ftboa.com • Friday • July 3, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Souper Escape Hopes Shorter is Better Asmussen Wanting Another Ellis Title Ken McPeek Talks Swiss Skydiver Dean Martini Could be Ellis Bound OBS Yearling Sale Online Entries JIM MCCUE PHOTO Got Stormy Seeks Firm Footing Sir Winston and Tacitus Renew Rivalry Don’t Get Khozy Puts Win Keeneland’s Thomason to Retire Streak to Test in Azalea Stakes Track Results & Entries Gulfstream Park Charts BY GULFSTREAM PARK Hall mare Get Noticed, Don’t Get Khozy PRESS OFFICE ___________________ ran for a $25,000 tag when she cruised by Tampa Bay Charts four lengths in a one-mile claiming event HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Don’t Get June 10. She came back 10 days later to Florida Stallion Progeny List Khozy and Boerne, two horses on the dif- romp by seven-and-a-half lengths in a Florida Breeders’ List ferent side of streaks, share the similar seven-furlong optional claiming allowance goal of becoming a stakes winner as they for $75,000. Wire to Wire Business Place square off for the first time in Saturday’s “She’s doing good,” trainer Antonio $75,000 Azalea at Gulfstream Park. Sano said. “She’s training very good and Featured Advertisers The Azalea for 3-year-old fillies shares working very good. She won very easy the top billing on a 12-race program with the last two times, and I think the Azalea is Bloodstockauction USA $75,000 Carry Back for 3-year-olds, both going to be a good race for her.” FTBOA sprinting seven furlongs on the main track. Don’t Get Khozy owns four wins, three Florida Department of Agriculture First race post time is noon. seconds and a third in nine races since Florida Equine Communications being claimed by Sano for $16,000 out of Drawing Away Stable’s Don’t Get Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company Khozy will be making her 16th career start a fourth-place finish Jan. 9. All four wins and first in a stake in the Azalea, coming in have come in her last five starts, sandwich- de Meric Thoroughbred Sales off back-to-back victories at Gulfstream, ing a runner-up effort in a seven-furlong Eddie Woods Stables both under five-pound apprentice jockey claiming sprint May 22. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Joseph Trejos, who gets the return call. As a 2-year-old, Don’t Get Khozy raced RiceHorse Stables A chestnut daughter of Journeyman five times with one victory, a maiden Six K’s Training & Sales, LLC Stud stallion Khozan out of the Grahame See GULFSTREAM on page 3 Seminole Feed Back to Top Page 3 Gulfstream Continued from COVER claiming triumph in mid-October at Gulfstream Park West, where Sano is based. “I remember when the filly was a baby and I liked her. Before we claimed her she finished second at Gulfstream and I said, ‘Next time, I’m going to claim her,’” Sano said. “We claimed her in January and every day she has gotten better and better and better.” Don’t Get Khozy was bred in Florida by Special Effort Farm, Laura Colon and Michael Colon. Sano also entered Briannjenn Racing’s Addilyn, most recently third behind Up in Smoke and Boerne in the six-and-a-half-fur- long Game Face Stakes June 6 at Gulfstream. By Grade 1-winner Palace Malice, Addilyn will be making her 13th start and eighth in a stakes. “Addilyn is a good filly. She is in good condition. In her last race, she just missed second behind some good horses,” Sano said. “She is a nice filly and I think the race will be good for her.” Leonel Reyes replaces Trejos, aboard in the Game Face, from post three. Trejos and Don’t Get Khozy will break from post five. De Luca and Sons Stable’s Boerne had her three-race win streak snapped in the Game Face, her stakes debut where the speedy daughter of Fed Biz held a short lead entering the stretch but was unable to hold off the winner through the lane. Prior to that race, Boerne had strung together maiden special weight, optional claiming allowance and allowance victories by 15 combined lengths, the latter two at six-and-a-half furlongs. The Azalea will be her longest race to date. “We are looking forward to Saturday,” trainer Juan Carlos Avila said. “I think I have been training Boerne better this time, giving her more strong gallop-outs to get ready for the race.” Boerne raced once as a 2-year-old, finishing fifth in a maiden special weight at Gulfstream Park West. She breezed twice prior to the game face but Avila chose to bypass a work in the four weeks since and gallop into the race. “She had two good works and she had the race, and now she’s ready,” Avila said. “She’s galloped, galloped, galloped so I didn’t breeze her. I like her for Saturday. I think she will like the seven furlongs.” Edgard Zayas has been up for all of Boerne’s races and will ride back from post six. Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables and David Simon’s Bankruptonthebeach will be making her first start for trainer Mike Maker in the Azalea. The Temple City filly debuted with a maiden special weight win last July at Monmouth Park and finished off the board in the Feb. 15 Wide Country at Laurel Park last out. C J Thoroughbreds’ Compensate, second in the five-furlong Melody of Colors on the Gulfstream turf March 21, was bumped at the start of the Game Face and rushed up into contention before tiring to sixth. In her only tries at seven furlongs, she broke her maiden last fall over Woodbine’s synthetic surface and was fifth after setting the pace of the Feb. 1 Forward Gal (G3) at Gulfstream. Completing the field is Juan Arrigada owned-and-trained Estilo Talentoso, whose name translates to ‘talented style.’ The granddaughter of 2005, Florida-bred Preakness (G1) and Belmont (G1)-winner Afleet Alex has never been worse than third in six starts including four seconds and a maiden special weight triumph over a sloppy and sealed Gulfstream surface June 17 going one mile. Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Souper Escape Hopes Shorter is Better in Friday's License Fee BY BRIAN BOHL, NYRA PRESS OFFICE ______________ ELMONT, NY—Multiple stakes-winner Souper Escape will look to build on a run- ner-up effort against allowance company last out, cutting back in distance in Friday's $80,000 License Fee Stakes. The six fur- long License Fee is for fillies and mares, 4- years-old and older on the inner turf at Belmont Park. Owned by Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation, Florida-bred Souper Escape returned off a six-month layoff to run sec- ond in her 2020 bow on June 6 at Woodbine. The Medaglia d'Oro filly won the Christiana Stakes and the La Lorgnette Stakes at Delaware Park and Woodbine, respectively, as a sophomore in 2019 and will be returning to stakes company for the first time as a 4-year-old. Trainer Michael Trombetta said he was curious to see her in the short sprint after she capped her 3-year-old campaign with a 10th-place finish in the mile-and-one-six- Florida-bred Souper Escape/BURNS PHOTO teenth Tropical Park Oaks in December at Gulfstream Park. Both Jameela in July at Laurel. of the her stakes wins came at distances of at least one mile, with A Great Time is out of the Clever Trick mare Short Time and the License Fee marking her shortest race on turf. she has won two of 16 career starts while earning $134,112. "She's doing good. She's one of those horses where anything Hall of Famer John Velazquez will ride from post two. outside a mile, it might be a bit much," Trombetta said. "I'll take a Bal Mar Equine's Dalika started her career in her native look at this and see how she fits with this group. Last out, it was Germany before arriving to the United States for her 3-year-old a good race back off the layoff, so it gives me good reason to take year in 2019. Under trainer Al Stall Jr., the daughter of Pastorius a look at this." twice ran second in stakes, including a game effort in the Grade 2 Souper Escape is by Medaglia d’Oro out of Cry and Watch Me, Mrs. Revere in November at Churchill Downs when just a half- by Street Cry (Ire). She has won four of 13 career starts with earn- length back to winner Nay Lady Nay in the mile-and-one-six- ings of $154,962. teenth route. Manny Franco will pick up the mount, drawing post five. Dalika's only previous experience shipping into New York "I think she can run any way," Trombetta said. "What I don't resulted in a strong runner-up effort in the Riskaverse Stakes last think she wants are those mile-and-an-eighth races; things like August at Saratoga Race Course. After running all of her first that." seven North American races between one mile and a mile-and-an- Trombetta will also saddle A Great Time, who came off a eighth, Stall entered her in a sprint last out, where she made her 10-month layoff when she ran third in an allowance contest first start in nearly five months and posted a two-length win in a on May 30 at Laurel Park.