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In This Issue: Practical Joke Filly Tops March Sale’s Second Session
Clairiere, Travel Column Resume Budding Rivalry
Colonel Liam the Star of the Show in Muniz
MATT WOOLEY/ECLIPSE SPORTSWIRE PHOTO Tampa Bay Downs Florida Cup Tickets Cory Gal To Challenge Pacific Available On Line ‘Right to Farm’ Expansion Gets House Gale in Hurricane Bertie Report Former Racing Executive Latta Passes BY BROCK SHERIDAN ______races for a 24% winning rate with a 45% in-the-money record, Cory Gal had a three- Paradise Farms Corp.’s Cory Gal is race winning streak from August through Gulfstream Park Charts among seven 3-year-fillies, including three October before her first and only race thus other Florida-breds, that will try to upset far in 2021 when second, just a half-length Florida Stallion Progeny List Holly Hill Stable’s Pacific Gale in the off of Hurricane Bertie opponent Sonar in $100,000 Hurricane Bertie Stakes at a second condition, $62,500 optional Florida Breeders’ List Gulfstream Park Saturday. claiming allowance race going six furlongs The Hurricane Bertie is set to go six- at Gulfstream on Feb. 28. Cory Gal was the Wire to Wire Business Place and-a-half furlongs on the main track and even money favorite that day and Sound shares the card with the $75,000 Melody Machine, who finished third, was the 5-2 of Colors Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at second choice to Sonar at 14-1. So both Featured Advertisers five furlongs on the turf and the $75,000 Florida-breds will try to avenge the upset Texas Glitter for 3-year-old going five fur- in the Hurricane Bertie. Baoma Corp longs on the grass. Cory Gal finished 2020 with a two-and- Also representing the Sunshine state is a-quarter-length victory against first-level, Florida Department of Agriculture Lowwood Farm LLC and trainer Fernando $25,000 optional claiming allowance fil- FTBOA Abreu’s Royal Meghan, Arindel’s home- lies, including Sonar in third, on Aug. 20 bred Sonar and e Five Racing before a dominating eight-and-a-half- Journeyman Stud Thoroughbreds’ Sound Machine. length win after an awkward start at the Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Trained by Peter Walder, who is having same level over a sloppy six-and-a-half an exceptional season at Gulfstream Park’s furlongs on Sept. 20 when trained by Ocala Stud Championship Meet winning 15 of 63 Seminole Feed See HURRICANE BERTIE on page 3
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Continued from COVER Robert Dibona. Walder claimed Cory Gal out of the Sept. 12 victory for $25,000 and then promptly won with her against second condi- tion, $62,500 optional claiming allowance fillies on Oct. 4 at Gulfstream Park West in a race in which she also monopolized with a six-length winning margin. Cory Gal also had a three-race winning streak earlier in 2020 at Gulfstream beginning with a five-length win against $25,000 claimers on March 25, a five-and-a-half-length victo- ry ahead of Royal Meghan in second in first condition, $16,000 optional claiming allowance on April 12 and a first condition, allowance race on May 3. The 5-year-old daughter by Corfu out of With Elan by Offlee Wild sports a solid record of seven wins from 26 starts with six seconds and two thirds with earnings of $255,137 but has never won against stakes-level competition. Her only start at the added-money level came in 2019 when fifth to winner Lovesick in the $75,000 Liza Jane Stakes, also at Gulfstream. Peter Walder/ COGLIANESE PHOTO Bred in Florida by Eric J. Wirth, Cory Gal has post five and will carry jockey Corey Lanerie in the Hurricane Bertie. Pacific Gale drops in class for the Hurricane Bertie after win- ning the Grade 2 Inside Information by two-and-three-quarter lengths at Gulfstream on Jan. 23 in her last start. However, that was only the second stakes win for the 6-year-old mare who also took the 2017 Sorority Stakes at Monmouth Park in her third career start.
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Back to Top Page 5 Hurricane Bertie page 3 Continued from However, she has extended experience in stakes recently have made her last five and seven of her last eight starts in black type event. Her best recent effort before the Inside Information was three starts back when second to Honor Way in the $100,000 Pumpkin Pie at Belmont going seven furlongs on a sloppy main track on Nov. 1 before finishing third again behind Honor Way in the $100,000 Garland of Roses at Aqueduct going six furlongs on Dec. 6. Pacific Gale has won four of 28 career races with six seconds and five thirds and is the wealthiest Hurricane Bertie contestant with earnings of $510,170. She is by the Florida-bred sire Flat Out out of Pacific Whisper, by Forestry. Junior Alvarado will ride Pacific Gale from post four. Sonar is perhaps the most consistent of the Hurricane Bertie fillies with a record of four wins and three thirds from only 11 starts with earnings of $149,675. The 4-year-old daughter of Arindel stallion Brethren out of Silent Sighs, by Benchmark makes her first start for trainer Carlos David and Emisael Jaramillo will ride from post six. Sound Machine will be saddled by another trainer with a solid record at Gulfstream this season in Saffie Joseph Jr., who is second in the standings with 46 wins from 218 starters, behind only Todd Pletcher with 53 winners. Sound Machine will be trying to win for the first time since talking the $75,000 Glitter Woman Stakes at Pacific Gale/LAUREN KING PHOTO Gulfstream in January of last year and will have to conditions at the $25,000 optional claiming level by four lengths improve not only from her last start when third to Sonar and Cory in her last start, both going six furlongs at Gulfstream. Gal on Feb. 28, but also when eighth in the Inside Information She is by Uncaptured out of Royal Sighting, by Rahy and has won by Pacific Gale. been a good investment for Lowwood Farm, who purchased her The 4-year-old daughter of Into Mischief out of Ava Pie, by from the breeder and consignor Ocala Stud for $62,000 at the Distorted Humor should never be discounted however, has she has 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale. made eight of her 11 starts in stakes and two with three seconds Another 4-year-old with a consistent record, Royal Meghan has and two thirds overall. won three times with three seconds and two thirds in 11 starts with A $500,000 yearling purchase at Keeneland September, Sound earnings of $118,870. Machine has earnings of $151,564 and will break from post seven Javier Castellano will ride Royal Meghan for Abreu and she with Tyler Gaffalione. She was bred in Florida by Farm III. has post seven. Royal Meghan has a two-race winning streak coming into the The remainder of the field for the Hurricane Bertie is Saguaro Hurricane Bertie having won a first condition, $12,500 optional Row with jockey Paco Lopez, Reluctant Bride with Joe Bravo in claiming allowance by six lengths on Dec. 10 and under the same the irons, and Slam Dunk with Julien Leparoux aboard. Gulfstream Park Championship Meeting Florida-bred and Florida Sire Stakes Bonuses
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Back to Top Page 7 Practical Joke Filly Tops March Sale’s Second Session BY OCALA BREEDERS’ SALES ner Moonshine Memories. PRESS OFFICE______Sean Flanagan paid $550,000 for Hip 504, a daughter of American Pharoah con- OCALA, FL—Hip 311, a daughter of signed by Eddie Woods as an agent. The Practical Joke consigned by Top Line Sales bay filly, who breezed a quarter in :21.20 LLC as an agent, went to Hideyuki Mori for on Saturday, is out of Forgotten Miss, by $750,000 to top the second and final session Afleet Alex, a half-sister to graded stakes- of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winner Woodlander. 2021 March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Hip 507, American Passport, a son of Training. The bay filly, whose eighth in American Pharoah who breezed an eighth :9.80 was co-fastest at Friday’s under tack on Saturday in :10.20, went to Hideyuki session, is out of champion Valiant Emilia Mori for $550,000. The bay colt, con- Hip 311, a filly by Practical Joke/JUDIT SEIPERT PHOTO (Per), by Pegasus Wind, from the family of signed by Jesse Hoppel’s Coastal Equine recent Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby LLC as an agent, is out of French Passport, agent, also brought $450,000, going to (Grade 2) winner Helium. by Elusive Quality, a half-sister to graded Breeze Easy LLC. The chestnut filly, who Hip 547, a daughter of American stakes-winner Smooth Air. breezed an eighth on Saturday in :10.20, is Pharoah whose quarter in :20.80 was co- Hip 531, a son of Gormley consigned out of Burns Turn, by Henny Hughes, a fastest at Saturday’s under tack session, by Eddie Woods as an agent, went to half-sister to Grade 1-placed, stakes-win- was sold to Colombo Bloodstock Agency Breeze Easy LLC for $550,000. The bay ner Keeneland Kat. for $600,000. The bay filly, consigned by colt, whose eighth on Saturday in :9.80 was For the session, 151 horses sold for a total consigned by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree the day’s co-fastest, is a half-brother to of $19,004,500 compared with 150 grossing Stables, Inc. as an agent, is out of graded stakes-winner Little Kansas out of Green $14,355,000 in 2020. The average was stakes-placed, stakes-winner Henny Eyed Cat, by Tale of the Cat. $125,858 compared with $95,700 a year ago Jenney, by Henny Hughes, a half-sister to High Point Bloodstock paid $475,000 while the median was $70,000 compared Grade 1-placed, stakes-winner Zeewat. for Hip 506, a son of Quality Road con- with $50,000 last year. The buyback percent- Spendthrift Farm/Myracehorse.com signed by de Meric Sales as an agent. The age was 18.8%; it was 37.7% a year ago. went to $575,000 for Hip 357, a son of dark bay or brown colt, a half-brother to For the entire sale, 326 horses sold for Kantharos consigned by Woodford stakes winner Curlin’s Fox out of graded $38,265,000 compared with 295 bringing Thoroughbreds as an agent. The chestnut stakes-winner Foxysox (GB), by $27,349,500 a year ago. The average price colt, whose quarter in :20.40 was Friday’s Foxhound, turned in an under tack eighth was $117,377 compared with $92,710 in co-fastest, is a full-brother to stakes-win- in :10.20 on Saturday. 2020 while the median price was $62,500 ner Adventurous Lady out of Ari the Hip 350, a son of Maclean’s Music who compared with $50,000 a year ago. The Adventurer, by Pioneerof the Nile. turned in an Under Tack quarter on Friday buyback percentage was 16.2%; it was Hip 295, a daughter of Uncle Mo con- in :20.80, was sold to Lauren Carlisle as an 38.8% in 2020. signed by Pike Racing as an agent, was agent for $450,000. The dark bay or brown Next on the OBS agenda is the Spring sold to Live Oak Plantation for $550,000. colt is out of graded stakes-winner Another Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training, sched- The bay filly, who breezed an eighth in Romance, by Saint Anddan. uled for April 20 – 23, with the Under Tack :10.20 on Friday, is out of Town Tour, by Hip 394, a daughter of Munnings con- Show set for April 11 – 17 (Sunday – Speightstown, a half-sister to Grade 1-win- signed by Niall Brennan Stables as an Saturday), beginning each morning at 8 a.m. Clairiere, Travel Column Resume Budding Rivalry
BY FAIR GROUNDS PRESS OFFICE______NEW ORLEANS—The score is tied at one apiece. Something will have to give when Clairiere and Travel Column meet for the third time Saturday at Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots in the TwinSpires.com Fair Grounds Oaks (Grade 2). This time with a lot more than the $400,000. The tremendously talented 3-year-old fillies meet again, with a berth into Churchill Downs’ April 30 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) waiting in the balance, along with 170 qualifying points for the race, on a 100-40-20-10 scale. The Oaks is a deserving supporting feature to the $1 million TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby (G2)—a Championship Series event on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. Long on history, six of
See FAIR GROUNDS OAKS on page 9 Clairiere (#1) and Travel Column (inside)/HODGES PHOTOGRAPHY
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Back to Top Page 9 Fair Grounds Oaks page 7 Continued from Amoss and Politi teamed in 2019 with Serengeti Empress, who the last 16 winners of the Fair Grounds Oaks have gone on to dou- starred locally and went on to win the Kentucky Oaks. Li’l Tootsie ble at Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Oaks, with the last being has yet to show she can play on a stage like that, but Amoss still Untapable in 2014. enters with plenty of confidence. Run at a mile-and-one-sixteenth, the Oaks drew a field of “To say that we are in deep water is probably true, but at the eight, though all eyes will be on Stonestreet Stables’ homebred same time this is a filly who can handle deep water; she might be Clairiere and OXO Equine’s Travel Column. in the deep end of the pool but she’s doing the backstroke,” Amoss Clairiere pulled off a slight upset when she beat Travel Column said. “She’s a good horse and she’s one that can hold her own with in the local Feb. 13 Rachel Alexandra (G2), winning a stretch duel any of the fillies in this country. That’s not only a trainer’s opinion, by a neck for trainer Steve Asmussen, who has won the local Oaks but it shows in the speed figures. The Ragozin number is very, three times and has pulled off the Oaks double twice, with very good.” Summerly in 2005 and again with Untapable. Clairiere, a regally- Tootsie is 4-1 and Luis Saez will be aboard when they break bred daughter of Curlin out of the multiple Grade 1-winner from post four. Cavorting, was making her seasonal debut and first start since A pair of Gulfstream Park invaders add to the depth of what is running second to Travel Column in Churchill’s Golden Road the best Oaks prep to date. (G2) in November, in what was just her second lifetime start. Shadwell Stable’s homebred Zaajel in undefeated in two starts Clairiere has closed from at or near the back in all three career for Todd Pletcher. The daughter of Street Sense won twice at seven starts, and in an Oaks without a lot of early pace, she will once furlongs at Gulfstream, including the Jan. 30 Forward Gal (G3), again have to make up ground on Travel Column. Regardless, though she’ll clearly have to improve in what will be her two-turn Asmussen is looking forward to renewing the rivalry. debut. Zaajel has settled just off a quick pace in both her runs, and “Rubber match, right, with two qualities fillies,” Asmussen with an inside draw in what is a paceless Oaks, could find herself said. “The trip worked out perfectly for us in the Rachel on the lead in an attempt to give Pletcher his third Oaks win, to go Alexandra. At a mile-and-a-sixteenth, I think the fillies are com- with Unlimited Budget (2013) and Ashado (2004), who also went petitive. We feel really good about our prospects going forward.” on to win at Churchill. Clairere is in post six and is 5-2 in the morning line. Joe Zaajel is 8-1 in the program and has post one. Irad Ortiz Jr. Talamo has the riding assignment. ships into to New Orleans to ride. Travel Column lost nothing in defeat as the even-money “It looks like a good group of fillies,” Pletcher said. “We feel favorite in the Rachel Alexandra for trainer Brad Cox, who won like she will appreciate the added distance. To jump from a maid- his first local Oaks last year with Bonny South and has won two en race straight into a graded stakes was not exactly the way we of the last three Kentucky Oaks with Shedaresthedevil in 2020 and designed it but there were no allowance options. She didn’t get Monomoy Girl in 2018. away well [in the Forward Gal] but she was able to overcome that. Travel Column has every right to turn the tables on Clairiere, I thought she showed a lot of determination to win in her second as she was forced to make first run and tired only slightly in what start.” was also her first start since the Golden Road. It Juddmonte Farms’ homebred Obligatory was in that one-length win at Churchill that the is another who should be close in her two-turn Frosted filly came to national attention, as she debut for trainer Bill Mott. The Curlin filly encountered plenty of trouble early and late yet didn’t fire when a troubled fourth on won going away in what was clearly a coming- debut at Belmont Park in October but out performance. Travel Column is two-for-four put it all together in her next start Feb. 7 lifetime and Cox is expecting another forward at Gulfstream, when she stretched out to move with a filly who should have a tactical edge a one-turn mile and drew off with ease. on her main rival. Obligatory has post five and jockey “I think she should get a good stalking trip Jose Ortiz and they are 5-1 in the morn- from our post,” Cox said. “There’s no pace in the ing line. race. We’re not going to sit back there and give Franco Meli’s homebred Il Malocchio someone the race. We didn’t win [the Rachel (post 7 at 15-1 with Brian Hernandez Jr.) Alexandra] but we were very, very pleased with was third in Tampa Bay Downs’ Feb. 6 the comeback and we expect her to move forward Suncoast won by Curlin’s Catch in her off that return. She’s a very, very good work seasonal debut and first start for trainer horse and she’s been training great since that Kenny McPeek. race.” Brad King, Jim Cone, Scott Bryant, Florent Geroux will ride Travel Column, the and Stan and Suzanne Kirby’s Moon 2-1 favorite, from post eight. Swag (post 2 at 20-1 with Adam Joel Politi’s Li’l Tootsie is two-for-three in her Beschizza) was a distant third in the career for trainer Tom Amoss, with all three starts Rachel Alexandra but is on the improve coming at Fair Grounds. The daughter of Tapiture for trainer Brendan Walsh. aired at six furlongs in her second start then Live Oak Plantation’s Souper Florida-bred Souper Sensational/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO stretched out to a mile-and-one-sixteenth and Sensational (post 3 at 15-1 with John again looked good, settling early then finding room along the rail Velazquez) was second in the local Silverbulletday won by by to win a Feb. 21 first level, $50,000 optional claiming allowance Charlie’s Penny in February for trainer Mark Casse but will try to in the slop. bounce back from a well-beaten sixth in the Rachel Alexandra.
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BY BROCK SHERIDAN______NEW ORLEANS—The early returns on Robert and Lawana Low’s Colonel Liam were admirable enough for a young horse, but things accelerated for the Todd Pletcher trainee when he made the switch to running on turf. Since switching Colonel Liam to the grass, Pletcher has indeed found himself with a new stable star on his hands—one that can further enhance his budding repu- tation when he starts in Saturday’s $300,000 Muniz Memorial Classic Stakes (Grade 2) against 11 rivals at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. The Muniz is set for a mile-and-one- eighth over the Stall-Wilson Turf Course, the Muniz has attracted a full field of 12 4- year-olds and older.
The expectations Colonel Liam has Colonel Liam/DERBE GLASS PHOTO carried since being purchased for $1.2 get the $1 million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic (G1) at million at the 2019 OBS April 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale Churchill Downs on May 1 with hopes of having his charge were met in his last start when he prevailed in the $1 million emerge as a definitive divisional leader. Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) at Gulfstream Park on “I will say now as an older horse, he has trained more impres- Jan. 23. Since making his first two starts on dirt, Colonel Liam sively on the dirt than he used to so at some point we might con- has won three of his four tries on the turf—confirming sider trying that again, but he’s doing so well on the grass now that Pletcher’s belief that life on the lawn would ultimately bring out we felt that the Muniz was good timing wise to hopefully propel the 4-year-old’s best intangibles. him forward to the race at Churchill on Derby Day,” Pletcher said. “We always sort of had in the back of our minds that he’s got “Right now, the plan it to hopefully go from the Muniz to quite a bit of turf on the bottom side of his pedigree,” Pletcher, Churchill and then there is a really good schedule of some high- who is a finalist for racing’s Hall of Fame class this season, said. quality grass races all summer. Hopefully we can have a good sea- “He trained well enough on the dirt that we got him started but we son with him.” also felt like maybe we weren’t quite seeing the best of him. We Colonel Liam has post five and will carry jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. worked him on the turf at Saratoga and that’s when we saw a sig- He is the program favorite at 3-1. nificant improvement. That’s why we switched him to the turf, and Gaining Ground Racing’s Factor This will try stymie Colonel he seems to have found a home there.” Liam’s progression as he takes to the course where he has earned The only blemish Colonel Liam has had on the turf came when two of his four career graded stakes victories for trainer Brad Cox. he was bumped hard at the start of the $500,000 Saratoga Derby The 6-year-old son of The Factor captured last year’s Muniz Invitational last August en route to finishing fourth behind winner Memorial—part of a four-race win streak for the bay horse—but Domestic Spending. A signal of what was to come then emerged has been off the board in his last three starts, including a fifth- last December when he came from off the pace to capture place run in the Feb. 13 Fair Grounds (G3). Gulfstream Park’s Tropical Park Derby by three-and-a-quarter “[Being on the rail] going mile-and-an-eighth doesn’t play a lengths going a mile-and-one-sixteenth on the turf. big role or scare me any, being down inside,” Cox said. “I like him In his first try against older horses and first venture into graded better in this race than in the last race, from the standpoint that it stakes company, Colonel Liam accelerated in the lane to best sta- looks like we’re going to have a little bit of a softer pace and not blemate Largent by a neck in the $1 million Pegasus World Cup be pressed as much, and that’s what he likes. There’s no secret Turf while taking down a field that included Grade 1-winner Next about how he likes to run and the trip he needs; he needs to be able Shares and fellow Muniz entrant Pixelate. to take a breather and hopefully he can be able to get that on “We felt very good coming into [the Pegasus)]” Pletcher said. Saturday.” “He had got what we’d hoped for in the prep race and subsequent- Factor This is 4-1 in the morning line and will break from post ly came back and trained great. We were very optimistic that he one with Shaun Bridgmohan. was sitting on a good race and would perform well. Aside from Though Godolphin’s homebred Pixelate was fifth behind (the Saratoga Derby), he’s been perfect on the grass and I think Colonel Liam in the Pegasus Turf, he was beaten less than three he’s versatile enough he can handle multiple distances.” lengths by the winner and has the back class of his victory in the The turf male ranks were ripe with parity last season as the top Del Mar Derby (G2) last September for trainer Mike Stidham. contenders took turns beating up on one another. Should Colonel “He ran very well [in the Pegasus Turf], he only got beaten a Liam perform as expected in the Muniz, Pletcher would likely tar- See MUNIZ on page 12
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page 11 Continued from few lengths,” Stidham said. “He’s one of those horses that, every time he runs, he’s going to give you a huge effort. We’re taking a shot; this race did come up very tough. But I think we’re live, he tries every time, and if he gets a decent trip from that outside post, I think we’re in there with a decent chance.” Pixelate will break from the outside post 12 with jockey Luis Saez taking the riding chorses and they are 8-1 in the morning line. Lothenbach Stables’ homebred Captivating Moon comes into the Muniz off a victory in the February 13 Fair Grounds, the first graded win for the 6-year-old horse in 29 career starts for trainer Chris Block. He is cross-entered in the New Orleans Classic (G2). Captivating Moon is 12-1 in the program and will depart from post three with jockey Martin Pedroza. Completing the Muniz Memorial field from the rail out:
Paul Braverman and owner-trainer Tom Morley’s Ninety One Factor This/LOU HODGES PHOTO Assault with Mitchell Murrill; Three Diamonds Farm’s Cross Broder with Jose Ortiz and was third in the Pegasus Turf for train- Florent Geroux; Paradise Farms Corp and David Staudacher’s er Mike Maker; JPS Racing’s Logical Myth with Adam Beschizza, Conviction Trade, who will carry jockey Joel Rosario and was a two-time stakes winner at the meet and second in the Fair third in the Connally; JSM Equine’s Peace Achiever with Declan Grounds Stakes for trainer Joe Sharp; Wolfe Racing and owner- Carroll and third in the Fair Grounds Stakes; and Gary Barber’s trainer Hugh Robertson’s Two Emmys and jockey James Graham, Olympic Runner, who will carry jockey John Velazquez and was who won an optional-claimer here in February; Terry Hamilton’s second, beaten a neck by Florida-bred Venezuelan Hug in the Feb. John B. Connally (G3)-winner Spooky Channel to be ridden by 27 Canadian Turf (G3) at Gulfstream. Tampa Bay Downs Florida Cup Tickets Available On Line PRESS RELEASE ______OLDSMAR, FL—Tickets to the 18th annual Florida Cup on Sunday, March 28 are being sold online on the track website, www.tampabaydowns.com, and at the Customer Service booth on the first floor of the Grandstand on racing days. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, fans must have a pre-purchased ticket to attend. The Florida Cup, which was cancelled last year due to the worldwide pandemic, brings together many of the outstanding registered Florida-bred horses in training to compete at various distances on both the main dirt track and the turf course. Six $110,000 events comprise the stakes menu, with three apiece on the main and the turf. The purse for each event includes a $10,000 win bonus for Florida Sire Stakes eligible runners. The main-track stakes are the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore, for 3-year-olds going seven furlongs; the Stonehedge Farm South Florida-bred World Approval/SV PHOTOGRAPHY Sophomore Fillies, for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs; and the Sophomore-winner Imperial Hint, a winner of four Grade 1 races NYRA Bets Sprint, for horses 4-years-old and older at six furlongs. and more than $2.2-million in earnings and was the 2018 FTBOA The turf stakes include the Equistaff Sophomore Turf, for 3- Floirda-bred Horse of the Year for owner Raymond Mamone and year-olds at a mile-and-a-sixteenth; the Pleasant Acres Stallions trainer Luis Carvajal, Jr.; and 2017 Turf Classic and 2015 Distaff Turf, for fillies and mares 3-years-old and older at a mile- Sophomore Turf winner World Approval, who went on to win the and-a-sixteenth; and the Grey Goose Turf Classic, for horses 4- 2017 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), be voted the Eclipse Award year-olds and older at a mile-and-an-eighth. Champion Turf Male and 2017 FTBOA Florida-bred Horse of the General admission tickets are $10, plus a service fee if pur- Year and earn more than $3 million for owner Live Oak Plantation chased online. Picnic Area tables are also available for $50, which and trainer Mark Casse. covers the cost of admission for six fans. Thoroughbred racing continues Friday with a nine-race card Recent Florida Cup Day winners include 2019 Sophomore Turf beginning at 12:15 p.m. The feature race is the sixth, a $75,000 winner Global Access, who went on that year to win three Grade optional claiming allowance event for 3-year-old fillies sprinting six 3 races for owner Live Oak Plantation and trainer Michael furlongs. The morning-line favorite at 9-5 is Make a Scene, who is Trombetta; 2018 Sprint-winner and 2016 Ocala Breeders’ Sales trained by Tim Hamm. Hector Diaz, Jr., has been named to ride.
Back to Top Page 13 ‘Right to Farm’ Expansion Gets House Report BY JIM TURNER, NEWS SERVICE FLORIDA ______TALLAHASSEE—A priority of Senate President Wilton Simpson to give farmers more protection from “nuisance” lawsuits started to move forward Wednesday in the House. Over the objections of environmentalists who contend the proposal is intended to protect the sugar industry around Lake Okeechobee, the House Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee voted 14-4 to support a measure (HB 1601) that would expand Florida’s “Right to Farm” law, which was first approved in 1979 and helps shield farmers from what are known as nuisance lawsuits. The bill would expand the law to include issues related to agritourism and “particle emissions.” It also would require people who file lawsuits to show by “clear and con- vincing evidence” that farms did not comply with state and federal environmental laws. The proposal also would prohibit nuisance lawsuits from BEAR2016 PHOTO being filed by anyone owning property that is not within “Over the years, I've seen that we have lost a lot of our agricul- one-half mile of the alleged violations. It also would limit dam- tural production to other countries. We used to have orange juice ages that could be awarded to the market value of any property from Florida, and now we get it from Brazil. We had table vegeta- damaged. bles and produce from Florida, and now it comes from Mexico,” “Unfortunately, we have a group of people who simply believe Thompson said. “There is still a lot of agricultural activity in west that food comes from the grocery store. It comes from a farm,” Orange County. At the same time, what used to be orange groves House bill sponsor Jayer Williamson, R-Pace, said. “And we want are now subdivisions. So, people are moving around the farms. to make sure we have protections in place to protect those workers And I don't think that the farm should have to change their opera- and to protect those industries that are producing food for our state tions because people are now moving into those areas.” and for the rest of the country.” Rep. Tommy Gregory, R-Sarasota, added, “if we make it too Williamson added that the distance requirement is intended to expensive and too difficult to farm, we aren’t going to have farms “narrow” the focus to properties “directly affected by a farm.” in Florida.” But critics contend by addressing “particle emissions” in the Rep. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Cloud, defended the part of the leg- bill, the proposal is part of an effort to scuttle a federal lawsuit islation about particle emissions as being the same as controlled over the health impact of “black snow” created from the burning burns that are used in places such as forests. of sugar cane fields. “If you lived here in the ‘90s you saw most of Florida on fire “It really is to turn the legal system on its head to protect the for about two years over the summer. And it was incredible,” sugar industry from lawsuits over their practices,” said Deborah Hawkins said. “We were like what California faces year to year. Foote of the Sierra Club Florida. And by doing the controlled burns, we are also protecting our first “One only need to look to the Forest Service maps that show responders. They don't have to go into these blazing infernos.” that particles can travel up to 25 to 30 miles outside of where the A similar bill (SB 88) is up for a final vote in the Senate on actual burn is happening,” Foote said. “This will silence any future Thursday, claims.” Simpson, a Trilby Republican who owns an egg farm, said last Those concerns were echoed by some lawmakers. week the bill makes “very technical changes” to help farmers get- “This looks like it’s two bills in one, trying to increase agri- ting boxed in as the state’s population grows. tourism while also really stretching the format to the point where “If we want to be able to maintain that agriculture, you cannot folks who are currently trying to stop particles coming into the air have, what I would consider as a farmer, frivolous lawsuits,” from miles away will not be able to do that,” Rep. Anna Eskamani, Simpson said. D-Orlando, said. Rep. Erin Grall, a Vero Beach Republican who is an attorney, expressed concerns about the proposed clear and convincing evi- dentiary standard. “I think the intent is a noble one,” Grall said. “I think that as it's written, the bill vastly expands the right to farm statute to provide immunity from many non-nuisance claims unless the plaintiff can CLICK HERE for the latest prove that there's an environmental law that was violated.” However, Rep. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, said while The Florida Horse ONLINE the proposal might need to be “tweaked,” the agriculture industry is under assault from development.
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