ftboa.com • Thursday • July 19, 2018 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION ADVERTISERS WANTED! For subscription or advertising information, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] Florida-bred Jackson/LAUREN KING PHOTO Week In Review Featuring last week’s original content from Wire to Pinchin Fully Loaded From Wire printed edition distributed in Marion County Axelrod Upset Winner of Hallandale to Jackson for FSS Indiana Derby BY BROCK SHERIDAN ___________________ Stakes Dr. Fager on Aug. 4 at Gulfstream. Unbridled Courage is Brave in The Dr. Fager is for 2-year-olds at six furlongs Treasure Coast Victory Gulfstream Park-based trainer Jose Pinchin and is the first leg of the three-race open division may not be Johnny nor June Carter Cash, but he of the FSS which continues with the $200,000 Big Drink of Water Quenches is singing about Jackson. He’s also has a skip in FTBOA FSS Affirmed at seven furlongs on Sept. Victoria Stakes his step about Fully Loaded but neither he nor 1 and the $400,000 FTBOA FSS In Reality at a Florida-breds One, Two as Always Jackson are catchy tunes. mile and one-sixteenth on Sept. 29. Sunshine Takes Hockessin Stakes Instead, Jackson and Fully Loaded are two The filly division of the FTBOA FSS series Florida-bred colts in Pinchin’s barn – both set to at Gulfstream also kicks off on Aug. 4 with the Horse Racing Reform Launches compete in the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire $100,000 Desert Vixen followed by the New Website JACKSON See on page 3 Justify Joins the Breyer Stable Accelerate Has Pacific Classic as Target Featured Advertisers BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE ______________ Classic (G1) before being passed late by Arrogate. Ocala Stud Remember Accelerate? Accelerate is back to defend his title in the Double Diamond How could any Del Mar follower forget? $200,000 San Diego on Saturday to continue a The now 5-year-old son of Lookin At Lucky, 2018 campaign which has already produced vic- Florida Department of Agriculture trained by John Sadler for Hronis Racing LLC, tories in the Santa Anita Handicap in March and FTBOA shocked the racing world a year ago, winning the the Gold Cup at Santa Anita in May. TVG San Diego Handicap (Grade 2) by eight and There was a lot of buzz about Lava Man in Equine Performance Center one-half lengths while super horse (to that point) 2006 when he arrived with victories in the Santa Stonehedge Farm Arrogate struggled home fourth at odds of 1-9. A Anita Handicap (G1) and then-Hollywood Gold month later, Accelerate pressed the pace of wire- Cup (G1). The 5-year-old former claimer created Woodford Thoroughbreds to-wire winner Collected in the TVG Pacific quite a sensation winning the Pacific Classic to Journeyman Stud ACCELERATE See on page 3 Peterson & Smith Page 3 Jackson Continued from COVER 1:04.12. “It was expected,” Pinchin said of the optional $200,000 Susan’s Girl at seven furlongs on Sept. 1 claiming win. “Edgard said he just galloped and the $400,000 My Dear Girl on Sept. 29. around there. This year, the illustrious series also introduces Fully Loaded is out of Cappachino Gal, by the FTBOA FSS Wildcat Heir for 3-year-olds and Bluegrass Cat and was bred in Florida by Get older at one mile on Sept. 29. Away Farm. Fully Loaded was one of the first FSS nominees He is undefeated in two starts and has earnings to catch people’s eye this Spring when the bay son of $71,900. of Get Away Farm stallion Two Step Salsa took a Jackson has but one race under his belt, a vic- five furlong, $66,500 maiden special weight in a tory over special weight maidens at Gulfstream stalking trip guided by jockey Edgard Zayas at Sunday when he held off a late run by odds-on Gulfstream on May 28. favorite Trophy Chaser from the barn of Juan Owned by Calypso Stable and Rousseau Racing, Avila. Fully Loaded was more impressive in his second In that race Jackson sprinted to the front and start when he easily won a first level optional sizzled through the first quarter-mile of the four claiming race at five and one-half furlongs by seven and one-half furlong race in :21.44 and in front by and one-half lengths at Gulfstream on July 6. more than three lengths. Jockey Emisael Jaramillo This time Zayas had Fully Loaded on top from was able to slow him down to a half-mile in :45.50 the start as he led from gate to finish over Nacho and he finished up in :52.32 and a neck in front of Papa in second with Well Defined third in a time of Trophy Chaser in second. Jose Pinchin/LESLIE MARTIN PHOTO Accelerate Continued from COVER complete the sweep of California’s biggest hand- icaps in one year. Times have changed, however. The $600,000 Santa Anita Handicap gets passed over frequent- ly by horses headed to the $6 million Dubai World Cup. The $500,000 Gold Cup can get lost in the wake of the Triple Crown series with its spot nearing the end of the long Santa Anita meeting. The TVG Pacific Classic is now the only $1 million race of the three major Southern California circuit handicap events. `It’s the way of the world,” Sadler said Tuesday when asked if he felt Accelerate was underappreciated. “But he’s doing great and we’ve got a lot more planned for him in the sec- ond half of the year. From the Pacific Classic to all the way into the fall.” Accelerate has seven wins, five seconds and five thirds in 19 career starts and earnings of more than $1.7 million. He carried 117 in the San Diego in 2017 but is high-weighted at 125 this year. “He’s been rock solid, he hasn’t run a bad Accelerate/BENOIT PHOTO race, going against the tough guys in Grade 1 and Grade 2 stakes,” Sadler said. “So we’re looking forward to the San Diego.” MUST SELL In addition to the Big ‘Cap and Gold Cup, Accelerate has a win in the Grade 2 San Pasqual • 1st crop yearling filly by Kentucky sire Race Day by Tapit. at Santa Anita and a second in the Grade 2 Dam is Vicola by Indian Charlie. This is her 1st foal. Oaklawn Handicap in 2018. He’s finished off the • Yearling filly by Arch Arch Arch. Dam is Way To Fly by Bowman's Band. board only once in his last nine starts, all at the Grade Stakes level. Victor Espinoza has been 1/2 sister is recent blacktype stakes placed two-yr-old. aboard for seven of his last eight starts. Both are correct and healthy. Serious inquires only! 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FIRST DUDE BAHAMIAN SQUALL by Stephen Got Even–Run Sarah Run by Smart Strike by Gone West–Midway Squall by Storm Bird 87 Wins G1 Placed G2 Winner Earnings of $2,422,044 Won or Placed in 11 Graded 64% Winners From Starters or Stakes Races Year to date progeny results 1st Crop are Yearlings in 2018 as of 07/18/2018 Donald R.Dizney https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Dude/130049330338431 Standing: First Dude & Bahamian Squall • Contact Roger Brand, Jimmy Alexander or Melissa Anthony for stallion inquiries 899 S.W. 85th Ave., Ocala, FL 34481 • (352) 237-3834 Fax: (352) 237-6069 • visit-www.doublediamondfarm.com FIRST DUDE: BENOIT & ASSOCIATES PHOTO / BAHAMIAN SQUALL: COADY PHOTO / BAHAMIAN SQUALL: COADY PHOTO ASSOCIATES & DUDE: BENOIT FIRST Page 5 Axelrod Upset Winner of Indiana Derby BY BROCK SHERIDAN___________________________________________ Axelrod got up for a neck vicory in 1:43 flat over the fast track. Trigger Warning was second with Title Ready third. Axelrod picked up his first stakes win Saturday night at Indiana Grand “There was a lot of speed in the race and it’s just how the race unfold- Racetrack as the 3-year-old colt took the $500,000 Indiana Derby (Grade 3) ed,” said Geroux on his slow start with Axelrod. “I didn’t feel like being in an upset win at odds 12-1 over one and one-sixteenth miles. between horses. That’s just how it is sometimes. When I began to move Making his first start outside of him in the turn, his heart started getting California where trainer Michael bigger and bigger. I just felt confident McCarthy is based at Santa Anita, right about the three-eighths pole. Axelrod improved off of his runner-up Before then, not so much. That was performance behind winner Draft Pick close at the end. I mean I’m not sure in the Grade 3 Affirmed at Santa Anita [about catching Trigger Warning]. But on June 10 to take the Indiana Derby in the last two jumps, my horse just kept a come-from-behind performance. running on.” Jockey Florent Geroux had Axelrod Axelrod, who races for Nick relaxed after a slow start and running Casato’s Slam Dunk Racing, picked up eighth of nine in the early stages of the his third win from eight starts and Indiana Derby as Tom Ridge Stakes win- earned $290,000 to push his career ner and Ohio Derby (G3) third Trigger bank to $330,925.