Pair of Stakes Winners Set to Tangle in Juvenile Fillies Turf
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ftboa.com • Saturday & Sunday • Nov. 21 & 22, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST Pair of Stakes Winners Set to FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION Tangle in Juvenile Fillies Turf or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: President’s Remarks Bodexpress Added to Clark Probables Midcourt in Del Mar’s Native Diver Stars and Stakes Saturday at Woodbine FTBOA Holiday Schedule Picara in Filly & Mare Turf Preview Laurel Will Close to Patrons Gulfstream Park West Charts Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida-bred Quinoa Tifah/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Florida Breeders’ List BY GULFSTREAM PARK Arindel’s Quinoa Tifah will be stretch- PRESS OFFICE ___________________ ing out to her longest distance yet, having Wire to Wire Business Place most recently won the seven-furlong Our MIAMI GARDENS, FL—Homebreds Dear Peggy Stakes by three lengths in Quinoa Tifah and Sweet Souper Sweet, both front-running fashion Sept. 26 at Featured Advertisers exiting stakes wins on different surfaces, Gulfstream Park, a race originally carded will get the chance to match that feat on the for the grass but contested over a sloppy Florida Department of Agriculture grass when they square off in Saturday’s and sealed main track. The Gemologist FTBOA $60,000 Juvenile Fillies Turf. The race has filly broke her maiden on the dirt in April Journeyman Stud attracted a field of ten who will go a mile- and was fifth in the five-and-a-half-fur- Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply and-one-sixteenth on the grass. See JUVENILE FILLIES on page 3 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Ocala Stud Nominations Close Saturday, Nov. 21 for the $100,000 Inaugural Stakes Seminole Feed and the $100,000 Sandpiper Stakes to be run Dec. 5 at Tampa Bay Downs Tampa Bay Downs Back to Top Page 3 Juvenile Fillies Continued from COVER long Bolton Landing in her turf debut Aug. 19 at Saratoga. She is out of Atrea, by Storm Cat and has earnings of $93,575 in her two wins in four starts. Quinoa Tifah has drawn post two and Emisael Jaramillo is set to rider for trainer Juan Alvarado. She has been tabbed as the 3-1 second choice in the morning line. The Bolton Landing was also the lone turf start for Live Oak Plantation’s Sweet Souper Sweet, who finished sixth. The daughter of First Samurai is unbeaten in two starts on the synthetic surface at Presque Isle Downs, breaking her maiden June 27 and sprinting to a two-and-one-quarter-length victo- ry in the six-and-a-half-furlong Presque Isle Debutante Oct. 5. Sweet Souper Sweet has earned $77,410 in her two wins in three starts and she is out of Our Candy Striper, by Candy Ride (Arg). Paco Lopez/BILL DENVER PHOTO Sweet Souper Sweet is the 2-1 favorite in the program and will start from post four with Paco Lopez named to ride by trainer Michael Trombetta. Also coming off a victory is Palm Beach Racing Partnership’s Viva La Reina, who put away her foes early and kept on for a length-and-a-quarter maiden special weight triumph Oct. 17 at Gulfstream West, a race moved from the turf to a fast main track. Samy Camacho, up for that start, gets the return call from post one. “I was actually impressed with the way she handled the dirt that day. I knew she had talent because she worked amazing from the gate and on the dirt, but the distance was a little bit challeng- ing going seven-eighths for the first time,” trainer Carlos David said. “She pulled it off and she did it going away, so I was very impressed by that. And I’m thinking she’s going to be even better on the turf and with the mile.” Viva La Reina has breezed over the turf course at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, since her maiden score. She is by Animal Kingdom, win- ner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby (G1) and 2013 Dubai World Cup and runner-up in the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1). She is out of Ride a Wave, by Medaglia d’Oro. Viva La Reina has earnings of $28,600 from her one start. She is 9-2 in the morning line. Viva La Reina has drawn the inside post one. “If I were to enter her in a race going six furlongs on the dirt, I think she would have been impressive anyway and she would have gotten a better number,” David said. “So, we’re going to give her this race on the grass because she’s well-bred for it and I think she can handle the distance.” Yafa, who is trained by Michele Nihei, is another for consider- ation at 5-1. Owned by Circle 8, the daughter of Pleasant Acres stallion Handsome Mike won her first race last time out against $40,000 maiden claimers going a mile on the turf at Gulfstream on Sept. 18 in her last start. She is out of Red Baroness, by Smarty Jones and was bred in Florida by Tropical Racing LLC. See JUVENILE FILLIES on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Juvenile Fillies Continued from page 3 Souper Watson entered Thursday’s race off a sixth-place finish Yafa will don the number six saddle cloth and jockey Victor at Gulfstream Park in an April 25 maiden special weight event that Lebron when she leaves from post six. has turned out to be a mega key race. All eight of the 3-year-old Also look for Stonehedge LLC homebred Tantalizing Gal, who son of Ghostzapper’s rivals have gone on to graduate, including also won against $40,000 maiden claimers in her most recent and four next-out winners. third career start going a mile on the turf at Gulfstream Park on “I was just talking with my assistant, Nick Tomlinson. We Sept. 18. weren’t shocked at all,” Casse said. “We honestly thought he was She is by Midshipman out of Scandalous Act, by Act of Duty a pretty good horse early on. That last race came up a little tough. and has a bankroll of $24,950. We sent him home and gave him a little break and he came back Trainer Kathleen O’Connell has given the riding assignment to blockbusters.” Luca Panici, who will guide Tantalizing Gal from the outside post A longtime resident of Ocala, Casse took out his trainer’s license 10. She is 10-1 in the morning line. at the age of 17 in Massachusetts. He saddled his first career win- Also entered are Beach Chick, Double Blessed, Emirates ner, Joe’s Coming, in 1979 at Keeneland and his first graded-stakes Affair, Inthewinnerscircle and Special Inclusion. winner in 1984 when winning the Jamaica (G3) at Belmont Park with Raja’s Shark. A 12-time Sovereign Award winner, Casse is Casse Notches 3,000 Milestone at GPW ranked sixth in North America this year in wins (172) and purse earnings ($10.7 mil- Mark Casse became the 34th trainer in lion) this year. Just a thoroughbred racing history to win 3,000 few of Casse’s many races Thursday when Live Oak Plantation’s highlights include sad- Souper Watson scored a decisive length- dling winners in the and-three-quarters victory in the third race 2019 Preakness (G1) at Gulfstream Park West. with War of Will and The 59-year-old native of Indiana, who the 2019 Belmont was elected to the National Museum of Stakes (G1) with Sir Racing and Hall of Fame earlier this year, Watson and training watched the milestone win on TV from his two-time champion Ocala, Fla., farm. “It feels good. I watched it with my son, Colby, and we gave each other high-fives and celebrated,” Casse said. ‘I’m happy to be able to do it for [Live Oak Plantation’s] Mrs. [Charlotte] Weber.” Nick Tomlinson, Casse’s South Florida- based assistant trainer, saddled Souper Watson ($17), who graduated under jockey Florida-bred Souper Watson/LAUREN KING PHOTO Miguel Vasquez while coming off a six-and- a-half-month layoff in the seven-and-a-half-furlong maiden special Tepin, winner of the Queen Anne weight race on turf. Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot. “[Training] is something I’ve just wanted to do my entire life. Casse has won training titles at Milestones mean a lot. This has made me think back over the years,” Woodbine, Keeneland, Churchill Casse said. “I went through a period of seven or eight years where and Turfway. I didn’t train many horses. We kicked back in, I want to say, 20 years ago. When we won 1,000, I said, ‘Well, that was nice.’ Then, when —Brock Sheridan contributed we won 2,000, I said, ‘I don’t think there will be 3,000.’ I don’t know to this article Mark Casse/BENOIT PHOTO if there will be 4,000. We’ll see.” Tampa Bay FSS Win Only Supplements Date Race Conditions Distance Purse 12-5 Inaugural Stakes 2yo 6 fur. $100,000* 12-5 Sandpiper Stakes 2yo fillies 6 fur. $100,000* 1-16 Pasco Stakes 3yo 7 fur. $125,000** 1-16 Gasparilla Stakes 3yo fillies 7 fur. $125,000** *Includes $50,000 Win Only Supplement for Florida Sire Stakes Eligible Horses *Closing Nov. 21 **Includes $50,000 Win Only Supplement for Florida Sire Stakes Eligible Horses, and $25,000 Win-Only Florida-bred Supplement **Closing Jan.