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BY BROCK SHERIDAN ______In This Issue: Florida bloodlines were in demand Tuesday night at the Fasig-Tipton Del Mar Opens Friday November Sale in Lexington, Ky., includ- Feinstein: Horse Racing Failed “Critical ing Shamrock Rose, the Eclipse Award- Test” at Breeders’ Cup winner and champion daughter of Double Diamond Farm stallion First Dude, who Obituary: Tom “TC” Robertson, Sr. brought $2.5 million from new owner Breeders’ Cup Attendance and Handle Mike Shannon as an agent. Announced Fasig-Tipton sold 128 head of wean- lings and broodmares for $68,011,000 for Covfefe, British Idiom Return to an average price of $531,336. Last year at Churchill Base this sale, Fasig-Tipton sold 140 head for Breeders’ Cup Announces New $89,473,093 for an average of $639,093. President and CEO Shamrock Rose is out of the Elusive Stirling Drives Shines in Showing Up Quality mare Slew’s Quality and during her racing career won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Gulfstream Park West Charts Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, the Grade 2 Florida Stallion Progeny List Lexus Run Stakes, the La Lorgnette Stakes and the Malvern Rose Stakes to post a Florida Breeders’ List record of five wins from 13 starts with Wire to Wire Business Place earnings of $968,962. Consigned by Bluewater Sales LLC as an agent, the 4- year-old Shamrock Rose is also a half-sis- Featured Advertisers ter to stakes-placed Bet On Mike and was Ocala Stud bred by Thomas and Lori Fackler in the name of their Best A Luck Farm LLC locat- FTBOA ed in Reddick, Fla. She was sold as a Hip 178 Shamrock Rose/FASIG-TIPTON PHOTO Florida Department of Agriculture broodmare prospect as Hip 178. and recent Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company Selling for $1.6 million to Mt. Brilliant (G1) third-place-finisher Sweet Melania. Berrettini Feed Farm LLC and Marette Farrell as an agent She was bred in Florida by E. Paul Stonehedge Farm was Hip 216, the Florida-bred mare Sweet Robsham Stable LLC. N Discreet, who is believed to be in foal to Diva Delite was another Florida-bred to Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Liam’s Map. The 9-year-old daughter of bring seven figures as the 12-year-old Seminole Feed Discreet Cat out of West Side Dancer, by mare generated a final bid of $1.2 million Journeyman Stud Gone West was consigned by Lane’s End Peterson & Smith Farm and she is the dam of stakes-winner See FASIG-TIPTON on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Fasig-Tipton
Continued from COVER from David Redvers as Hip 173. The dam of multiple-Grade 1- stakes-winner Midnight Bisou was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as an agent and is believed to be in foal to 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify. Diva Delite is by Repent out of Tour Hostess, by Tour d’Or and she was bred in Florida by Clover Leaf Farm II Inc. Multiple-stakes-placed Florida-bred Just Talkin was another who drew attention from potential buyers as she went for $675,000 as Hip 136 and believed to be in foal to 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. By Midshipman out of Sumthingtotalkabt, by Mutakddim, Just Talkin was consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency as an agent and Mountmellick Farm LLC was the buyer. Just Talkin was bred in Florida by Randall E. Lowe. Bradford Farm went to $475,000 to acquire Florida-bred Florida Fabulous, who is believed to be in foal to Good Magic. Sold as Hip 19 and consigned by Indian Creek as an agent, Florida Fabulous is a 5-year-old mare by the pensioned Ocala Stud resident High Cotton out of West Side Dancer, by Gone West. She is a half-sister to graded stakes-winners Discreet Dancer and Travelin Man and Grade 2-placed stakes-winner Sweet and Discreet and was bred in Florida by Ocala Stud. Hip 42, a gray or roan weanling filly by Frosted out of Meets Expectations, by Valid Expectations sold for $335,000 to Paca Paca Farm out of the Hunter Valley Farm as an agent consign- ment. Meets Expectations is also the dam of multiple-graded- stakes winning Florida-bred World of Trouble and Florida-bred stakes-winner Money or Love and she is a half-sister to multiple- graded-stakes winning Florida stallion Bucchero, who stands at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla. The filly was bred in Florida by Daryl and Sandy Clark’s Darsan Inc. of Plantation, Fla., and Godolphin. Mountmellick LLC purchased their second Florida-bred of the evening when they went to $325,000 to get Hip 158, Munny Spunt, a 5-year-old mare who is believed to be in foal to Candy Ride (Arg). She is by Munnings out of Spin the Blues, by Hard Spun and she was the winner of the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes during her racing career. She was consigned by Kingswood Farm and is a half-sister to multiple-graded-stakes-winner Blues Street and stakes-placed Beale Street. Two Florida-breds brought $200,000 in Hip 69 and Hip 199. Hip 69 is a weanling filly by Candy Ride (Arg) out of Spice Island, by Tabasco Cat and she was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as an agent. She is also a half-sister to Grade 1 Florida Derby-winner Ice Box and stakes-producer Nothing to Declare. September Farm signed the purchased ticket on the filly who was bred in Florida by CESA Farm. Hip 199, Lovesick, is a 3-year-old filly by Ocala Stud’s current leading stallion Adios Charlie out of the multiple-graded-stakes producer Almost a Valentine, by High Cotton, making her a half- sister to Cigar Mile (G1) and Kelso Handicap (G2)-winner Patternrecognition and stakes-winner Florida Fuego. Bred in Florida by Ocala Stud, Lovesick won the Liza Jane Stakes and the Juvenile Fillies Sprint during her career and was sold as a brood- mare. She was also consigned by Indian Creek as an agent. The top seller on the night was Blue Prize (Arg), who just won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita Saturday. By Blue Prize out of Blues for Sale (Arg), by Not for Sale, Blue Prize was sold to Larry Best in the name of his OXO Equine LLC for $5 million.
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Back to Top Page 5 Del Mar Opens Friday BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE ______In keeping with its Bing Crosby/Hollywood theme, the major- DEL MAR, CA—The eagerly anticipated return of horse racing at ity of the track’s stakes are named along those lines, most saluting Del Mar begins this Friday as the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club stars from the past who had Del Mar connections. Among the hosts its sixth consecutive “Hollywood” fall race meeting, known black type events that will be offered are races named for Desi affectionately as the Bing Crosby Season in honor of the track’s Arnaz, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Jimmy Durante and illustrious founder. The 15-day session, which has a warm local Cecil B. DeMille. vibe on track but a lucrative hot spin nationally, will run through The track’s two racing surfaces – the one-mile dirt oval and the Sunday, December 1. seven-furlong grass course with its unique diagonal chute that After a three-day opening weekend, the seaside oval will settle allows for races up to nine furlongs – are overseen by two veteran into a four day, Thursday-through-Sunday routine for the follow- professionals considered among the very best in the business. Leif ing three weeks featuring eight races during the week and nine on Dickinson as turf and landscape superintendent tends to the deep, Saturdays and Sundays. First post daily will be 12:30 p.m. PT with green grass layout and Dennis Moore handles the main track as the lone exception of Thursday, Nov. 28 when the track’s special director of track maintenance. Thanksgiving Day program gets underway at 11 a.m. There will be 14 stakes races offered during the stand, nine of them graded and highlighted by a pair of Grade 1 tests on the lawn – the $300,000 Hollywood Derby on Nov. 30 and the $300,000 Matriarch Stakes on Dec. 1. Following up on its injury free summer racing cards – and its past two-year ranking as the safest racetrack in the country – Del Mar will continue to place its first emphasis on safety for its horses and riders throughout the fall meet. The many enhanced procedures and protocols put into place, including additional veteri- narian oversight, an expert panel that reviews all horse entries, full scrutiny of all medication policies and safer workout routines, are now solidly established as part of the day-to-day routine at the shore racing headquarters. “Safety is job number one at Del Mar/BENOIT PHOTO Del Mar,” said Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s CEO Joe Harper. “If we have safety, all good things flow from it – starting with topflight racing, which we’ll have plenty of once more this fall. We’re going to be putting on the best race meet in the country here and we’re going to do it in the right way.” Nine of the track’s fall stakes will be run on its Jimmy Durante Turf Course starting with the opening day Kathryn Crosby Stakes for fillies and mares, aged three and older, at a mile. A pair of • thefloridahorse other notable turf tests are expected to draw stakes horses from around the country – the $200,000 Hollywood Turf Cup (G2) at 12 • FloridaThoroughbredBreedersAndOwnersAssociation panels on Nov. 29 and the $200,000 Seabiscuit Handicap (G2) at a mile and one-sixteenth on November 30. Florida Sire Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Date Stake Purse Age/Sex Distance Dec. 14 The FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Marion County $125,000 3yo C&G 7 furlongs Dec. 14 The FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes City of Ocala $125,000 3yo Fillies 7 furlongs (Closing Saturday, November 30)
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Florida-bred Global Access Winner of the G3 Saranac Stakes at Saratoga
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Back to Top Page 7 Feinstein: Horse Racing Failed ‘Critical Test’ at Breeders’ Cup
FROM DIANE FEINSTEIN PRESS OFFICE ______This is a gap that should be closed. WASHINGTON—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) released “Before the Breeders’ Cup, I wrote to the California Horse the following statement after a horse was euthanized due to Racing Board that this weekend would be a critical test for the injuries sustained while racing in the future of horse racing. Despite increased Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita Racetrack scrutiny and additional measures that have this weekend: been put in place, the horse racing industry “It breaks my heart to hear that another was unable to make it through a single horse died because of injuries sustained weekend without a critical injury and euth- during the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita anized horse. Racetrack. This year, 37 horses have died “In the past, I’ve called for horse racing at Santa Anita, seven of those since racing to be suspended at Santa Anita until it could resumed in September. That’s simply ensure the safety of horses would be pro- unacceptable. tected. With continued racetrack deaths, it’s “This problem is not unique to Santa clear that not enough has changed, so I Anita. More than 3,000 horses have died renew that call. at California racetracks in the past two “I will work with Governor Newsom to decades, and thousands more at racetracks look at all options to protect racehorses and throughout the country. Unfortunately, increase transparency at racetracks. If the most states lack sufficient reporting horse racing industry is unwilling to treat requirements, so we may never know the these magnificent creatures humanely, it exact numbers of horses that die nation- has no business operating in the United wide as part of the horse racing industry. Diane Feinstein/FILE PHOTO States.”
FTBOA Florida Sire OBITUARY Stakes Reminder: Late Tom “TC” Robertson, Sr. Yearling deadline is a August 21, 1946 - October 21, 2019 Nov. 15 postmarked date. Go to ftboa.com or call Tom was one of 12 children to Griff Caffey and Lula D. Cayson in Montgomery, Ala. 352-629-2160 Tom received his formal education in the School System in Montgomery, Ala., and worked 20 years plus as a horse groom before his health failed him. He loved to dress, fish, dance, and spend time with his family and EXPERIENCED friends. He was affectionately called TC or Top RIDER Cat by those close to him. He was married to the late Frances Roberson for more than 30 years. Seven children were added to this union. Later he met and married the late Lois Roberson. TC was predeceased by one sister Nancy Pinkton-Burnett, stepfather David Cayson, Sr., and his aunt and uncle Nancy and John Gray who helped raise him. He leaves to cherish his memories his chil- dren: two sons: Tom Roberson, Jr. and Matthew Nash; five daughters: Mary Roberson, Dorothy Thomas (Willie), Delorise Brown, Cindy Woods and Sabrina Lockley; seven brothers: David Cayson, Jr. (Ella), Herbert Cayson (Betty), Charlie Cayson, James Cayson, Cleve Cayson and John Cayson; four needed in the sisters: Lillian Bowens (Lewis), Willie Mae Thomas (Albert), Betty Cayson, and Juanita Burke (Bobby); 18 grandchildren including LaPeaches and Geremy Singleton Anthony area who were his caregivers until he went home; 24 great grandchildren, and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends including Gus Gray who offered PLEASE CALL: a reflection at his service on Nov. 2 at Gospel Temple in Ocala. (352) 895-7013
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BY BREEDERS’ CUP PRESS OFFICE______Santa Anita Park. The 2020 Breeders’ Cup will be held at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., and the 2021 event at ARCADIA, CA—The Breeders’ Cup announced common pool Del Mar racetrack in Del Mar, Ca. wagering totals and on-track attendance figures for the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Chairman Fred Hertrich III said, “Breeders’ Cup Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which took place at Santa would like to thank the staff and management at Santa Anita Park Anita Park on Nov. 1-2. and The Stronach Group for their hard work and support of the Total handle for the two-day event was $174,000,574. Total 2019 World Championships, along with Arcadia, Pasadena and common pool handle on Friday’s 10-race program was the surrounding communities, our loyal fans around the world $56,517,228, and the total handle on Saturday’s 12-race program and, especially, the owners, breeders and nominators who make was $117,483,346. our event possible. Last, but certainly not least, Breeders’ Cup Saturday’s on-track attendance at Santa Anita was 67,811, would like to recognize our equine athletes, the horsemen and completing a two-day attendance total of 109,054. A total of women, grooms, jockeys, trainers, veterinary teams, security per- 41,243 attended on Friday. sonnel and all volunteers for their tireless efforts and dedication to This year was the 10th time the Breeders’ Cup was held at our event.”
Breeders’ Cup Two-Day Attendance and Handle (common-pool) History: Year Venue Two-Day Attendance Handle (common-pool) 2018 Churchill Downs 112,667 $157,445,842 2017 Del Mar 70,420 $166,077,486 2016 Santa Anita Park 118,484 $156,861,811 2015 Keeneland 94,652 $149,869,035 2014 Santa Anita Park 98,319 $151,158,813 2013 Santa Anita Park 94,628 $160,704,877 2012 Santa Anita Park 89,742 $144,272,332 2011 Churchill Downs 105,820 $161,512,867 2010 Churchill Downs 114,353 $173,857,697 2009 Santa Anita Park 96,496 $153,271,176 2008 Santa Anita Park 86,588 $155,740,328 2007 Monmouth Park 69,584 $129,197,262
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BY CHURCHILL DOWNS PRESS OFFICE ______Spectacular Gem Tops Commonwealth Turf Entries LOUISVILLE, KY—The look on trainer Brad Cox’s assistant trainer Candie Baker’s $125,000 Jefferson Cup winner Spectacular Jorje Abrego said everything as he stood Gem drew post position six in an over-sub- proudly alongside two winning Breeders’ Cup scribed field of 14 horses who will take to the flower blankets that were showcased outside Matt Winn Turf Course in Saturday’s 16th run- Barn 22 at Churchill Downs from $1 million ning of the $175,000 Commonwealth Turf Filly and Mare Sprint (Grade 1) winner (Grade 3) at Churchill Downs. Covfefe and $2 million Juvenile Fillies (G1) Run at a mile-and-one-sixteenth for 3- hero British Idiom. year-olds, the Commonwealth is carded as the “I live for moments like this,” Abrego said. tenth race on the card set with a 1 p.m. ET “These horses are my life; they mean every- post. thing to me.” Spectacular Gem, trained by Jimmy Baker, Cox’s historic Breeders’ Cup weekend led wire-to-wire in the Jefferson Cup under began Friday when Michael Dubb, The jockey James Graham. The son of Can the Elkstone Group, Madaket Stables and Man finished first in his last two starts but Bethlehem Stables’ British Idiom wore down was disqualified at odds of 36-1 two races ago favored Donna Veloce to win the Juvenile in the $200,000 Caesars Stakes at Indiana Fillies by a neck. The next day, LNJ Foxwoods’ Grand because of interference in late stretch. crack sprinter Covfefe held off the late charge Graham has the return call in the of Bellafina by three-quarters of a length to Commonwealth. win the Filly and Mare Sprint. Both victories The three horses who finished behind likely locked up season-ending championship Covfefe/MICHAEL MCINALLY ECLIPSE SPORTSWIRE PHOTO Spectacular Gem in the Jefferson Cup – honors for Cox’s fillies. Calumet Farm’s Tracksmith, Ken and Sarah “It was a very special weekend for our entire barn,” Cox said. Ramsey’s Faraway Kitten and Evelyn and Darnell Yates and Kevin “I feel like they are both champions after that. We came to Kuta’s Clint Maroon (GB) – are all entered in Commonwealth California with five Breeders’ Cup chances and won two – I’d say Turf. that’s a pretty good weekend.” Another rival in the Commonwealth is Rick, Donna and Jeff Along with Cox’s Breeders’ Cup winners, locally based trainer Awtrey’s multiple stakes winner Marquee Prince. Trained by Brad Steve Asmussen and jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. also shared in Cox, Marquee Prince enters the Commonwealth following a three- Breeders’ Cup glory with Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s $2 mil- quarters of a length score in a conditioned allowance event at lion Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner Mitole. Indiana Grand. Tyler Gaffalione has the call from post 5. “This horse is simply unbelievable,” Santana said. “Once he Other notable entrants in the Commonwealth Turf include sees a hole to go through he takes off like you’d never believe. He Ontario Derby (G3) runner-up Armistice Day; Super Derby (G3) gets so determined on the racetrack to win. That’s what makes him third-place finisher Pirate’s Punch; and $50,000 Robert Dupret so special. It was an unbelievable day.” Derby winner Tiz Plus, who will attempt to give trainer Steve Mitole is slated to stand stud at Spendthrift Farm in 2020 for Asmussen his second Commonwealth win. $25,000. Breeders’ Cup Announces New President and CEO
BY BREEDERS’ CUP PRESS OFFICE __ long-term planning and growth, finance, LEXINGTON, KY—The Breeders’ Cup Limited sponsorships, marketing and legal. He Board of Directors voted unanimously to works closely with future host site locations elect Drew Fleming, formerly Chief to ensure that the Breeders’ Cup continues Operating Officer at Breeders’ Cup Limited, to be a first-class international event and to as President and Chief Executive Officer, further improve the experience for all effective immediately following the departure patrons. Additionally, Fleming has worked of Craig Fravel. extensively in strategic planning and busi- “Drew’s track record at the Breeders’ Cup ness negotiations to better position both the speaks for itself. He has already played an Breeders’ Cup and the Thoroughbred indus- indispensable role in our work to promote and try for continued success and longevity. improve the industry, which he knows inside “I am humbled and honored by the and out,” said Fred W. Hertrich III, chairman opportunity to lead the Breeders’ Cup at a of the Breeders’ Cup Limited board of direc- time when our industry is at a critical junc- tors. “Drew is the right person to lead the ture. The safety of our athletes and integrity Breeders’ Cup through this important time in of the sport will continue to be at the fore- our industry and into the next chapter of this front of the Breeders’ Cup’s mission, and I great sport.” look forward to expanding our efforts in this As Chief Operating Officer of Breeders’ space through research, innovation and Cup Limited, Fleming has led general day-to- investment so the tradition and passion day operations, including host track relations, Continued on next page Drew Fleming/BREEDERS’ CUP PHOTO
Back to Top Back to Top Page 13 Florida-bred Weekend Recap Stirling Drive Shines in Showing Up BY BROCK SHERIDAN ______
Florida-bred Stirling Drive made a big move around the far turn to take a two- length lead turning for home but had to fight off a late run by The Black Album (Fr) to win the $75,000 Showing Up Stakes at Gulfstream Park West Saturday. The Showing Up saw a field of 11 3-year-olds going a mile on the turf. A winner of the $122,000 Not Surprising Stakes on July 19 going a mile on the grass at Gulfstream Park, Stirling Drive was let go at 8-1 Saturday after a traffic-laden, eighth-place finish behind winner Scraps in the $75,000 Bear’s Den Stakes going a seven-and-a-half furlongs on the Gulfstream Park turf on Sept. 21. Trainer Milton Wolfson would not be discouraged by the Bear’s Den hiccup and entered Stirling Drive right back against stakes horses in the Showing Up and received a big performance in return. Graded-stakes-winning Florida-bred Well Defined set the pace in the Showing Up, while leading Bear’s Den fifth-place Florida-bred Stirling Drive/LAUREN KING PHOTO finisher Sovereign Warrior by a length good, so we kind of thought he’d run well,” Ballad at the head of the stretch and held through a quarter-mile in :23.77 on the he said. off Isla Road late to win her first stakes firm course but only a head separated the Stirling Drive is owned by N. T. S. race. two after a half-mile in :46.42. Meanwhile Stable Inc., who purchased him for A 3-year-old daughter of City Zip rid- Stirling Drive and jockey Samy Camacho $75,000 out of the Off the Hook consign- den by Edgard Zayas, Ionic had previously were pleased with their clear, outside ment at the 2018 Ocala Breeders’ Sales finished fifth in the Virginia Oaks and placement while racing mid-pack in sixth. April Sale. He is by Verrazano out of La fourth in the Parx Falls Oaks. She is out of Moving toward the far turn Camacho Presidenta (Arg), by Candy Stripes and he the French-bred mare Incredulous, who sent Stirling Drive at the leaders and he was bred in Florida by Vincent Perez’s won one of seven races when racing in made the before they reached the three- Farm III Enterprises located in Morriston, Europe. eighths pole. Stirling Drive continued to Fla. While Beautiful Ballad cut fractions of draw clear down the stretch when The Stirling Drive has now won four of 16 :23.15, :46.73 and 1:10, Zayas rated Ionic Black Album, Forever Mo and Scraps starts with a career bankroll of $247,490. third entering the backstretch and second launched their late runs. He paid $18.60 to win. entering the final turn before moving to the Stirling Drive crossed the finish in front at the head of the stretch. Despite a 1:27.71 and a head in front of The Black late rally by Isla Road, Ionic had plenty left Album in second with Scraps just another Cellar Shiraz Stakes while covering the distance in 1:37.55. head back in third. Forever Mo was just In the $75,000 Cellars Shiraz, the 3-1 Ionic returned $8.60. three-quarters of a length farther behind in favorite Ionic, bred and owned by Dr. fourth followed by Champagneanyone, Catherine Wills and trained by Arnaud —The Gulfstream Park Press Office New Year, Royal Um, Lahinch, Sovereign Delacour, drove past pacesetter Beautiful also contributed to this story. Warrior, Well Defined and Higgins. “I’ve been riding this horse and we won a stake together before,” Camacho said. Experienced Training Groom “Today he didn’t break too sharp and I had to put him in the clear. From the five- Needed at Ocala area farm eighths pole I had to move because I know him. If I don’t move like that, he won’t fin- Must pass drug screen and background check. ish well.” Must have valid driver’s license/social security card. Wolfson said he was also optimistic coming into the Showing Up. Home of 2018 Grade 1 Medical benefits after 60 days. “Samy’s [Camacho] been riding him Winners UNBRIDLED MO and MIND CONTROL Call: 352-804-6691 good and the horse has been training really
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