ftboa.com • Thursday • April 30, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Gulfstream Stakes Schedule Gears Up Strangles Found in Marion, Sumter, Lake NRCS Agricultural Land Easement Sign-Up Santa Anita Workers Ask LA County to Allow Live Racing COGLIANESE PHOTO OBS March Grads Busy in Japan Fasig-Tipton Consolidates Selected Yolanda’s Pride, Ghostly Yearling Stakes Schedule Secretariat Made 7-2 Favorite Beauty Meet Again at NTRA Issues Summary of Benefits Ruidoso Downs To Open Barns May 1 Gulfstream Thursday Tampa Bay Downs Charts BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ Gulfstream on April 4. Track Results & Entries The March 13 victory was the first trip A field of 11 Florida-bred fillies and to the winners’ circle in five tries from the Florida Stallion Progeny List mares, 3-years-old and older will be bat- Klesaris barn for Yolanda’s Pride, after the Florida Breeders’ List tling Friday in the ninth race at Gulfstream trainer claimed her out of $20,000 maiden Park, a first level, $16,000 optional claim- claiming victory at Gulfstream Park West Wire to Wire Business Place ing race at one mile on the turf. in November. However, she has earned her Yolanda’s Pride has been assigned as keep in those races with a second, third and Featured Advertisers the second choice in the program at 2-1 as fourth in $25,000 or $35,000 starter she tries to repeat her victory under the optional claiming conditions prior to the same conditions and at the same distance March 13 win. Baoma Corp. two starts back for trainer Steve Klesaris. Yolanda’s Pride is by Prospective out of Journeyman Stud Klesaris also co-owns the 3-year-old bay Muchness, by Hat Trick (Jpn) and she was filly in partnership with Cre Run bred by Steve Tucker. She sports a career Bloodstockauction USA Enterprises LLC. record of two wins in nine starts with earn- Yolanda’s Pride went wire to wire to ings of $60,770. FTBOA win on March 13 at Gulfstream before She has drawn post eight and Irad Ortiz finishing second in her last start, when Jr. will be riding. Florida Department of Agriculture just a neck shy of Florida-bred Lady Ghostly Beauty is the 9-5 favorite in the Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Panda in a first level, $20,000 optional morning line, although she finished third, a claiming race at one mile on the grass at Seminole Feed See GULFSTREAM on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Gulfstream Continued from COVER half-length behind Yolanda’s Pride and Lady Panda in that April 4 test as the 6-5 favorite. However, that day she raced four-wide on the turn and briefly brushed with the winner at the top of the stretch which may have accounted for her coming up just short. In her two previous starts, the 4-year-old daughter of Noble Mission finished second both times in first level, $16,000 option- al claiming races going a mile on the turf at Gulfstream on Feb. 21 and March 13. She is out of Capeslew (Ire), by Cape Cross (Ire) and has earned $73,444 while winning one of 13 races. Bred in Florida by G S Investments, Ghostly Beauty is a graduate of the 2018 Ocala Breeders’ Sales April Sale where she was purchased for $80,000 by Stetson Racing from the Off the Hook consignment. She will race in the black and gold silks of Paradise Farms Corp., and David Staudacher and Tyler Gaffalione will be ride from the inside post one. Also at 2-1 in the program but entered for the main track only, is Run Devil for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. and owners John Ropes and Gayle Woods. The lightly raced Run Devil just won by two lengths against special weight maidens in her fourth career and most recent start going a mile on the main track at Gulfstream on March 4. A 3-year-old bay daughter Irad Ortiz Jr./COADY PHOTO of Soldat out of Zooming By, by Cimarron Secret, Run Devil will be trying to add to her bankroll of $41,150 should she draw in. Bred in Florida by John Ropes, Run Devil has jockey Emisael Jaramillo listed as her pilot in post nine. Also entered for the main track only is Sky Chaser for trainer Ronald Spatz. Sky Chaser exits a length-and-a-half victory at the $20,000 claiming level going six furlongs on the dirt at Gulfstream April 5 as the even money favorite. By Drill out of Mesa Mist, by Sky Mesas, Sky Chaser races for Sun Dance Stables and was fourth, beaten less than three lengths by winner Flora Fantasy in a first level, $20,000 optional claiming race at Gulfstream on Feb. 23 two starts back, also at six furlong. She has won three of 13 lifetime starts with earnings of $57,470. Miguel Vasquez has accepted the mount and should Sky Chaser draw in, will break from post five. Trainer Graham Motion has entered Sister Otoole, who makes only her third career start Thursday. She was last seen winning a maiden special weight by a length- and-three-quarters at one mile on the turf at Gulfstream on March 26. She is by Amira’s Prince, who stands at Pleasant Acres Stallions, and is out of the Distorted Humor mare O’Toole. She was bred by Helen and Joseph Barbazon and has $31,725 in career revenue. She will start from the number two post and Luis Saez has accepted the mount. The remainder of the field includes Real Doozie, Centsless Drama, Heirssindy, Our Closure, Blue Mistress and Admiral’s Win. Back to Top Pioneerof the Nile – Littleprincessemma, by Yankee Gentleman 2020 Fee: $5,000 S&N A Group-placed full-brother to Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah Half-brother to Grade 1 and multiple stakes-winner Chasing Yesterday Broke his maiden at 2 in his 2nd start at Del Mar defeating G2 SW INSTILLED REGARD Also standing Fury Kapcori and Khozan Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners LOUISE REINAGEL PHOTO LOUISE REINAGEL 5571 NW 100th Street, Ocala, FL 34482 | Office: 352.629.1200 | Fax: 352.629.1201 • [email protected] | www.journeymanstallions.com 45757 Back to Top Page 5 Gulfstream Stakes Schedule Gears Up Saturday with Three Stakes BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE_ HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The Spring/Summer Meet stakes schedule at Gulfstream Park gears up Saturday with the runnings of the $75,000 Honey Ryder Stakes, the $75,000 English Channel Stakes and the $100,000 Big Drama Stakes. The nominations lists for the three stakes include the names of a number of graded-stakes winners that are being afforded opportunities to get into – or stay in – action for the 2020 season through the continuation of racing at Gulfstream Park under strict protocols. The Honey Ryder, a mile-and-one-sixteenth turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies, drew 36 nomi- nations, including graded-stakes winners Abscond, Outburst, Alms, Cheermeister, and Lake Avenue. Eddie Kenneally trains both Abscond, who captured the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes at Woodbine last year and finished second in her 2020 debut in the Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream, and Outburst, who captured the Florida Oaks (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs last time out. Michael Stidham-trained Alms, a daughter Abscond/COADY PHOTO of City Zip, is undefeated in four career starts, Classic during the 2019-2020 Championship Meet. including the Jimmy Durante (G3) at Del Mar last fall. Armando Elizabeth Dobles-trained Royal Squeeze, who captured last De La Cerda-trained Cheermeister won both the year’s Big Drama, has been nominated for a title defense. Herecomesthebride and the Sweetest Chant (G3) during Todd Pletcher-trained Bellera, a 4-year-old daughter of Gulfstream’s 2019-2020 Championship Meet. Lake Avenue won Bernardini who captured the Comely (G3) at Aqueduct last year, the Demoiselle (G2) for trainer Todd Pletcher last year over and Scott Becker-trained Wildwood’s Beauty, a 4-year-old daugh- Aqueduct’s main track. ter of Kantharos who finished second in both the Inside Graded stakes-placed nominees include Antoinette, Dream Information (G2) and the Hurricane Bertie (G3) at seven furlongs Marie, Ivyetsu, Maedean, Micheline and Secret Stash. during the 2019-2020 Championship Meet, have been nominated The English Channel, a mile-and-one-sixteenth turf stakes for for a possible clash with the boys in the Big Drama. 3-year-olds, attracted 33 nominations, including Grade 1-winner Larry Bates-trained With Verve, who captured the Feb. 29 Decorated Invader for trainer Christophe Clement. The son of Hutcheson at Gulfstream last time out; and Stanley Hough-trained Declaration of War captured the Summer Stakes (G1) at He Hate Me, who finished third in the De Francis Dash (G3) at Woodbine last season and won the Cutler Bay at Gulfstream in his Laurel last fall; are also prominent on the list of nominations. 2020 debut. Teresa Connelly-trained Cadet Connelly, who fin- ished a close second in the Summer and has yet to run in 2020, is also nominated. Michael Maker-trained Field Pass, who captured the Jack Ruby Steaks (G3) on Turfway Park’s synthetic surface after winning the Dania Beach on turf at Gulfstream; and Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Island Commish, who won the Jan. 4 Kitten’s Joy (G3) at CLICK HERE Gulfstream in his most recent start, are also prominent on the list of nominations. for the Graded stakes-placed Our Country, South Bend and Tiesto are also nominated to the English Channel.