Thursday • July 22, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION www.wiretowire.net FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Colonial Downs Opens With Record Handle Brown Goes for Three-Peat in Lake George Virtual Round Table Conference EHV-1 Confirmed at the Spa Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida-bred Win Approval/SERITA HULT PHOTO Florida Breeders’ List Live Oak Stud’s 2017 Broodmare of the Year Win Approval Euthanized at Age 29 Wire to Wire Business Place PRESS RELEASE __________________ 2017 Broodmare of the Year by the Thor- oughbred Owners and Breeders Associa- Featured Win Approval, a Live Oak Stud founda- tion, is the dam of eight winners from 10 Advertisers tion mare and the 2017 Broodmare of the foals, including a pair of champions— Year, was euthanized July 19 due to the in- World Approval, 2017’s Eclipse Award Bloodstockauction USA firmities of old age, the farm announced Champion Turf Male; and Miesque’s Ap- Tuesday. She was 29 years old. proval, Eclipse Award Champion Grass Eagle View Farm By Canadian Horse of the Year With Ap- Horse in 2006—and four graded stakes Florida Department of Agriculture proval out of the graded stakes-placed and winners. In addition to her national honor, stakes-producing Hoist the Flag mare Nego- Win Approval was also named the Florida FTBOA tiator, Win Approval left an indelible mark Broodmare of the Year by the Florida Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply on the industry as a producer of champions. Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Seminole Feed The Live Oak homebred, honored as the See WIN APPROVAL on page 3 Wire to Wire July 22, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 Win Approval Continued from COVER Association in 2006, 2016, and 2017. All told, her runners amassed earnings of $8,936,808. “She will be missed, but never forgotten,” Charlotte Weber said. Florida-bred World Approval, a son of Northern Afleet born in 2012, was Win Approval’s final foal. The gray or roan gelding did his mother proud, annexing five stakes races for trainer Mark Casse in his championship season, including the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at Del Mar. He also rattled off victories in that year’s Turf Classic Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, the Dixie Stakes (G2) at Pimlico, the Fourstardave Handicap (G1) at Saratoga, as well as the Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1) at Woodbine en route to career earnings of $3,052,613. In addition to his national championship, World Approval was also named the 2017 Florida-bred Horse of the Year by the FTBOA, as well as Florida-bred Champion Older Male, Turf Horse, and Male Sprinter that season. In 2016, he was the Florida-bred Cham- pion Older Male and Champion Turf Horse. Miesque’s Approval, by Miesque’s Son, won 12 of 40 career starts, including the 2006 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at Churchill Downs. In his championship year of 2006, the Sunshine State prod- uct also captured the Firecracker Breeders’ Cup Handicap (G2) at Churchill Downs, the Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes (G2) at Keeneland, the Red Bank Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park, and the Sunshine Millions Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park. In winning the Red Bank at Monmouth, Miseque’s Approval set a new course record for eight furlongs, getting the distance in 1:33.36 for trainer Martin Wolfson. All told, Miesque’s Approval banked $2,648,879 in an outstanding career. In 2006, Miesque’s was also named the Florida-bred Horse of the Year, Champion Older Male, Champion Sprinter and Champion Turf Male by the FTBOA. Win Approval’s additional graded stakes winners also shared an affinity for the turf. Revved Up, a 1998 Florida-bred son of Sultry Song, banked $1,548,653. Conditioned by Christophe Clement, the gray gelding won the 2005 Niagara Breeders’ Cup Handicap (G2) at Woodbine, as well as the 2005 Stars and Stripes Breeders’ Cup Turf Handicap (G3) at Arlington Park, and the 2006 Sycamore Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G3) at Keeneland. In taking down top prize in the 2003 Cape Henlopen Stakes at Delaware Park, Revved Up established a new course record for a mile-and-one-shalf, stopping the clock in 2:26.46. Kentucky-bred Za Approval, a 2008 son of Ghostzapper also trained by Casse, enjoyed his best season in 2013, taking that year’s Knickerbocker Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park, the Red Bank Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park, and the Appleton Stakes (G3) at Gulf- stream Park on his way to career earnings of more than $1.3 mil- lion. Not to be outdone by his successful siblings, Za Approval also set a new course record, running one mile on the turf at Keeneland in 1:35.89 in dominating an allowance field in 2015. CLICK HERE for the latest The Florida Horse ONLINE Wire to Wire July 22, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 22, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Colonial Downs Opens With Record Handle BY COLONIAL DOWNS PRESS OFFICE_ NEW KENT, VA—Colonial Downs kicked off its 2021 racing season Monday with a record opening day handle of $2.66 million, spurred by a four-pack of $100,000 Virginia-restricted turf stakes races and the return of fans to the New Kent track, now in its third year under ownership of the Colonial Downs Group. “We would like to thank the horsemen, our fans on and off site and our team for starting the meet on the right foot,” Colonial Downs Group executive vice president operations John Marshall said. “What a delight it was to see 2,500 fans at Colonial Downs on a Mon- day afternoon with such enthusiasm. We ap- preciate our fans for urging a new all-time Colonial Downs all-source handle opening day record. Looking at today’s card, Colonial Downs has arrived at a whole new level.” Colonial Downs all-time leading rider Ho- racio Karamanos reached the winners circle three times including a gate-to-wire victory atop Reiley McDonald’s Passion Play in the $100,000 Bert Allen Stakes at a mile-and- one-sixteenth on the firm turf. The 5-year-old Hold Me Back gelding crossed two lengths Passion Play/COADY PHOTO ahead of Forloveofcountry, who had a four-race win streak snapped. with Feargal Lynch in the irons. The John Kimmel trainee was fifth The winner, a Mary Eppler trainee who broke his maiden two years heading into the final turn, launched an inside bid turning for ago in New Kent, pushed his bankroll to $197,947 in winning his home, and won by two-and-a-quarter lengths. The 5-year-old third race in 20 starts with three seconds and four thirds. Betting Bodemeister mare previously won the Brookmeade at Laurel and favorite Chess Chief finished fourth. Just Jenda Stakes at Monmouth. She is now five-for-seven with “I expected someone else to go to the front, but when my horse earnings of $204,600. broke out of the gate and took the lead, I tried to control the pace Big Lick Farm’s Puppymonkeybaby prevailed in the M. Tyson and at the half mile mark, knew I had plenty of horse left,” Kara- Gilpin Stakes, her second straight win and gave trainer Sara Nagle manos said. “I’m so happy to come here and win this much. This is her second win of the day. The lightly raced 3-year-old Hit it a like my home. I broke records here and feel so happy when I’m Bomb filly was sent off at 24-1 and was making just her third life- back at Colonial Downs. time start. Winning jockey Jevian Toledo collected his second Karamanos also scored aboard Cavalier Cupid and My stakes win having also guided Grateful Bred to victory. Betting Sweet Story. favorite Street Lute, winner of seven dirt stakes, finished sixth in Gordon Keys’ Grateful Bred’s win in the $104,000 Meadow her first effort on grass. Stable Stakes at five-and-a-half furlongs on the outer turf gave Colonial Downs continues its summer meet with a nine-race card Middleburg, Virginia-based trainer Madison Myers her first stakes Tuesday at 1:45 p.m. EDT. The season continues every Monday, win. The 5-year-old Great Notion gelding raced three-wide around Tuesday and Wednesday thru Sept. 1. the turn, took the lead at the top of the stretch and crossed two and- a-quarter lengths ahead of Sky’s Not Falling. He is now four-for- five on the turf with earnings of $159,765. Shopping Local Grows Our Economy “It’s pretty important and exciting to get my first stakes win,” Save Jobs. Myers said. “I can’t thank Mr. Keys enough for giving me a chance with a horse like this. We only have a handful of horses, so for him Save Time. to leave him with me and let us go down this route is very special. Support He won a Maryland-bred allowance four weeks ago and this was the goal, so we worked him once in between.” Local Newtown Anner Stud Farm’s Tasting the Stars earned her third Business. stakes win in the Nellie Mae Cox for Virginia-bred and sired horses Wire to Wire July 22, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 22, 2021 Back to Top Page 7 Brown Goes for Three- Peat in Lake George BY BRIAN BOHL, NYRA PRESS OFFICE__________ SARATOGA, NY—Head of Plains Partners’ Fluffy Socks earned a graded stakes win as a juvenile and will look to reach that status again as a sopho- more.