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ftboa.com • Saturday & Sunday • June 12 & 13, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING Shifty She Continues INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Comeback in Saturday’s Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or Ginger Punch email: [email protected] BY GULFSTREAM PARK In This Issue: PRESS OFFICE_________________ Kentucky Derby Runner-Up Mandaloun HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Pedigree Heads Field of Five in Pegasus Stakes Partners’ Shifty She will be on a quest to continue a highly promising come- back Saturday at Gulfstream Park, Nyquist Filly Tops OBS Thursday Session where the 5-year-old daughter of Gone Astray will attempt to notch back-to- back stakes victories in the $75,000 Sharp Ships in Stablemates for Prince Ginger Punch. George County Chris Pallas and George Klein’s homebred mare and Arindel’s Key Biscayne will also be eligible for a Stiff Test Awaits Undefeated Chub $25,000 win-only bonus available to Wagon in Shine Again FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes-eligible starters in the mile-and-one-sixteenth turf stakes for Florida-bred fillies and Gulfstream Park Charts mares. In the May 15 Powder Break, Shifty Track Entries and Results She realized the stakes potential that she had demonstrated during her 3- year-old campaign, in which she won Florida Stallion Progeny List three straight races, including a first condition, allowance in open company at Gulfstream in December 2019 Florida Breeders’ List before going to the sidelines. Her first stakes victory came in her second start off a 16-month layoff and second start Wire to Wire Business Place for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., improving upon a fourth-place finish in a second condition, $62,5000 optional claiming Featured Advertisers allowance won by Florida-bred Kelsey’s Cross on April 9 at Berrettini Feed Gulfstream, in which she set an extremely fast pace while being Florida Department of Agriculture pressed throughout the mile turf race. FTBOA “The first time we ran her, she got caught in a very fast speed duel and Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply still finished fourth, not beaten too far. I felt bad for her because she ran a win- Ocala Stud Florida-bred Shifty She/NICOLE THOMAS PHOTO Seminole Feed See GINGER PUNCH on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Ginger Punch Continued from COVER ning race and she didn’t win,” Joseph said. In the Powder Break, an open stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on turf, Shifty She closely stalked the early pace before tak- ing the lead at the top of the stretch and holding off graded stakes- placed Morning Molly by a neck. “Going into the stake, we had confidence she would improve, and she did,” Joseph said. “She sat a good trip, she quickened up nice, and had enough to hold off a nice filly.” Shifty She is scheduled to face eight rivals, not including a main-track-only entrant, while breaking from the one post position. “She’s trained well into this race. The race came up very competitive, but she’s drawn well and goes into this race with a good chance again,” Saffie Joseph Jr./LAUREN KING PHOTO Joseph said. Edwin Gonzalez has the return call aboard the daughter of Gone Astray. Joseph will also be represented by Sonata Stable’s Lovely Luvy, a 5-year-old daughter of He’s Had Enough who closed from off the pace to finish third to winner Summering in the March 28 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf for Florida-bred fillies and mares on Florida Cup Day at Tampa Bay Down. “She’s a filly that sits off the pace and is very pace-dependant,” See GINGER PUNCH on page 5 Florida-breds Make Florida Racing Did you know Florida-bred thoroughbreds won 31.5% of races run at the recent Gulfstream Park Championship Meet? This demonstrates how vital Florida-breds are to the success of Gulfstream Park throughout the year—not just during the Spring/Summer season. Additional good news for Florida breeders—66% of those Florida-bred winners during the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet were sired by Florida stallions. Florida-breds: Race ‘Em or Chase ‘Em! Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Ginger Punch page 3 Continued from Joseph said. “She gets kind of keen in her race and needs a quick tempo. She’s run third, fourth, third fourth. She’s only won once for us but last time she ran a good race at Tampa in a stake. She’s had a freshening. I think she’ll run a bang-up race this time. I think she’ll be close.” Edgard Zayas has the mount on Lovely Luvy. Glen Hill Farm’s Summering is also entered in the Ginger Punch. The stakes success in the Distaff Turf was the first for the Tom Proctor-trained 5-year-old mare in nine starts since capturing the Juvenile Filly Turf at Del Mar in September 2018. Romero Maragh is scheduled to ride Summering for the first time Saturday. Key Biscayne is scheduled to make her 2021 debut in the Ginger Punch after competing with some of the best 3-year-old turf fillies in the country last year. The Juan Alvarado-trained daughter of Brethren won back-to-back races for Florida-bred fil- lies last year before heading north to finish a close fourth to win- Florida-bred Summering/BENOIT PHOTO ner Speaktomeofsummer in the Lake Placid (G2) at Saratoga on July 19, third in the Saratoga Oaks won by Antoinette and fifth in of Uncle Mo came up a little short in the stretch after moving into Magic Attitude’s Belmont Oaks (G1). She concluded her 2020 contention on the turf into the homestretch. campaign with a nine-and-three-quarters-length romp in an off- Miguel Vasquez is slated to return aboard Mo of the West. the-turf allowance at Belmont Oct. 20. CJ Thoroughbreds and DTF Racing LLC’s Bienville Street, Emisael Jaramillo, who was aboard for her two Gulfstream winless in three starts since nosing out Mo of the West in the wins last year, returns to the saddle. Sunshine Filly And Mare Turf; Paradise Farms Corp. and David HRH Prince Sultan Bin Mishal Al Saud’s Mo of the West will Staudacher’s Sun Summers, who was fourth in the Distaff Turf at seek her first stakes success Saturday after finishing second in the Tampa; Mighty White Stallion LLC’s Forbidden Dream round out Jan. 16 Sunshine Filly and Mare Turf and third behind Shifty She the field. My Purple Haze Stables’ Heiressindy is a main-track- in the Powder Break. The Mark Casse-trained 4-year-old daughter only entrant. Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Kentucky Derby Runner-Up Mandaloun Heads Field of Five in Pegasus Stakes BY MONMOUTH PARK July 17 at Monmouth. 1 – Brooklyn Strong (Abner Adano) PRESS OFFICE____________________ Brooklyn Strong, who won the Grade 2 2 – Mandaloun (Florent Geroux) Remsen on Dec. 5 and was fifth in the 3 – Dr Jack (Paco Lopez) OCEANPORT, N.J. – Kentucky Derby pre- Wood Memorial on April 3 won by long- 4 – Weyburn (Dylan Davis sented by Woodford Reserve (Grade 1) shot Bourbonic, drew post one for trainer 5 – Lugamo (Angel Cruz) runner-up Mandaloun will face four other Danny Velazquez. Abner Adano 3-year-olds, including two graded-stakes has the mount. Both the Wood winners, when he marks his return to rac- and the Remsen were run at ing in Sunday’s TVG.com Pegasus Stakes Aqueduct. at Monmouth Park. Weyburn, winner of the Unraced since the May 1 Kentucky Grade 3 Gotham Stakes at odds Derby, Mandaloun drew post position two of 46-1 and then fourth in the for the 40th edition of the mile-and-a-six- Wood Memorial, has post four teenth Pegasus Stakes. Trained by Brad for trainer James Jerkens. Dr Cox, the son of Into Mischief will be rid- Jack, unbeaten in two lifetime den by Florent Geroux in the $150,000 starts for trainer Todd Pletcher, race that headlines the Sunday card. and Florida-bred Lugamo, Prior to the Derby, Mandaloun was unraced since a 12th-place fin- sixth in the Twinspires.com Louisiana ish on March 27 in the Group 1 Derby (G2) won by Hot Rod Charlie at UAE Derby presented by Fair Grounds on March 20 and won the Emirates NBD , round out the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes presented by field. Lamarque Ford (G2), also at Fair Grounds Cox said Mandaloun will van on Feb. 13. from Churchill Downs today and First race post time is 12:15 p.m. EDT. is expected to arrive at Monmouth Cox is using the Pegasus Stakes as a Park early Friday morning. tune-up for Mandaloun for the $1 million The Pegasus Stakes field in TVG.com Haskell Stakes (G1) to be run on post position order (with jockeys): Mandaloun/COADY PHOTO Back to Top Back to Top Page 9 Nyquist Filly Brings $420,000 To Top Thursday Session BY BROCK SHERIDAN_______________________________ Numbers for Thursday’s second day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales June Sale of Two Year Olds and Horses of Racing Age near- ly doubled compared to the same day last year at the June Sale as 191 head generated gross sales of $8,149,600. That compares to the last year’s second day when 173 juveniles sold for $4,357,800, a whopping 87% increase. The average jumped from $25,190 a year ago to $42,668 Thursday, a 69.4% improvement. The median was $17,000 Thursday, up from $13,000 last year.