its members. She lives in Morriston with her husband Jorge and their three children. ■

From the Boardroom On Friday, Aug. 17, the FTBOA held a Board of Directors meeting, with the portion regarding the 2019 Annual Awards Plan open to the public.

The Board reviewed recommendations by management for a proposed 2019 Annual Awards Plan, which would, once again, offer the highest possible Breeder and Stallion Awards percentages expressly authorized under Florida law – 20% of the announced gross purse for both Breeder and Stallion Awards, with Breeder Awards distributed across first, second, and third place. This proposal would continue the awards levels established by the Board for 2017 and 2018 – the highest in the history of the Association and the Florida thoroughbred industry.

The proposed 2019 Annual Awards Plan includes a 2019 Breeder & Stallion Awards Policy (Appendix A) and a 2019 Industry Promotion Plan (Appendix B). The Plan is available on the FTBOA website at www.ftboa.com,then select NEWS, then MEETING NOTICE. The proposed 2019 Annual Awards Plan was previously presented by management to the FTBOA Executive Committee on Aug. 16, at which time a noticed opportunity for public comment was provided. Two members of the public attended, but no public comments were offered. After presentations to the Board on each item, the Board voted to accept the proposed 2019 Annual Awards Plan as presented.

The proposed tri-party Florida-Bred stakes agreements for the 2019 Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs meets were previously presented by management to the FTBOA Executive Committee on August 16. The Executive Committee approved the agreements at that time pursuant to the authority previously delegated by the Board. At its meeting on August 17, the

lies from neighbor Elmer Heubeck yielded Rustlewood’s first stakes winner. All Considered won the I Guarantee Stakes at Gulfstream Park and produced a number of winners for the Russells, including Consider the source, winner of the 2005 Florida Stallion Stakes My Dear Girl.

In addition to these black type winners, Rustlewood has also bred, raised and/or raced stakes horses All Milady, All in the Book, Blue Pepsi Lodge, Inside Affair, as well as multiple Grade 1 winner Chaposa Springs, Grade 1 winner You and I, Group 2 winner Distinctly North, Grade 2 stakes winner Mach Ride, Grade 3 stakes winner Prudhoe Bay and multiple graded stakes-placed Pat N Jack. He bred multiple graded stakes winner El Kabeir, with career earnings of $946,557.

Russell is the founder and current President of Russell Engineering, Inc. He is a past Chairman of the Board of the Florida Transportation Builders’ Association. He currently serves on Ocala Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Board.

Russell has been instrumental in FTBOA’s legislative role, governance and racing program development, is past chair of the charity/social committee, and a strong advocate of Florida Thoroughbred Charities. ■

Board was briefed on those agreements.

Warren Husband, General Counsel, provided a legal/regulatory update focused on Calder’s recent request for an opinion from the Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering that would allow Calder to stop thoroughbred racing and instead conduct jai alai as the pari-mutuel sport qualifying Calder to operate slot machines. The FTBOA, and possibly other industry players, will seek to intervene in that action, driving home the significant economic impact such a move would have on our industry and the reasons why the opinion requested by Calder should not be granted.

For 2018, there are five Director vacancies on the FTBOA Board to be filled, for three-year terms running until October 2021. Pursuant to the Association’s Bylaws, the current Board of Directors nominated the following five candidates for these vacancies: (1) Paul Bulmahn; (2) Nick de Meric; (3) Laurine Mae Fuller-Vargas; (4) Richard Kent, incumbent; and (5) George Russell, immediate past president. Each candidate agreed to run and to serve as an FTBOA Director. The FTBOA Bylaws also allow a candidate to self-nominate by circulating a petition and obtaining 25 member signatures. One such petition was filed by Ms. Fuller-Vargas, with the Board of Directors subsequently deciding to include her in the Board’s slate of nominations. As provided in the Association’s 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. A notice for the annual meeting will be sent out Sept. 18 for the Oct. 18 meeting, which will be held once again at the Marion County Agriculture Extension Auditorium starting at 1 p.m.

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BY BROCK SHERIDAN mperial Hint won his second consecutive Graded stake as he took the Grade 1 Vanderbilt Stakes at Saratoga on July 28 and he did it in much the same manner as he did in winning the True North (G2) at Belmont Park on June 8 with one significant difference. He won the True North by a hard fought neck over runner-up Whitmore while he won the Vanderbilt in a gallop, finishing ahead of second-place finisher Warrior’s Club by three and one-half lengths.

The Vanderbilt saw a field of seven 3-year-olds and older go six furlongs on the main track for a $350,000 purse.

Imperial Hint was made the 4-5 favorite for the Vanderbilt having also taken the $100,000 Horse Races Now Sprint at Tampa Bay Downs on March 25. Between the Sprint and the True North, the Florida-bred sprinter finished sixth after setting the pace in the May 8 Churchill Downs Stakes (G2) won by Limousine Liberal.

Just as he did in the True North, however, Imperial Hint broke evenly with jockey Javier Castellano and was in no hurry for the lead. Instead Iowa Sprint winner Done Deal broke on top and went right to the lead from the outside with Mr. Crow joining him from on the inside from post six. Maryland Sprint (G3) winner Switzerland and the D. Wayne Lukas-trained Warrior’s Club were also in the mix as they raced down the backstretch.

Switzerland moved up to take the lead from the inside as they approached the far turn. Mr. Crow was second on his outside with Done Deal third and Imperial Hint just behind them in fourth.

Switzerland and Done Deal took them around the far turn while Castel-

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lano swung Imperial Hint to the outside where he began to move.

Swizerland lead them into the stretch but Imperial Hint was now on even terms from the four path and had a clear advantage before they made it another sixteenth of a mile.

Imperial Hint finished in 1:08.98 on the track rated as good with Warrior’s Club second, two and three-quarter lengths ahead of longshot Sweetontheladies in third.

“He doesn’t have to hook up with the speed,” Castellano said. “He doesn’t have to set the pace and I think now he can settle back a little bit and then he finds the last kick. [It was] very impressive today. I could have opened up by 10, but he is a great horse and I enjoyed the ride.”

It was the first career Grade 1 victory for Imperial Hint, who was second

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Imperial Hint Obviously Best with impressive win in Vanderbilt behind eventual sprint champion Roy H in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar in November. Based at Parx under the care of trainer Luis Carvajal Jr. for owner Raymond Mamone, Imperial Hint won for the 11th time in 17 career starts while increasing his earnings to $1,210,155.

“When he runs, I always expect him to do this well,” Carvajal said. “Winning here at Saratoga, this kind of race, it’s my first Grade 1 for me [and] my owner. It’s just fantastic. That’s the way I wanted to see him win. For Imperial Hint, it’s great to have a Grade 1. I think I’ll go back to the barns and see how he came back. Now, I have to keep him sound and healthy and hopefully I can go back to the Breeders’ Cup.” Imperial Hint is by Imperialism out of the Lahint mare Royal Hint. He was bred in Florida by Bert Pilcher’s Shade Tree Thoroughbreds. n THE FLORIDA HORSE • SEPTEMBER 2018 27

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Cajun Firecracker Explodes for Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager Upset

By BROCK SHERIDAN Hallandale Beach, Fla.— ajun Firecracker pulled a mild upset at odds of 7-1 to win the $100,000 Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager at Gulfstream Park Aug. 4 while defeating odds-on favorite Fully Loaded.

The six furlong FTBOA FSS Dr. Fager is the first leg of the male division of the $1.4 million FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes that continues with the $200,000 Affirmed at seven furlongs on Sept. 1 and the $400,000 In Reality at a mile and onesixteenth on Sept. 29. The Florida Sire Stakes also features female divisions that are made up of the $100,000 Desert Vixen run just after the Dr. Fager at Gulfstream Saturday and continues with the $200,000 FTBOA FSS Susan’s Girl at seven furlongs

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on Sept. 1 and the $400,000 My Dear Girl at a mile and one-sixteenth on Sept. 29. The FTBOA FSS is for Florida-bred 2-year-olds sired by FTBOA-registered stallions standing in Florida.

Older horses at Gulfstream Park will also have a chance at Florida Sire Stakes money when they go one mile for $150,000 in the FTBOA FSS Wildcat Heir on Sept. 29.

There were also five undercard races on Aug. 4 that carried $5,000 “Win” bonuses for Florida Sire Stakeseligible runners in races three, five, eight, nine and 10.

In the Dr. Fager, favorite Fully Loaded was first from the gate from post six along with stablemate Jackson while Cajun Firecracker was bumped at the start before jockey Miguel Vasquez was able to place him just behind the two frontrunners in third.

Down the backstretch, Jackson got clear of Fully Loaded as they went the first quartermile in a quick :22.08 while Cajun Firecracker remained in third with Nacho Papa right alongside in fourth and about a length and one-half off the two leaders.

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side of Jackson and was able to get clear as they turned sire’s lead as the top first crop sire in Florida and second for home after a half-mile in :44.80. nationally behind only Goldencents.

Fully Loaded led the field into the stretch from beBy Ocala Stud stallion Uncaptured out of tween horses as Jackson remained in contention on the Morethanamiracle, by Line in the Sand, Capture Your inside as Cajun Firecracker began to challenge from the Dream had only one other start coming into the Desert outside under a strong left-handed urging from Vasquez. Vixen having won a Maiden Special Weight at GulfApproaching the finish, Fully Loaded swerved left stream on May 13. and into Cajun Firecracker who also came out on a late Jockey Tyler Gaffalione rode Capture Your Dream running Garter and Tie on the outside. with confidence from post nine after 34-1 longshot Cajun Firecracker hit the finish a neck in front of Cookie Dough took the lead from the start with Capture Fully Loaded in second with Garter and Tie third in a Your Dream second as they left the chute in the six furtime of 1:09.94. long Desert Vixen.

After a first quarter mile in a rapid :21.94, Capture However, Tyler Gaffalione on Garter and Tie claimed Your Dream moved up to challenge Cookie Dough in foul against the winner for interference the turn and had a short lead by the time they hit the in the stretch but it was determined by home stretch after a half-mile in a still quick :45.37. the stewards that Fully Loaded had caused the problem and disqualified him Cookie Dough remained refrom second and placed him third besilient into the final furlong as hind winner Cajun Firecracker and jockey Tyler Gaffalione went to work on Capture Your Dream as SeGarter and Tie second. lect Friday was putting in a late run.

Cajun Firecracker, who races for at Gulfstream represented Shadybrook Farm and is trained by the strongest and most Michael Yates, is by first crop sire Cajun Breeze, who stands at Stonehedge Farm most talked about first leg South in Williston, Fla. Cajun Breeze has of the series.

–FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell. been somewhat of a phenom himself as he was the third leading national first crop sire behind Goldencents and Ocala Stud’s Uncaptured.

However, Cajun Breeze has accomplished his standing from just eight foals and five runners from his first crop.

“I thought his pedigree (by Congrats out of Cajun Dawn by Awesome Again] warranted him being a stallion,” Yates said. “We always thought he was a very special horse and a very sound horse. So we took a shot [at a stallion career.]”

Yates also owned the dam of Cajun Firecracker, Clara Bow, by Way West (Fr).

“We owned the mare – she ran a little up the east coast – she’s a pretty mare. She had some talent but had some issues as a race horse so we just bred her,” said Yates, who bred Cajun Firecracker under the name of his Shadybook Farm.

Cajun Firecracker earned $60,000 for the win, pushing his career bank to $103,000 He is now undefeated in two starts after winning a maiden special weight at Gulfstream on April 13. He paid $16.20, $8.80 and $3.60.

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Kathy Machesky and John Oxley’s Capture Your Dream did not disappoint her supporters at the mutuel windows as she took the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen at odds of .70-1 and adding to her

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Into the final strides, Capture Your Dream edged clear to win by a length and one-quarter over Select Friday in second with Capriati third in a time of 1:11.31 over the fast track.

Bred in Florida by Kathy Machesky, who sold interest in her to Oxley after her first race, Capture Your Dream earned $60,000 for the win to increase her earnings to $96,000 in two career starts.

“Working with her and Catherinethegreat, Uncaptured’s horses seem to be really smart. They know what they’re doing. It’s like it’s bred in them,” said Allen Hardy, Casse’s assistant trainer at Palm Meadows.

Catherinethegreat is another Florida-bred 2-year-old

by Uncaptured who broke her maiden at Gulfstream on June 23 for Casse before going to Saratoga to win the Grade 3 Schuylerville on July 20.

“The filly broke real good today and put herself in a good spot. She showed she could relax and when I asked her to run she showed a nice turn of foot. I don’t see seven furlongs being a problem,” said Gaffalione, looking ahead to the second leg of the Florida Sire Stakes.

“[The] two FSS stakes races at Gulfstream represented the strongest and most most talked about first leg of the series,” enthused FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell.

“The quality of the competition was strong and the full gates of 12 and 14 horses reflected how coveted these Florida-sired/Florida-bred 2-year-old stakes are by our Florida owners and trainers. I also am pleased to see our FSS Win Bonuses placed on a variety of non-stakes races on the day’s undercard.

“We thank the track and horsemen for their work and support. We all look forward to seeing the next two FSS stakes where the big money doubles to $200,000 each.

“We also tip our hat to the breeders, owners and trainers for their participation and congratulate our two big winning Florida-breds and their dedicated connections.

“The large on-track crowd and amazing media generated around [the] races clearly demonstrate the acceptance, interest, large field sizes and continued increase in foals registered to participate in FTBOA’s nationally acclaimed FSS program.” ■

On the Up & Up Total handle on Gulfstream’s Sire Stakes program was $9.576 million, a 13percent increase over last year’s handle of $8.433. Handle on the opening leg of the Sire Stakes has risen each of the last four years when $6.244 million was wagered in 2015.

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The Jockey Club Round Table Support Industry Initiatives Based on Recommendations from McKinsey

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n response to findings from McKinsey & Company’s latest analysis of the thoroughbred industry, Stuart S. Janney III, the chairman of The Jockey Club, announced at this morning’s Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing that The Jockey Club will look to support several industry initiatives in an effort to improve the sport and foster fan development.

Dan Singer, leader of the Global Sports and Gaming practice for McKinsey & Company, and Mike Salvaris, a senior external advisor for the organization, presented their findings earlier at the Stuart S. conference, which was held at The Gideon Janney III Putnam in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Singer and Salvaris focused on four key areas of potential fan development in their report, which was commissioned by The Jockey Club: ■ Ensuring Major League Cities have Major League Tracks ■ Digital Fan Development and Engagement ■ Advanced Analytics ■ Capitalization on the Legalization of Sports Betting Singer noted the importance of the track experience in developing new fans. More than 60% of fans say that the most significant driver of their becoming a fan was their friends or relatives taking them to the track.

“Other major league sports have dramatically raised the bar on the game-day experience, with amenities such as nightclubs, bars that allow social viewing of the game, and non-stop interstitial entertainment,” said Singer.

“We believe it is imperative for the future of racing that the industry innovate and upgrade the track experience in the major population centers.”

Regarding digital fan development and engagement, Salvaris revealed that horse racing’s online engagement on social media platforms lags compared to other major sports’ and that racing needs to do a better job of capturing fan data from social media to create targeted, personalized digital marketing campaigns.

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of Sales Strategy & Operations for Google, who discussed how Google can be used to identify and learn about potential customers as well as strategies for effectively marketing to customers. Knowing a customer’s digital footprint aids in the marketing process.

“Understand your audience and break it down into specific segments by their interests, and speak to them based on their interests,” said Pollak. “Be authentic, consistent, and experiment and learn relentlessly, every day.

Be specific in what your objectives are.”

Salvaris touched on the utility of advanced analytics in areas such as race scheduling, takeout rates, simplifying handicapping, and adjusting trainer metrics to encourage increased entries and fuller fields. Based on McKinsey’s data, he advocated for racetracks to experiment with lower takeout rates for win, place, and show pools.

“We think [our] initial analysis makes a case for tracks to experiment with lower takeout rates for win/place/show pools, recognizing that it could take 612 months for bettors to adjust to new takeout rates,” said Salvaris. “In the short term, lowering takeout rates may simply lower revenue for the track and purse, with the ultimate gain in handle coming a year or more later.”

Singer closed the McKinsey portion of the Round Table with an examination of the potential effects of the legalization of sports betting on horse racing. He identified the need for racing to be cross-sold to sports bettors, innovation in the betting experience, and the introduction of fixed-odds wagering at American racetracks.

“The argument for fixed odds is that virtually all sports bets are fixed odds, and therefore sports bettors are accustomed to locking in their odds at the time they place the bet,” said Singer.

“Although pari-mutuel betting has significant advantages for the race book, many horse bettors dislike the odds changes that can happen in pari-mutuel, especially big moves in the odds just before, or even after, the race has started. The experience of Australia and the UK, which offer pari-mutuel betting in parallel with fixedodds betting, suggests that bettors prefer fixed-odds when they have a choice.”

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of stewards has approved further investigation into the following projects: ■ Develop plans to consider becoming a track owner, lessor or partner when a racing venue is imperiled.

■ Develop a capital improvement grant fund for HD (high definition) conversion.

■ Expand America’s Best Racing into a full-fledged digital media services company.

■ Further invest in live racing on national television.

■ Fund a permanent office of race day scheduling.

■ Advocate for tracks to experiment with decreased win, place, and show takeout rates.

■ Partner to fund a U.S. pilot of single pool betting.

■ Promote cross-marketing of sports betting and betting on horse racing.

■ Lobby for a fixed odds betting pilot.

“For a long time, we have consistently and comprehensively engaged on issues whenever the industry was at need,” said Janney. “Whether the start-up of Equibase or the NTRA corrective actions in the wake of a totalisator breach, providing funds for critical research and out-of-competition testing, and new fan and owner development programs, to name a few, The Jockey Club has – and will – be there for the industry.”

James L. Gagliano, president and chief operating officer of The Jockey Club, and Ian Highet, The Jockey Club’s secretary-treasurer, previewed McKinsey’s presentation with a situational analysis of the changes seen in the Thoroughbred industry since McKinsey’s 2011 study, “Driving Sustainable Growth for Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding.” The main trends mentioned by Gagliano included the shift in national handle toward races of higher quality, an increased share of handle coming through advance deposit wagering platforms, the growth of computer-assisted wagering, and improved public perception.

The conference also included a presentation by Simon Bazalgette, the group chief executive of The Jockey Club (U.K.). He provided an overview of The Jockey Club’s origins as a club devoted to improving the Thoroughbred in the 1700s to its evolution as the official governing body of horse racing in Britain and now today its largest commercial organization, which stages many of the sport’s biggest events. Today, governed by Royal Charter and with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as its Patron, The Jockey Club reinvests all profits from its operations back into British racing and seeks to support the sport’s long-term health.

Bazalgette also outlined racing’s successes and challenges in the U.K., drawing comparisons to American

horse racing. Among the most significant challenges he referenced were the race to keep the sport relevant on a local and global basis, addressing equine welfare concerns, and funding. He emphasized that the way horse racing is structured as a sport around the world requires authorities, stakeholders, and participants to work more collaboratively to promote the sport’s global brand, unFor a long time, lock its potential, and address its shared challenges. we have consistently “If we want racing to sustain, grow, and, ideally, thrive in the future in countries like the U.S. and the U.K., and and comprehenothers all around the world, we must find ways to give sively engaged on more people a reason to care about it as a sport, and not issues whenever the just a day out or something to bet on,” said Bazalgette. industry was at “We are up against global players such as football, need. Whether the Olympic sport, and F1, along with locally popular sports, leisure and entertainment properties. Can we do more start-up of Equibase together to promote racing in a globally connected world or the NTRA correcwhere people can access content anywhere? Can we tive actions in the work collaboratively to address the challenges we all wake of a totalisator face? I think the answer needs to be, ‘yes.’”

Bazalgette detailed The Jockey Club’s latest work to breach, providing elevate the customer experience at its racecourses and funds for critical regrowing the customer base. The Jockey Club U.K.’s ef- search and out-offorts focus on making significant investments in facili- competition testing, ties and a more data-led approach to attract the British and new fan and public to attend the races, and its longer-term efforts to convert more people into fans of the sport. To meet this owner development goal, the organization is investing in initiatives such as programs, to name a targeted digital content, a team racing concept, street few, The Jockey races in major cities, loyalty programs, and championing Club has – and will diversity among the fans, talent and its workforce.

– be there for the inLaura Barillaro, executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Jockey Club, delivered the activ- dustry. ities of The Jockey Club report. In her remarks, she —Stuart S. Janney III announced the latest recommendation from the Thoroughbred Safety Committee, which calls for: “All licensed racing and training facilities to include monitoring and recording information in the Equine Industry Database concerning fatalities and horses observed lame by an official veterinarian during training hours in addition to recording relevant information related to soundness issues of the horse.”

The conference was attended by approximately 300 people and was live streamed on The Jockey Club’s website. It was also shown on TVG2 and tvg.com. ■

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By HEATHER SMITH THOMAS reparing yearlings for sales is sometimes a challenge—to have them arrive at peak readiness at the right time—and proper nutrition is a big part of this picture. Dr. Stephen Duren, Performance Horse Nutrition, consults with many thoroughbred breeding farms around the world, and formulates feeds for all conditions.

“When we look at young yearlings--from weanling age to yearling age--we want to see a normal growth curve throughout the winter.

We don’t want that curve to flatten out, or these young horses will have to catch up faster in the spring. They need to continue to grow through the winter after weaning,” he says.

“This is very important later, as we start the sales prep. It’s pretty easy to slow a yearling down in growth, but hard to catch up if you get behind and then have to feed a large amount of feed to try to catch up at the end. To maintain a steady growth curve over the winter months is therefore very important,” Duren says.

“The next thing, from a farm management standpoint, is to find out as quickly as possible which sale you’ll be putting these yearlings in, so you know your end target. If we are going to feed these young horses to peak at a certain time, it is very important to know what that time is going to be,” he says.

“Typically we want these horses in a full sales prep program for at least 90 days before that sale. The sales prep will entail a change in turnout, some forced exercise, and some training so they will stand up and show themselves well. We want enough time to adjust these yearlings and have them

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just right,” he explains.

During the sales prep, their nutrition changes. Those young horses must go from a horse that’s merely growing to a horse that is working and growing.

“We have to account for this in what we feed. If these yearlings are put in walking machines or being exercised by hand walking, treadmill, ponying, swimming or whatever the exercise might be, this increases their energy and protein requirements. As the horse is given forced exercise there will be muscle development/turnover, bone turnover, etc. You don’t just have a growing horse; you have now added exercise and must consider the nutritional needs for that as well,” Duren says.

Most farms have their favorite type of program for these feed changes. “Most of them will go from a normal weanling/yearling diet to a sales prep diet which is mainly an increase in fat content to provide more calories. And because we add more fat, we have to formulate the ration with additional protein as well as minerals and vitamins. If you are feeding the same volume but it has additional fat and the horse is exercising, the horse will be shortchanged on protein, etc. and the ration won’t be balanced. You have to make the necessary additions, so the prep diet is formulated differently than the growth diet,” he explains.

Many farm managers keep these young horses on the same diet as they move into sales prep, but trust their staff to hand add supplements like a coat conditioner, which is oil (and thus more calories) on a horseby-horse basis. “Most farms, however, will simply switch to a higher-fat feed. They

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may add additional fat to the formulated ration, for any horses that are behind and need more calories to catch up—to gain more weight and bloom a bit more,” he says.

“This is why it takes a full 90 days because when you start a forced exercise program with these young horses it will typically stimulate a spurt in growth hormone. The horses will take off growing faster, so you definitely have to feed more.”

You have to try to maintain their body condition while they are growing.

“This will require some additional feed.

Typically a yearling in a non-sales prep program will be fed the grain concentrate portion of their diet twice a day. The sales prep horses are usually fed smaller amounts more frequently so they are often fed three times per day,” says Duren.

Also, they are no longer fed in groups.

Sometimes weanling/yearlings are fed in groups over winter, in ground feeders or on the fence. “Once they enter sales prep they will have individual diets. That way you know exactly what each horse is being fed (and how much he is actually eating), targeting what that particular horse needs. Some farms, even during the growth phase, bring these horses in and feed them individually,” he says.

“During sales prep, yearlings are always fed individually and feed will be tailored to the individual, according to what you want to accomplish. They won’t be growing at the same rate. There will be different sire and broodmare lines, and with some you know this will be a very large yearling while others you know will be more compact. Body type must be considered. Some horses won’t need as much feed and others will need

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the crust. Pretty soon you more than average,” he says. were just picking off your faIn the sales prep, the feed vorite toppings to eat, and changes from straight carbohydrates (cereal sources) to a combination of leaving the rest,” he says.

Horses are similar. “If we’re adding things energy sources. “We use things like beet pulp and oil. This makes these feeds safer as we in- that they can take off, or have a reason not to crease the quantity,” he explains. Relying eat, they’ll sort it and not clean up the feed. mainly on grains can lead to problems. We can These sales prep horses are not college-hunavoid those risks if we utilize some other highly gry and tend to be a little fussy just because they have lots of feed in front of them and digestible energy sources.

“Another thing that I typically recommend at we’re pampering them. If we do too much this time is introduction of some alfalfa into these adding/supplementing we’re almost asking diets. This helps for two reasons. When we add that horse to back out of his feed tub. We forced exercise to the program, there is a tremen- don’t want that to happen,” he says.

“Feed manufacturers are experienced dous amount of bone turnover, and we need the extra calcium that alfalfa provides. We also need enough, and if you working with a good nutritionist, you should be the extra protein for muscle able to put everything into development and repair. I typically want to supply because when a feed that you need to have in there. There will be the about 25% of their forage as you start a forced occasional horse that will some form of alfalfa,” says exercise program with still need something else Duren. Another advantage these young horses it added, but I try to put as to alfalfa is the buffering effect from calcium, to help will typically stimulate much as I can into the feed, avoid ulcers—which are ala spurt in growth hor- so I don’t have to worry ways a risk for yearlings with mone. The horses will about changing the feed. I don’t want the horse that a high carb diet and the stress take off growing faster, I’m trying to get to gain of sales prep. so you definitely have weight to all of a sudden “My own personal preference is to put everything to feed more. You have back out of the feed tub and into the formulated feed that to try to maintain their not eat very well for three I can, so I don’t have to rely body condition while days,” explains Duren.

“This is another reason on my staff to add individual they are growing. for having at least a 90-day supplements to the feed.

—Dr. Stephen Duren Occasionally a certain horse prep. This gives time for changes. Horses change as will need something more, they grow. They won’t look but I try to have all the necperfect on day one when we essary ingredients formustart the program. If we feed lated into the feed. This them properly, however, and makes it consistent; none of it tastes different. If it tastes the same every time, they had a normal, good growth curve during we are more apt to get a consistent intake.” the winter, we won’t end up with a yearling Many horses become a little fussy if there’s any that’s much too light on day one and we have to start pushing him hard, right from the bekind of feed change, and won’t eat it.

The sales prep yearlings that are being fed ginning. If these weanlings/yearlings are prea high volume are always more fussy than conditioned before they ever get to the prep youngsters that are simply on a growing diet. program, they do better. This is why you need Duren uses what he calls the pizza analogy. to feed them well all winter; then they are eas“When you were in college and you ordered ier to prep.”

Many large farms that receive horses to pizza, you were starving and you ate all the toppings and the crust. By the time you were prep for sales won’t leave this to chance. into your third piece, maybe you didn’t eat “They will visit the farms quite early that

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they plan to get yearlings from, so they can intervene on the feeding program. They might tell the farm manager to up the feed on this one or that one so that their own job in that last 90 days will be easier, with less pressure on that horse to catch up. Then they won’t run the risk for colic or laminitis from having to push too much feed to that individual,” he explains.

“For instance, with the Kentucky sales, for the horses that come from other states that will be joining a consignment, the farms will send yearling managers to look at those horses ahead of time so they won’t be surprised when they receive those yearlings.”

The farms that have to ship yearlings also need to realize that putting them on a van and shipping them to a sale is a stressful event. “Those yearlings can lose some body condition just from shipping. You want to make sure that you have the yearlings either just right or slightly heavy just prior to shipping. They are going to a strange place, a new stall, etc. The horse next to them may not be one they’ve seen before. You have changed their routine and these horses are likely to drop a little weight and tuck up a little. With the change and the stress they may go off feed a bit. So I want to make sure they are slightly over, to allow room for error,” says Duren.

It can be an interesting challenge to get them all at peak readiness at the same time.

“Most farms are really good at this. When you walk through a barn of yearlings there will be differences in the amount of feed they get. Some will have a large volume of feed while others may be quite low. A group of fillies that don’t seem to get very stressed may have never gotten a feed volume increase from their regular yearling diet and are doing just fine. You added a feed with a little more fat when they started exercise but they are getting the same volume that they were receiving all winter,” he explains.

“On the other hand you might have a colt that is more nervous when you separate him from the others and he runs a bit more and is very active. That horse would get a feed increase.” The main thing is to feed each individual according to its needs, to meet the target goal by sale time. ■

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Amendment provides much needed H-2B visa cap relief advocated by the horse industry and its allies

House Appropriators Score Win for Horse Industry, Advance H-2B Visa Cap Relief!

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n July 25, the House Appropriations Committee convened a mark-up for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). By voice vote, the committee approved an amendment that exempts returning workers from the 66,000 statutory cap imposed on the H-2B guest worker visa program, providing much needed H-2B visa cap relief advocated by the horse industry and its allies. The amendment, offered by Congressional Horse Caucus Members Rep. Andy Harris, MD (R-MD) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), among others, applies to workers who have received guest worker visas during the previous two years. Additionally, the provision also establishes a visa allocation system that disburses work permits on a quarterly basis. Lawmakers believe that the quarterly system will create more flexibility for employers whose labor demands do not align with the semiannual allocation system, whereby DHS awards permits on April 1 and October 1. The horse industry and its allies in the H-2B Coalition fight for a variety of flexibility measures, in-

cluding a straight-forward increase in the visa cap, or generous exemptions from the statutory cap, such as those for returning workers.

Pointing to another flexibility measure, Rep. Harris (R-MD) released a statement explaining the importance of a provision that allocates visas on a “proportional” rather than a “winner take all” basis. Under this provision, DHS would award a portion of all timely, requested visas to all applicants, even in the event that “the higher limits authorized by [the]

amendment are not enough to satisfy all the needs in a given year.” To view a copy of Rep. Harris’s statement, please go to: https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-appropriations-committee-approves-harris-language-repairing-h-2b-visa.

While the House spending bill advances the goal of effectively raising the H-2B visa cap, the Senate version of the bill doesn’t address the H-2B visa issue, setting up an item to be negotiated during a House and Senate conference. Although lawmakers intend to finalize their spending measures before the current FY ends on September 30, this is a deadline that Congress rarely meets. As in years past, Congress may pass a series of “continuing resolutions” to fund the federal government. AHC will keep you posted on developments related to the H-2B measure as the FY2019 appropriations process moves forward. To view a copy of the three-page amendment, please go to: http://www.horsecouncil.org/wpcontent/uploads/2018/07/HARRMD_037_xml-offered-2-1.pdf.

If you’d like more information related to the guest worker issue, including ongoing grassroots outreach from the horse industry, please contact Bryan Brendle at bbrendle@horsecouncil.org or 202-2964031. ■ THE FLORIDA HORSE • SEPTEMBER 2018 43

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

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—STAKES RACES Win/Place/Show Horse Name Dalmore Big Changes Miz Mayhem Midnight Soiree Firenze Fire Old Time Revival Blue Bahia Cairenn Pure Sensation Discreet Lover Galleon Mast Archer Road Unbridled Courage Always Sunshine Big Drink of Water Axelrod Stallwalkin’ Dude Reed Kan Catherinethegreat Mr Chocolate Chip Congrats Gal Miss Deplorable Deland Zipping Control Stake Hy Riverside Just Talkin Bella Vincenza March to the Arch Imperial Hint Sweet Tooth Haven Sweetontheladies Imprimis Way to Versailles Broadway Run

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Grade/ Value

Earnings

3/$300,000 $50,000 $100,000 $117,500 3/$300,000 $74,250 $100,000 $75,250 3/$200,000 2/$700,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,250 $102,800 3/$500,000 $75,250 $63,300 3/$150,000 $63,700 3/$150,000 $60,900 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $75,000 $200,000 $75,000 $107,000 1/$350,000 $75,000 1/$350,000 $81,000 2/$177,550 $100,000

$59,800 $30,000 $60,000 $78,260 $165,000 $15,000 $20,000 $8,250 $22,000 $70,000 $14,700 $7,350 $44,640 $45,000 $60,000 $290,000 $15,000 $6,000 $82,500 $6,500 $18,000 $36,000 $45,570 $14,700 $4,950 $7,350 $24,000 $45,570 $60,000 $192,500 $7,350 $42,000 $45,000 $105,000 $55,000

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

4 5 4 4

Sire

Dam

J P's Gusto Kiss the Kid Kantharos Repent

From Behind Chinoiserie Chacana Sugarlick

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Philip Matthews & Karen Matthews Hardacre Farm LLC Rustlewood Farm Inc. Woodford Thoroughbreds

Way to Versailles/Royal North S. G2

MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO

Imperial Hint/Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. G1

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

6/30/18 6/30/18 7/1/18 7/1/18

CMR CMR HST ELP

2 3 3 3

$10,780 $10,780 $15,680 $41,400

Axelrod/Indiana Derby G3

Earnings $2,200 $1,100 $1,600 $2,700

LINSCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY

Remember Willy Kid’s Kid Jakobs Rocket Girl Our Closure

Sex Age

MICHAEL BURN PHOTO

Horse Name

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show Horse Name Judah Thorn Hill Cat Fire the Nurse Back to Seattle Glacier Ice Kaufy Land Ho Forever Wandy Pure Lemon Taylor’s Princess Unlockthepotential Extreme Caution One Summer Nite Benny Special Jersey Life Qualifly Shacklefords Lady Flash the Cash Aztec Key Master Charlie Silent Drifter Perfect Brunette Analyze Your Life Exotic Princess Matthew’s Ridge Flirty Spiritofgreatness Madeye Bootscutenboge D’boldest Threat Cosmologist Success Rate

Sex Age G G M G R G G M M F G M G G M C F C G C G F F F C F F G G M F C G

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

Sire

Dam

Reward the Cat Crown of Thorns Misremembered Put It Back Broken Vow Cowtown Cat Lonhro (AUS) Hold Me Back Eskendereya First Dude Crown of Thorns Value Plus Langfuhr Benny the Bull Bring the Heat Exclusive Quality Shackleford Flashstorm Circular Quay Adios Charlie Warrior's Reward Drill Overanalyze Overanalyze Paddy O'Prado Uncle Mo Greatness Factum Two Step Salsa D'wildcat Kantharos Drosselmeyer Friends Lake

Final Assault Tab a Cat River Forest Seemein Seattle Haddie Be Good Tune Up the Band Snow Cone Advance Glory Unicorn Kid Queen of Scots Lyrique Hometown Discount Oglala Sue Color Me Special Little Miss Julien Fly Express Dixieland Bull Tips On Tipping Aztec Sally Way West Dolly Drifting Restless Luck Smok'n Revel Exotic Tap Sweet Tart Fantastic Flirt Thruforthenight Absolute Madness Cadillac Mountain Boldest of All Prospect's Delight Enticing Girl Snappy Tune

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, Contributing Editor, Industry and Community Affairs • E. Jane Murray – Assistant Vice President, Administration & Operations

Breeder Dr. Michael Rotstein Woodford Thoroughbreds Glen Hill Farm Mary George Hal Snowden Jr. Gregory Kaufman Live Oak Stud Pamela Edel Sally J. Andersen L. Richard Kent & John Waterman Tim Stewart Woodford Thoroughbreds John E. Shaw Anthony Lenci Mr. & Mrs. Greg James Wesley Ward & Joe Pesci Herman Wilensky John Rio Carole Rio Michael Sivo & Dr. Laura Surovi-Sivo Star Runner Farm Nick deMeric Jaqui deMeric & Prestonwood Partnership Cedar Gate Farm LLC Michael Meeks Mrs. E. Norman Peterson Matalona Thoroughbreds LLC San Basilio LLC Murray Stroud Darsan Inc. & Uncle Mo Syndicate Helen Barbazon & Joseph Barbazon Stonehedge LLC Darryl Epting Soundview Farm Lucy Edwards & Randell Edwards Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman Maxxam Alliance

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

7/2/18 7/2/18 7/2/18 7/2/18 7/4/18 7/5/18 7/7/18 7/7/18 7/8/18 7/8/18 7/8/18 7/9/18 7/10/18 7/10/18 7/11/18 7/11/18 7/12/18 7/13/18 7/13/18 7/14/18 7/14/18 7/14/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/16/18 7/17/18 7/17/18 7/18/18 7/18/18 7/21/18 7/21/18 7/21/18

MNR PID ARP MNR WO PEN GPR CMR CMR PRM BEL ARP PID IND PEN TDN PEN NP MD CMR LAD CMR CMR CMR WO TDN MNR MNR MNR EVD CT PRM ALB

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

$17,848 $28,320 $12,100 $17,848 $61,400 $29,732 $3,977 $12,936 $14,406 $39,584 $77,246 $13,500 $27,920 $35,880 $31,976 $31,000 $29,736 $21,009 $5,500 $14,896 $22,220 $14,896 $15,200 $15,200 $69,800 $27,500 $18,032 $15,714 $17,848 $29,060 $24,500 $33,000 $20,100

Gulfstream Park •Michael Costanzo – Stakes Coordinator •Peter Aiello IV – Track Announcer

Ocala Breeders’ Sales

Earnings $10,672 $5,600 $1,210 $1,840 $12,200 $16,800 $2,173 $2,940 $8,526 $3,792 $7,700 $8,100 $5,600 $6,900 $5,600 $2,400 $16,800 $4,220 $495 $3,040 $4,000 $1,520 $8,816 $1,520 $6,710 $2,550 $10,672 $1,620 $10,672 $2,805 $15,190 $19,440 $4,020

Breeder •Rick Heatter

Trainers •Todd Pletcher •Chuck Simon

•Toom Ventura–President • Kevin Honig–Mutuels

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show Horse Name Wildwood Dancer Hissy Fit Cougar Country Thorn Hill Cat Gottcha My Dear Tevez Pete Marwick Battle Colors Taylor’s Princess Aztec Key Shacklefords Lady Wolfie Starship Mischief Ain’t Tellin’ Ready to Dance J P’s Gladys Flirty Lei It On Me Glacier Classic Cotton

Sex Age G M G G G G G G F G F M M G C F F M R G

6 5 6 4 8 12 3 4 3 6 4 5 5 7 3 4 3 6 4 4

Sire

Dam

Pomeroy Yesbyjimminy D'wildcat Crown of Thorns Gottcha Gold Running Stag Soldat Biondetti First Dude Circular Quay Shackleford Pomeroy Gone Astray Lewis Michael Take Charge Indy J P's Gusto Uncle Mo Benny the Bull Broken Vow High Cotton

Dancing Elaine Sing That Song Free to Soar Tab a Cat Definitely Dear Isle of Tunes Days Like This Tranquil Song Queen of Scots Aztec Sally Dixieland Bull Wolf N Hen Will I Do Darlin Dixie Readybdancing M's Angel Fantastic Flirt Po Po Au Pooh Haddie Be Good Siren Cove

Breeder Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson David Melin & Eddie Plesa Peter Eslick Woodford Thoroughbreds Seven Diamond B Holdings Inc. Roy S. Lerman Woodford Thoroughbreds Woodford Thoroughbreds Tim Stewart Nick deMeric Jaqui deMeric & Prestonwood Partnership John Rio Carole Rio Michael Sivo & Dr. Laura Surovi-Sivo Whitehall Lane Farm Freddie Hyatt Jacqueline J. Diamond & Gary L Mahon et al Brent & Crystal Fernung M. Sebastian D. Flanagan & E. Caha Stephanie Jones Darsan Inc. & Uncle Mo Syndicate University of Florida Foundation Hal Snowden Jr. John David O’Farrell & J. Michael O’Farrell Jr.

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

7/21/18 7/21/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/24/18 7/25/18 7/25/18 7/26/18 7/27/18 7/27/18 7/27/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/29/18 7/30/18

FP CT PRM PID WYO FE ASD EVD PRM MD PEN PEN FAR GPR NP TDN TDN TDN WO PID

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

$20,400 $24,500 $33,000 $28,560 $4,900 $17,732 $12,406 $24,180 $33,000 $5,500 $32,710 $29,120 $2,200 $4,400 $22,782 $24,000 $24,000 $24,000 $62,480 $28,120

Earnings $3,000 $4,900 $19,560 $5,600 $490 $3,100 $7,020 $14,100 $3,936 $3,520 $18,480 $3,080 $1,100 $2,332 $4,040 $4,800 $2,400 $2,400 $36,600 $16,800

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show Horse Name Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Off Date Track ID Pos

Enchanted Warrior Matthew’s Ridge Select Friday Syrup Crumb Bun Native Angel R Prerogative Flirty Foldover Pleasant Buffy Take Command Florida Two Step Proper Manners Friendly Fella Dizzy Cosmologist Double Medal Geaux Beaux Visions of You Frenchmen Street Shiny Copper Penny Starship Nala Persimmon Pass Capriati Gerrys Big Win Charlotte the Brit Avocado Toast Boldest Vow More Ice Homeboy Partner in Crime Song of Indy Mad Luther Ready to Dance Gnarly Zoe My Love Pudding Expect an Entry Convince Scraps Juliet’s Music

Sonja's Angel Sweet Tart Cristal Causeway Star of the Town Crumb Gentle Charmer Zarlanz Fantastic Flirt Centerfold Buffy Bluegrazz Espanola Way Bella Couture Usual Manner Donya Justmissedthetrain (IRE) Enticing Girl Double Tapped Grey Appeal Forbidden Image Onenightin Beijing Langworthy Perfectly Wild Float Your Boat Silent Sighs P. S. I Love You Silver Scandal Andrea Gail Baldomera Coal and Ice Darby Rose The Perfect Crime Snappy Tune La Belle Dame Readybdancing Via Pavion Indy's Alexandra Jozi's Turn Expect Becky Dakota Sis Romin Robin Blushing Juliet

John B. Penn Murray Stroud Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC Get Away Farm Eric J. Wirth Tanourin Stable Get Away Farm Darsan Inc. & Uncle Mo Syndicate Antonia Noonan Sharon Treadway Edward A. Seltzer Get Away Farm Sorrento Oaks Farm Inc Stonehedge LLC Arindel Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman Bridlewood Farm Ponder Hill Inc. Chessmate Thoroughbreds International LLC & Peter Halsall Glen Hill Farm Susan F. Woods William P. Sorren Keith C. Dickey & Danny Moncada Arindel Stonehedge LLC Helen Barbazon & Joseph Barbazon Craig L. Wheeler BryLynn Farm Inc. Hardacre Farm LLC Arindel Amaury J. Piedra Maxxam Alliance LLC Bonnie Heath Farm LLC Brent & Crystal Fernung M. Sebastian D. Flanagan & E. Caha John B. Penn Stonehedge LLC JSL Thoroughbreds Patricia Generazio Y-Lo Racing Stables LLC Arindel Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman

6/29/18 7/1/18 7/1/18 7/1/18 7/1/18 7/1/18 7/1/18 7/3/18 7/3/18 7/4/18 7/4/18 7/4/18 7/4/18 7/4/18 7/4/18 7/5/18 7/5/18 7/5/18 7/6/18 7/6/18 7/6/18 7/7/18 7/7/18 7/7/18 7/7/18 7/7/18 7/8/18 7/8/18 7/8/18 7/8/18 7/9/18 7/10/18 7/10/18 7/11/18 7/12/18 7/12/18 7/12/18 7/12/18 7/13/18 7/13/18 7/13/18

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

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

Shanghai Bobby Paddy O'Prado Kantharos Two Step Salsa Afleet Alex Flatter Drill Uncle Mo Overdriven Pleasant Strike Field Commission Two Step Salsa Black Onyx Hear No Evil Curlin Drosselmeyer Medaglia d'Oro Exclusive Quality Bob and John Malibu Moon Sweet Return (GB) Capo Bastone Fort Larned Brethren Winslow Homer Treasure Beach (GB) Big Drama Broken Vow More Than Ready Brethren Henny Hughes Take Charge Indy Mad Flatter Take Charge Indy Shanghai Bobby Factum Two Step Salsa Point of Entry Liaison Brethren Maclean's Music

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CMR WO GP MNR GP TAM GP PID LAD EVD GP GP DEL GP BEL PRM GP EVD GP GP GP GP LAD GP GP GP MTH OTP LRC GP ARP PID PID NP DEL FL DEL GP LRC GP PRM

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

Grade/ Value

Earnings

$10,780 $64,360 $76,000 $13,536 $76,000 $19,100 $76,000 $26,325 $21,220 $21,440 $51,050 $51,050 $33,490 $51,050 $75,000 $31,500 $44,700 $22,160 $48,050 $48,050 $48,050 $51,400 $19,000 $44,700 $51,400 $51,400 $36,700 $26,468 $40,000 $43,400 $9,700 $27,330 $27,130 $19,430 $34,125 $26,000 $34,125 $41,400 $40,000 $47,400 $31,500

$1,100 $36,600 $49,000 $2,820 $14,500 $2,380 $7,000 $16,200 $3,800 $12,600 $32,500 $9,400 $3,740 $4,900 $7,500 $18,780 $12,800 $2,310 $28,900 $9,800 $5,100 $32,500 $3,800 $12,800 $9,400 $4,500 $21,600 $3,120 $4,800 $6,000 $5,820 $16,200 $2,700 $11,400 $6,800 $2,280 $3,740 $5,100 $8,000 $12,400 $3,756

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show Horse Name Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Off Date Track ID Pos

Riley Rules Talkin’ Bull J J Junior Beau Splash She Might Tell Mr. Morningstar Gioielli Jackson Kick On Kid Lights Down Low Sunshine Smiles Cookie Dough Chinomado La Parota She’s Wild Enough Foldover Mr Wrench It Autobahn Express Over Exposed Lady Breanna Hero of the Hour Please Zip It Eye Catching Nora’s Drama Dearborn Adelle’s Princess Great Kahuna Forty Knots Take Aletter Maria Fafa Fooey Syrup Chinacatsunflower Rogue Too Beyond the Victory Toy Moon Seminara Pango Thank You Ricketts R Laguna Lucky She’s Divine Protostar Miss Perdido Key Souper Courage Lady Dude Truely Suite Flash Me Not Gnarly Mr. Dazzle Mozo Bello Jessica First Tiz Best Liam Lets Go R Prerogative Wild Medagliad’oro Squeezadios Jo Sweetness Home Run Trick Summering Scowling Ridge Frenchmen Street Istanbul Frankie Apps Alternative Energy My Black Beauty Mad Luther La Parota

At a Stage Warning Trackpower Desirable Moment Siena's Splash She Did Tell Fantasy Bay Songandashinyband Deposit Only Came Through Slammingpartygirl Greek Key Brooke's Valentine Kidding Astruggleforbeauty D Prairie Cat Centerfold Candle Maker Heartbeat Again Photo Session Lady Loushe Kappa Gama Conga Bella Choice Point Bold Twitch Atrea She'sfitforaking Private Feeling Gloomy Knot Majestic Maria Alta Love Star of the Town Bwana Go Fast Pleasant Thunder Kissimmee Twice Prettyatthetable Bella Giorno Angapanga Restless Summer Lucky Alizea Divine County Annies Fuse Cameron Crazies Seasoned Warrior Lady Mariah Mysterious Truth Flashy Via Pavion Holy Angel Mo Rogue May River Tiz Twentyfour K Romantic Cuvee Zarlanz Unbridled Humor A Perfect Squeeze Caladesi Lady Indyfendant Wishing Gate Oatka Idas Rose Onenightin Beijing Le Mi Geaux Stormy Love Carsomatic Grand Kisses La Belle Dame Astruggleforbeauty

Laurin Stable Inc. Sally J. Anderson Fulgencio Morales Prado Verbarctic Farm Firefly Farm Racing LLC Farm III Enterprises LLC Rustlewood Farm Inc. Tracy Pinchin Hardacre Farm LLC Off The Hook Partners LLC Kathleen Amaya Alexandro Centofanti & Raffaele Centofanti Arindel Jaime Mejia & Maria Ines Mejia Stonehedge LLC Woodford Thoroughbreds Antonia Noonan Kinsman Farm Don Ming Burnham Stable & Linda Lowe JJ Brevan Stable LLC Farm III Enterprises LLC Off The Hook LLC & Gumpster Stable Mikhail Yanakov Harold L. Queen Glen Hill Farm Mike Borchetta Martha Borchetta Scott Borchetta & Martin S Live Oak Stud Ruben Valdes Sally J. Anderson Woodford Thoroughbreds Get Away Farm Rowling Oaks Farm LLC Rowling Oaks Farm LLC Live Oak Stud Hardacre Farm LLC Barry Kirkham & Copper Water Thoroughbred Co. Bonnie Heath Farm LLC Four Horsemen’s Ranch Ocala Stud Dr. Bill Russell DVM & Dr. Alice Russell DVM Brereton C. Jones Mike Anderson Rustlewood Farm Inc. Live Oak Stud Donald R. Dizney LLC Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. Vilasini D. Jayaraman Hal Queen Farm John B. Penn Adam Parker & Suzette Parker Carlos Rafael Dr. Rick Erwin & Janet Erwin Destiny Oaks of Ocala Woodford Thoroughbreds Get Away Farm Live Oak Stud My Purple Haze Stables LLC Dream Builder Racing LLC Dr. K. K. Jayaraman & Dr. V. Devi Jayaraman Glen Hill Farm Martin Goodell & Emily Goodell Glen Hill Farm Woodford Thoroughbreds Ben-D Farm South LLC & Vicino Racing Stable Maharg Management Inc. Loren Nichols Bonnie Heath Farm LLC Stonehedge LLC

7/13/18 7/14/18 7/14/18 7/14/18 7/14/18 7/14/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/15/18 7/16/18 7/16/18 7/17/18 7/17/18 7/18/18 7/18/18 7/19/18 7/19/18 7/19/18 7/21/18 7/21/18 7/21/18 7/21/18 7/21/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/22/18 7/23/18 7/23/18 7/23/18 7/23/18 7/23/18 7/23/18 7/24/18 7/25/18 7/26/18 7/26/18 7/26/18 7/27/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/28/18 7/29/18 7/29/18 7/29/18 7/29/18 7/29/18 7/29/18 7/29/18 7/30/18 7/30/18 7/30/18

C G C G F G F C F F F F C F F G C F F F C F F F F F G F F C C F F C F F G C F F F F C F F F G G G F C C F C C F C F F G C G F F G F

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

Kantharos Warrior's Reward Treasure Beach (GB) Beau Choix Passion for Gold Morning Line Macho Uno Kantharos Kiss the Kid Cross Traffic Kantharos Brethren Regal Ransom Factum He's Had Enough Overdriven Lookin At Lucky Macho Uno It's No Joke Kiss the Kid City Zip City Zip Gone Astray Big Drama Malibu Moon Overdriven Smart Strike Forty Grams Bodemeister Alternation Two Step Salsa He's Had Enough First Dude To Honor and Serve Malibu Moon Kantharos Artie Schiller Crown of Thorns High Cotton Creative Cause Prospective Broken Vow Giant's Causeway First Dude Drosselmeyer Big Drama Shanghai Bobby Adios Charlie Bellamy Road Prospective First Dude He's Had Enough Drill Medaglia d'Oro Adios Charlie Anthony's Cross Winslow Homer War Front Handsome Mike Malibu Moon He's Had Enough Kantharos Kantharos Flashpoint Mad Flatter Factum

GP ASD GP GP IND GP GP GP GP MTH GP GP GP TDN TDN LAD TDN PEN PEN PID AP SAC ASD DEL DMR WO WO MNR BTP WO MNR BTP ELP LRL SAR TDN TDN PRX TDN DEL TDN LAD DEL GP CT PID LRL ASD GP GP BTP GP GP SAR GP GP PRM DMR PID GP DMR GP SAR TDN PID TDN

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

Grade/ Value

Earnings

$47,400 $12,446 $42,100 $42,100 $31,000 $42,100 $40,700 $62,400 $40,700 $34,700 $40,700 $48,200 $62,400 $22,500 $22,500 $19,090 $22,500 $27,100 $27,100 $27,130 $32,000 $31,286 $12,446 $34,000 $62,070 $66,160 $74,700 $13,818 $15,500 $69,680 $14,100 $15,500 $40,450 $48,040 $85,000 $22,500 $22,500 $45,250 $22,500 $34,630 $22,500 $19,000 $40,035 $49,150 $23,000 $31,990 $42,800 $12,065 $47,450 $51,800 $15,500 $47,450 $51,800 $85,000 $47,450 $51,800 $32,500 $61,725 $31,990 $42,800 $61,725 $42,800 $85,000 $22,500 $27,130 $22,500

$6,000 $7,620 $24,000 $8,000 $3,100 $4,000 $24,000 $43,000 $8,800 $3,600 $4,400 $6,500 $6,000 $4,500 $2,250 $11,400 $13,500 $16,260 $5,420 $5,400 $6,400 $3,120 $7,620 $20,400 $7,200 $6,710 $6,710 $8,178 $3,100 $12,200 $1,410 $1,550 $2,650 $4,400 $10,200 $13,950 $13,500 $27,000 $4,500 $6,800 $2,250 $11,400 $6,800 $13,450 $2,290 $2,700 $8,400 $7,620 $27,500 $30,500 $3,100 $9,000 $10,000 $17,000 $4,100 $5,000 $19,500 $36,000 $5,400 $10,200 $12,000 $5,100 $10,200 $4,500 $5,400 $2,250

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The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through August 5, 2018.

Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

LEADING FLORIDA SIRES NA

Stk

Gr

Leading

Leading

Yrlg

Earner

Yrlg

2yo

2yo

Name

Farm Name

Sire Name

Earnings Strtrs Wnrs SW's Wins SW's Earnings

Earnings

Sold

Avg

Sold

First Dude

Double Diamond Farm

Stephen Got Even

$2,808,989

136

62

5

7

1

$2,808,989

Mom's On Strike

$218,425

11

$4,664

5

$17,100

Wildcat Heir

Deceased

Forest Wildcat

$2,429,488

171

71

4

5

0

$2,560,682

Pay Any Price

$141,070

High Cotton

Pensioned

Dixie Union

$1,425,173

112

50

0

0

0

$1,477,432

Very Very Stella

$91,840

Songandaprayer

Journeyman Stud

Unbridled's Song

$1,442,926

107

51

1

1

0

$1,452,531

Abbaa

$131,279

8

$5,425

5

$18,200

Two Step Salsa

Get Away Farm

Petionville

$1,372,212

117

44

0

0

0

$1,387,194

Fully Loaded

$82,900

13

$5,900

8

$26,875

Adios Charlie

Ocala Stud

Indian Charlie

$1,301,931

77

39

2

2

0

$1,319,667

She's Stunning

$86,269

19

$9,389

19

$26,289

Gone Astray

Northwest Stud

Dixie Union

$1,131,479

100

37

4

4

0

$1,144,420

Jay's Way

$130,520

7

$8,757

2

$12,000

Poseidon's Warrior

Pleasant Acres Stallions

Speightstown

$974,251

46

13

2

3

1

$974,251

Firenze Fire

$385,000

7

$4,569

12

$10,792

Big Drama

Prestige Stallions

Montbrook

$933,275

69

33

1

1

0

$939,473

Mr. Kisses

$65,490

10

$6,300

10

$77,900

Prospective

Ocala Stud

Malibu Moon

$896,984

42

24

3

3

0

$896,984

Broadway Run

$115,400

6

$7,017

9

$36,333

Awesome of Course Ocala Stud

Awesome Again

$855,014

66

31

1

1

0

$856,423

Fellowship

$85,749

2

$8,000

Soldat

Woodford Thoroughbreds

War Front

$838,406

62

30

1

1

0

$841,611

Big Drink of Water

$70,390

18

$9,058

7

$30,786

Overdriven

Ocala Stud

Tale of the Cat

$801,173

64

17

0

0

0

$801,364

Driven by Thunder

$100,480

8

$3,525

5

$29,400

Brethren

Arindel Farm

Distorted Humor

$790,925

45

13

0

0

0

$790,925

Old Time Revival

$127,300

6

$4,950

5

$10,100

Biondetti

Woodford Thoroughbreds

Bernardini

$755,541

58

23

1

1

0

$755,541

Bella Vincenza

$130,570

4

$3,425

1

$47,000

Field Commission

Solera Farm

Service Stripe

$571,955

40

21

1

1

0

$683,297

Drafted

$111,342

11

$3,882

1

$4,500

In Summation

Ocala Stud

Put It Back

$608,940

57

20

1

1

0

$617,696

Calculator

$76,080

1

$1,700

Treasure Beach (GB) Pleasant Acres Stallions

Galileo (IRE)

$598,649

81

16

1

1

0

$610,419

Treasure for Gold

$63,850

9

$17,222

16

$12,156

Exclusive Quality

Journeyman Stud

Elusive Quality

$598,478

67

25

0

0

0

$598,478

Qualifly

$59,197

2

$28,100

2

$9,750

Greatness

Prestige Stallions

Mr. Prospector

$513,991

36

23

0

0

0

$524,819

Mr Manning

$48,095

A. P. Warrior

Pleasant Acres Stallions

A.P. Indy

$522,780

41

14

1

1

0

$523,586

Dagney's Warrior

$88,740

Yesbyjimminy

Bridlewood Farm

Yes It's True

$447,375

18

10

1

3

0

$456,404

Miz Mayhem

$212,225

Backtalk

GoldMark Farm

Smarty Jones

$440,180

26

10

1

1

0

$440,180

Starcloud

$137,665

2

$1,250

2

$6,000

J P's Gusto

Bridlewood Farm

Successful Appeal

$438,336

26

14

0

0

0

$438,336

La Key

$95,770

3

$1,267

10

$20,150

Corfu

Bridlewood Farm

Malibu Moon

$431,411

18

11

0

0

0

$431,411

Flashing Diamond

$61,340

3

$5,667

3

$9,000

Flashstorm

Northwest Stud

Storm Cat

$407,162

32

16

0

0

0

$407,162

Coquivacoa

$65,390

1

$2,000

Telling

Prestige Stallions

A.P. Indy

$339,572

24

13

0

0

0

$339,812

Demands Attention

$46,290

Uncaptured

Ocala Stud

Lion Heart

$322,450

8

4

2

2

1

$322,450

Catherinethegreat

$136,300

31

$37,046

28

$114,500

Hear No Evil

Ocala Stud

Carson City

$312,611

25

9

1

1

0

$312,611

Brighton Lane

$69,700

4

$7,500

Cajun Breeze

Stonehedge Farm

Congrats

$282,520

5

3

1

1

0

$282,520

Cajun Firecracker

1

$50,000

Wrote (IRE)

Northwest Stud

High Chaparral (IRE)

$231,299

20

6

0

0

0

$231,299

Vincero

$38,800

Silver Tree

Vegso Racing Stable

Hennessy

$226,080

16

10

0

0

0

$226,080

Betruetoyourschool

$36,105

Rattlesnake Bridge

Hartley DeRenzo T'breds

Tapit

$215,611

31

7

0

0

0

$215,611

Showit

Winslow Homer

Journeyman Stud

Unbridled's Song

$193,511

18

7

0

0

0

$193,511

L. A. House

Iqbaal

Ward Ranch

Medaglia d'Oro

$190,273

14

8

0

0

0

$190,273

Gorgeous George

$47,040

United States

Northwest Stud

A.P. Indy

$124,244

25

7

1

2

0

$180,444

Macherano Mania

$56,200

Hello Broadway

Ups and Downs Farm

Broken Vow

$176,760

7

5

0

0

0

$176,760

Harryhee

Wagon Limit

Bridlewood Farm

Conquistador Cielo

$160,967

10

4

1

2

0

$160,967

Delta Bluesman

Anthony's Cross

Pleasant Acres Stallions

Indian Charlie

$159,435

13

5

0

0

0

$159,435

Yeehaw

$103,000 1

$7,000

$63,664

10

$16,180

10

$29,200

$25,612

9

$5,944

5

$14,400

1

$20,000

24

$83,583

$80,580 $108,796 $46,890

2

$3,500

40

$23,691

1

$3,000

He's Had Enough

Woodford Thoroughbreds

Tapit

$157,581

19

3

0

0

0

$157,581

Elgin Escape

$49,750

Burning Roma

Prestige Stallions

Rubiano

$144,957

11

7

0

0

0

$144,957

Carolyn

$29,200

Montbrook

Deceased

Buckaroo

$131,680

16

10

0

0

0

$142,879

Collin's Smile

$23,360

Dark Kestrel

University of Florida

Stormy Atlantic

$129,021

5

3

1

1

0

$129,021

Buckeye Bullet

$64,260

Vineyard Haven

Woodford Thoroughbred

Lido Palace (CHI)

$112,014

14

6

0

0

0

$115,207

Sweet Tooth Haven

$27,150

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LEADING FLORIDA 2ND CROP SIRES

The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through August 6, 2018. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

Name

Farm Name

Sire Name

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

Poseidon's Warrior

Pleasant Acres Stallions

Speightstown

$974,251

46

13

2

3

1

$974,251

Prospective

Ocala Stud

Malibu Moon

$896,984

42

24

3

3

0

$896,984

Soldat

Woodford Thoroughbreds

War Front

$838,406

62

30

1

1

0

$841,611

Brethren

Arindel Farm

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

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Firenze Fire

$385,000

7

$4,569

12

$10,792

Broadway Run

$115,400

6

$7,017

9

$36,333

Big Drink of Water

$70,390

18

$9,058

7

$30,786

Distorted Humor

$790,925

45

13

0

0

0

$790,925

Old Time Revival

$127,300

6

$4,950

5

$10,100

Treasure Beach (GB) Pleasant Acres Stallions

Galileo (IRE)

$598,649

81

16

1

1

0

$610,419

Treasure for Gold

$63,850

9

$17,222

16

$12,156

Corfu

Bridlewood Farm

Malibu Moon

$431,411

18

11

0

0

0

$431,411

Flashing Diamond

$61,340

3

$5,667

3

$9,000

Wrote (IRE)

Northwest Stud

High Chaparral (IRE)

$231,299

20

6

0

0

0

$231,299

Vincero

$38,800

1

$7,000

Rattlesnake Bridge

Hartley DeRenzo T'bred

Tapit

$215,611

31

7

0

0

0

$215,611

Showit

$63,664

10

$16,180

10

$29,200

Winslow Homer

Journeyman Stud

Unbridled's Song

$193,511

18

7

0

0

0

$193,511

L. A. House

$25,612

9

$5,944

5

$14,400

Anthony's Cross

Pleasant Acres Stallions

Indian Charlie

$159,435

13

5

0

0

0

$159,435

Yeehaw

$46,890

2

$3,500

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Woodford Thoroughbreds

High Cotton

$109,874

11

2

0

0

0

$109,874

R Paper Chaser

$22,610

8

$5,963

3

$37,500

Beau Choix

Pleasant Acres Stallions

Elusive Quality

$87,750

5

2

0

0

0

$87,750

Spicy Nelly

$63,420

1

$9,000

1

$155,000

LEADING FLORIDA JUVENILE SIRES

The following list includes currently active, deceased, and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through August 6, 2018. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

Name

Farm Name

Sire Name

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

Uncaptured

Ocala Stud

Lion Heart

$322,450

Cajun Breeze

Stonehedge Farm

Congrats

$282,520

5

3

1

1

0

He's Had Enough

Woodford Thoroughbreds

Tapit

$157,581

19

3

0

0

0

Drill

Get Away Farm

Lawyer Ron

$103,943

9

3

0

0

0

$103,943

Handsome Mike

Pleasant Acres

Scat Daddy

$77,340

7

2

0

0

0

$77,340

Global Response

Coco Ranch

A.P. Indy

$32,900

1

1

0

0

0

$32,900

8

4

2

2

1

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg Avg

2yo Sold

Catherinethegreat

$136,300

31

$37,046

28

$114,500

$282,520

Cajun Firecracker

$103,000

1

$50,000

$157,581

Elgin Escape

$49,750

40

$23,691

24

$83,583

Drillit

$40,500

17

$8,212

16

$44,844

Saint Michael

$26,150

17

$11,247

13

$23,038

Global Beauty Coco

$32,900

1

$2,000

$322,450

Leading Earner

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l potro Cajun Firecracker, un hijo del joven semental Cajun Breeze en Clara Bow por el francés Way West, conservó su invicto a principios del mes después de alzarse con la trigésimo séptima edición del Dr. Fager Stakes, evento que forma parte de la serie de clásicos especiales para ejemplares nacidos en el estado de la Florida exclusiva para hijos de sementales registrados en (FTBOA), la competencia se llevó a cabo como todos los años en el majestuoso hipódromo de Gulfstream Park y tuvo la particularidad de que el favorito en esta carrera, Fully Loaded (FL) (Two Step Salsa), fue distanciado de la segunda a la tercera colocación después de causar tropiezos en la recta final tanto al ganador Cajun Firecraker, como al potro Garter and Tie (FL).

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Cajun Firecraker es propiedad de sus criadores Shadybrook Farm, anterior a su actuación en el FTBOA Dr. Fager Stakes, este potro entrenado por Michael Yates ganó en un Maiden Special Weight el día de su debut, derrotando por dos cuerpos a su más cercano rival en tiempo de 52.58 para 900 metros en Gulfstream Park y desde ya despunta como el mejor ejemplar de la primera producción del semental Cajun Breeze.

Otro ejemplar nacido y criado en Florida que alcanzó una importante victoria fue World of Trouble

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(Kantharos en Meets the Expectations por Valid Expectations), el tresañero entrenado por Jason Servis capturó la edición del 2018 del Quick Call Stakes en el hipódromo de Saratoga bajo las ordenes de Irad Ortiz Jr.. World of Trouble costó la módica suma de $10,000 en la subasta para potros de 1 año correspondiente al mes de agosto del 2016 de OBS, este talentoso ejemplar castaño rompió su maiden en Gulfstream Park, luego, después de finalizar segundo en el Affirmed Stakes (Clásico de la Serie FTBOA), viajo a Tampa Bay Downs para apoderarse del Pasco Stakes.

En sus presentaciones de alto calibre, el floridiense World of Trouble demostró que vale la pena seguir invirtiendo en la cría del purasangre de carreras en el estados del sol brillante, tercero en el Tampa Bay Derby G2 detrás de ganadores de Grado como Quip y Flameaway, luego en gran demostración ocupó la cuarta posición en el Woody Stephens Stakes G2 en Belmont Park, una de las carreras más emblemáticas de ese hipódromo donde hemos visto correr en ese evento a purasangres de la talla de Trinniberg ganador de la Breeders Cup Sprint G1 en el 2012, D’Funnybone (FL) cinco veces ganador de Grado, también a Bayern, múltiple ganador Grado Uno y verdugo de California Chrome en la Breeders Cup Classic 2014. World of Trouble es un ejemplar con mucho futuro, al cual quiero dedicarle parte de mi columna mensual a través de esta prestigiosa plataforma como lo es Florida Horse, muchas veces pasamos por alto las formidables actuaciones de purasangres nacidos en esta región y es nuestra responsabilidad transmitirles a los lectores los detalles de estas apasionantes carreras.

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Upcoming Events & Deadlines FTBOA will hold its annual meeting on Oct. 18 at the Marion County Agriculture Extension Auditorium starting at 1 p.m.

For 2018, there are five Director vacancies on the FTBOA Board to be filled, for three-year terms running until October Tammy A. Gantt 2021. Pursuant to the Association’s Bylaws, the current Board Associate Vice President, of Directors nominated the following five candidates for these Director of Membership Services & Events, FEC Contributing vacancies: (1) Paul Bulmahn; (2) Nick de Meric; (3) Laurine Editor and FTC Industry & Community Affairs Mae Fuller-Vargas; (4) Richard Kent, incumbent; and (5) JOHN D. FILER PHOTO George Russell, immediate past president. Each candidate agreed to run and to serve as an FTBOA Director. The FTBOA Bylaws also allow a candidate to self-nominate by circulating a petition and obtaining 25 member signatures. One such petition was filed by Ms. Fuller-Vargas, with the Board of Directors subsequently deciding to include her in the Board’s slate of nominations. As provided in the Association’s 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.

CHARITY GOLF TOURNEY AT GOLDEN OCALA IS OCT. 12

The Florida Thoroughbred Charities golf tournament will be held for the first time at Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club. The date was selected to coincide with the Fall OBS sales. The 38th annual event is a four-man scramble with 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. shotgun starts. The event draws members of the horse industry, community and business leaders, and legislators and serves as a fundraiser, a networking opportunity, and an enjoyable day out on a premier golf course. The defending tournament champion is Creech Horse Transportation, also winners in 2015. In 2016, Tanner Wingo’s Magnolia Point Thoroughbreds took home honors edg- Valerie ing Brook Ledge Horse Transportation which Dailey always fields a top team.

The fee for each golfer is $150, and includes greens fees, golf cart, a luncheon, prizes, and an awards ceremony. Each FTBOA member receives $25 off the entry fee.

Sponsorships are available and include a Silver sponsorship for $250 which includes a tee sign. Gold sponsorships are $750 and sponsors receive a 6 x 3 sign on course. The most popular sponsorship is the Platinum sponsorship. For $1,500, Platinum sponsors receive a foursome, 8 x 4 premium signage, and two additional lunch tickets. Diamond

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sponsors receive a foursome, 8 x 4 premium signage in a premium location, and two additional lunch tickets for $2,500.

Title sponsorship is $5,000 and includes premium signage in a premium location, two additional lunch tickets, and title sponsor listing in collateral for the event. There is also a Golden lunch sponsorship which is $600 and includes two lunch tickets. Signage is prominently placed in the lunch area.

Awards are given to the top three teams, the closest to the pin winner, the longest drive winner, and putting contest winner. Typically a few hole-in-one promotions, mulligans for charity, and a putting contest are also offered as part of the day.

“The Florida Thoroughbred Charities has been fortunate to have such great support from the equine industry. Each year the tournament has grown with more business and community members becoming involved. Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club provides a great backdrop for this charity event for the worthwhile cause of thoroughbred retirement and student scholarships,” said Valerie Dailey, FTBOA board member and Charity, Social and Events Committee chairman.

Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club has long been associated with the equine industry with many in the industry also being members at Golden Ocala. An equestrian lifestyle is part of the property experience which provides a number of well-groomed riding trails. With the advent of the World Equestrian Center extending the property, equine roots will continue to grow further, connecting with events and amenities.

Committee members who will be working to pull off the event include Chairman Dailey, George Russell, Greg Wheeler, Bobby Jones, Melissa Anthony, Beth Bayer, Bill Murphy, Ashley Godwin, Nathalie Alker, Lynne Boutte, and Renee Ross. The charity will be working with the team at Golden Ocala including Joe Donnelly, Alisa Carlino and Ryan Gray.

The annual golf tournament is one of the largest fundraisers for the charity which entirely funds the Florida Thoroughbred Retirement Farm “Second Chances” at the Lowell Correctional Institute. Additional funds come from individual donations and fundraising charity events including silent auction and live auctions throughout the year. The event also raises funds for student scholarships. The program’s success depends upon community participation. For more information on becoming a sponsor for golf, please visit www.ftboa.com or contact the Florida Thoroughbred Charities at 352-629-2160 or e-mail info@ftboa.com. ■ COURTESY VALERIE DAILEY

ANNUAL MEETING IS OCT. 18

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