Tuesday & Wednesday • August 24 & 25, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION www.wiretowire.net FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Lieutenant Dan Quickest Sunday in Green Flash ‘Cap Safe Conduct Guts Out Queen’s Plate Victory Horologist Goes Gate-to-Wire in Summer Colony Jesus’ Team to Sit Out 90 Days with Ankle Chip Mutamakina Makes the Grade in Dance Smartly Banke, Lear, Rankin Elected to The Jockey Club Board of Stewards Florida-bred Our Flash Drive/NEW IMAGES MEDIA PHOTO Gulfstream Park Charts Our Flash Drive Keeps Win Track Results & Entries Streak Alive in Ontario Colleen Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ Patrick Husbands. She and Husbands then won the Grade 3 Selene Stakes at Woodbine Live Oak Plantation’s Our Flash Drive on July 10 going a mile-and-one-sixteenth Wire to Wire Business Place won her third consecutive race and second before taking the Ontario Colleen. straight graded stakes Sunday at Woodbine Husbands used the same stalking strat- as the 3-year-old Florida-bred filly won the egy in the Ontario Colleen that had been US$116,989 Ontario Colleen Stakes (Grade successful in Selene. After breaking from Featured Advertisers 3) by a length-and-a-half against six other post two, Our Flash Drive sat a length-and- sophomore fillies going a mile on the turf. a-half behind stablemate Sweet Souper Florida Department of Agriculture After two unsuccessful starts against Sweet, who led through easy quarter-mile special weight maidens at Saratoga last year splits of :24.42 and :48.35. Our Flash Drive FTBOA to begin her career, Our Flash Drive came began to pick up the pace and close the gap back in June of this year to win a maiden on Sweet Souper Sweet as they raced Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply special weight by three-and-three-quarter around the far turn and stuck a head in front lengths going seven furlongs on Woodbine’s after six furlongs in 1:11.84. Peterson Smith Equine Hospital Tapeta for trainer Mark Casse and jockey See OUR FLASH DRIVE on page 3 Seminole Feed Wire to Wire August 24 & 25, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 Lieutenant Dan Quickest Sunday in Green Flash ‘Cap BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE__________________________ DEL MAR, CA—Nick Alexander’s homebred Lieutenant Dan was just too fast for seven rivals in Sunday’s $101,500 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar, running five furlongs on turf in :55.98. The 5-year-old gelding by Grazen out of Excusabelull, by Indian Charlie, shook off pressure early through quarter-mile splits of :22.16 and :44.52, then cleared late to finish two-and-a-quarter lengths best in the dash for 3-year-olds and older. He picked up a check for $60,000 for the win and pushed his bankroll to $543,740. Geovanni Franco rode the winner for trainer Steve Miyadi. “No special instructions for me; I know this horse well,” Franco said. “Since he’s come back from his layoff (was away from June 2020 to July 2021), he’s more puffed up. He’s acting like a bully. He’s doing good now. When I made the lead in the straight, I wasn’t worried about the others behind me coming to get us. But I wasn’t going to wait for them either.” Finishing second was Give Me the Lute, a neck in front of Gre- gorian Chant. They were followed in order by Kneedeppinsnow, Little Juanito, Texas Wedge, Florida-bred Collusion Illusion and Chasin Munny. Lieutenant Dan/BENOIT PHOTO Lieutenant Dan paid $6 on a $2 win ticket. July 23], because I was thinking about this race and I was pleasantly “In this day and age you’re always worried about the bounce,” surprised at how well he ran. That’s when you worry about the Miyadi said. “I didn’t train him particularly hard for [a win here bounce. He overcame my training.” Our Flash Drive Continued from COVER From there, Our Flash Drive drew clear in the But she’s pretty savvy racing and you can decide stretch and went on to win in 1:34.76 on the firm what to do with her. She’s the type of filly that has turf. Seasons made a late run to get second, a a very serious streak in there. She doesn’t like length-and-a-half ahead of Speightstown Shirl in horses running with her; she doesn’t like horses third. They were followed by Perseverancia, Mis- at all.” spell, I Get It and Sweet Souper Sweet. Salty as Our Flash Drive was bred by Live Oak Stud Can Be was scratched. and now sports a record of three wins in five starts “I breezed her on Sunday [Aug. 15]... when I with earnings of $180,937. She is by Ghostzapper got back to the barn, my head was bigger than out of Dynamotor, by Dynaformer and paid $6.90 Woodbine,” Husbands said. “I said ‘Mark, this is to win. a Breeders’ Cup horse.’ She just loved it [the turf]. Our Flash Drive is the second foal from Dy- “She’s a relaxed horse,” Husbands continued. namotor, who also produced Gearhead, a winning “We had a couple of horses we worked—I was be- gelding by City Zip. She also has an unraced, 2- hind them about 10, 15 lengths and she was just year-old colt named Engine’s Ready by Hard wanting the green light. I said, ‘No baby, no baby, Spun, an unnamed yearling filly who is a full-sis- no baby’ and that was on Sunday. She’s the type of ter to Our Flash Drive and a weanling filly by filly that, what you want to do, she’ll let you do. Mark Casse/COGLIANESE PHOTO Omaha Beach. It pays to breed Florida-breds Learn more about Breeders’ Awards www.ftboa.com Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Wire to Wire August 24 & 25, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire August 24 & 25, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Safe Conduct Guts Out Queen’s Plate Victory BY WOODBINE PRESS OFFICE________________________ TORONTO—Safe Conduct had just enough left in the tank to take the 162nd running of the $1 million (US$781,479) Queen’s Plate, North America’s oldest continually run race, as the son of Bodemeister bested a hard-charging Riptide Rock by a head, Sun- day at Woodbine. Bred by Ontario’s Mitchell Kursner, the bay colt had never raced over the Toronto oval Tapeta prior to the mile-and-one-quarter classic. With Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, Safe Conduct’s Canadian debut was certainly a thrilling and memorable one. Sent off as the slight 3-1 choice, Safe Conduct, trained by Phillip Serpe and owned by WellSpring Stables, broke well from post one and got away second as Take a Chance led the field past the wire for the first time, with Go Take Charge and Haddassah next in line. Take a Chance continued to call the shots on the front end with Safe Conduct shadowing the leader through an opening quarter in :24.01. Woodbine Oaks presented by Budweiser champion Munny- for Ro, sat fifth. As the field raced along the backstretch the two pacesetters con- tinued to show the way. Take a Chance was a length in front of Safe Conduct after a half reached in :48.37. Safe Conduct/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO When they rounded the turn, Safe Conduct, on the inside, struck “He’s been training like a bear,” Kursner noted. “The rule of front, maintaining a half-length lead over Keep Grinding at Robert thumb is that if you’re a nice horse on the turf, you’ll translate on Geller’s stretch call. Riptide Rock, last at the half-mile pole, and the Tapeta and we’re just delighted. Delighted.” second to last turning for home, began to pick up steam on the far The CAN$400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, a mile-and-three- outside, passing rivals until he was a clear second. sixteenths test over Fort Erie’s dirt oval on Sept. 14, is the next race The Stronach Stables’ homebred continued to chip away at Safe in the tri-surface OLG Canadian Triple Crown series, which winds Conduct’s lead, but fell just short. H C Holiday, one of four Kevin up with the CAN$400,000 Breeders’ Stakes at a mile-and-one-half Attard trainees, finished third, while Munnyfor Ro was fourth. over Woodbine’s E.P. Taylor Turf Course on Oct. 3. The final time was 2:02.85 on the fast Tapeta course. Wando, in 2003, was the last horse to sweep the series and the “He’s shown some speed before to the half [in] :48,” Ortiz Jr. seventh since its exception in 1959. said after riding in his first Plate. “We thought maybe two horses Safe Conduct returned $8. had speed and we want to be out of the traf- fic, so I broke running. I sat second on the clear, I bided my time, waited for the right time to roll and when I asked him to go, he kept fighting down the stretch. He kept moving forward. I saw somebody was fly- ing outside... that was very close, I didn’t know if I won the race after the wire but thank God I did.” Kursner, a co-owner of 2016 Woodbine Oaks-winner Neshama, was overjoyed with Safe Conduct’s gritty Plate triumph.