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Florida-bred Chess’s Dream/COGLIANESE PHOTO Late Nominations for 2021 Triple Crown Due Monday Florida Cup 18 Renews Gulfstream Park Charts With Six $100,000 Tampa Bay Downs Charts Florida Stallion Progeny List Stakes for Florida-breds Florida Breeders’ List Each Stakes Offers $10,000 Florida Sire Stakes Win Bonus Wire to Wire Business Place BY BROCK SHERIDAN ______ners. The Florida Sire Stakes win bonus is presented by the Florida Thoroughbred Featured Advertisers With a rich history that includes such Breeders’ and Owners’ Association. stars as Eclipse Award Champion Turf The 2021 Florida Cup has attracted Baoma Corp Horse World Approval, Florida-bred Horse entries from such notable trainers as Hall Bloodstockauction USA of the Year Imperial Hint and millionaire of Famers Bill Mott and Mark Casse; mul- Florida Department of Agriculture Extravagant Kid in recent years, the tiple Eclipse Award-winner Todd Pletcher; Florida Cup renews for the 18th time Michael Maker, Christophe Clement and FTBOA Sunday at Tampa Bay Downs. Canceled Tampa Bay Downs mainstays Gerald Gulfstream Park last year because of the COVID-19 pan- Bennett and Kathleen O’Connell. Journeyman Stud demic, the six race Florida Cup for regis- A number of Gulfstream Park-based Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply tered Florida-breds will this year offer a jockeys will make the trip north to ride, Ocala Stud $100,000 purse in each race plus a $10,000 including Joe Bravo, Paco Lopez, Corey Seminole Feed bonus for Florida Sire Stakes eligible win- See FLORIDA CUP on page 3
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Continued from COVER Lanerie, Edgard Zayas and Chantal Sutherland. First post is 12:00 p.m. with the first Florida Cup race, the $100,000 Equistaff Sophomore, set for Race 5 with a 1:55 p.m. post time. The Equistaff Sophomore is for 3-year-olds at a mile-and-one- sixteenth on the turf and has attracted a field of seven headed by Grade 3 Kitten’s Joy Stakes-winner Chess’s Dream. Trained by Mike Maker for Michael Dubb, Steven Bouchey, Bethlehem Stables LLC and Chester A. Bishop, Chess’s Dream won the Kitten’s Joy by three lengths at Gulfstream Park going a mile on the turf on Jan. 30. In one start since, the son of Ocala Stud leading sire Jess’s Dream out of Achalaya, by Bellamy Road was third, a length-and- three-quarters behind winner Annex in the $100,000 Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream going a mile-and-one- sixteenth on the turf on Feb. 27. Florida-bred Willy Boi/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Chess’s Dream has a record of two wins, two seconds and a third from six starts while banking $118,680 and was bred by Loren Nichols. Chess’s Dream will break from post two with Daniel Centeno aboard. Palm Beach Racing’s Hot Blooded is the other stakes winner in the field having won the $75,000 Proud Man Stakes by two-and- a-quarter lengths going a mile on the turf at Gulfstream on Aug. 29. Trained by Carols David, the son of Declaration of War out of Hot Cappucino, by Medaglia d’Oro led briefly in the stretch of the See FLORIDA CUP on page 5 FTBOA Maintains Office Building Drop Box For Official Business While the FTBOA offices remain closed to visitors and mem- bers doing business as a precaution due to the Coronavirus pan- demic, be advised that all services provided by the Association and its related companies remain on going. Most business can be conducted via mail, email or telephone and a drop box has been installed near our side entrance of the FTBOA building at 801 SW 60th Avenue, Ocala, Fla. for mem- bers to use when dropping off time-sensitive documents. Forms may be found at this lo- cation or on our website at www.ftboa.com. Please call us at 352-629- 2160 if you have any questions or contact us at [email protected].
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Back to Top Page 5 Florida Cup page 3 Continued from $100,000 Palm Beach going a mile-and-a-sixteenth on turf at Gulfstream on Feb. 27, but faded to seventh as Annex took the victory. Hot Blooded has Samy Camacho riding and will break from post five. The remainder of the field includes Officiating, Lite Us Up, Indy Lyon Flight to Paradise and Osprey. Chess’s Dream and Osprey are eligible for the $10,000 Florida Sire Stakes win bonus. Next on the stakes docket is the $100,000 Breeders’ Sales Sophomore Stakes for 3-year-old registered Florida-breds at seven furlongs. Fresh off of a length-and-three-quarters win the $75,000 Hutcheson at Gulfstream over a sloppy and sealed six furlongs on March 6, Willy Boi now sports an impressive record of three wins from four career starts with earnings of $96,035. He won on debut against special weight maidens on Dec. 10 at Gulfstream then took a first condition allowance race there on Jan. 7 in his next start. His only career loss came when he led for the first three points of call but tired to finish out of the money in the Grade 3 Florida-bred Tap It Two Win/COGLIANESE PHOTO Holy Bull won by Greatest Honour, who is the 6-5 morning line He has won four with four seconds and a third from 16 career favorite to win Saturday’s Curlin Florida Derby presented by Hill starts while earning $128,490. ‘n’ Dale Farms at Xalapa (G1) at Gulfstream. Claimed for $40,000 in July at Saratoga, Me and Mr. C was Trained by Jeff Engler for Lea Farms LLC, Willy Boi is by bred by Stonehedge LLC but now races for trainer Mike Maker Uncaptured out of Shining Moment, by Lion Heart and is eligible and owner David Staudacher. for the Florida Sire Stakes win bonus. Daniel Centeno will ride Me and Mr. C from post three in the Willy Boi was bred by Ocala Stud and William J. Terrell and six-horse field. has post five and jockey Corey Lanerie. He, along with Winter’s Memories and J P Hellish, is eligible Willy Boi is among four OBS Sophomore entrants eligible for for the Florida Sire Stakes win bonus. The other starters include the Florida Sire Stakes win bonus along with Gatsby, Awesome Over the Channel, Shamrocket and Second Mate. Pudding and Breeze on By. A large field of 10 4-year-olds and older are set to go six fur- Breeze on By makes his 2021 debut Sunday for trainer Ralph longs in the $100,000 NYRA Bets Sprint. Nicks. Trainer Mark Casse comes well-armed with two homebred He too sports a record of three wins in four career starts as he half-brothers for Live Oak Plantation in Tap it To Win and Souper won the first two legs of the colt and geldings divisions of FTBOA Stonehenge. Florida Sire Stakes last summer at Gulfstream Park. Tap It Two Win will be making his first start of 2021 after run- A homebred for Stonehedge LLC, Breeze on By won the ning in graded stakes in his last three starts of last year. $100,000 Dr. Fager division by a length going six furlongs on By Tapit out of Onepointhreekarats, by Medagalia d’Oro, Tap Aug. 1 and dominated the $200,000 Affirmed division by seven- It to Win was fifth in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes won by Tiz the and-a-half lengths going seven furlongs on Aug. 29. In his only Law; second to Echo Town in the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkins Stakes career loss in his last race, the son of Stonehedge Farm South stal- presented by Runhappy at Saratoga and third in the Grade 2 Pat lion Cajun Breeze was second to Boca Boy in the $400,000 Day Mile won by Fellow Florida-bred Rushie at Churchill Downs. Florida Sire Stakes In Reality going a mile-and-one-sixteenth on Tap It to Win has won three of nine starts with two seconds and a sloppy and sealed track on Sept. 26. a third while earning $273,672. Breeze on By, the richest of the OBS Sophomore starters with Antonio Gallardo will ride from post five. $303,000 to his credit, will be ridden by Edgard Zayas from post Souper Stonehenge was second, missing by just a nose to four. Zenden in the $75,000 Pelican Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs going Other entrants include Shoo Shine, Two Steppin Kluki, six furlongs on Feb. 13 in his last start. Foreman and Pirate Parade. The son of Speightstown, also out of Onepointhreekarats has Me and Mr. C appears to be the one to beat in the $100,000 won three of 12 starts with four seconds while banking $159,572. Turf Class set to go a mile-and-one-sixteenth on the turf. No rider had been named at press time on the 5-year-old geld- The 4-year-old gelded son of Journeyman Stud leading sire ing who has drawn post two. Khozan out of Abiding, by Dyanformer crossed the finish line first Sprint entrants eligible for the Florida Sire Stakes win bonus in his last two starts, both coming in second condition, $32,000 include R Mercedes Boy, Old Time Revival, Shivaree, Cajun optional claiming allowance races on the turf at Tampa Bay Downs. Brother and My Boy Lenny. The first came on Jan. 16 at a mile-and-one-sixteenth but he was Hauntedbythemusic, Baby Boomer and Game Boy Benny disqualified for interference and placed second. He bounced back round out the field. strong, however, to win by two lengths on Feb. 13 at a mile. See FLORIDA CUP on page 7
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page 5 Continued from The $100,000 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf will be contested a mile-and-one-sixteenth on the grass has qual- ity from top to bottom among the 10 fillies and mares entered with Sunshine Filly and Mare Turf-winner Bienville Street; Beautiful Lover, who was third in the $96,000 All Along Stakes won by Nay Lady Nay on Sept. 7 at Laurel in her last start; and Glen Hill Farm homebred Summering appearing to be the ones to beat. Bienville Street is by Street Boss out of Milk Run, by Running Stag and will carry the colors of CJ Thoroughbreds and DTF Racing LLC. She was bred by Double W Thoroughbred Racing and has won five of 35 starts with three seconds and seven thirds with earnings of $234,735. Beautiful Lover is trained by Christophe Clement for Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd. And is by Arch out of American Skipper, by Quiet American. Bred by Thomas Coleman, she has won three of 10 starts with three seconds and a third with lifetime revenues of $242,870. Florida-breds Special Princess (#1) and Adios Trippi (inside)/SV PHOTOGRAPHY Summering is by Arch out of Wishing Gate, by Indian Stakes win bonus with the remainder of the field being made up Charlie and has won three with a second and a third from 10 starts of 2020 Ginger Punch Stakes-winner Kelsey’s Cross; Classy and earnings of $133,731. Woman, who has won two of her last three; Sunshine Filly and Bienville Street has post one and jockey Paco Lopez while Mare Turf fourth place-finisher Lovely Luvy; Crown and Sugar; Beautiful Lover will be ridden from post six by Joe Bravo. Sugar Fix and Sun Summers. Summering has drawn post nine and Jesus Castanon has been The Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies, for 3-year-old named to ride. fillies going seven furlongs, features a rematch between Adios Recent $32,000 optional claiming allowance winner Here Trippi and Special Princess, who on Jan. 16 at Tampa Bay Downs, Comes Jackie and Sugar Fix are eligible for the Florida Sire dead heated for the win in the $75,000 Gasparilla Stakes going seven furlongs. Adios Trippi, by Ocala Stud stallion Adios Charlie out of Stage Trip, by Trippi, has a record of two wins in five starts with a third and earnings of $65,900 and is trained by Peter Walder for Paradise Farms Corp, Brian Hanley, Greg Boyer, Scott Estes. The bay filly will be ridden by Antoinio Gallardo post 12. The two fillies will have an eye on each other from the start as Princess Secret will break from just to the left of Adios Trippi in post 11 with Jose Ferrer aboard. Special Princess is by Double Diamond Farm’s Bahamian Squall and is out of Indy Crown, by Shaniko. She was bred by J D Farms. The remainder of the field for the Sophomore Fillies includes Fan Fan, Go Jo Jo Go, Pyschic Ability, Sky Proposal, Jade Empress, Quinoa Tifah, East Wing, Princess Secret, R Adios Jersey and Ray Arewethereyet. Go Jo Jo Go, Princess Secret, R Adios Jersey and Ray Florida-bred Bienville Street/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Arewethereyet are eligible for the Florida Sire Stakes win bonus. Tampa Bay March Florida-Bred Stakes and FSS Bonuses Date Race Conditions Distance Purse Mar. 28 OBS Sophomore Stakes 3 yo 7 fur. $110,000 Mar. 28 Stonehedge Farm Sophomore Fillies 3 yo Fillies 7 fur. $110,000 Mar. 28 Equistaff Sophomore Turf 3 yo 1 1/16 mi. turf $110,000 Mar. 28 NYRABets Sprint 4 yo & up 6 fur. $110,000 Mar. 28 Pleasant Acres Stallions Turf Distaff 3 yo & up F&M 1 1/16 mi. turf $110,000 Mar. 28 Grey Goose Turf Classic 4 yo & up 1 1/8 mi. turf $110,000
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Back to Top Page 9 McPeek Seeks to Go Back-to-Back in G2 Gulfstream Oaks
BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE ______HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Kenny McPeek will be on a quest to win back-to-back runnings of the $200,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks (Grade 2) Saturday when he saddles Crazy Beautiful for the mile-and- one-sixteenth stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Last year, McPeek saddled Swiss Skydiver for a 9-1 upset victory in the Gulfstream Park Oaks that would set the tone for an Eclipse Award-winning campaign that included a victory in the Alabama (G1) at Saratoga and a photo-finish victory over Authentic in the Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico. The 51st running of the Gulfstream Park Oaks will be among 10 stakes on Saturday’s pro- gram that will be headlined by the $750,000 Curlin Florida Derby pre- sented by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm at Xalapa (G1). Saturday’s 14-race card will also be highlighted by a mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 pool, which is expected to swell into the multi-millions should the popu- Crazy Beautiful/CRIS MORALES PHOTO lar multi-race wager go unsolved a partnership by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, graduated over through Friday. There will also be guaranteed pools of $750,000 Gulfstream’s main track July 31 after finishing a close second to for the Late Pick 5 and Late Pick 4. Wholebodemeister in her debut over a sloppy track three weeks The Gulfstream Park Oaks will offer 170 qualifying points for earlier. the April 30 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) on a 100-40-20-10 “It’s something we’ve been thinking about for a while. Being a basis. graded-stakes and all—and she seems to like Gulfstream—we Phoenix Thoroughbred III’s Crazy Beautiful is coming off a decided to give it a try,” Pletcher said. second-place finish in the Feb. 27 Davona Dale (G2) at After finishing second behind Simply Ravishing in the off-the- Gulfstream. The daughter of Liam’s Map rallied from well off the turf P. G. Johnson, Con Lima returned to Gulfstream to finish sec- pace in her 2021 debut to finish a distant second to going-away ond in the off-the-turf Our Dear Peggy. Sent around two turns on winner Wholebodemeister. She was making her first start since turf for her next two starts, Con Lima romped to front-running finishing off the board in the Nov. 6 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies optional claiming allowance victories by open lengths. She (G1) won by Vequist at Keeneland. showed the way before fading to second in the Jan. 30 Sweetest “She ran great here. I think that she’s training well enough that Chant (G3) and came back to overcome trouble leaving the start- we should go right now,” McPeek said. ing gate to close from far back and finish second in the Crazy Beautiful launched her career last summer with back-to- Herecomesthebride (G3) Feb. 27. back wins at Ellis Park, including the Runnhappy Debutante “Her races on the turf have been very good, but she’s been con- Stakes before finishing second in the Pocahontas (G3) at sistent on both surfaces,” Pletcher said. “It seemed like the right Churchill Downs. The Kentucky-bred filly was favored to win the trip to try it.” Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland but was no match for stablemate Irad Ortiz Jr. has the return mount on Con Lima, who is rated Simply Ravishing while finishing second. second at 3-1 in the morning line. Jose Ortiz has the mount aboard Crazy Beautiful, who was Competitive Speed, a sprint-stakes winner owned by John rated as the 5-2 morning-line favorite. Minchello, is scheduled to make her first start around two turns Trainer Todd Pletcher is scheduled to saddle Con Lima for a Saturday. The daughter of Competitive Edge is coming off a third- return to dirt in the Oaks. Multiple graded stakes-placed on turf in place finish in the one-turn mile Davona Dale, in which she made her two most recent starts, the daughter of Commissioner is hardly heading to foreign territory. The Texas-bred filly, who is owned in See GULFSTREAM PARK OAKS on page 11
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page 9 Continued from a wide middle move to challenge front-run- ning Wholebodemeister on the turn into the homestretch before weakening to finish third, a length-and-a-half behind Crazy Beautiful. Competitive Speed broke her maiden at Gulfstream Park West last July in her sec- ond career start while racing for a $25,000 claiming tag. She came back to win an optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream by four-and-a-half lengths going away. “After she won that race, I said, ‘Oh, I think we’ve got something,” trainer Javier Gonzalez said. Competitive Speed came back to win the six-and-a-half-furlong Glitter Woman by three lengths before finishing a troubled sixth in the Forward Gal and third in the Davona Dale. Leonel Reyes has the return mount aboard Competitive Speed. Juddmonte Farms Inc.’s Millefeuille will seek to rebound from a seventh-place finish in the Davona Dale Saturday. The Bill Mott-trained daughter of Curlin had previ- ously finished second at Aqueduct in the Con Lima/LAUREN KING PHOTO Dec. 6 Demoiselle, in which she set the first time. pace before falling a half-length short of holding off undefeated Dennis Smith and Daniel Walters’ Pens Street will seek to Malathaat. improve on a a distant fourth in the Davona Dale last time out. Tyler Gaffalione is scheduled to ride the homebred filly for the The Rohan Crichton-trained daughter of Street Sense, who fin- first time Saturday. ished first and second in her first two career starts, will be ridden Trainer Dale Romans, who has saddled the winners of three by Miguel Vasquez. Gulfstream Park Oaks, is scheduled to saddle Calumet Farm’s Bow Bow Girl and Robert Baron’s Len Lo Lady for this year’s running. Bow Bow Girl is coming off an impressive maiden score at Gulfstream Park in her third career start. The homebred daughter of Oxbow set a pressured pace before drawing off to win the mile- and-a-sixteenth maiden special weight race by four-and-a-half CLICK HERE for the latest lengths. Len Lo Lady broke her maiden by more than 10 lengths in a $50,000 claiming race prior to finishing third in a mile The Florida Horse ONLINE optional claiming allowance. Corey Lanerie has the return call on Bow Bow Girl, while Hall of Famer John Velazquez is scheduled to ride Len Lo Lady for the
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Date Race Conditions Distance Purse Mar. 27 Curlin Florida Derby Presented by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms at Xalapa (G1) 3 yo 1 1/8 mi. $750,000** Mar. 27 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) 3 yo Fillies 1 1/16 mi. $200,000***
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BY GULFSTREAM PARK show that much speed at the end of the day. PRESS OFFICE ______Very willing and extremely athletic and I’m excited to see her run.” HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – He’s had a Clement has won the Orchid seven quiet Championship Meet by his standards, times in his career, including four in a row with seven wins from 54 starters, but train- from 1999 to 2002, and most recently with er Christophe Clement is hoping to make Beauty Parlor in 2015. Hall of Famer some noise with European import Sorrel Javier Castellano will ride from Post 5 in a (Ire) in Saturday’s $100,000 Orchid (Grade field of 10. 3) at Gulfstream Park. “I think she’s doing well. I’ve been The 57th running of the mile-and-three- lucky in that race and have won it quite a eighths Orchid is for fillies and mares on few times,” Clement said. “I think she’s turf. going to be a nice filly. I just don’t exactly
Bred in Ireland by owners George know if she’s going to be more mile and a Christophe Clement/NYRA PHOTO Strawbridge and James Wigan, Sorrel will half and mile and a quarter, but she’s so be making her first North American start athletic and she’s pretty exciting.” eighth Gazelle (G2) on the Aqueduct dirt in the Orchid. The 4-year-old daughter of Sorrel will have to contend with Repole in 2019 but has found a home going long Group 3 winner and five-time Group 1- Stable homebred Always Shopping, who on the grass. Since the full-time surface placed Dansili comes in on a three-race became a graded-stakes winner on two sur- switch she has three wins and a second in win streak, all at a mile-and-a-half or faces in the mile-and-a-half La Prevoyante the Dowager (G3), where she was beaten a more, the most recent Oct. 29. (G3) Jan. 23 on the Gulfstream turf. It was head last fall, and owns three wins and a “She came to us in the fall of last year. her second victory of the Championship third in five tries over the Gulfstream turf. Nice filly,” Clement said. “She won a stake Meet following the mile-and-three-six- “She’s a graded-stakes winner on both the last start for Michael Stoute in England teenths Via Borghese Dec. 19. surfaces but as she’s gotten older I think on the Polytrack, which is interesting “She seems to handle these longer dis- she’s kind of found her niche on the turf because it’s a different kind of form, going tances really well and she’s in good form, and seems to like these longer races,” long. A mile and five-eighths. so we’ve been pointing to this for a while,” Pletcher said. “She’s versatile enough and “She’s very athletic; not much to look trainer Todd Pletcher said. “She seems to she’s trained well on the dirt, but we’ll stick at, just the most beautiful mover,” he be doing great and seems to like the course to the turf as long as she continues to have added. “Very light on her feet. The works here. We’re happy with her and looking success.” have been fair, not great, but she’s a mile forward to it.” Irad Ortiz Jr. rides from post nine at and a half filly so you don’t expect her to Always Shopping won the mile-and-an- topweight for Pletcher, a five-time Orchid winner including 2005 and 2006 with Honey Rider and most recently 2016 with Photo Call. Trainer Mike Maker will try to play spoiler with Three Diamonds Farm’s Enjoyitwhilewecan, a 5-year-old Quality Road mare that has run second in back-to- back optional claiming allowances this winter at Gulfstream by less than a length combined. Enjoyitwhilewecan came up a nose short going a mile-and-a-sixteenth Feb. 14, four weeks after being beaten a half-length by fellow Orchid contender Crystalle at a mile-and-seven-sixteenths. Tyler Gaffalione has the call from post two. “She had a couple of tough beats here, and we’re trying to get a little black type for her,” Maker said. “It’s a big step up, but if we get a chance to get some black type it would help her and make it work taking a shot.” Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott entered the pair of Maram’s Delta’s Kingdom, run- ner-up to Always Shopping in the La Always Shopping/LAUREN KING PHOTO See ORCHID on page 15
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page 13 Continued from Prevoyante in her lone start of 2021; and George Krikorian’s War Like Goddess, fifth in the mile-and-three-sixteenths The Very One after going undefeated in two starts as a 2-year-old. Mott has won the Orchid three times, the last with Dress Rehearsal in 2009. Stakes-winner Belle Laura, placed in four career graded-stakes including a second in the $100,000 The Very One (G3) last out Feb. 27 at Gulfstream; stakes winner Morning Molly, second by less than a length in the Hillsborough (G2) Feb. 27 in Tampa; Sister Hanan, third in the 2021 The Very One and 2020 Honey Fox (G3), and Dizzy round out the field. Sweet Melania Returns to Action in $100,000 Sand Springs
Robert and Lawana Low’s multiple graded-stakes winner Sweet Melania, unraced since the first off-the-board per- formance of her life last fall, is set to launch her 4-year-old campaign in Sweet Melania/ELSA LORIEUL PHOTO Saturday’s $100,000 Sand Springs. A chestnut daughter of 2015 Triple Crown champion American Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Tango Uniform Racing’s Pharoah, Sweet Melania was last seen setting the pace before fad- Feel Glorious is a multiple stakes-winner that most recently ran ing to be seventh in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) third by a neck to multiple Grade 1-winner Got Stormy in the one- Oct. 10 at Keeneland. mile Honey Fox (G3) Feb. 27 at Gulfstream for trainer Christophe Sweet Melania had never been worse than third prior to that Clement. race, winning the one-mile Wonder Again (G3) last June in her “She ran very well. She came from off the pace and finished seasonal bow. In between she was beaten a nose when second in great, we just couldn’t quite get there,” Clement said. “She prob- the Lake George (G3) at Saratoga. ably got beat a head and a neck, but not much. It was a very nice “She’s a quality filly and, with the exception of her last start, race on the way back. Let’s hope that she can do it again.” she’s always put forth a good effort. So, I’d expect her to do that Feel Glorious’ only other race at Gulfstream was a March 2019 this weekend,” trainer Todd Pletcher said. “I don’t know if she did- optional claiming allowance win in her North American debut fol- n’t handle the turf course real well that day, but it was kind of the lowing starts in England and Germany. Four of her six career wins end of the season and we decided to freshen her up for this year.” have come in stakes, three at Aqueduct and one at Saratoga. A $600,000 yearling, Sweet Melania won the mile-and-one- “I think she looks well,” Clement said. “There’s still plenty of sixteenth Jessamine (G2), was second by a neck to Crystalle in the improvement to come regarding her shape and her coat. Her works P.G. Johnson and third by a length-and-a-half to Sharing in the have been fair. She’s never a great work horse in the morning. Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) as a 2-year-old in 2019. She’s sound, she’s happy. I’m running her back a bit quicker than She shows a steady string of works at Palm Beach Downs for her I would have liked to, but it’s either that or ship her up north to run return, where she will be ridden by Jose Ortiz from post six in a in mid-April and it just makes sense to not to ship her and to run field of seven. in Florida, as we are stabled here at the moment. “She’s coming off the layoff where we gave her a little freshen- “She’s great. She’s a wonderful horse to own,” he added. “She’s ing up,” Pletcher said. “She’s been training great and we’ve been been really a lot of fun and she tries very hard. She’s 5, so we’ve pointing for this for a while. Hopefully she comes back to her been able to enjoy her for already two years. Let’s hope we can best.” have the same kind of year this year.” Among the competition is Apogee Bloodstock’s Abscond, win- Junior Alvarado will be aboard from post two. ner of the 2019 Natalma (G1) prior to a seventh in the Juvenile Completing the field are Niko’s Dream, who became a stakes Fillies Turf. By Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)-winner Blame, the 4- winner in the mile-and-a-sixteenth My Charmer Dec. 12 at year-old filly has not raced since a runner-up finish in the Tepin last Gulfstream; Art of Almost, fifth by a length-and-three-quarters in May at Churchill Downs. She has been beaten by less than a length the Honey Fox; Sweet Bye and Bye, two lengths behind Zofelle in three consecutive races, including the Herecomesthebridge (G3) when second in the Marshua’s River (G3) Jan. 23; and Runway and Ginger Brew last winter at Gulfstream. Dreamer.
Back to Top Page 16 Seismic Wave Ready to Rumble in Appleton BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE______HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Multiple turf stakes-winner Seismic Wave, unraced in five months, is set to launch his 5-year-old campaign running first time for new con- nections in Saturday’s $100,000 Kitten’s Joy Appleton (Grade 3) at Gulfstream Park. The 69th running of the one-mile Appleton is for 4-year-olds and older on turf. Post time for the first of 14 races is 11:30 a.m. Seismic Wave, by Tapit, had three wins and $368,800 in purse earnings in 16 starts for breeder Juddmonte Farms and Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott before fetching $60,000 at Keeneland’s November 2020 Seismic Wave/JOE LABOZZETTA PHOTO breeding stock sale from the partnership of mile-and-one-sixteenth Grand Prairie That’s why we’re getting ambitious.” Michael Dubb, Nice Guys Stables and Derby last summer at Lone Star. Hall of Famer Javier Castellano gets the Bethlehem Stables. “He’s been working great. He makes a riding assignment from post five. In two previous starts at Gulfstream, fabulous appearance,” Maker said. “We’re Another Hall of Famer, trainer Roger Seismic Wave broke his maiden and cap- very high on him.” Attfield, entered the pair of Gray’s Fable tured the Cutler Bay by a neck on the Jose Ortiz will ride from post six. and Perfect Speighty. Charles Fipke’s Florida Derby undercard in successive Sir David Seale’s Renaisance Frolic is a Perfect Speighty, third in the race where efforts to open his 2019 season. He won familiar face to Gulfstream, where he has Renaisance Frolic lost his rider, is making the English Channel at Belmont Park to made 18 of his 33 lifetime starts, with five his 10th career start and first in a stakes. end the year; both stakes victories came at wins and two seconds including stakes vic- Steve Goldfine, Kari Provost and Jeff the Appleton distance. tories in the 2017 Armed Forces and 2018 Zlonis’ Gray’s Fable is four-for-five in the Seismic Wave went winless in five tries Bears Den for trainer David Fawkes. money at Gulfstream but hasn’t raced since last year with seconds to multiple graded- Renaisance Frolic was purchased last last September. stakes winner Social Paranoia in the one- winter with the purpose of running in the Frostmourne, third last out in the mile Poker (G3) at Belmont, and stakes Barbados Gold Cup, where he finished Tropical Turf (G3) Jan. 9 at Gulfstream, winner Empire of War in a mile-and-one- sixth. Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., a Barbados Forever Mo and Ever Dangerous round out eighth optional claiming allowance at native, brought the now 6-year-old gelding the field. Saratoga. Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount from back to South Florida where he won a one- outermost post eight. mile off-the-turf optional claiming Paradise Farms Corp. and David allowance by 16 ½ lengths upon return last Staudacher’s Little Menace will also race May. HELP WANTED first time for new owners after being sold In his lone start this year, Renaisance for $140,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Frolic came from a stalking spot to win a Barn Crew winter mixed sale Feb. 9 and moved to seven-and-a-half furlong claimer by a trainer Mike Maker. It will also be the 4- length-and-three-quarters Feb. 4 at Seeking someone to year-old Into Mischief’s colt’s turf debut Gulfstream. It was his first start since help keep our barns after 11 starts on dirt. being bumped and losing jockey Robby and grounds “We bought him out of the sale. He’s Albarado in a Dec. 16 optional claiming clean and stocked. bred very well for the grass and we look allowance, which followed a solid second forward to stretching him out,” Maker said. at Gulfstream Park West going a mile-and- Must be comfortable “You’ve got to love Into Mischief, and the a-sixteenth. working around horses dam’s side has plenty of turf so we thought “I thought he ran a good race last time and able to lift 50 lbs. we’d give him a chance. He’s a stakes win- and he’s been training really good, actually. ner so he’s got plenty of back class.” He’s going to be a big price but I feel like Pays $10/hour & Little Menace has primarily been a he’s got a legit shot to compete and run a full benefit package. sprinter, including a fourth to Hall of Fame big race,” Joseph said. “Even the race at trainer Steve Asmussen stablemate Yaupon Gulfstream Park West was a good race. He Please apply via email to: in the Chick Lang (G3) at Pimlico Race had trouble in that one race and then came [email protected] Course Oct. 1 in his only previous graded- back and won. I thought in those two races EMCO is an stakes attempt. He owns three career wins, he was going in the right direction, and this equal opportunity employer including a front-running triumph in the race now I think he’s doing even better.
Back to Top Page 17 FOX Sports and NYRA Announce Wagering and Media Rights Agreements BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE ______exclusive national broadcast rights at Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course through 2030. NYRA will serve as the production FOX Sports, a unit of Fox Corporation, and the New York arm for all horse racing events during the term of the partnership. Racing Association, Inc. announced an expanded partnership NYRA and FOX Sports began their collaboration during the agreement that establishes FOX Sports as the official wagering first season of Saratoga Live during the 2016 summer meet at his- partner of NYRA Bets and the leading media toric Saratoga Race Course. The critically acclaimed provider for elite thoroughbred racing through show, broadcast daily from the grounds of Saratoga, aired the next decade. 80 hours of live coverage on FS2 and coincided with the national launch of NYRA Bets. Since then, total cover- age has grown to more than 700 hours in 2020. The NYRA Bets Equity Option NYRA Bets wagering handle has also grown - from $7.2 million in 2016 to over $225 million in 2020. Wagering The prior FOX Sports/NYRA media rights through national ADW outlets increased 115% during that same agreement provided a FOX Sports subsidiary with an option to period. Along with Saratoga Live, FOX Sports’ NYRA television acquire a 25% stake in NYRA Bets, LLC, a leading Advance portfolio includes America’s Day At The Races, airing in the spring, Deposit Wagering platform launched in 2016 and available to cus- summer, fall and select dates throughout the winter racing season. tomers in 30 states across the country. The FOX Sports subsidiary FOX Sports became the national television home for NYRA’s will exercise this option by the summer of 2021, pending final Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course coverage in 2019. That regulatory approval. same year, the brand furthered its commitment to horse racing by The newly announced agreement provides a FOX Sports sub- televising the Runhappy Travers to a national audience on the sidiary with a future opportunity to increase its equity interest in FOX broadcast network (FOX) for the first time in network histo- NYRA Bets. ry. Following a successful presentation in 2019, the Travers As an unprecedented year interrupted live sports around the world, returned to FOX in 2020. horse racing operated safely and continuously. NYRA Bets achieved The new FOX Sports/NYRA agreement ensures that the record growth in 2020, as new fans engaged with horse racing by Travers will air LIVE on FOX through 2030. watching an unparalleled amount of coverage across FOX Sports’ “NYRA is delighted to extend our relationship with FOX family of networks. Driven by a dramatic expansion in this live tele- Sports,” NYRA Bets president Tony Allevato said. “We look for- vision coverage, NYRA Bets generated $225 million in wagering ward to continuing to work closely with the FOX Sports team over handle in 2020, a more than 100% increase compared to 2019. the next decade to grow NYRA Bets while continuing to present “The remarkably rapid expansion of NYRA Bets, and the dig- the very best in horse racing coverage to more sports fans than ital ADW wagering marketplace, make this an ideal opportunity ever before.” for FOX Sports to deepen and broaden its investment in both pre- The agreement does not include the Belmont Stakes Racing mier media rights and the high-growth sports wagering industry. Festival and the Belmont Stakes. With our investment options in NYRA Bets, FOX is now uniquely positioned as the only media company with strategic stakes in dig- ital bet-taking businesses in horse racing, sports betting, poker and casino gaming,” FOX Sports’ executive vice president, head IN MEMORIAM of strategy and analytics Michael Mulvihill said. “We're confident that our television partnership with NYRA will fuel continued growth for NYRA Bets in the years ahead " Linda Bartlett Miller Dave O’Rourke, President and CEO, NYRA, underscored the importance of its partnership with FOX Sports to the sport in New Linda B. Miller died on March 7, York as well as across the country. 2021 after a brief but valiant battle “FOX Sports has shown an unwavering commitment to the against aggressive Stage Four cancer. sport of horse racing over the past five years,” said O’Rourke. She spent her final weeks surrounded “The strength of our partnership with FOX Sports, and the contin- by her husband Leverett S. Miller, her ued expansion of our high-quality telecasts, has proven to be daughters and stepdaughter, her grand- hugely beneficial for the New York racing community and the son, and her beloved dogs. Her kindness sport as a whole.” and generosity of spirit will be missed by all who ever encountered her. She is survived by her daughter Whitney Douglass and her son Media Rights Extension Royal; daughter Penelope Miller; stepdaughter Maria-Flora Miller and her five children Cully, Riley, Cameron, Ellery, and The new agreement will extend FOX Sports’ television rights Quinten Smoller; her sister Victoria Donaldson; and her half- with NYRA through 2030 and further expand exclusivity for daily sisters Priscilla Hallowell and Electra Toub. In lieu of flowers, racing at Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course. please donate to: Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, 3200 Under the new deal, FOX Sports expects to air at least 700 N Military Trail #3100, West Palm Beach, FL 33409 hours of coverage each year from Belmont Park and Saratoga For a complete obituary, click here Race Course and, outside of prior commitments, gives the network
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