ftboa.com • Friday • June 4, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST Firenze Fire At Home In This Issue: Midnight Storm Filly Fastest at June in Belmont’s True North Under Tack Opener BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ Classy Venetian Harbor Makes 2021 Debut in Monrovia Mr. Amore Stables homebred Firenze Fire may be a Florida native but he feels From the Boardroom most at home at Belmont Park in New York. Mischevious Alex Stretches Out The Florida-bred star has built a career at the Big Sandy where the 6-year-old Trainer Thomas Hoping for Firm Turf horse has won six of nine career starts and nearly $1 million with $918,000 in career France Go de Ina Posts Final Work earnings there. He has won a graded stake at Belmont in three of the four years since Gulfstream Park Charts 2017 and an added-money event there in each of those years. Florida Stallion Progeny List As a juvenile in 2017, he took the Grade 1 Champagne and in 2018, he won Florida Breeders’ List the Dwyer (G3) by nine lengths. In 2019 he won the $150,000 Runhappy Stakes and Wire to Wire Business Place last year he took the Grade 2 Vosburgh and the Grade 2 True North. In his last start, he won his second Runhappy Stakes, which is Featured Advertisers now a Grade 3, on May 8 and Saturday, he goes for his second True North. Berrettini Feed The 2021 True North has a field of Covert Appraisal Services seven 4-year-olds and older who will go Florida Department of Agriculture six-and-a-half furlongs for a purse of $300,000. Fred Burton Paving Firenze Fire, who is trained by Kelly FTBOA Breen and will be ridden for the 21st time Journeyman Stud and third straight by Irad Oritz Jr., has Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply drawn post one for the True North and is the 2-1 morning line favorite. Ocala Stud He will also be trying to win his third Peterson Smith Equine Hospital consecutive graded stakes at Belmont after RiceHorse Stable the Runhappy and the Vosburgh before that Seminole Feed on Sept. 26. Between the Vosburgh and the Runhappy, Firenze Fire was third in the six Showcase Properties Florida-bred Firenze Fire/DOM NAPOLITANO PHOTO Six K’s Training & Sales See TRUE NORTH on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 True North Continued from COVER furlong Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) won by Whitmore at Keeneland and second to Sleepy Eyes Todd in the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector over seven at Gulfstream Park on Dec. 19. Firenze Fire is by Poseidon’s Warrior out of My Every Wish, by Langfuhr. He has won 13 of 32 career starts with four seconds and three thirds while earning $2,319,350 to rank 29th, just behind Benny the Bull and ahead of Prized on the all-time list of the richest Florida-breds. The second choice in the morning line at 5-2 is Flagstaff, the recent winner of both the Grade 3 Commonweath Stakes at Keeneland on April 3 and the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes on May 1, both at seven furlongs. He is trained by John Sadler for Lanes End Racing and Hronis Racing LLC and he has won seven of 19 starts with six seconds and three thirds while Kelly Breen/BILL DENVER/EQUIPHOTO banking $991,585. Flagstaff is by Speightstown out of Indyan Giving, by A.P. Indy and his last loss came three starts back when third to winning Florida-bred C Z Rocket in the $200,000 Hot Springs Stakes at Oaklawn in March. Luis Saez will get the return mount on Flagstaff and they will break from post two. Chad Brown will bring to the True North Looking at Bikinis, See TRUE NORTH 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 Back to Top Page 5 True North page 3 Continued from the 7-2 third choice and a winner of a third con- dition, $100,000 optional claiming allowance going seven furlongs at Belmont on April 24 in his only other start of the year. Looking at Bikinis’ last foray into stakes competition came in December of 2019 when he was fourth in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile won by Maximum Security at Aqueduct and he was also off the board in the Grade 1 Travers won by Code of Honor in August of 2019. Looking at Bikinis is by Lookin At Lucky out of Bikini Beauty and he has won $249,200 for owners Long Lake Stables LLC and Madaket Stables LLC, Thomas Coleman and Doheny Racing Stable. He has won four of nine career starts with a third and is a graduate of the 2018 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale where Head of Plains and Long Lake Stables pur- chased him for $240,000 out of the Niall Brennan Stables consignment. Looking at Bikinis will again have to fight off American Power, who was second to him, beaten just a length in the aforementioned optional claiming at Belmont on April 24. Flagstaff/COADY PHOTO Before that, the Rob Atras trainee had rattled off four straight on March 27. wins including victories in the Grade 3 Toboggan at Aqueduct on The remainder of the entries for the True North include Big Jan. 30 and in the $77,000 Calixa Electronica Stakes at Aqueduct Engine, Wicked Trick and Phat Man. # 9 C. Khozan o/o Verso a Verso # 355 F. Lookin at Lucky o/o Giant’s Accent # 17 F. American Freedom o/o Visions of Candy F. Maclean’s Music o/o Ginza # 75 F. Karakonite (JPN) o/o Alexandrite # 356 C. Flat Out o/o Million Gift ( JPN) # 137 F. Valiant Minister o/o Birthday Suit # 546 F. Tonalist o/o Rapid Rhythm # 246 C. American Freedom o/o Deep in December # 683 Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Midnight Storm Filly Fastest at June Under Tack Opener BY OBS PRESS OFFICE _______________________________ The series at Gulfstream concludes Sept. 25 with the $400,000 In Reality for 2-year-old males, the $400,000 My Dear Girl for 2- OCALA, FL—Hip 107, a daughter from the first crop of sire year-old fillies and the $125,000 Wildcat Heir for older horses. The Midnight Storm consigned by Scanlon Training and Sales as an In Reality and My Dear Girl are set for a mile-and-one-sixteenth agent, worked an eighth-mile in :9.80 to post the fastest work at the while the Wildcat Heir is scheduled for a mile. distance at the opening session of the under tack show for Ocala Hip 18, a bay colt by Candy Ride (Arg) consigned by Ciaran Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2021 June Sale of Two Year Olds and Dunne’s Wavertree Stables Inc., as an agent, is out of Viva Malala, Horses of Racing Age. The bay filly is a half-sister to stakes-win- by Malibu Moon, a half-sister to Grade 1-placed, stakes winning ner Miss My Rose out of Ava G, by Afternoon Deelites, from the OBS-graduate Icabad Crane. family of Grade 1 stakes placed stakes-winner Winter Treasure. Two horses worked a quarter-mile in :21.40. A pair of youngsters shared honors for the session’s fastest quar- Hip 98, I’m a Cutie, consigned by Dynasty Thoroughbreds, is a ter-mile, stopping the timer in :21.20. gray or roan, Florida-bred filly by Cupid out of Arc Angel, by Hip 5, a Florida-bred chestnut filly by Uncaptured consigned Bodemeister, from the family of Grade 1-winner Shared Account. and bred by Ocala Stud, is a half-sister to stakes winning OBS She was bred in Florida by Stonehedge LLC. graduate Seismic Jolt out of Valid Concorde, by Concorde’s Tune, Hip 155, a bay filly by Practical Joke consigned by Top Line a full-sister to stakes winning OBS-graduate Rocky River. The filly Sales LLC as an agent, is out of Bustle, by More Than Ready, a is also eligible for the lucrative Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ half-sister to graded stakes-winner Takeover Target. and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes program. Hip 162, a dark bay or brown Florida-bred colt by Into Mischief This year, the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes at Gulfstream Park is consigned by White Lilac as an agent, is a half-brother to stakes- worth $1.525 million as the rich series starts July 31 with the winner Little Nick V. out of Campionessa, by A.P. Indy, a daughter $100,000 Dr. Fager for 2-year-old males and the $100,000 Desert of grade one stakes winner Pacific Squall. She was bred by Vixen for 2-year-old fillies, both at six furlongs. The series contin- Hickstead Farm. ues Aug. 28 at seven furlongs with the $200,000 Affirmed for 2- Eight horses breezed eighths in :10 flat. year-old males and the $200,000 Susan’s Girl for 2-year-old fillies. See OBS on page 9 RICEHORSE STABLE Brandon & Alexandra Rice 12110 N.E. Hwy 315 • Fort McCoy, Fla.