ftboa.com • Friday • April 10, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: NYTHA Hosts Industry-Related Webinar Florida Stallion Beau Choix Passes Courtlandt Farms’ Sophomores Gaining Ground at Gulfstream Winx Joins the Breyer Stable The Day South Florida Agriculture Changed University of Maryland to Host Biosecurity Webinar Brooke USA Launches Fundraising Effort American Farmland Trust Offers Florida-bred Thousand Words/BENOIT PHOTO Farmer Relief Fund By the Numbers: Thursday Edition Thousand Words Looks Developing a Personal Preparedness Plan FAQs on Essential Equine Activities To Get Back On Track Gulfstream Park Charts Tampa Bay Downs Charts in Oaklawn Stakes Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida-bred Background Makes Stakes Debut Florida Breeders’ List Wire to Wire Business Place BY BROCK SHERIDAN ____________ into the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, the second leg of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will the Triple Crown with a to be determined Featured Advertisers try to return sophomore Thousand Words running date. to his winning form and conditioner Thousand Words won his first three Ocala Stud Michael Puhich will send Background career starts on the West Coast before Journeyman Stud into added-money company for the first- finishing an unexpected fourth at 5-2 time Saturday at Oaklawn Park as the odds, beaten more than 11 lengths by FTBOA Florida-bred pair are among 13 3-year- stablemate Authentic in the Grade 2 San Florida Department of Agriculture olds entered in the $200,000 Oaklawn Felipe Stakes at a mile-and-one-six- Stakes. The mile-and-one-eighth teenth at Santa Anita on March 7. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Oaklawn Stakes also offers an entrance Seminole Feed See OAKLAWN on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Oaklawn Continued from COVER After breaking his maiden in October at Santa Anita, Thousand Words won the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity at a mile-and-one-sixteenth by a neck on Dec. 7 at Los Alamitos. He then won the Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis, also at eight-and-a- half furlongs at Santa Anita on Feb. 1 before his disappoint- ment in the San Felipe. After the San Felipe, Baffert said that Thousand Words was closer to the :22.84 first-quarter pace set by Authentic than he had expected. ”I know they were going quick and I knew Thousand Words was closer and I probably learned a lot from him,” Baffert said. “He doesn’t want to be that close. He sort of flattened out at the end. I was disappointed with him.” Bred in Florida by Amy Tarrant’s Hardacre Farm in Ocala, Fla., Thousand Words has earned $235,000 in his four starts for owners Albaugh Family Stables LLC and Spendthrift Farm LLC. By Pioneerof the Nile out of the multiple graded stakes- winning mare Pomroy’s Pistol, by Pomeroy, he first received notoriety as a yearling at the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling Sale where the Albaugh Family and Spendthrift pur- chased him for $1,000,000 from the Brookdale Sales consign- ment. Saturday, Thousand Words will start from post four and Joe Talamo will ride for the first time. Background will be making his fourth career start for Giddyup Stables LLC after winning his first race by four-and- a-half lengths in his second start against special weight maid- ens at Oaklawn going a mile-and-one-sixteenth on Feb. 17. In his only start since, the chestnut son of Journeyman Stud stallion Khozan was third behind winner and Oaklawn Stakes foe Taishan in a first-level $80,000 optional claiming race over a sloppy and sealed mile-and-one-sixteenth at Oaklawn on Mar. 14. However, he had a bit of an excuse that day after breaking slow from the starting gate. Background is out of Ephyra, by Corninthian and he was bred in Florida by Brent and Crystal Fernung of Ocala. He has won one of three starts with earnings of $68,500 and Joseph Rocco Jr. will ride from post 11. Taishan, who is trained by Richard Baltas for Calvin Nguyen and Joey Tran, was also based in Southern California where he finished fourth in Authentic’s Grade 3 Sham Stakes at a mile at Santa Anita on Jan. 4 before shipping to Oaklawn to finish fifth in the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes won by Silver Prospector at a mile-and-one-sixteenth on Feb. 17. His only race since was the victory in the Mar. 14 optional claiming event for his second career win in four starts. The son of Twirling Candy out of Grace Phil, by Philanthropist sports revenues of $113,720. Taishan has drawn post eight and Joel Rosario will ride. Trainer Steve Asmussen will saddle two for the Oaklawn Stakes in Gold Street for owner Mike McCarty and Basin for Jackpot Farm. Gold Street won the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at a mile on a muddy track at Oaklawn before finishing ninth in the Southwest after traffic trouble early. Tyler Baze will ride Gold Street and they will load into the 13 starting gate slot. Basin won the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes going seven furlongs See OAKLAWN on page 5 Back to Top Pioneerof the Nile – Littleprincessemma, by Yankee Gentleman 2020 Fee: $5,000 S&N A Group-placed full-brother to Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah Half-brother to Grade 1 and multiple stakes-winner Chasing Yesterday Broke his maiden at 2 in his 2nd start at Del Mar defeating G2 SW INSTILLED REGARD Also standing Fury Kapcori and Khozan Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners LOUISE REINAGEL PHOTO LOUISE REINAGEL 5571 NW 100th Street, Ocala, FL 34482 | Office: 352.629.1200 | Fax: 352.629.1201 • [email protected] | www.journeymanstallions.com 45757 Back to Top Page 5 Oaklawn page 3 Continued from on a sloppy and sealed track at Saratoga on Sept. 2 in his final race last year. In his only start in 2020, the son of Liam’s Map was third behind winner Nadal in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn over as sloppy and sealed mile-and-one sixteenth on Mar. 14. However, like his stablemate in the Southwest, Basin also encountered traffic problems in the Rebel when he had no running room coming out of the far turn. Florent Geroux will pilot Basin from post one. The only other stakes-winner in the Oaklawn Stakes is Sir Rick, who took the $100,000 Mine That Bird Derby at Sunland Park going a mile-and-one-sixteenth on Feb. 23. The bay son of Paynter is owned by Richard L. Davis, trained by Robertino Diodoro and David Cohen is set to ride. He has drawn post five. Basin/CHELSEA DURAND PHOTO NYTHA Hosts Industry-Related Webinar on Federal Coronavirus Aid The National Thoroughbred Racing Association hosted a webinar to keep businesses and individuals afloat during an unprecedented related to Coronavirus Aid on April 1. The response to the webinar freeze on the majority of our lives. Jen Shah, CPA and Director of was positive, so the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Dean and Dorton’s Tax Services, walks through a detailed explana- Association, Inc. asked Dean & Dorton Tax Services to drill down tion of the current information available for each program and deftly for trainers, stables and farm owners. The Federal Disaster Relief responded to advance questions from the audience. Provisions webinar presentation is available as a pdf and also as a PDF printable version of the presentation: video on YouTube The webinar hosted on April 6 covers the subject https://nytha.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NYTHA- of the Paycheck Protection Loan (PPL, also know as either PPP or Webinar-April-6-2020-1.pdf P3) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL), specific to The recording of the presentation is available at horse trainers. The PPL/PPP/P3 and the EIDL are part of the Federal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH15W1dPzhc&feature=emb Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which is meant _logo . Florida Stallion Beau Choix Passes BY BROCK SHERIDAN________________________________ Beau Choix, who stood at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., passed away due to complications from colic sur- gery according to a post Wednesday night on the farm’s Facebook page. A multiple graded-stakes performer on the track for his owner and breeder Belle Meadows Farm and Lael Stable, Beau Choix was a two-time winner of the Rob ‘n Gin Stakes at Belmont Park in 2011 and 2012 while also taking the 2010 James W. Murphy Stakes presented by Iberia Airline Stakes at Pimlico and the 2010 Quick Call Stakes at Saratoga. He was also third in both the Grade 1 Jamaica Handicap at Belmont and in the Grade 2 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga. By Elusive Quality out of Belle Cherie, by Belong to Me, Beau Choix finished in career on the track with seven wins and $425,694 in earnings and began his stallion career at Pleasant Acres in 2014. Beau Choix/SERITA HULT PHOTO Back to Top Page 6 Courtlandt Farms' Sophomores Gaining Ground at Gulfstream BY KEITH MCCALMONT, NYRA PRESS OFFICE ________ route of ground before another dramatic second on Friday in a mile-and-one-sixteenth main-track tilt. Trainer Mark Hennig and long-time owners Donald and Donna Saving ground along the rail under Joe Bravo, Or'effice was Adam in the name of their Courtlandt Farms are loaded with soph- advancing with authority around the far turn and in tight quarters omore stakes-caliber stock with Sonneman, Or'effice, when bumping with rival and eventual winner Candy Machine.