ftboa.com • Friday • February 19, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Greatest Honour Gears Up for Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Oaklawn Reschedules All Missed Stakes Third Purse Increase Announced by Tampa Bay Downs Mucho Unusual, Warren’s Showtime Head Buena Vista Stakes Second-Chance Juvenile Program Launches in Ocala Florida-bred Queen Nekia/COADY PHOTO Gulfstream Park Charts Big Test for Queen Nekia Florida Stallion Progeny List in Royal Delta Stakes Florida Breeders’ List BY BROCK SHERIDAN ____________ the $150,000 Dance to Bristol Stakes at Wire to Wire Business Place Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Florida-bred stakes-winner Queen Races on Aug. 28, Saturday she faces Nekia makes her first start of 2021 two mares who took Grade 3 stakes in Featured Advertisers Saturday at Gulfstream Park and trainer their last starts in the Arnaud Delacour- Baoma Corp Saffie Joseph Jr. has given her a tall trained Eres Tu and Mrs. Danvers for Berrettini Feed assignment. trainer Shug McGaughey III. Big Lick LLC Queen Nekia is among a field of eight Queen Nekia, who will race under the fillies and mares that have been entered white and red colors of owner Ken Bloodstockauction USA for the Grade 3 Royal Delta Stakes at the Copenhaver, finished her 2020 campaign Florida Department of Agriculture Hallandale Beach oval which is set for a with a fourth-place finish behind winner FTBOA mile-and-one sixteenth on the main Gibberish in the $100,000 Treasure Journeyman Stud track. Chest Stakes at Delta Downs going a Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Although Queen Nekia earned her mile on Nov. 27. Gibberish is also Ocala Stud black type with a one-length victory in Seminole Feed See ROYAL DELTA on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Royal Delta Continued from COVER entered for the Royal Delta. After winning the Dance to Bristol Stakes, Queen Nekia finished second to Jungle Juice in a $25,000 starter allowance at Keeneland going a mile on Oct. 31 before finishing fifth, six-and-a-half lengths behind winner Gold Standard in a third level, $80,000 allowance optional claiming race going a mile at Churchill Downs on Oct. 31. Claimed for $25,000 by Joseph out of a six-length victory at Gulfstream on Dec. 6, 2019, Queen Nekia will attempt to improve on her current record of nine wins, six seconds and seven thirds from 31 starts and earnings of $429,736, which is tops among the Royal Delta entrants. The 6-year-old mare is by Harlington out of All Night Labor, by Double Honor and was bred in Florida by Porter Racing Stable LLC. Corey Lanerie will ride Queen Nekia from post Cory Lanerie/ COADY PHOTO five. Mrs. Danvers comes into the Royal Delta after winning her last two races including the Grade 3 Comely Stakes by six-and- a-quarter lengths going a mile-and-an-eighth on a track labeled good at Aqueduct on Nov. 27. She also won a first level allowance race at Belmont Park going a mile on Oct. 25. The homebred filly for Allen Stable Inc. is a daughter of Tapit out of Gracie Square, by Awesome Again and in eight career starts has only finished worse than third once. She was fifth in Gamine’s Grade 1 Test Stakes at seven furlongs on See ROYAL DELTA on page 5 FTBOA Maintains Office Building Drop Box For Official Business While the FTBOA offices remain closed to visitors and mem- bers doing business as a precaution due to the Coronavirus pan- demic, be advised that all services provided by the Association and its related companies remain on going. Most business can be conducted via mail, email or telephone and a drop box has been installed near our side entrance of the FTBOA building at 801 SW 60th Avenue, Ocala, Fla. for mem- bers to use when dropping off time-sensitive documents. Forms may be found at this lo- cation or on our website at www.ftboa.com. Please call us at 352-629- 2160 if you have any questions or contact us at [email protected]. Back to Top Distorted Humor – Delta Princess, by A.P. Indy I Fee $10,000 S & N Florida’s Leading Sire in 2021! Florida’s leading sire in 2020. Florida’s leading 2 year old sire by money in 2020. Florida’s leading sire of stake winners in 2020. Photo by Louise Reinagel Princess Secret Winner 2020 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes My Dear Girl Winner 2020 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Susan’s Girl Princess Secret Photo by Lauren King Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners 5571 NW 100th St., Ocala, FL 34482 Office: 352.629.1200 | Fax: 352.629.2101 [email protected] www.JourneymanStallions.com Back to Top Page 5 Royal Delta page 3 Continued from Aug. 8 at Saratoga. Her record currently reflects three wins, three seconds and a third with earnings of $211,800. Mrs. Danvers will have the riding services of Jose Ortiz and will break from post seven. Eres Tu ships into Gulfstream Park from Maryland where she most recently won the Grade 3 Alliare Dupont Stakes by a length going a mile-and-an-eighth at Laurel Park on Dec. 26. Her winning streak began in her first start for Delacour on Oct. 14 when she won a first level allowance race at Keeneland going a mile-and-a-sixteenth before going to Laurel to win the mile-and-a-sixteenth Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes by a length-and-a-half on Nov. 28. By Malibu Moon and out of It’s True Love, by Yes It’s True, Eres Tu has won four of nine career efforts with a sec- ond and a third while banking $288,227. She will carry the meets leading rider in Irad Ortiz Jr., from post three. The remainder of the field in post position order includes High Regard for trainer Victoria Oliver and jockey Javier Castellano, Gibberish, who is also trained by Joseph and has Tyler Gaffalione named to ride; the Matthew Williams- trained Dream Marie and jockey Leonel Reyes; Bajan Girl, who will be saddled by trainer Rohan Crichton and ridden by Junior Alvarado; and Hallwallah, for trainer Juan Avila, who has named Edgard Zayas to ride. Mrs. Danvers/CHELSEA DURAND PHOTO Back to Top Kris S. “Produced 63 stakes winners with 5 Breeders’ Cups and earners of $50 million” File Photo Mr. Prospector File Photo “One of the most Fortunate Prospect influential sires of the “Produced earners of $43.1 20th century” million, a remarkable Photo File 74% winners from foals” Florida breeders bred to these Florida stallions before they became legends. Introduce Your Mare to a Future Legend Today. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND CONSUMER SERVICES AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Lonny T. Powell, CEO www.FDACS.gov Tammy A. Gantt, AVP Membership Services & Events 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 • www.ftboa.com • [email protected] 46217 Back to Top Page 7 Greatest Honour Gears Up for Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth BY GULFSTREAM PARK third-place finishes in maiden spe- PRESS OFFICE______________ cial weight sprints at Saratoga and Belmont on Sept. 5 and Oct. 10 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – respectively before losing a photo Courtlandt Farms’ Greatest finish in his first trip around two Honour, who established himself as turns at Aqueduct on Nov. 8. He a prime 2021 Triple Crown completed his juvenile season on prospect with a powerful victory in Dec. 26 with his mile-and-a-six- the Jan. 30 Holy Bull (Grade 3), is teenth maiden breaker at scheduled to return in the $300,000 Gulfstream. Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth “Two turns is a big help. All of (G2) Feb. 27 at Gulfstream Park. his races around two turns have The Shug McGaughey-trained been good,” McGaughey said. “I son of Tapit is prominent on the list think he’ll run as far as a horse of 36 nominations for the mile-and- wants to run.” one-sixteenth major prep for the McGaughey, nevertheless, was $750,000 Curlin Florida Derby pre- impressed with how quickly he sented by Hill ‘n Dale at Xalapa came to hand upon joining his sta- (G1) March 28 at Gulfstream Park. ble last year. Greatest Honour, who broke his “One of the things about him is maiden in his fourth career start that he’s a big colt with a distance Dec. 26 at Gulfstream, rallied from pedigree, so for him to get to the seventh in a field of nine to draw races at Saratoga shows what an away by five-and-three-quarters athletic-type horse he is,” lengths under Jose Ortiz in the McGaughey said. “That’s a big mile-and-one-sixteenth Holy Bull. feather in his cap. One of the things “I had a lot of confidence that that impresses me is when I saw he’d run well, but I didn’t know him in March at Courtlandt Farms what that meant. I maybe was a lit- and if you told me that he was tle surprised how well he ran and going to run right off the bat at how much he dominated those Saratoga, he didn’t give me that horses,” his Hall of Fame trainer impression. He looked more like a said. “I was very pleased and late-fall horse.” pleased the way he came out of it.” Not that getting Greatest The homebred colt launched his career with a pair of strong closing See FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH on page 9 Greatest Honour/LAUREN KING PHOTO Gulfstream Park Championship Meeting Florida-bred and Florida Sire Stakes Bonuses Date Race Conditions Distance Purse Feb.