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facebook.com/thefloridahorse FLORIDA’S DAILY SALES DIGEST • TUESDAY JULY 14, 2020 Published by Florida Equine Communications Inc. SALE HEADLINES FTBOA.COM Unique July Sale Begins Tuesday sored by Emirates NBD Private Banking on Jan. 2 A two-time winner of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup BYO BCRALOAC, FKL — SHThEeR OIcDaAlaN Breeders’ Sales Com - and the Al Shindagha Sprint sponsored by DP Dirt Mile in 2013 and 2014, his other stakes wins pany is set to conduct their first ever juvenile sale World UAE Region Stakes (G3) on Jan. 30. came in the Grade 3 Delta Downs Jackpot in 2012, in July this week with a three-day auction slated In his most recent start, Gladiator King was third and in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes and Grade 1 Santa on the new sale calendar. The July Sale of Two in the Saudi Cup Sprint at King Abdulaziz Race - Anita Derby at Santa Anita in 2013. Year Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age course in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to push his career Goldencents is by Into Mischief out of Golden will run from Tuesday through Thursday with sell - earnings to $648,740. Works, by Banker’s Gold and is now a top sire in ing set to begin at 10:00 a.m. each day. Gladiator King is by Curlin out of Golden Dawn, Kentucky. This year, the juve - by Hennessy. Several buyers will also be in search of the next nile sale schedule for Seeking the Soul has winner of a lucrative Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ OBS, Keeneland and gone to win more than and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes event. Fasig-Tipton—the top $3.4 million in his career This year, the series gets underway Aug. 1 at three juvenile sale com - after passing through the Gulfstream Park with the $100,000 Dr. Fager divi - panies in North Amer - OBS ring in June of 2015. sion for 2-year-old eligible males and the $100,000 ica—has been altered Trained by Dallas Desert Vixen for 2-year-old eligible fillies, both set due to the Covid-19 Stewart for Charles Fipke, at six furlongs. The series continues Aug. 29 at O T pandemic that forced O the multiple graded seven furlongs with the $200,000 Affirmed division Florida-bred H P several states into lock - Y stakes-winning Seeking for 2-year-old eligible males and the $200,000 Speech D A down for several O the Soul counts among Susan’s Girl division for 2-year-old eligible females. C months starting in March. his accomplishments victories in the 2017 Grade 1 The FSS at Gulfstream concludes this year on Sept. OBS was able to conduct their annual March Clark Handicap presented by Norton Healthcare 26 with the In Reality and My Dear Girl divisions Sale of Two Year Olds in Training this year before (G1) at Churchill Downs, the Grade 3 Ack Ack going a mile-and-one-sixteenth. the lockdown but postponed their Spring Sale from Stakes at Churchill in 2018 and the Grade 2 Older horses also have a chance at Florida Sire its usual dates in April to June. They then moved Stephen Foster Stakes at Churchill Downs in June Stakes money in the $150,000 Wildcat Heir Stakes their June sale dates to July. of last year. going a mile at Gulfstream on the Sept. 26 program. Hips 1 – 360 will sell Tuesday while Hips 361 – He is by Perfect Soul (Ire) out of Seeking the Tampa Bay Downs also typically offers several 720 will pass through the ring Wednesday. Hips Title, by Seeking the Gold. Florida Sire Stakes races for older horses but those 721 – 1114 will sell on Tuesday. Florida-bred St. Joe Bay was a $60,000 pur - have yet to be scheduled for their 2020-21 season. OBS alums had a big weekend on the track this chased by Southern California-based trainer Peter Current information about OBS sales, con - week as Florida-bred Speech won the Grade 1 Ash - Miller from the Bobby Dodd consignment at the signors and graduates is now also available via so - land Stakes at Keeneland in track record time and 2014 June Sale. He has since gone on to win eight cial media sites Facebook and Twitter . A link on their Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, R.A. Hill Stable and of 40 starts while earning $769,265. homepage directs users to either site. Joseph E. Besecker’s Shippy took the $78,000 Blue Bred in Florida by Bonnie Sales results will be available Sparkler Stakes at Monmouth Park. In winning the Heath Farm LLC, St. Joe Bay is a Florida-bred on the OBS website, updated St. Joe Bay Ashland, Speech also became the first Grade 1 win - multiple graded stakes-winner hourly during each session of ner bred by Gail Rice. having taken the 2016 Midnight the July Sale. In addition, the lat - The July Sale catalog features several other star Lute Stakes (G3), the 2017 Palos est news regarding OBS gradu - graduates on the cover including Gladiator King, Verdes Stakes (G2) and the 2019 ates, sales schedules, Seeking the Soul, St. Joe Bay and Goldencents. San Carlos Stakes (G2), all at nominations, credit requests, Consigned by Thoroughbred Champions Train - Santa Anita. travel information and other ing Center at the OBS Open Sale in June of 2018, St. Joe Bay is by Saint Anddan news relevant to OBS consignors O T O Gladiator King has since won seven of 18 career out of Dream Ride, by Honor Glide. H and customers is also available. P S starts including Grade 3 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulf - Goldencents also counts more E E-mail should be addressed to T A I stream Park in March of last year. He has also won than $3 million in the bank having C [email protected] . O S S the Roar Stakes at Gulfstream in April of last year won seven of 18 career starts for A For more information regard - & T and two Group 3 stakes at Meydan Racecourse in trainer Doug O’Neil and owner I ing the July Sale or OBS website, O N Dubai, U.A.E. He took the Dubawi Stakes spon - W.C. Racing Inc. E please call (352) 237-2154. B n WWW.FTBOA.COM • TUESDAY JULY 14, 2020 • 2 www.facebook.com/thefloridahorse Making A Statement Florida-bred Speech Sets Keeneland Track Record in Grade 1 Ashland Venetian Harbor shook free to a clear lead over Speech is from the first crop of Mr Speaker out BY BROCK SHERIDAN Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Madaket Speech in second down the backstretch and of Scribbling Sarah, by Freud and she was bred in Stables LLC’s Speech snapped a streak of four through fractions of :24.04 for the first quarter-mile Florida by Gail Rice. Scribbling Sarah is a full-sister bridesmaid performances against some of the best and the half in :47.14 followed by a close up En - to Grade 3-placed Jung Man Scott and Deciphering fillies of her class Saturday at Keeneland and the voutante in third. Dreams and stakes-placed Amazing Anne. Scrib - Florida-bred did it in style with a three-length victory Venetian Harbor took them into the far turn but bling Sarah also has a 2-year-old in training with in track record time for a mile-and-one-sixteenth in Speech ranged up to her outside at the three-eighths Niall Brennan by Upstart, a yearling by Unify and was the $400,000 Central Bank Ashland Stakes (Grade 1). marker and those two locked up at the top of the bred to West Coast in 2020. The Mike McCarthy-trained Speech won a stretch after six furlongs in 1:10.44. But Speed took Speech is the first Grade 1-winner bred by Rice. maiden special weight by nine lengths at Los Alami - over inside the final furlong and went on to win by “I was so excited during the race,” Rice said. “I tos in December in her second start before begin - three lengths in 1:41.26. was screaming when she passed [Venetian Harbor]. ning her span of second-place finishes in an That eclipsed the track record of 1:41.36 set I knew she had the speed to go with these fillies and $80,000 optional claiming race won by Aubrege on by Seeking the Soul in an Oct. 21, 2017 optional when they went in :24 I said ‘I know she can do Feb. 1 at Santa Anita. She was then second to claiming race. this.’ I knew it was her day. It all came together. Donna Volce in the Grade 3 Ysabel Stakes at Santa “Very happy,” McCarthy said. “We had our “I’ve never had many mares so having a Grade Anita on March 8, second to the Bob Baffert-trained mind set on running in the 1-winner is really special,” Rice Florida-bred Speech and future Grade 1 Longines Acorn-winner Gamine [Grade 3] Beaumont Stakes continued. in a $100,000 optional claiming at Oaklawn on May [Friday at Keeneland] for the Eclipse Thoroughbred Part - 2 and second to Swiss Skydiver in the Grade 2 last five weeks or so and the ners purchased Speech for Santa Anita Oaks on June 6. last minute, we kind of called $190,000 from the SBM Two races later at Keeneland Saturday, Swiss an audible and sometimes Training and Sales consign - Skydiver would finish second to Art Collector as the these things work out.