Monday • August 16, 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: Got Stormy in Fourstardave Public Notice – FTBOA BOD Meeting Two Emmys Wires Mr. D Swan Song High Oak Wins Saratoga Special Introduced in Incredible Revenge Stakes Gretzky the Great in Greenwood Thriller Gulfstream Park Charts Track Results & Entries Florida-bred Well Defined/LAUREN KING PHOTO Florida Stallion Progeny List Well Defined Stubborn Florida Breeders’ List in Benny the Bull Victory Wire to Wire Business Place Featured Advertisers BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ Florida-breds Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Well Defined also took down a $25,000 win Florida Department of Agriculture The $75,000 Benny the Bull Stakes did bonus for Florida Sire Stakes runners pre- not go as planned early for Well Defined, sented by the Florida Thoroughbred Breed- Fred Burton Paving nor was it easy time for the 5-year-old geld- ers’ and Owners’ Association. ing late in the seven furlong test, as he en- Owned by trainer Kathleen O’Connell in FTBOA dured to win by a shortening neck the name of her Kathleen Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply against six O’Connell Racing Stable Inc., other older Well Defined is Well Defined and jockey Peterson Smith Equine Hospital See WELL DEFINED on page 3 Seminole Feed Wire to Wire August 16, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 Well Defined Continued from COVER Emisael Jaramillo did not get their customary early lead while breaking from post five in the Benny the Bull as 38-1 longshot Travy Boy shot to a clear lead from post six. Jaramillo confi- dently kept Well Defined close, however, as he tipped out the 6- 5 favorite to sit just off the hip of the frontrunner who cruised through a mild first quarter-mile in :22.75. Travy Boy maintained a length advantage around the turn with Well Defined edging closer as they passed the three- eighths pole after a :45.03 half- mile and two-and-half lengths Kathleen O’Connell/LAUREN KING PHOTO faster than Pro Quality and Untitled together in third. Well Defined took a short lead turning for home but was unable to shake free from the resilient Travy Boy, who continued his fight on the rail. Well Defined finally put away that rival as they raced past the eighth-pole when the multiple stakes-winner Shivaree sud- denly appeared on the far outside after making a late run from five lengths off the pace out of the turn. Jaramillo gave Well Defined a strong ride in the final furlong while keeping his crop in hand and they were able to hold off Shiv- aree in second while finishing in 1:23.47 on the track labeled good. Shivaree was three-quarters of a length to the good of Pro Qual- ity in third, who was a half-length to the good of a tough Travy Boy in fourth. Silverly Enough, With Verve and Untitled completed the order of finish. Garter and Tie was scratched. Well Defined paid $4.40 on a $2 win ticket. “I think he’s better loose on the lead, but I think Jaramillo [Emisael] made a great decision sitting off a horse that was sharp coming off a layoff,” O’Connell said. Well Defined won for the sixth time in nine starts for O’Con- nell, who purchased him off of a layoff late in 2020 from Gil and Marilyn Campbell’s Stonehedge LLC, who also bred the dark bay or brown winner of the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis at Tampa Bay Downs and $400,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes In Reality at Gulfstream earlier in his career. “[Well Defined] needed some time off and Mr. Campbell has a lot of horses. I was willing to give him some time off,” O’Connell said of the private sale after Well Defined finished fourth in a $16,000 optional claiming starter allowance won by Painter at Monmouth Park in September. “It’s a gamble. Sometimes, they come back and sometimes they don’t. I have ones come back that have never been half of what they were. I’m just glad he made a whole recovery and Mr. Campbell still reaps the benefits because he’s the breeder. It’s a win, win, win.” In his first two starts under O’Connell’s yellow and black silks, Well Defined won a $25,000 claiming race at Gulfstream Park West on Nov. 18 then a $35,000 claiming on Jan. 3 at Gulfstream before finishing fifth behind winner Quenane in a $30,000 starter allowance on Jan. 28, also at Gulfstream. That was his last poor ef- fort as he has since won four of six with two seconds, at over the Hallandale Beach oval, including a four-and-a-half-length romp in the $75,000 Big Drama against Florida-breds at Gulfstream three starts back on May 1. See WELL DEFINED on page 5 Wire to Wire August 16, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire August 16, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Got Stormy Reigns Supreme Against Males Once More in Fourstardave BY RYAN MARTIN, back to winning form in a famil- NYRA PRESS OFFICE______ iar spot, becoming the first horse to capture multiple editions of SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Two the Fourstardave since 2012-13 years after securing a triumph in Horse of the Year Wise Dan. the $500,000 Fourstardave Sent off as the third choice in (Grade 1) in record-setting fash- her 2019 Fourstardave coup, Got ion, MyRacehorse Stable and Stormy returned $27 as the third Spendthrift Farm’s Got Stormy longest shot in the eight-horse bested males again in the 2021 field. edition, displaying stalking tac- “This was maybe even more tics and making a menacing exciting because they wrote her stretch rally to capture the pres- off,” Hall of Fame trainer Mark tigious one mile event for 3-year- Casse said. “They did the same olds and older over the inner turf to [2015 Champion Turf Female] at Saratoga Race Course. Tepin, and she came back. I’m In capturing the Breeders’ really proud. There’s been some Cup “Win And You’re In” quali- bumps along the road with her, fier, Got Stormy earned an auto- but she came when it was time.” matic entry into the $2 million Breaking from post six under Breeders’ Cup Fanduel Mile pre- Tyler Gaffalione, Got Stormy sented by PDJF (G1) on Nov. 6 at tracked in third as graded stakes- Del Mar. Four of the last ten edi- winner Blowout (GB), one of tions of the Fourstardave were Got Stormy/ELSE LORIEUL PHOTO three distaffers in the field, captured by the subsequent winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile with flaunted her usual front-running tactics through an opening quar- Florida-bred World Approval [2017], Tourist [2016] and Wise Dan ter-mile in :23.45, two-and-a-half-lengths clear of 19-1 longshot [2012-13] securing the Fourstardave-Breeders’ Cup Mile double. Whisper Hill in second. Through a half-mile in :46.69 over firm Got Stormy finished second to Uni in the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Mile. going, Got Stormy maintained third position approaching the far Got Stormy, a 6-year-old daughter of 2010 Fourstardave victor turn as Gaffalione weaved the accomplished mare two paths wide Get Stormy, arrived at Saturday’s engagement off two fifth-place and in the clear. finishes at graded stakes level. But the talented chestnut mare got See GOT STORMY on page 7 Well Defined Continued from page 3 Well Defined is by With Distinction out of Fru Fru, by Medgalia providing her with her first stakes victory on her own, although she d’Oro and has won nine of 24 career starts with three seconds and is hardly a newcomer to the stakes game. three thirds while earning $759,217. Well Defined is the third run- The daughter of Bill Boland, the Hall of Fame jockey who won ner for Fru Fru who also produced a winning filly and a winning the 1950 Kentucky Derby aboard Middleground, Sharon has been gelding, both by Revolvling; and the 3-year-old training and working with horses for more than winning filly Fru Fru Zan, by Journeyman Stud 30 years. leading sire Khozan. She also has an unraced 2- “Unfortunately, because my father was a stew- year-old filly in Seabrook Summer, by Ocala Stud ard, they wouldn’t let me run horses in my name. stallion Greenpointcrusader, a yearling colt and a In those days, they thought it was a conflict of in- weanling filly, both by Khozan. She was bred again terest, so I took a back seat and let my [then] hus- to Khozan in 2021. band [multiple graded stakes-winning trainer Anthony Mitchell] run them in his name,” Boland, Perfect Silent Cat Gives Boland First who has 21 horses stabled at Palm Meadows said. Stakes Win in Aventura Perfect Silent Cat paid $27.20 to win. Perfect Silent Cat carried low weight of 114 Although Perfect Silent Cat entered Saturday’s pounds, 10 fewer pounds than highweight Papetu, $60,000 Aventura at Gulfstream Park as a maiden, the 1-5 favorite who finished fourth following a trainer Sharon Boland had a high level of confi- rough trip in traffic. Perfect Silent Cat ran a mile dence in the son of Tale of the Cat. over a sealed sloppy track in 1:36.35. Emperor’s “I knew what I had,” Boland said.