The Florida Cup $110,000 Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies 3-Year-Olds

7 Furlongs

Fastest Time: (1:20.09) *-- MUNNYS GOLD (2023)

Slowest Time: 1:26.73 CHENIA (2004)

Longest Priced Winner: $61.00 QUELLE SURPRISE (2006)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 MUNNYS GOLD (2023)

Closest Winning Margin: Neck CHENIA (2004)

Largest Winning Margin: 17 ¼Lengths MUNNYS Gold (2023)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 FOREVER BRILLIANT (2005)

Track Condition: Fast All runnings

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

Largest Winning Margin: 17 1/4 Lengths MUNNYS GOLD (2023)

Outstanding 3-year-old filly Munnys Gold dazzled rival jockeys and onlookers, powering to a 17 1/4-length victory in trackrecord time of 1:20.09 for 7 furlongs under Irad Ortiz, Jr.

Other Notes: Munnys Gold turned in a world-class performance under jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., setting a stakes and track record of 1:20.09 for the 7-furlong distance. Midnight Stroll’s victory in 2022 was the second in Florida Cup competition for jockey Pablo Morales, who won the 2017 Sprint aboard Tiger Blood. In 2021, the Averill Racing concern of Bradenton, Fla., resident Rich Averill scored its third Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies victory with R Adios Jersey, each in different partnerships. A 3-year-old daughter of emerging sire Kantharos, 2019 winner Wildwood’s Beauty drew off under jockey Chris Landeros for an easy triumph in her stakes debut. The 2018 winner, Florida Fuego, was bred by Ocala Stud and owned by the e Five Racing Thoroughbreds outfit of Bob and Kristine Edwards and their three children: Cassidy, Riley and Delaney. Relative newcomers to racing, they won back-to-back renewals of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf with Rushing Fall in 2017 and New Money Honey in 2016. Florida Fuego was ridden in the Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies by Javier Castellano, who won a record four Florida Cup races on the card and five overall. The 2017 winner, R Angel Katelyn, won the Sandpiper and Gasparilla Stakes that season and finished third in the Suncoast Stakes. Trainer William Kaplan and jockey Juan Leyva teamed to win consecutive editions of the Sophomore Fillies, scoring with Putitinmypocket in 2013 and Holiday Magic in 2014. Since-retired jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr., captured the inaugural running of the race with Just Bill Me in 2003 and won again on Snow Lass in 2009. Elvis Trujillo has also ridden two winners: Dances With Ashley in 2010 and April Gaze in 2016. Before taking the race in 2017 with R Angel Katelyn, trainer Gerald Bennett had won with Moonshine Alice in 2008.