ftboa.com • Tuesday & Wednesday • Dec. 1 & 2, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Stakes Winners Among Cotillion Noms Share the Ride Prevails in Fall Highweight Handicap McGaughey Considering Pegasus World Cup for Code of Honor Churchill Unveils Official 2021 Viadera (outside)/BENOIT PHOTO ‘Art of the Kentucky Derby’ ‘All Others’ 6-5 Favorite at Conclusion Brown Scores Again in of Kentucky Derby Future Pool 1 Essential Quality Remains on Top of Matriarch, This Time Kentucky Derby Leaderboard Track Results & Entries with Viadera at Del Mar Florida Stallion Progeny List BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE _______ owned by Peter Brant, by a whisker in a Florida Breeders’ List four-horse blanket finish. DEL MAR, CA—Trainer Chad Brown has It was the fourth time Brown had cap- Wire to Wire Business Place a reputation as an excellent trainer, a supe- tured the $301,500 headliner for fillies and rior grass horse trainer and a very special mares and his charge did it with elan this trainer of fillies and mares. time. The daughter of the British stallion Click for Holiday Hours If you need testimony on that, ask the Bated Breath (GB) out of Sacred Shield, by folks at Del Mar. Beat Hollow (GB) skipped the mile over The New York-based conditioner com- the Jimmy Durante Turf Course in a stakes Featured Advertisers peted in five of the seven graded stakes the record 1:33.03, which shattered the former seashore track offered during mark by more than a second. Florida Department of Agriculture Thanksgiving weekend and he won four of Finishing third in the distaff crucible FTBOA them, running second in the other. On was Juddmonte Farms other entrant, Juliet Holiday Toy Drive Sunday—closing day of the shore track’s Foxtrot. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply seventh Bing Crosby Season—he complet- Joel Rosario rode Viadera for his fourth Ocala Breeders’ Sales ed his latest tour de force by capturing the Matriarch score. Blowout, under Flavien Ocala Stud Matriarch Stakes (Grade 1) with Prat, had a half length on Juliet Foxtrot and Seminole Feed Juddmonte Farms’ homebred filly Viadera Mike Smith, who in turn had a neck on (GB), who beat stablemate Blowout, Tampa Bay Downs See DEL MAR on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Del Mar Continued from COVER fourth-place finisher Sharing, owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gainesway Stable and ridden by Manny Franco. They were followed in order by Maxim Rate, Tamahere (Fr), She’s Our Charm and Bodhicitta (GB). “Whew. I had to work for that one. She’s a good filly, a really good filly,” Rosario said. “But she makes you work. I had to stay after her. She can run, though, there’s no doubt. I’m lucky that Chad Brown gives me an opportunity like this. Grass horses and especially fillies. He’s the best.” The stakes win was the sec- ond of the meet for Rosario, but his fourth in the Matriarch. He now has 30 stakes wins at Del Mar. The winner paid $12.80 to win. Viadera earned a first prize of $180,000 and moved her earning up to $391,441. She has now won six of 13 lifetime starts, the last three in stakes. “This weekend has been Chad Brown/COADY PHOTO amazing. I didn’t know which filly [of the stablemates] was the winner, but I’m happy it turned out to be Viadera,” Brown assistant Jose Hernandez said. “My boss Chad Brown is an amazing trainer and I just do my best for him. It’s an amazing job for me and I love the horses. In the future, I don’t know when it would be, if Chad wanted to come out here with a string, I’d like that. We like it out here.” Previously this weekend, Brown had captured the Grade 3 Red Carpet Handicap here on Thursday with the filly Orglandes; the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante Stakes with Fluffy Sox and the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby with Domestic Spending, both on Saturday. His second-place finish came Saturday with Flavius, beaten three- quarters of a length by Count Again in the Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap. Brown now has 12 stakes wins at Del Mar, nine of them of the Grade 1 variety. The Sunday 10-race card drew the curtain on a banner fall meeting for the seaside oval that saw fully safe racing and a remarkable handle rise of more than 30% during the 15-day stand. Racing will resume at Del Mar next July when the track pres- ents its 82nd summer season, followed by its second hosting of the Breeders’ Cup Championships next November. Beer Can Man Proves Best in C. B. DeMille at Del Mar The 2-year-old colt Beer Can Man made his West Coast debut a winning one when he tracked the leaders early, then fired late to capture the seventh edition of the $103,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3) Sunday at Del Mar. The bay son of Can the Man scored by a half-length under rider Juan Hernandez in the mile on turf run in 1:34.75. He had been competing at Indiana Downs in the Midwest where he’d won two of four starts, including his last two against special weight See DEL MAR on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Del Mar page 3 Continued from maidens on Aug. 31 and allowance horses on Sept. 30, after which he was purchased privately and shipped to the barn of local trainer Mark Glatt. “One jump out of there he came [back] to me. He settled real well,” Hernadez said. “I just found me spot tracking the leaders and I was happy. At the quarter pole I asked him to go and he did. He really fired. He didn’t want to let horses go past him, either. He’s a nice horse.” Beer Can Man is now owned by Billy Koch’s Little Red Feather Racing of Woodland Hills, Calif., with Kevin Bogart’s Sterling Stables of Los Angeles. He picked up $60,000 as his share of the winning purse in the Cecil B. DeMille and now has a bankroll that reads $100,580. “We’ve had him about six weeks,” Glatt said. “We entered him the first Beer Can Man/BENOIT PHOTO weekend of the meeting, thinking we could run then and then Caisson and running third was Nguyen or Tran’s Commander come back in this race. But that race didn’t go. So [the owners] Khai. Ebeko (Ire), Big Fish, Party Game (Ire), Royal Prince, told me to get him ready to go a mile. I was a little skeptical to be Cotopaxi (Ire), Harlan Estate, Coastal Kid and Wooten Asset com- honest, but the horse relaxed great, Juan [Hernandez] put a nice pleted the order of finish. ride on him and he got the money.” The winner, an outsider in the 11-horse lineup, returned $41.20 Finishing second in the juvenile grass test was Sarah Kelly’s to win. Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Stakes Winners, Grade 1 Runner Among Cotillion Festival Day Noms BY TAMPA BAY DOWNS PRESS OFFICE ________________ OLDSMAR, FL—Stakes-winners Arrest Me Red and Poppy’s Pride, along with Grade 1-performer Papetu, are among 25 2- year-old colts and geldings nominated to the 35th edition of the $100,000 Inaugural Stakes on Saturday, Dec. 5. The Inaugural and the 41st running of the $100,000 Sandpiper Stakes for 2-year-old fillies will headline the Dec. 5 Cotillion Festival Day card, with most (or possibly all) of the races for 2- year-olds, all of which are considered to turn 3-years-old on Jan. 1 for record-keeping purposes. Both stakes will be contested on the main dirt surface at a dis- tance of six furlongs and both purses include a $50,000 win bonus for entrants also eligible for the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes. Arrest Me Red, a homebred colt owned by the Lael Stables of Mr. and Mrs. M. Roy Jackson and trained by Arnaud Delacour, has won two races from three starts, all on the turf. His most recent race was a victory on Nov. 6 in the six-furlong Atlantic Beach Stakes at Aqueduct in New York. The Florida-bred gelding Poppy’s Pride is three-for-five for breeder-owner Stonehedge LLC and trainer Michael Yates. Florida-bred Poppy’s Pride/LAUREN KING PHOTO Poppy’s Pride’s two most recent starts resulted in victories in the Armed Forces Stakes at Gulfstream on Sept. 26 and the Juvenile Sprint Stakes on Nov. 14 at Gulfstream Park West. FTBOA Holiday Schedule Papetu, a colt owned by Magic Stables LLC and trained by Antonio Sano, was thrown into deep waters after winning his first Christmas two starts at Gulfstream. He never threatened on Aug. 7 in the • The FTBOA, FEC offices Saratoga Special (G2), then flashed early speed on Sept. 7 in the will be closed Thursday, Hopeful (G1), also at Saratoga, before finishing fifth. Dec. 24 and Friday, Dec. 25 Among the 24 Sandpiper nominees is the impressive Florida- for the Christmas Holiday. bred filly Shea D Summer, owned by Shea D Boy’s Stable and • The Friday, Dec. 25 nor trained by Carlos A. David. Her two-for-two record includes a six- the Saturday-Sunday Dec.