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ftboa.com • Thursday, November 5, 2020 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: 11 Florida-breds for Breeders’ Cup Baffert Horses Settling in at Keeneland O’Brien Team Arrives for Breeders’ Cup Arklow Sharp According to Cox Sprint Favorite Vekoma Out with Fever Gulfstream Park West Charts Track Results & Entries Florida-bred Win Win Win/CHELSEA DURAND PHOTO Grade 1 Winner Win Win Florida Stallion Progeny List Win to Stand at Ocala Stud Florida Breeders’ List PRESS RELEASE __________________ O’Farrell. “He’s a big, grand-looking horse Wire to Wire Business Place with a lot of presence. His record-setting Win Win Win, impressive winner of the speed, versatility, and classic bloodline Forego Stakes (Grade 1) at Saratoga in his which consists of three Kentucky Derby last start, will stand the 2021 breeding sea- winners give Win Win Win a great oppor- Featured Advertisers son at Ocala Stud, the farm announced tunity to become a top sire.” Wednesday. The Live Oak Stud homebred Trained by Michael Trombetta, Win Florida Department of Agriculture will stand as the property of a partnership Win Win lived up to his name on the race- FTBOA between Live Oak Stud, Airdrie Stud, and track. He captured five of his 12 starts and Ocala Stud, and his fee has been set at placed in four others en route to earnings Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply $5,000 S&N. of $601,600. Win Win Win concluded his Seminole Feed “We are very excited to add Win Win accomplished racing career on a high note, Win to our roster,” said Ocala Stud’s David See WIN WIN WIN on page 3 Sparr Farm and Building Supply Mucho Macho Man (2013) World Approval (2017) Musical Romance (2011) Caledonia Road (2017) Little Mike (2012) FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Lonny T. Powell, CEO FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Tammy A. Gantt, Associate Vice President AND CONSUMER SERVICES Membership Services & Events Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 www.FDACS.gov 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 www.ftboa.com • [email protected] LITTLE MIKE/BENOIT; WORLD APPROVAL/MICHAEL BURNS; MUCHO MACHO MAN/COGLIANESE; MUSICAL ROMANCE/COGLIANESE; CALEDONIA ROAD/ECLIPSE SPORTSWIRE Back to Top Page 3 Win Win Win Continued from COVER finishing with a flourish to take down top prize in the Forego (G1). In showcasing his impressive turn of foot, he won the seven- furlong event in 1:21.71, defeating four Grade 1 winners, includ- ing Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) favorite Complexity. Last season at three, Win Win Win set a new track record at Tampa Bay Downs in winning the Pasco Stakes, an early prep for the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) in his sophomore bow. He drew off powerfully in the seven-furlong test, speeding to a seven-and-a- quarter-length score in the stakes and track-record time of 1:20.89, earning a 2 on the Ragozin Sheets. Demonstrating his versatility, Win Win Win also took down the Manila Stakes at one mile on turf at Belmont Park, polishing off the distance in 1:31.56, just one-fifth of a second off the course record set by Oscar Performance. Prior to that impressive score, Win Win Win finished second to multiple Grade 1 winner Vekoma in the Blue Grass Stakes (G2). A precocious juvenile, Win Win Win won two of his three starts as a 2-year-old, taking a six-and-a-half-furlong maiden spe- cial weight at Laurel in his career debut before crushing allowance foes by six-and-a-half lengths in a lively 1:02.30 for five-and-a-half furlongs in his next start. He also finished second in the seven-furlong Heft Stakes at Laurel to close out his juvenile campaign. “The combination of Win Win Win’s tremendous talent and the opportunity he will receive at Ocala Stud is why we’re so excited to partner on his stallion career,” said Airdrie Stud’s Bret Jones. “No one will give this horse a better chance to succeed than Ocala Stud and we look forward to doing our part by supporting him heavily in each of his early years at stud. I know the Live Oak team has always believed he was a genuine star, and we are grate- ful to Mrs. Weber for letting Airdrie play a role in his exciting future.” Classically bred with record-setting speed, Win Win Win, by Champion Miler and Grade 1 winner Hat Trick (Jpn), hails from a deep Live Oak family. A descendant of the Halo sire line—his grandsire is Sunday Silence—Win Win Win is out of a stout female family. His dam is the winning Smarty Jones mare Miss Smarty Pants, a half-sister to Graded stakes-winner and multiple Graded stakes-placed Unbridled Humor produced from the stakes-winning and Graded stakes-placed Unbridled mare Devotion Unbridled. CLICK HERE for the latest The Florida Horse ONLINE Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 11 Florida-breds for Breeders’ Cup BY BROCK SHERIDAN __________________ The 2020 Breeders’ Cup will be run at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., this year on Nov. 6-7 but there is a good chance tro- phies will be headed back to Florida following the $31 million World Championships featuring 14 stakes. It appears Florida breeders may be represent- ed by 11 different Florida-breds that have entered in seven of the 14 races with 2019 Canadian Horse of the Year and multiple Florida- bred champion Starship Jubilee entered in the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Filly and Mare Turf Saturday while the Florida representative in the Grade 1 Fanduel Mile presented by PDJF is March to the Arch. Florida-breds Windy City Red and Golden Pal have entered in the Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) to be run Friday. Other Florida-breds entered for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup races include Speech in the Florida-bred Starship Jubilee/SUSIE RAISHER PHOTO Maker’s Mark Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) while Extravagant Kid and Imprimis are pointing to the Turf Sprint (G1). most recent race. She also won the Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes at C Z Rocket is entered for the Sprint (G1) along with Firenze Fire Saratoga on July 25, the Grade 2 Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa and Collusion Illusion while Rushie is headed to the Big Ass Fans Bay Downs on March 7, the Suwanee River Stakes (G3) at Dirt Mile (G1). Gulfstream Park on Feb. 8 and the Sunshine Millions Filly and This year, Starship Jubilee has won five of six stakes including Mare Turf, also at Gulfstream, in January. the Grade 1 Ricoh Woodbine Mile at Woodbine on Sept. 19 in her Her only loss on the year came when fourth behind winner Rushing Fall in the Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 23. Starship Jubilee is owned by Blue Heaven Farm and was bred in Florida by William P. Sorren. She has won 19 of 38 career starts while accumulating $2,093,069 in earnings. Owned by Charlotte Weber in the name of her Live Oak Plantation and bred by her Live Oak Stud, March to the Arch took the Grade 2 King Edward Stakes two starts back at Woodbine on Sept. 15. The Mark Casse trainee has won seven of 24 career races with earnings of $849,705 so a finish in the top three would promote him into the Florida-bred millionaire club which currently has nearly 175 members. Three Florida-breds have entered the $2 million Sprint set for 3-year-olds and older at six furlongs including Collusion Illusion, C Z Rocket and Firenze Fire. The most accomplished of that trio is Firenze Fire, who joins Precisionist and Pure Sensation as the only Florida-breds with four appearances in the Breeders’ Cup should. He was seventh in the 2017 Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) won by Good Magic, fourth in the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Mile won by City of Light and was last year fifth to Mitole in the Sprint. Trained by Kelly Breen for owner and breeder Mr. Amore Stables, Florida-bred Firenze Fire/CHELSEA DURAND PHOTO See BREEDERS’ CUP on page 6 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Date Race Name Conditions Distance Purse 12-12 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Marion County 3yo and older* 7 fur. $100,000 12-12 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes City of Ocala 3yo and older, F&M* 7 fur. $100,000 Florida Cup Day, March 28, 2021 – Six Stakes for Florida-breds worth $600,000 * FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes eligible horses Back to Top Page 6 Breeders’ Cup page 5 on Aug. 1 and has since finished third in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Continued from Firenze Fire enters the 2020 Sprint off of a nearly three-length score Sprint Challenge won by fellow Florida-bred C Z Rocket on Sept. 27. in the Grade 2 Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont Park on Sept. 26. Collusion Illusion is trained by Mark Glatt for Dan J. Agnew, Already an earner of more than $2 million, the 5-year-old Rodney E. Orr, Jerry Schneider and John V. Xico and was bred in Firenze Fire has won 12 of 28 starts including the Grade 2 True Florida by Donald R. Dizney. He is by Twirling Candy out of North Stakes at Belmont in June and the Grade 3 General George Natalie Grace, by First Dude and has won five of seven races with Stakes at Laurel in February.