ftboa.com • Thursday • August 9, 2018 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION Six Florida-breds Bring FOR ADVERTISING Six Figures at Saratoga INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Florida-bred mare produces sales topper Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ “I’m pleased to report that the 2018 Saratoga Sale established a new record for Six Florida-bred year - gross sales,” said Fasig- lings found new homes Tipton President Boyd In This Issue: Monday and Tuesday Browning. “It doesn’t happen after they went through without the trust and confi - Kids Can Design a Set of Silks for the ring at the Fasig- dence of the best breeders, Gulfstream’s Championship Meet Tipton Saratoga Select best pinhookers, [and] best Yearling Sale conducted consignors in the world.” Chad Brown in Search of 4th at the Humphrey S. Five yearlings garnered Beverly D. Win Finney Pavilion in seven figure bids including Saratoga Springs, N.Y. the sale topper who went 66th Round Table Conference The two day sale posted for $1,350,000 on a final Cajun Firecracker Explodes for record gross sales of bid by West Point, R. $62,794,000 from 170 Masiello, C. Larsen and FSS Dr. Fager Upset juveniles for an average Siena. Selling as Hip 196, Application Period for 2019 T.I.P. of $369,376 and a medi - the dark bay or brown colt Awards Now Open an of $300,000. It was Summerfield's Francis Vanlangendonck is by Medaglia d’Oro out of the second highest aver - FASIG-TIPTON PHOTO the Florida-bred mare Supreme Court To Take Up age in the history of the illustrious auction. Coco’s Wildcat, by the late leading Florida Greyhound Racing Ban See SARATOGA on page 3 Florida Sire Stakes Tidbit Oscar Performance Receives Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Top Billing in Arlington Million Wire to Wire Business Place ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL. —The 36th running running of the $1,000,000 Featured Advertisers Arlington Million (Grade 1) drew a field of 11 entrants for the mile and one-quar - Ocala Stud ter turf event at Arlington International Double Diamond Racecourse. Chicago’s marquee race attracted a bevy of worldly talent, but Florida Department of Agriculture Amerman Racing Stables’ Oscar FTBOA Performance, victorious in last season’s Woodford Thoroughbreds Grade 1 Secretariat, will star from stage right when they break from the gate on Seminole Feed Saturday. The winner of the Arlington Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Million, a “Win and You’re In” event, Journeyman Stud Oscar Performance/ CHELSEA DURAND PHOTO See ARLINGTON on page 4 Back to Top Page 3 EXCLUSIVE QUALITY Elusive Quality / First Glimmer, by Glitterman Fasig-Tipton Saratoga/ FASIG-TIPTON PHOTO FURY KAPCORI Saratoga Tiznow / Gin Running, Continued from COVER by Go For Gin sire Wildcat Heir. Ready consigned by Craig and Holly The colt is the first foal of Coco’s Bandorff’s Denali Stud, agent. This is the GENTLEMEN’S BET Wildcat, who was bred by Gilbert C. second foal for Azara, who is a half-sister Campbell and was a stakes winner and to two-time champion grass mare Tepin and Half Ours / Lady of Sun, multiple graded-stakes-winner Vyjack. graded stakes-placed on the track and is by Gentlemen (ARG) from the family of the multiple champion A Florida-bred colt by Malibu Moon also proved popular when Donato Lanni as Songbird. The colt was consigned by an agent for SF Racing, Starlight Racing Taylor Made Sales, agent. KHOZAN and West went to $250,000 on Hip 236. The sale-topper has another Florida Also consigned by Taylor Made Sales Distorted Humor / Delta connection in that Coco’s Wildcat was sold Agency, agent, the colt is out of the Princess, by A.P. Indy in utero at the 2016 Keeneland November Pomeroy mare Hangover Saturday, who Mixed Sale from the consignment of was also a stakes winner. This was also her Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck’s second foal and her first progeny is a 2- SONGANDAPRAYER Summerfield of Morriston, Fla. year-old non-starter. Unbridled’s Song / Alizea Three lots after the top seller sold, the John Oxley, who just won the richest Florida-bred took the stage and lit Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga on July 20 By Premiership up the money board at $475,000 on a final with his Florida-bred star Catherinethegreat, bid by Spendthrift Farm LLC. Consigned picked up another Sunshine State native for WINSLOW HOMER by Gainesway, the colt is by Into Mischief $200,000 in Hip 141. Consigned by out of Conway Two Step, by Spanish Steps. Summerfield, the bay colt is by Belmont Unbridled's Song / Summer Conway Two Step is a stakes-winning mare Stakes (G1) winner Tonalist out of Val Raven, by Summer Squall who is a half-sister to stakes-placed Jane’s Marie, by Coronado’s Quest. That makes the Kid and stakes-placed and stakes-producer colt a half-brother to Grade 2 stakes winner Glittering Tax. She was bred in Florida by Grand Aventure. Loren Nichols. Also bringing $200,000 was a Florida- Hip 139, a Florida-bred filly by Quality bred colt that sold as Hip 52 to Carlo Vaccarezza. Consigned by James “Jimbo” Road out of Unhurried, by Out of Place, and Torie Gladwell’s Top Line Sales, the left the ring after Clancy Bloodstock pur - colt is by Liam’s Map out of My Special chased her for $375,000 from the Eaton Secret, by Mineshaft. Sales, agent consignment. Unhurried was In other Florida news from the Saratoga stakes-placed as a runner during her racing Sale grounds, the Vanlangendonck’s also Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners career and has already produced stakes- consigned under their Summerfield banner 5571 NW 100th St., Ocala Fl 34482 placed Show the Way J and Miss Maggie Hip 62 for $1 million. The bay colt is by Girl as a broodmare. She also hails from 2015 Triple Crown winner American Office: 352.629.1200 – FAX 352.629.1201 the family of Florida-bred champion Pharoah out of Party Silks, by Touch Gold, [email protected] female sprint Musical Romance. making the colt a half-brother to Selling for $300,000 to Vincent Viola’s Razorback Stakes (G3) winner Upstart. www.JourneymanStallions.com St. Elias Stable and Ocala’s J.J. Crupi, agent The colt was purchased by M.V. Magnier was Hip 169, a Florida-bred colt by Into and Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who Mischief out of Azara, by More Than conditioned American Pharoah. Back to Top Page 4 Arlington COVER will look to land trainer Graham Motion of City Zip, Twenty Four Seven. The five- Continued from his first victory in the Million. The 4-year- time winner was restless in the paddock will receive an automatic berth into the old son of Quality Road defeated three prior to his sixth-place finish in the Grade $4,000,000 Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf Grade 1 winners when making his second 3 Arlington Handicap last out but finished (G1) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3. start of the season in the Manhattan. Hall just two lengths behind winner Divisidero. Trained by Brian Lynch, the multiple of Fame jockey Edgar Prado has the Local rider Chris Emigh will be aboard as graded stakes-winning son of Kitten’s Joy mount from gate two. the duo break from post seven. will look to become just the fifth horse to Gunpowder Farms’ Grade 3 Arlington NBCSN will broadcast live from complete the Secretariat-Million double. Handicap winner Divisidero returns to the Arlington International Racecourse on A three-time Grade 1 winner over the Million after a seventh-place finish in the Saturday, Aug. 11 with racing coverage grass, Oscar Performance tops the Million 35th running. Now in the barn of condi - beginning at 5:00 pm CDT. field in career earnings with $1,967,632. tioner Kelly Rubley, the 6-year-old son of The 4-year-old colt will break from post Kitten’s Joy looks to rise to his previous 11 under Jose Ortiz. Grade I-winning form that helped him Aidan O’Brien will look to capture the capture back-to-back Woodford Reserve coveted Million trophy for a third time in Turf Classics at Churchill Downs on the his career. The Ballydoyle-based condi - Kentucky Derby undercard in 2016 and tioner will saddle Mrs. Fitri Hay, Mrs. 2017. Jevian Toledo retains the mount as John Magnier, Michael B. Tabor and the pair draws in gate four. Derrick Smith’s Deauville (Ire) following Naipaul Chatterpaul saddles Grade 3 close third-place finishes for the son of Stars and Stripes winner Catcho En Die Galileo (Ire) in the past two editions of the (Arg) while chasing his second Grade I Million. The 5-year-old draws in post nine victory as a trainer. Owned by Chatterpaul under Ryan Moore. in partnership with Sotirios Sakatis, the 6- Shadwell Stable’s Almanaar (GB), Al year-old son of Catcher In The Rye (Ire) Shahania Stud’s Money Multiplier and was a Group 1 winner in his native coun - Convento Viejo’s Robert Bruce (Chi), all try before traveling to the United States, hailing from the barn of last year’s win - where he was claimed by Chatterpaul for ning conditioner Chad Brown, will be on $40,000 in April of this year. Catcho En target to give the trainer back-to-back vic - Die gets the services of Arlington’s current tories in the Million. Almanaar, a 6-year- leading rider Jose Valdivia, Jr.