ftboa.com • Saturday & Sunday • July 11 & 12, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Monomoy Girl Returns to Action Talented Trio Headlines Ashland Guarana, Mia Mischief in Madison City Boy Makes Seasonal Debut Not This Time Filly Fastest at OBS FTBOA Encourages Nominations Zulu Alpha Headlines Elkhorn Stakes EEE Confirmed in Three Counties Gulfstream Park Charts Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Wire to Wire Business Place Swiss Skydiver (#3)/COADY PHOTO Featured Advertisers Swiss Skydiver Takes On The Bloodstockauction USA Covert Appraisal Services Boys In Blue Grass Stakes FTBOA BY KEENELAND PRESS OFFICE____ on Keeneland’s main track. Florida Department of Agriculture A major steppingstone for the $3 mil- Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company LEXINGTON, KY—Peter Callahan’s Swiss lion Kentucky Derby to be run Sept. 5 at de Meric Thoroughbred Sales Skydiver will try to put herself on the road Churchill Downs, the Toyota Blue Grass Eddie Woods Stables to the Kentucky Derby presented by offers 170 points toward qualification to Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Woodford Reserve (Grade 1) trail Saturday this year’s Derby with 100 points going to RiceHorse Stables when she takes on males in a field of 13 the winner, 40 to the runner-up, 20 to third entered for the 96th running of the place and 10 points to fourth. The Derby is Six K’s Training & Sales, LLC $600,000 Toyota Blue Grass (Grade 2) for limited to the top 20 point earners that pass Seminole Feed Showcase Properties 3-year-olds going a mile-and-one-eighth See KEENELAND on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Keeneland Continued from COVER the entry box. First post for the card that features six graded stakes is 1:05 p.m. Trained by two-time Toyota Blue Grass-winner Kenny McPeek, Swiss Skydiver will be seeking her initial Kentucky Derby points in her first test against males. She has won three graded stakes this year and compiled 310 points toward the $1.25 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) to be run Sept. 4. Winner of the Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2), the Fantasy Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park and the Santa Anita Oaks (G2) in her past three starts, Swiss Skydiver will get a five-pound weight allowance Saturday and carry 118 pounds. Mike Smith has the mount and will break from post position seven. Smith is a two-time Toyota Blue Grass winner, having scored in 1993 with Prairie Bayou and in 1994 with Florida-bred Holy Bull. No filly has won the Toyota Blue Grass and only one filly (Harriet Sue, 1944) has run in the race since it debuted at Keeneland during the track’s inaugural Spring Meet in April 1937. In 1948, future Hall of Fame female Bewitch was scratched from the Blue Grass. Another accom- plished runner in the field is Jackpot Farm’s Basin. Winner of the Runhappy Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Basin/COADY PHTOO Saratoga and most recently second in a division of the Arkansas Derby (G1), Basin ranks ninth on the Derby leaderboard with 50 points. Trained by Steve Asmussen, Basin will be ridden Saturday by Ricardo Santana Jr. and break from post position eight. Representing Florida is Shivaree, a homebred for Jacks or Better Farms Inc. The chestnut son of Ocala Stud stallion Awesome of Course was most recently third in a top level, optional claiming race won by Sole Volante at Gulfstream on June 10 after finishing second to Kentucky Derby point-leader Tiz the Law in the Grade 1 Curlin Florida Derby. John Velazquez will ride Shivaree for trainer Ralph Nicks. Invading from California is Jim and Donna Daniell’s Rushie. Trained by Michael McCarthy, Rushie finished third in last month’s Santa Anita Derby (G1) in his stakes debut to gain 20 Derby points. Javier Castellano has the mount and will break from post position 10. Also looking to add to his Derby points total is John Oxley’s Enforceable. The winner of the Lecomte Stakes (G3) and runner- up in the Risen Star Stakes (G2), Enforceable is trained by Mark See KEENELAND on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Keeneland page 3 Continued from Casse and will be ridden by Joel Rosario. Enforceable is 14th on the Derby leaderboard with 33 points. Rosario is seeking his second Toyota Blue Grass victory to go with the triumph in 2011 on Brilliant Speed. Enforceable, third in last fall’s Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1), will break from post 12. Seeking his initial Derby points is Bruce Lunsford’s Art Collector. Trained by Tom Drury, Art Collector enters Saturday’s race off two allowance victories at Churchill Downs this year by a combined nine-and-three-quarters lengths. Brian Hernandez Jr. has the mount and will break from post position three. Nick Zito will saddle Dream Walkin Farms’ Hunt the Front. A maiden winner at Oaklawn, Hunt the Front will be ridden by Corey Lanerie and break from post 11. Trainer Dale Romans will send out graded stakes-placed Attachment Rate. Owned by Jim Bakke and Gerald Isbister, Attachment Rate will be ridden by Luis Saez and break from post nine. Saez won the 2016 Blue Grass for Romans on Brody’s Florida-bred Shivaree/LAUREN KING PHOTO Cause. Dominican, has the call on Partner Stable’s Hard Lighting who Bill Mott, who won the Toyota Blue Grass in 1984 with will break from post six. Ortiz, who took the 2018 race on cham- Taylor’s Special, will send out LNJ Foxwoods and NK Racing’s pion Good Magic, will be aboard Arnaldo Monge and trainer Rey maiden winner Tiesto. Flavien Prat has the mount and will break Hernandez’s Finnick the Fierce and break from post two. from post 13. The field for the Toyota Blue Grass, with riders and weights Three other riders with previous wins – John Velazquez, Rafael from the rail out, is: Shivaree (Velazquez, 123 pounds), Finnick Bejarano and Jose Ortiz – will be seeking additional Toyota Blue the Fierce (Ortiz, 123), Art Collector (Hernandez Jr., 123), Mr. Grass victories. Big News (Mitchell Murrill, 123), Man in the Can (Tyler Velazquez, who rode Bandini in 2005 and Carpe Diem in 2015 Gaffalione, 123), Hard Lighting (Bejarano, 123), Swiss Skydiver to victory for Todd Pletcher, has the call on Jacks or Better Farm’s (Smith, 118), Basin (Santana Jr., 123), Attachment Rate (Saez, Shivaree, who will break from the rail. 123), Rushie (Castellano, 123), Hunt the Front (Lanerie, 123), Bejarano, who won the Toyota Blue Grass in 2007 aboard Enforceable (Rosario, 123), Tiesto (Prat, 123). 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Her two-and-three-quarters- length score off a nearly 18-month layoff marked the 5-year-old debut for the chestnut daughter of Tapizar, whose previous start was a one-length victory in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Distaff in November 2018 at Churchill Downs. That Breeders' Cup win secured honors for Champion 3-Year- Old filly thanks to a sophomore campaign that featured five Grade 1 wins including the Ashland at Keeneland, the Longines Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs, the Acorn at Belmont Park and the Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga. She was sent to WinStar Farm in the spring of 2019 after a mild case of colic and suffered an injury to her hamstring last fall when preparing for a potential comeback. Despite several setbacks in her return bid, Monomoy Girl made a strong return to action, winning over a sloppy and sealed Monomoy Girl/COADY PHOTO See RUFFIAN on page 9 Back to Top Back to Top Page 9 Ruffian page 7 Continued from Churchill track in May. "I talked to Brad and he's expecting her to run well, she's train- ing as well as she has ever trained," Monomoy Stables’ Sol Kumin said. Kumin co-owns Monomoy Girl with Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group and Bethlehem Stables. "She obviously ran that first race but you still have your fingers crossed until Saturday. It's a good post, a good distance. "We thought about the [June 13 Ogden Phipps], but after such a long layoff, it was a little quick back," he added.