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ftboa.com • Saturday & Sunday • October 24 & 25, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING Raymundos Secret, INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Maxim Rate Offer Goldikova Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or Stakes Showdown email: [email protected] BY SANTA ANITA In This Issue: PRESS OFFICE __________ Feel Glorious Looks to Recapture ARCADIA, CA—In top form Summer Success in Athenia Stakes and bidding for her third con- secutive win, the Phil Tunes Up for Breeders’ Cup Run D’Amato-trained Florida-bred Murad Khan, Gregorian Chant Head Lure Raymundos Secret, along with the classy Maxim Rate from The Jockey Club Releases 2020 Report the Simon Callaghan barn, Tiz the Law Works Six Furlongs head a field of seven fillies and mares, 3-year-old and older Thoroughbred Safety Coalition Members going one mile on turf in Adopt and Enact Eight New Reforms Sunday’s $200,000 Goldikova Gaffalione Closing In On Fall Meet Title Stakes (Grade 2) at Santa Anita. Racing Returns to Churchill Sunday A gutty gate to wire-to-wire All-In Removal LLC Announces Change winner of the Grade 2 John C. Gulfstream Park Charts Mabee Stakes going a mile- and-one-eighth on turf Sept. 5 Track Results & Entries at Del Mar, Raymundos Secret Florida Stallion Progeny List should relish the cutback in distance, as she’s won four out Florida Breeders’ List of her five starts at a flat mile. Wire to Wire Business Place Idle since October of last year, this 4-year-old filly was off at 4-5 and stalked the pace Featured Advertisers en route to taking a second condition allowance by a neck Bloodstockauction USA at one mile on turf Aug. 14 in Florida Department of Agriculture what was her first start for D’Amato. FTBOA Off as the 7-5 favorite in the Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Grade 2 Mabee Stakes on Sept. 5, Seminole Feed Florida-bred Raymundos Secret/BENOIT PHOTO See SANTA ANITA on page 3 Sparr Farm and Building Supply Back to Top Page 3 Santa Anita Continued from COVER Raymundos Secret held sway by a neck under Flavien Prat, who rides on Sunday and is now a perfect three-for-three with her. A first-out maiden $32,000 claiming winner at one mile on grass Jan. 16, 2019, Raymundos Secret now has five wins from seven starts as she bids for her second consecutive Grade 2 victory. Raymundos Secret is by Pleasant Acres Stallions’ Treasure Beach (GB) out of Paulette Caveat, by Greatness and was bred in the Sunshine State by Edward Seltzer, Beverly Anderson and Joseph and Helen Barbazon. The 4-year-old bay filly races for Sierra Racing and Sterling Stables LLC and has earned $188,971. Raymundo’s Secret has drawn post three and is trying to become the first Florid-bred to win the Goldikova since Egg Drop in 2013. Second in the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive under jock- ey Luis Saez at a mile- and-one-quarter on turf at Santa Anita on Sept. 26, Maxim Rate has three wins from six tries at one mile on grass and will be ridden by Umberto Rispoli, who guided her to a pair of wins this past summer at Phillip D’Amato/BENOIT PHOTO Del Mar. Also a one mile turf allowance winner on July 10 at Del Mar, this 4-year-old Exchange Rate filly gutted out a game neck victo- ry in the restricted CTT and TOC Stakes going a mile-and-three- eighths on Aug. 16, also at Del Mar. Maxim Rate will be reunited with Rispoli on Sunday as she seeks her second graded stakes victory having won the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes at Santa Anita in May of last year. With an overall mark of four wins and three seconds in 12 starts and earnings of $282,185, Maxim Rate is owned by Slam Dunk Racing & James D. Branham. She is out of Catch My Eye, by Unbridled’s Song and she will don the number two saddle cloth Sunday. Trainer Jorge R. Abreu will saddle Atomic Blonde for the Goldikova for owners John D. Gunther and Eurowest Bloodstock Services. The chestnut daughter of Scat Daddy out of Volver (Ger), by Danehill Dancer (Ire) will be looking to improve off of her sixth- place finish behind winner Viadera in the Grade 3 Noble Damsel Stakes at Belmont Park going a mile on the turf on Sept. 26. Atomic Blonde is already a stakes winner having taken the $150,000 South Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 26 going about seven-and-a-half furlongs on the grass, but that was when she was under the care of Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher. She has yet to find her best stride in two starts for Abreu including a fifth-place finish behind Sweet Bye and Bye two starts back in an upper level optional claiming race at Saratoga on Aug. 26. Atomic Bomb has won three of eight starts with a second and third and will be trying to add to her $188,210 in career earnings. See SANTA ANITA on page 5 Back to Top Page 4 Mucho Macho Man (2013) World Approval (2017) Musical Romance (2011) Caledonia Road (2017) Little Mike (2012) FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Lonny T. Powell, CEO FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Tammy A. Gantt, Associate Vice President AND CONSUMER SERVICES Membership Services & Events Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 www.FDACS.gov 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 www.ftboa.com • [email protected] LITTLE MIKE/BENOIT; WORLD APPROVAL/MICHAEL BURNS; MUCHO MACHO MAN/COGLIANESE; MUSICAL ROMANCE/COGLIANESE; CALEDONIA ROAD/ECLIPSE SPORTSWIRE Back to Top Page 5 Santa Anita page 3 Continued from Hall of Fame rider Mike Smith will be aboard Atomic Blonde for the first time and they will break from post four. Finishing two places behind Maxim Rate in fourth in the Rodeo Drive is Tonahutu (Ire) for trainer Doug O’Neill and ERJ Racing LLC, Dave Kenney and William Strauss. The daughter of Sir Pracelot (Ire) out of Really Polish, by Polish Numbes won a second- level optional claiming race two starts back going a mile on the grass at Del Mar and was second Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 8 at a mile-and-one-eighth, but only a nose shy of winner Bodhicitta. Tonahutu will carry jockey Abel Cedillo from post seven in the Goldikova. Hang a Star, Zee Drop and Siberpfelil (Ire) round out the entries. The Goldikova is named for the Irish-bred mare who was the champion grass mare in North America in 2009-10 having won the TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) in both years after also winning the race in 2008. – Brock Sheridan also contributed to this Maxim Rate/COADY PHOTO story Back to Top FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Program** 2-Year-Old Payment* - $250 by Jan. 15 Late 2-Year-Old Payment* - $500 by Feb. 28 Yearling Payment - $250 by May 15 Yearling Payment Option 2020 - $275 (May 16-Aug. 15) Late Yearling Payment - $500 (Aug. 16-Nov. 15) Missed Nov. 15? – $5,000 by Jan. 15 Last chance payment option of $10,000 by May 1 of 2-year-old year (horse must not have started) *Yearling payment must have been paid. ** All terms of FSS races and FTBOA purse supplements, including number of races, purse levels, race conditions, racing dates and the host track may change from year to year and may change at any point after the FSS racing schedule for a particular year is announced FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 • 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 • Download form online at www.ftboa.com • E-mail: [email protected] Back to4 Top Page 7 Feel Glorious Looks to Recapture Summer Success in Athenia Stakes BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE _____________________________ ELMONT, NY—Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Tango Uniform Racing's Feel Glorious will look to bounce back from an off-the-board finish in last month's Grade 3 Noble Damsel with another graded stakes appearance on the Belmont Park turf, serv- ing as one of two entrants for trainer Christophe Clement in Sunday's Grade 3, $100,000 Athenia Stakes (Grade 3) going a mile-and-one-sixteenth over the inner turf course. The Athenia for fillies and mares will feature three-time stakes-winner Feel Glorious looking to recapture the form she showed earlier in her 4-year-old campaign, including a half-length victory in the Perfect Sting Stakes going the Athenia's distance on Aug. 14 at Saratoga Race Course. Cut back to one mile in the Grade 3 Nobel Damsel on Sept. 26 at Belmont, Feel Glorious ran seventh after going five-wide in the upper stretch and failing to rally, marking just the first time in her last seven starts the English-bred daughter of Bated Breath did not Feel Glorious/CHELSEA DURAND PHOTO hit the board. Feel Glorious, who won the Memories of Silver and Winter Diana, will renew the engagement, breaking from post two. Memories at Aqueduct Racetrack in 2019, had registered three Mitchell Road, who ran second by a neck to Regal Glory in the consecutive Beyer Speed Figures in excess of 90 before the Noble Grade 3 Ladies Turf in September over a soft Kentucky Downs Damsel, including a 93 for the Perfect Sting, a 92 for a third-place track, is again entered at a Belmont track. Last week, the 5-year- finish in the Grade 3 Matchmaker on July 18 at Monmouth Park old English Channel mare was scratched from the $80,000 Floral and a 91 for a third in the Grade 2 New York going a mile-and-a- Park but will look to return after garnering a 94 Beyer Speed quarter on the Belmont turf on June 27.