ftboa.com • Thursday • June 18, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Casse Duo Headlines Sir Cat Stakes Gallardo: Fifth Tampa Riding Title Handicapping: Churchill, June 18 Collmus to ‘Pinch Hit’ at Del Mar AHC Webinar June 22 at 1 p.m. Midlantic Entries Now Online Ellis Park Opening July 2 Gulfstream Park Charts Jungle Runner/ COADY PHOTO Tampa Bay Charts Jungle Runner Posts Final Track Results & Entries Breeze for Belmont Stakes Florida Stallion Progeny List BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE __________ gallop out but we’re very happy with it. Florida Breeders’ List ELMONT, NY— Calumet Farm’s Jungle He’s doing well.” Runner posted a half-mile breeze in :50.50 Jungle Runner will provide 23-year-old Wire to Wire Business Place Tuesday morning on the Belmont Park dirt Reylu Gutierrez, a native of Rochester, training track in preparation for Saturday’s N.Y, with his first Belmont Stakes mount. 152nd running of the $1 million Belmont A finalist for the Eclipse Award for out - Featured Advertisers Stakes (Grade 1). standing apprentice in 2018, Gutierrez Trained by Hall of Famer Steve earned his first graded stakes win in 2019 Bloodstockauction USA and has become a regular on the NYRA Asmussen, Tuesday morning’s blowout FTBOA was the third local breeze for Jungle circuit. Runner, who worked five-eighths in “He’s excited and we’re excited for Florida Department of Agriculture 1:01.44 last Tuesday on Big Sandy. him,” Sheets said. “He worked our horses Berrettini Feed “It was a nice easy half in 50 and here over the winter and he’s a good rider change,” assistant trainer Toby Sheets said. and very enthusiastic. Hopefully, we get a Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply “He galloped out in a minute. Not a big Seminole Feed See JUNGLE RUNNER on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Jungle Runner Continued from COVER little piece of the action.” Jungle Runner, a 3-year-old Candy Ride colt, captured the seven-furlong Clever Trevor at Remington Park in November while making his stakes debut. He followed that effort with a dis - tant fourth in the Springboard Mile in December also at Remington Park. Following a trio of off-the-board efforts in stakes company, including a last-out eighth in the first division of the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby won by Charlatan in May at Oaklawn Park, Jungle Runner will look to make his New York debut a winning one. Sheets said Jungle Runner is training well into the Belmont Stakes, which this year will be contested around one turn at a mile-and-an-eighth as the first leg of the Triple Crown for the first time in history. “He’s had some decent works on the main track and then just a nice, easy blowout here this morning” Sheets said. “He’s done everything the way we wanted. It’s a big step up, but we’ll give it a try.” Asmussen, who saddled Creator to a 16-1 upset victory in the 2016 Belmont Stakes, will also be represented in this year’s edition by Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Pneumatic. The dark bay Uncle Mo colt has won two-of-three starts including an April 11 score in an Ricardo Santana, Jr./ COADY PHOTO optional-claiming mile at Oaklawn Park when two-and-a-half-lengths the better of Captain Bombastic, who exited that effort to win Sunday’s Mike Lee Stakes at Belmont. Last out, Pneumatic was a prominent third in the Grade 3 Matt Winn on May 23 at Churchill Downs. Pneumatic will be piloted on Saturday by Ricardo Santana, Jr. “He has good form and I think he has a good shot in there,” said Sheets said. The probable field for the Belmont Stakes currently stands at eight horses, including Dr Post (Todd Pletcher, Irad Ortiz, Jr.), Farmington Road (Pletcher, Javier Castellano), Jungle Runner (Steve Asmussen, Reylu Gutierrez), Max Player (Linda Rice, Joel Rosario), Pneumatic (Asmussen, Ricardo Santana, Jr.), Sole Volante (Patrick Biancone, Luca Panici), Tap It to Win (Mark Casse, John Velazquez) and Tiz the Law (Barclay Tagg, Manny Franco). Modernist, trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, is also expected to enter with Junior Alvarado to ride. As the exclusive broadcast partner of the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown, NBC Sports will present live coverage from Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes Day beginning at 2:45 p.m. Eastern. Belmont Stakes Day June 20 will feature six graded races including four Grade 1 events led by the historic Belmont Stakes, which will offer 150-60-30-15 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top-four finishers. Rounding out the Grade 1 entertainment on Belmont Stakes Day are the $300,000 Longines Acorn for 3-year-old fillies going one mile; the $250,000 Woody Stephens presented by Claiborne See BELMONT STAKES on page 5 Back to Top FTBOA FLORIDA SIRE STAKES $1.55 MILLION IN PURSES Date Race Name Conditions Distance Purse 8-1 ......Dr. Fager ...............2yo......................6 fur..................$100,000 8-1 ......Desert Vixen..........2yo fillies.............6 fur..................$100,000 8-29 ......Affirmed................2yo......................7 fur..................$200,000 8-29 ......Susan’s Girl...........2yo fillies.............7 fur..................$200,000 FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION 9-26 ......In Reality...............2yo......................1 1/16 mi..........$400,000 Lonny T. Powell, CEO and Executive Vice President 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 9-26 ......My Dear Girl..........2yo fillies.............1 1/16 mi..........$400,000 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 www.ftboa.com • [email protected] 9-26 ......Wildcat Heir ..........3yo & older..........1 mile ...............$150,000 All terms of FSS races and FTBOA purse supplements, including number of races, purse levels, race conditions, racing dates and For Florida Sire Stakes eligible horses. the host track may change from year to year and may change at any point after the FSS racing schedule for a particular year is announced. 45979 Back to Top Page 5 Belmont Stakes Continued from page 3 (Doug O’Neill), Meru (Jorge Duarte, Jr.), No Parole (Tom Farm, a seven-furlong sprint over Big Sandy for 3-year-olds; and Amoss), and Shoplifted (Asmussen). the $250,000 Jaipur presented by America’s Best Racing, for 3- year-olds and up going six furlongs on turf, which offers a berth Water White Training forwardly into Longines Acorn in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. E.V. Racing Stable’s Water White, last out winner of the Busher A pair of one-mile turf races for sophomores, previously con - Invitational on March 7 at the Big A for trainer Rudy Rodriguez, tested at nine furlongs, completes a stakes-laden card with the will look to double up in Saturday’s $300,000 Longines Acorn Grade 2, $150,000 Pennine Ridge and the Grade 3, $150,000 Stakes (G1). Wonder Again for fillies. “She’s doing well. Hopefully, she’ll continue to train well over the next couple of days, but so far so good,” Rodriguez said. Mischevious Alex Breezes in Preparation Bred in Kentucky by Richard Forbush, the 3-year-old for Woody Stephens Stakes. Conveyance gray graduated at third asking in November at Cash is King and LC Racing’s Mischevious Alex, who captured Aqueduct ahead of a fifth in the Grade 2 Demoiselle at nine fur - the Grade 3 Gotham last out on March 7 at the Big A for trainer longs in December. She followed up with a five-wide second in John Servis, worked a half-mile in :51.42 Tuesday morning at the mile-and-one-eighth Busanda Stakes in her seasonal debut in Parx Racing in preparation for Saturday’s $250,000 Woody February ahead of her Busher breakthrough. Stephens presented by Claiborne Farm (G1). Water White has breezed six times since April 28 at Belmont “He two-minute licked and Park, including a swift half-mile then we let him pick it up the last in :47.89 May 30 which was fol - half. I wanted to let him stretch his lowed by another good half-mile legs a little bit,” Servis said. in :48.66 on June 9, both efforts on Servis said he had considered the Belmont main track. Saturday’s Belmont Stakes for “I breezed her an easy half-mile Mischevious Alex, but wanted to the other day because she went bring the Into Mischief colt back pretty fast the work before,” at a shorter distance. Servis said Rodriguez said. “She’s ready to go. the Woody Stephens, at seven fur - We just have to keep our fingers longs for sophomores, would set crossed that we get a good trip. Mischevious Alex up for a two- “She’s been working pretty turn try in the Grade 1 Haskell on steady. But they still need to get July 18 at Monmouth Park. over there and compete.” “I think this race sets him up Rodriguez said he is hoping for the other races,” Servis said. that Water White will be closer to “The Belmont is a one-turn mile- the pace on Saturday. and-an-eighth and the big question “She’s a grinding horse,” he for my horse is two turns, so we’ll said. “She doesn’t have much save that for next time. Water White/ CHELSEA DURAND PHOTO speed but I’m hoping she can be a “If he runs really good on Saturday, we’ll probably try the little closer. The track has been Haskell.” playing for speed.” Mischevious Alex is undefeated since the addition of blinkers The veteran conditioner has enjoyed a good start to the for a score in the Parx Juvenile in November.