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Sweet Melania Headlines Friday's Lake George Stakes ftboa.com • Thursday • August 27, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION DEADLINE: The Florida-bred registration deadline is Aug 31 postmarked deadline. CLICK HERE FOR LINK. SELECT FORM IN THE RIGHT COLUMN In This Issue: Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool at $450,000 Victory Kingdom Makes Debut Long Weekend to Stick with Familiar Distance Delgado Trying for Trainer Title Born to Rein Film Headed to Ocala Lies to Call Final Week at Del Mar TOBA to Host National Awards Virtually National Museum of Racing to Reopen Healthy McCarthy Back in the Irons Preakness to Join Breeders’ Cup Series Sweet Melania/JOE LABOZZETTA PHOTO Track Results & Entries Sweet Melania Headlines Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Friday’s Lake George Stakes Wire to Wire Business Place Florida-breds Sugar Fix, American Giant, Miss Pepina Also Set Featured Advertisers BY RYAN MARTIN, layoff while registering a career-best 87 NYRA PRESS OFFICE______________ Beyer Speed Figure. Florida Department of Agriculture The American Pharoah chestnut began SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Robert and her career on the main track but made her FTBOA Lawana Low's Sweet Melania will attempt third career start a winning one when Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply to keep her consistent record intact when debuting on grass over the Spa's inner turf she headlines Friday's 25th running of the last July. Sweet Melania followed up with Seminole Feed $100,000 Lake George Stakes (Grade 3) a runner-up effort in the P.G. Johnson for 3-year-old fillies going one mile over Stakes at Saratoga before a victory in the the inner turf while three Florida-breds Grade 2 Jessamine at Keeneland. She com- FOR ADVERTISING will try for the upset. pleted her juvenile campaign by running INFORMATION Trained by Todd Pletcher, Sweet third in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Melania arrives at the Lake George off an Fillies Turf at Santa Anita. or to subscribe, please call easy wire-to-wire victory in the Grade 3 Pletcher sent Sweet Melania to work a Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or Wonder Again Stakes at Belmont Park, email: [email protected] which she won off a nearly eight-month See SARATOGA on page 3 Affirmed* 1978 *Triple Crown winner Carry Back 1961 Needles 1956 Foolish Pleasure 1975 Silver Charm 1997 Unbridled 1990 FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND CONSUMER SERVICES AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Lonny T. Powell, CEO For Information: Jacqueline Basha, Tammy A. Gantt, Associate Vice President Division of Marketing and Development Membership Services & Events (850) 617-7286 – Direct Line 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 [email protected] 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 www.FDACS.gov www.ftboa.com • [email protected] Back to Top Page 3 Saratoga Continued from COVER solid half-mile over the Oklahoma training turf in :48.72 on Aug 21, and was pleased with the move. "She's a quality filly and I was pleased with her effort off the layoff," Pletcher said. "She breezed super on Friday, so hopefully she's ready to run well again." Bred in Kentucky by St. Elias Stable, Sweet Melania is out of the Discreet Cat mare Sweet N Discreet, a stakes winner on grass who is a half-sister to grad- ed stakes-winners Travelin Man and Discreet Dancer. "She's a case of one that you can see a noticeable difference in when you get her on the turf. I think she has tactical speed she can carry. A mile is a good fit for her." Jockey Jose Ortiz will be back aboard as he attempts a fifth stakes victory this meet from post one. Sugar Fix makes her stakes debut in the Lake George while also making her first start for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., who claimed her out of her last Todd Pletcher/COGLIANESE PHOTO race. Sugar Fix won by two-and-three-quarters lengths against $40,000 claimers going a mile-and-one-sixteenth on the grass at Saratoga on July 30. The 3-year-old daughter of Pleasant Acres Stallions resident Treasure Beach (GB) out of D Fifty, by Arch has won half of her 12 career starts, including her last four. She has been popular with more than just those that supported her through the mutuels as she was also claimed for $20,000 four starts back after winning by four lengths after a mile on the turf at Tampa Bay Downs in May. Sugar Fix was bred by Ballybrit Stable and races now for Mad Dog Racing Stable. See SARATOGA on page 5 FTBOA Document and Form Drop Box A drop box has been installed near our side entrance of the FTBOA building at 801 SW 60th Avenue, Ocala, Fla. for members to use when dropping off time-sensi- tive documents. Forms may be found on our web- site at www.ftboa.com. Timely payments must be in the drop box no later than 4:30 p.m. the day of a deadline. Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Saratoga page 3 Continued from Junior Alvarado will ride Sugar Fix from post 10. Florida-bred American Giant has made her last five starts against stakes fillies with her one victory in that span coming in the Juvenile Fillies Turf at Gulfstream Park West on Nov. 9. She has since finished fourth in the Wait a While Stakes won by Cheermeister at Gulfstream in November; ninth, but only five lengths from winner She’s My Type in the Ginger Brew Stakes at Gulfstream on Jan. 4, and fifth in the Christina Stakes won by Trickle In at Delaware Park on July 4. American Giant is by More than Ready out of Giant Crystal, by Giant’s Causeway and the homebred will carry the colors of Live Oak Plantation and Jockey Mario Franco from the outside post 11. Trainer Jack Sisterson will send out Windracer after a successful United States debut against allowance company over the turf at Arlington Park on Aug. 8. Owned by Barbara Banke's Stonestreet Stables, the American Giant/LAUREN KING PHOTO Irish-bred Showcasing chestnut emerged victorious Crush (Luis Saez), My Sassy Sarah (Eric Cancel), Cat's Pajamas off a nearly one year layoff when besting a field of six fillies. (John Velazquez), and Selflessly (Irad Ortiz Florida-bred Miss Windracer won her career debut last June over a yielding turf Peppina was entered for main track only. at the Curragh where she was a neck to the better of subsequent The Lake George is slated as the nine race on Friday's 10-race four-time Group 1-winner Love. card, which offers a first post of 1:10 p.m. Eastern. Saratoga Live "She's an extremely talented filly. We haven't had her too long, will present daily television coverage of the 40-day summer meet we basically just had to keep her happy going to Arlington" on FOX Sports and MSG Networks. Sisterson said. "She did most of her training down at Stonestreet. Ian Brennan does a fantastic job down there, they have a world – Brock Sheridan contributed to this story class facility. We just have to stay out of her way and keep her happy. She has some very good form in Europe. It's a step up in class but she's doing extremely well, and I think this is a stepping- stone to bigger and better things." Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Leaving from post nine, Windracer will pick up the riding serv- ices of Ricardo Santana Jr. Pool Guaranteed at $450,000 Mary Ann Charleston's Witez will look to carry her winning HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot form into graded-stakes company for trainer Ian Wilkes. The pool will be guaranteed at $450,000 Thursday at Gulfstream daughter of More Than Ready made her Spa debut a winning one Park. last out when besting a field of winners over the inner turf on July The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the eighth 26, where she made amends from a distant 12th place finish to racing day in a row Sunday, when tickets with all six winners Harvey's Lil Goil in the Grade 3 Regret at Churchill Downs. were each worth $367.92. During her 2-year-old year, Witez was second to Sweet The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is only paid out when there Melania in the Grade 2 Jessamine at Keeneland, where she was a is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when 45-1 longshot. there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back Jockey Jose Lezcano, who piloted Winter Memories to a 2011 to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 Lake George score, will pick up the mount from post three. percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. Completing the field are Micheline (Joel Rosario), Velvet FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes at Gulfstream Park Date Race Name Conditions Distance Purse 8-29 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes Affirmed 2yo* 7 fur. $200,000 8-29 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes Susan’s Girl 2yo fillies* 7 fur. $200,000 9-26 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes In Reality 2yo* 1 1/16 mi. $400,000 9-26 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes My Dear Girl 2yo fillies* 1 1/16 mi. $400,000 9-26 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes Wildcat Heir 3yo & older* 1 mile $150,000 * FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes eligible horses Back to Top D Purse Age/Sex Distance M $750,000^ 3 yo 1 $200,000^^ 3 yo fillies 1 Back to Top Page 7 Victory Kingdom Makes North American Debut in Smart N Fancy Stakes BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY— Team Valor International's home- bred Victory Kingdom (Aus) will make her first start in the Northern Hemisphere off a nine- month layoff against seven older fillies and mares in Thursday's eighth running of the $85,000 Smart N Fancy Stakes going five- and-a-half furlongs over the Mellon turf at Saratoga Race Course.
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