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Firenze Fire ftboa.com • Monday • May 10, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST Firenze Fire Keeps FSS Yearling Deadline Reminder Belmont Streak Alive With May 15 - $250 Click here for form Second Runhappy Win Click here to check eligibility BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____ In This Issue: Florida-bred Firenze Fire has now won a stakes race at Baffert: Medina Spirit Tested Positive Belmont Park in each of the last five years going back to the Promise Keeper Grows Up in Peter Pan 2017 Champagne Stakes (Grade 1) as the Mr. Amore homebred Johnny V Gives Channel Cat Purrfect gelding won the Grade 3 Ride in Man o’ War Win Runhappy Stakes for the second time Saturday at the Big Sandy. Yes This Time Wins Fourth Straight in Trained by Kelly Breen and English Channel ridden for the 20th time by Irad Ortiz Jr. Firenze Fire was the 4-5 Japan’s France Go de Ina Arrives for favorite in the field of five 4- Preakness year-olds and older who went six furlongs in the $150,000 Lady Edith Surges Late to Beat New Boss Runhappy Stakes Saturday, in Mamzelle which was not graded in 2019 when Firenze Fire won the race Neigh Blance Up to Win Santa Barbara the first time. The Runhappy Stakes was not run in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gulfstream Park Charts Firenze Fire broke from post four in his first start of the year Florida Stallion Progeny List while 7-5 second choice Chateau promptly went to the lead under Florida Breeders’ List Kendrick Carmouche. Chateau clicked off a quick Wire to Wire Business Place first quarter-mile in :22.59 and the half in :45.51 as Firenze Fire stalked in second from about Featured Advertisers two-and-half lengths off the pace. He was a half-length better Berrettini Feed than Stan the Man in third fol- Florida Department of Agriculture lowed by fellow Florida-bred Drafted and Town Classic. FTBOA Around the far turn, Irad Ortiz Journeyman Stud Jr. sent Firenze Fire after the leader and the veteran responded Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply with a two-wide effort to move Ocala Stud within striking distance. Florida-bred Firenze Fire/DOM NAPOLITANO PHOTO Seminole Feed See FIRENZE FIRE on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Firenze Fire Continued from COVER Chateau turned for home a length in front but Firenze Fire wore down the leader with a stretch-long assault the culminated with a three-and-a-quarter-length victory ahead of a resilient Chateau in second. Town Classic was another three-quarters of a length back in third followed by Stan the Man and Drafted. The final time on the fast track was 1:09.76 and Firenze Fire paid $3.80 to win. “I knew the other horse [Chateau] was going to go and no one else was going to be close with him, so I decided to be close and not have to be in a rush,” Ortiz Jr. said. “It’s only six fur- longs. I didn’t want to let him relax too much and then make a run from the three-eighths pole. I just let him be closer and waited as long as I could to start going. “When I asked him, he responded really well. The tank was full,” Ortiz Jr. said. “He kept coming and Irad Ortiz Jr. and Florida-bred Firenze Fire kept moving forward. He JANET GARAGUSO PHOTO feels great. I think this is going to be a good year for him. He can be right there in the conversation with all the good sprinters." Firenze Fire, now sports an impressive record at Belmont Park having won six of nine starts including four graded stakes in the last five years. In addition to the one mile Champagne, Firenze Fire won the 2018 Dwyer (G2) by nine lengths going a mile and See FIRENZE FIRE on page 5 Florida-breds Make Florida Racing Did you know Florida-bred thoroughbreds won 31.5% of races run at the recent Gulfstream Park Championship Meet? This demonstrates how vital Florida-breds are to the success of Gulfstream Park throughout the year—not just during the Spring/Summer season. Additional good news for Florida breeders—66% of those Florida-bred winners during the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet were sired by Florida stallions. Florida-breds: Race ‘Em or Chase ‘Em! Back to Top Distorted Humor – Delta Princess, by A.P. Indy I Fee $10,000 S & N Florida’s Leading Sire in 2021! Florida’s leading sire in 2020. Florida’s leading 2 year old sire by money in 2020. Florida’s leading sire of stake winners in 2020. Photo by Louise Reinagel Me and Mr. C Winner of the 2021 Grey Goose Turf Classic at Tampa Bay Downs Me and Mr. C Photo by SV Photography Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners 5571 NW 100th St., Ocala, FL 34482 Office: 352.629.1200 | Fax: 352.629.2101 [email protected] www.JourneymanStallions.com Back to Top Page 5 Firenze Fire page 3 Continued from the 2019 and 2021 Runhappy Stakes at six furlongs. In 2020 at Belmont, Firenze Fire won the Grade 2 True North at six-and-a- half furlongs and the Grade 2 Vosburgh at six furlongs. He also won the Grade 3 General George last year at Laurel. In his last race of 2020, Firenze Fire was second to Sleepy Eyes Todd in the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector Stakes going seven fur- longs at Gulfstream on Dec. 19. That came after a solid third- place behind winner Whitmore and runner-up and fellow Florida- bred C Z Rocket in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Keeneland. The 6-year-old horse has now increased his career to numbers to 13 wins from 32 starts with four seconds and three thirds with earnings of $2,318,350. The $82,500 check for winning the Runhappy pushed him to number 29 on the all-time list of Florida- breds by career earnings behind Benny the Bull with $2,353,430. He has appeared in the Breeders’ Cup four times. In addition to his third-place in the Sprint in 2020, he was also fifth in the 2019 Florida-bred Firenze Fire/COGLIANESE PHOTO Breeders’ Cup Sprint won by Mitole, fourth in the 2018 Breeders’ race or a race over at Pimlico,” Breen said. “But [owner] Ron Cup Dirt Mile (G1) won by City of Light and seventh in the 2017 [Lombardi] said let’s go to his home track at Belmont. There’s no Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) won by Good Magic. such thing as a soft spot. We locked up Irad. All the things just Firenze Fire was the first career stakes-winner for his sire kept on clicking. Poseidon’s Warrior and is out of the Langfuhr mare My Every The long term goal for Firenze Fire is the Grade 1, $2 million Wish. She has also produced 2020 Franklin Square Stakes third- Breeders’ Cup Sprint on Nov. 6 at Del Mar. place finisher Firenze Freedom, a 4-year-old filly by Istan; a full- “I’ll talk to Ron about it but the goal is the Breeders’ Cup brother to Firenze Fire in 2-year-old non-starter Just Leo; and a Sprint,” Breen said. “I’ll assume at the end of the year he’ll be yearling colt named Andiamo a Firenze by Speightstown. going to stud, but Ron loves running in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. “There were a couple other races we could have pointed One day at a time and I’m happy he came back as strong as he did. towards; the undercard of the [Kentucky] Derby [on May 1] this He looked great.” Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Baffert: Medina Spirit Has Tested Positive BY BROCK SHERIDAN________________________________ Trainer Bob Baffert said at his Churchill Downs barn Sunday morning that his team had been notified by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission that Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade 1)-winner Medina Spirit had tested positive for betamethasone. Betamethasone is a Class C, anti-inflammatory drug that is legally used in thoroughbreds in Kentucky. The legal limit is 10 picograms in Kentucky and according to Baffert, 21 picograms were discovered in a post-race blood sample taken immediately following Medina Spirit’s win in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 1. Baffert set a record for the most victories in the Kentucky Derby for a trainer as Medina Spirit was the seventh winner of the Run for Roses from his barn. Medina Spirit is also the seventh Florida-bred to win the Kentucky Derby. “[Saturday], I got a call from [assistant trainer] Jimmy Barnes as I was heading to the airport. He said he had some horrible news that our Derby horse, Medina Spirit, tested positive for 21 picograms of Betamethasone,” Baffert said during the Sunday morning press conference streamed live by The Paulick Report. This is the second horse in the last eight months from the Baffert barn that has tested positive for betamethasone in a major race at Churchill Downs. Last year, Gamine was disqualified from a third-place finish in the Sept. 4 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) for having more than the 10 picogram legal limit in her post-race blood sample. In a Jan. 30, 2021 Stewards Ruling, Baffert was fined $1,500 and Gamine was disqualified from placing and purse money was forfeited. “All I can tell you is that Betamethasone—even though it is an Bob Baffert with Florida-bred Medina Spirit/COADY PHOTO allowed drug and a therapeutic medication—Medina Spirit has never been treated with Betamethazone,” Baffert said.
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