Turf Talents Look to Go the Extra Mile in Ricoh Woodbine Mile
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ftboa.com • Friday • September 18, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Guildsman Prevails in Franklin-Simpson TOBA to Honor State Breeders TAA Official Aftercare Partner of BC Florida-bred Starship Jubilee/COGLIANESE PHOTO Preakness Day Preview Magic Attitude Makes North American Turf Talents Look To Debut in Belmont Oaks Invitational $950,000 Uncle Mo Colt Highlights Third Go The Extra Mile in Session of Keeneland Sept. Yearling Sale United Way of Marion County to Ricoh Woodbine Mile Receive Donation from Publix WOODBINE PRESS RELEASE_______ Woodbine Mile, worth $1 million and con- Gulfstream Park Charts tested over the world-renowned E.P. Taylor TORONTO – Starship Jubilee, Canada’s Turf Course, has attracted a competitive Track Results & Entries reigning Horse of the Year, will take on a field of eight hopefuls. With an estimated gifted group of seven rivals, including 2-1 post time of 5:39 p.m. ET, the race will be Florida Stallion Progeny List morning line favorite War of Will and unde- showcased on a live broadcast airing on feated three-year-old Shirl’s Speight, in TSN3 & TSN5 in Canada and on NBCSN in Florida Breeders’ List Saturday’s Grade 1 Ricoh Woodbine Mile. the U.S. from 5-6 p.m. ET. The 24th running of the Ricoh See STARSHIP JUBILEE on page 3 Wire to Wire Business Place Best A Luck’s Vangilder Featured Advertisers Faces Tough Challengers Florida Department of Agriculture BY TAMMY A. GANTT ______________ Remington Park in Oklahoma City to the FTBOA scenic track in Albuquerque, New Mexico Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. “Amarillo by Morning” may be the for the $200,000 Downs at Albuquerque hauler’s theme song for Florida-bred Handicap on Saturday. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Vangilder as the horse heads up from the Seminole Feed high plains of his training base at See VANGILDER on page 7 Back to Top Page 3 Starship Jubilee Continued from COVER Under the terms of the Breeders’ Cup ‘Win and You’re In’ Challenge Series, the Woodbine Mile winner will be entitled to a fees-paid berth for the $2 million FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile, to be run on November 7 at Keeneland. This year’s edition of the Mile showcases an intriguing mix of local talents and U.S. headliners. Starship Jubilee, Canada’s 2019 Horse of the Year, will make her 38th career start in the fall turf classic for owner Blue Heaven Farm and trainer Kevin Attard. The Florida-bred bay was claimed for $16,000 on Attard’s behalf by his father and fellow trainer, Tino Attard, at Gulfstream in early 2017. Entered in the 2018 November Breeding Stock Sale at Keeneland, Starship Jubilee failed to meet her $425,000 reserve and was subse- quently sold privately to Bonnie Baskin’s Blue Heaven Farm. The seven-year-old daughter of Indy Wind has assembled a career record of 18-5-3, going 3-3-1 from seven starts in 2019 en route to her Sovereign Award recognition, which also includes three straight (2017-19) Champion Female Turf Horse honors. “I don’t think people realize how hard it is to keep a horse con- sistent,” said Attard. “When you see that consistency – there are always so many things that can go wrong, bad trips, bad luck, horses waking up on race day and not feeling well – bringing their A-game each and every time, it shows you how special it is and how special this horse is.” In five starts this year, Starship Jubilee, bred in Florida by William Sorren, won her first four starts before finishing fourth in her most recent engagement, the Diana (G1) at Saratoga on August 23. Attard is hoping a return to the E.P. Taylor course, where she has won six races including back-to-back (2018-19) Canadian Stakes (G2), results in a trip to the winner’s circle. “You can see that she seems like she enjoys winning. She has that desire and she has that feisty attitude in the morning. I think, especially with fillies, that attitude carries over to the afternoon.” Now, her connections are hoping to add some more hardware to an already impressive haul. “She’s a multiple Sovereign Award winner, which is pretty spe- cial in itself. But, to train a Horse of the Year, that’s icing on the cake, a huge accomplishment. To look back at the season that she had, winning the E.P. Taylor Stakes, an international race like that, it was a fabulous season, and she’s a fabulous mare. They are once-in-a-lifetime horses.” Attard has enjoyed having a front-row seat to watch her compete. “When I look at her, she’s tiny – definitely not big. She’s fierce, she’s feisty and she just has this mental approach and attitude… she goes out there and wants to do everything hard and fast. She loves what she does. She’s a true competitor – loves to train, loves to run, and enjoys what she does. And we enjoy watching it all.” Should she win, Starship Jubilee would join Ventura (2009) and Tepin (2016) as the only mares to take the Mile. Leading jockey Justin Stein picks up the mount on the mare who is approaching the $2 million mark in career earnings. A Keeneland sale graduate, War of Will is a four-year-old Kentucky-bred son of War Front out of the Sadler’s Wells mare Visions of Clarity (Ire). Gary Barber’s 2019 Preakness Stakes winner heads into Saturday’s engagement off a nose win in the Maker’s Mark Mile (G1) on July 10. The Maker's Mark was the fourth graded stakes victory for War of Will and his first on turf. 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The Preakness came after a troubled seventh-place fin- Owned by Bruce Lunsford and Lansdon Robbins, the four- ish in the Kentucky Derby (G1) on May 4, 2019. year-old son of Declaration of War has a 3-2-1 record from five The Woodbine Mile represents his third Woodbine start. outings at the Toronto oval, including a one-length score in last He launched his career with a pair of races at the Toronto oval, July’s Toronto Cup Stakes. including a third in his debut on August 24, 2018. The chestnut gelding’s most recent win came on August 2 at In his second start, three weeks later, the colt contested the Summer Woodbine, a 1 ¼-length triumph in a 1 1/16 mile main track race Stakes (G1), finishing second to even-money choice Fog of War. that was originally scheduled for the grass. Now, after two years, the well-travelled bay is back at the place Live Oak Plantation homebred March to the Arch, also trained where it all began. by Casse, took the one-mile turf King Edward on August 15. Casse, who won the 2016 Mile with Tepin and the 2017 run- Under Rafael Hernandez, the five-year-old gelded son of Arch ning with World Approval, is hopeful the third time is the charm notched a 2 ¼-length win in the Grade 2 stakes event, the seventh for the five-time winner. win in 23 starts for the Florida-bred bay. “He’s coming off that nice win in the Maker’s Mark Mile and “I was extremely impressed with his last win,” said Casse. he’s trained as good as I’ve ever seen him train since that race. “More importantly, he’s come back and trained very well. Patrick We’re expecting him to run well. Rafael [Hernandez] is going to [Husbands] is going to ride him. We’ve had tremendous success ride him. We had got the call for Rafael for the Mile, two or three with Patrick over the years and he’s also had great success for Live weeks before March the Arch ran. So, it doesn’t have anything to Oak. It was a perfect match.” do with him picking one over the other. He had committed to Gary Casse’s third Mile entrant comes in the form of hard-knocking Barber and War of Will before he even rode March the Arch.