ftboa.com • Monday • September 21, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION Starship Jubilee Orbits the FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION Field Providing a Florida-bred or to subscribe, please call One-Two Punch in Ricoh Mile Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] BY TAMMY A. GANTT _____________ at 6-1 on the board … just kind of forgot- ten about. Time after time, she comes up Adding another chapter to her amaz- and proves that she’s a top horse in North ing rags-to-riches story, Starship Jubilee America.” In This Issue: crossed the wire first in the $1 million As turf writer Steve Buffery from the Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes on Saturday Toronto Sun put it. “The old bay mare, Count Again Upsets in Singspiel followed by fellow Florida-bred March to she ain’t what she used to be. She is, in fact, better than ever.” the Arch. Grooming the Next Generation of Given no respect by the bettors, going “Respect your elders and girl power” off at odds of 6 to 1, the oldest horse in the was exclaimed by TVG commentator Horsemen field at seven and the only mare in the Todd Schrupp as Starship Jubilee crossed race, showed once again why she is one of the finish line ahead of 2020 King Agriculture Business Advisory Council the world’s best turf milers. Only the third Edward Stakes winner March to the Provides Student Opportunities filly in the race’s history to win, she Arch, followed by 2019 Preakness cham- rebounded from a fourth in the Aug. 23 pion War of Will. Both were highly tout- Credit River Flows to 41-1 Ontario Upset Diana Stakes G1T at Saratoga Race ed Mark Casse entries. The March to the Course, her only loss in six starts in 2020. Arch connections of trainer Casse and “Just an unbelievable feeling,” said Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation Magic Attitude Wins Oaks Invitational her emotional trainer Kevin Attard. “This won the race in 2017 with World mare doesn’t get the respect she deserves. Approval and were striving to do it again Dirty Dangle Cleans Up in Cares Stakes She’s a winner of 18 or 19 races out of 38 with the five-year-old gelding. starts, I was really disappointed to see her Respect indeed is just what her first- Gulfstream Park Charts See STARSHIP JUBILEE on page 3 Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Wire to Wire Business Place Featured Advertisers Florida Department of Agriculture FTBOA Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Florida-breds Starship Jubilee and March to the Arch/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO Seminole Feed Back to Top Page 3 Starship Jubilee Continued from COVER time jockey and leading Woodbine rider Justin Stein gave the Canadian media darling when he recognized how talented the reigning Canada Horse of the Year and Florida’s older female/female turf horse champion is. With Stein in the irons, the mare broke well and sat just off the pace and was steadied on the backstretch under a moderate pace. She sat fourth as Admiralty Pier and Value Proposition led the way through a modest opening quarter in :23.66. The pacesetters continued through a half in :46.14. In a flawless ride, Stein sat patiently atop the mare who was behind horses and flanked by Trainer Kevin Attard/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO War of Will coming out of the last turn. As the field spread across the course coming out of the turn and straightening out for the stretch, Stein threaded the needle through horses, tipped her out to five wide, gave the bay mare the cue and off they pounded down the turf course. “Sitting inside the three-eighths pole, around the 5/16ths pole I had tons (of horse), and I waited for a chance to tip her out and ask her to run,” Stein said. “She’s so honest and wants to win more than anybody else out there. I watched her replays ... she’s just gritty. She just waited for her cue and took off like a scalded cat. She was gone, “ said Stein. War of Will was three-quarters of a length back in third, with Olympic Runner, Armistice Day, Admiralty Pier, Shirl’s Speight, and Value Proposition completing the order of finish. The final time for the mile was 1:32.06 on a turf course rated firm, just .31 of a second off Wise Dan’s course record. Starship Jubilee paid $13.50 on a $2 win ticket. She was the third female to ever win the race. She also joined the company of other Florida- bred winners of the race World Approval and the champion grey Skip Away, leading Florida-bred money earner of all time with $9,616,360 in earnings. The race was a “Win and You’re In Challenge Series” Breeders’ Cup race giving her an automatic fees-paid berth in the Fanduel Breeders’ Cup Mile at Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 7. at Keeneland. Additionally, the win gives Starship Jubilee $10,000 toward travel expenses. When asked if he planned to run her on Breeders’ Cup day, Attard said, “I’m just going to enjoy the moment right now, but it’s See STARSHIP JUBILEE on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Starship Jubilee page 3 Continued from barn that was in the now defunct Calder Race Course backstretch. obviously a special feeling to know that this race has produced so Dwoskin now races the South Florida circuit from Gulfstream many horses that have gone on to win the Breeders’ Cup,” Attard Park. Dwoskin and Leavy were mainstays at Calder in its heyday. said. “So I’m really ecstatic right now, and that’s somewhere we’ve She was then consigned by Halcyon Hammock Farm to the been aiming to go to all year long. This is just one step closer.” 2015 April Sale where she went through the ring after breezing an One thing he knew for certain was that he was not going to Under Tack eighth in :10 2/5 and was bid to $34,000 but did not change any of his routine, referring to the fact his young son sell. Joshua helps saddle the horse each time. After the race, the duo Leavy has owned hundreds of thoroughbreds with a common posted on Attard’s Twitter account, theme from his Starship Stables, the word Starship, and that’s how a photo of Joshua, Starship Jubilee Starship Jubilee got her name. and the trainer. It’s posts like these His long list includes Starship that add even more to the celeb of Bonita, Starship Jodi, Starship the talented mare. Nala, Starship Valor, Starship Her rise to fame from a $16,000 Miss, Starship Wildcat, Starship claimer to earnings of more than $2 Tribbles, Starship Shawty, million is truly the story that each Starship Serena, Starship person in the Sport of Kings dreams Avenger, Starship Amanda, of. To make it even more Disney- Starship Zorro, and of course, esque are the backstories of the Starshipenterprise, among many people who she met along the way others. to get there. Starship Bonita would have Claimed for $16,000 in February swept the Florida Sire Stakes in of 2017 at Gulfstream Park by Kevin 2017 winning the FTBOA Attard’s father, Tino Attard, from Florida Sire Susan’s Girl Stakes trainer Jorge Navarro in her ninth and the Florida Sire My Dear start, Starship Jubilee won five con- Girl Stakes except for finishing secutive races in 2017 for her new fourth in the first leg of the connections, including the G2 FTBOA Florida Sire Desert Nassau Stakes at G2 Dance Smartly Vixen Stakes. Also an FSS con- Stakes. Starship Jubilee added two tender, Starship Nala finished stakes victories in 2018, including second in the Susan’s Girl the G2 Canadian Stakes. She won Stakes and the My Dear Girl three stakes in 2019, highlighted by Stakes in 2018 and third in the her first Grade 1 in the E.P. Taylor Ivanavinalot Florida Sire Stakes Stakes going 1 1/4 miles at at Tampa in December 2019. Woodbine after a fourth place finish Although based in Davie and the year before. She is the only horse Jacksonville, Fla, Leavy travels to win both the Ricoh Woodbine vociferously to all major league Mile and the E.P. Taylor Stakes. sporting events and has even Starship Jubilee was entered in Trainer Kevin Attard and his son Joshua with their cover girl Starship Jubilee been spotted on Preakness Day. the 2018 Keeneland November As a guest of thoroughbred rac- Breeding Stock Sale but did not meet her reserve of $425,000 and ing magnate Frank Stronach in 2014, he sat with actress Bo Derek was subsequently sold privately by the Attards to Bonnie Baskin’s before the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course in Maryland until it Blue Heaven Farm. was time for her to ask riders to mount their Preakness horses Prior to her win in the Ballston Spa Stakes G2 at Saratoga Race from the turf course infield. Course, Vice President and General Manager Adam Corndorf “I kept her company until she said ‘Riders up!’” Leavy said. knew she faced tough company and he hoped she competed well That same year, he continued his tradition, as the Marlins Man against the top female turf champion of 2018, Sistercharlie, in the making sure he could be seen behind the winning horse crossing race. The bettors sent champion Sistercharlie off as the 2-5 the finish line by donning his orange Marlins baseball shirt.