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Tuesday & Wednesday • August 3 & 4, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION www.wiretowire.net FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Florida Sire Stakes Follow-up Jackie’s Warrior Much the Best in Wiring G2 Amsterdam Field Favored Shedaresthedevil Best in Sunday’s Hirsch at Del Mar Souper Stonehenge/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO Miss Alacrity Speeds to Easy Souper Stonehenge Denies Pink Win in Colleen Lloyd Fifth Straight Vigil Victory Gulfstream Park Charts Track Results & Entries BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ Light Go dropped back and Not So Quite took over in second. At the three-eighths Live Oak Plantation continued their tear pole, jockey Rafael Hernandez was forced Florida Stallion Progeny List through Woodbine Racecourse this year as to check Pink Lloyd and they dropped back their Florida homebred Souper Stonehenge to last in the field of six before restarting Florida Breeders’ List won the US$125,343 Vigil Stakes (Grade once they made the top of the stretch. 3) while snapping a five-race winning- Not So Quiet ranged up to challenge streak held by Pink Lloyd in the six furlong Souper Stonehenge at the top of the stretch Wire to Wire Business Place event. It was the fifth stakes victory of the but could not muster a real threat as Souper Woodbine season for Live Oak Plantation Stonehenge began to draw clear. and the 11th win overall at the Toronto oval. Souper Stonehenge extended his lead to Featured It was also the second stakes at Woodbine two lengths in mid-stretch before Pink for Souper Stonehenge, who defeated Pink Lloyd found his best stride and began to Advertisers Lloyd in the Grade 3 Jacques Cartier there make up ground inside the final sixteenth on June 20. only to fall short by three-quarters of a Big Lick LLC Souper Stonehenge led from start to fin- length. Not So Quiet was another three- Florida Department of Agriculture ish in winning the Vigil as he and jockey quarter of a length farther back in third fol- FTBOA Patrick Husbands had a length on Green lowed by Cash Dividend, Embolden, and Light Go in second with Pink Lloyd another Green Light Go. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply two lengths back in fifth through the first The final time on the fast Tapeta track Seminole Feed quarter mile :22.96. was 1:09.52 and Souper Stonehenge paid Stonehedge Farm South Souper Stonehenge maintained a day- light advantage around the turn as Green See SOUPER STONEHENGE on page 3 Wire to Wire August 3 & 4, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 Souper Stonehenge Continued from COVER $2.70 to win as the 1-5 favorite. “It’s good to sit on light horses and good to sit on good horses,” Husbands said. “I’ve ridden probably 180 big races for Mark [Casse]; he never gave me instructions. I have the con- fidence in this horse. “He left there — what he wanted to do — [and I] just left him alone. It worked out good today. He’s one of my little fa- vorites. We kid around, we play around. He’s just a horse you want to be around.” The Vigil was the sixth stakes score of the meeting for Casse and the fifth for jockey Mark Casse/COADY PHOTO Patrick Husbands. Casse has also won two previous runnings of the Vigil with Florida-bred Exciting Story for Harry T. Mangurian in 2001 and Laugh Track in 2013. Husbands had recorded back-to-back Vigil scores with One Way Love in 2000 and Exciting Story in 2001. Earlier in the day, Casse and Husbands teamed to win the sec- ond race with First Empire. Souper Stonehenge is by Speightstown out of Onepointhree- karats, by Medaglia d’Oro and has now won five career races with four seconds and a third from 16 starts while earning $343,705. Souper Stonehenge is the first foal for Onepointhreekarats, who has also produced graded stakes-placed, stakes-winning 4-year-old Tap It to Win, who was also bred by Live Oak Stud and races in the prominent while, red and black colors of Live Oak Plantation. She also has Tapthespeedofsound, an unraced 2-year-old colt by Tapit. Souper Stonehenge was also the second Florida-bred winner on the day at Woodbine after Sir Seamus won a first condition al- lowance in the fourth race for owner Network Stable and trainer Alexander McPherson. Sir Seamus is by Pleasant Acres Stallion resident Handsome Mike out of Gold Diggin Dixie by Dixie Union and was bred by Helen and Joseph Barbazon. Wire to Wire August 3 & 4, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire August 3 & 4, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Florida Sire Stakes Follow-up BY BROCK SHERIDAN____________________ The $10.136 million handle at Gulfstream Park was a record for a Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen/Dr. Fager day, eclipsing the old record of $9.697 million set on the day of Dr. Fager/Desert Vixen in 2019. Last year during the COVID-19 pan- demic the handle was $7.153 million. Cajun’s Magic gave his sire Cajun Breeze his third winner in the $100,000 Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager in the last four years including the Michael Yates-trained Cajun Firecracker, who represented the stallion’s first crop in 2018. Cajun Breeze, who stands at Stonehedge Farm South, also sired Dr. Fager-winner Breeze on By last year. Breeze on By, who was trained by Ralph Nicks, also won the $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Affirmed on Aug. 29 last year. Cajun’s Magic also represented the 17th victory in the Florida Sire Stakes for Gilbert and Marilyn Campbell. Running in either Campbell’s name or under their stable name, Stonehedge LLC, they have now won the Desert Vixen three times with Scan- dalous Act (2033), Lenzi’s Lucky Lady (2019), Go Jo Jo Go (2020); the Dr. Fager five times with Blaz- ing Sword (1996), Two T’s at Two B (2012), My Brown Eyed Guy (2013), Breeze on By (2020) Cajun’s Magic (2021); the Susan’s Girl twice with Ivanavinalot (2002) and Scandalous Act (2013); the Affirmed four times with Blazing Sword (1996), My Brown Eyed Guy (2013), Liam’s Lucky Charm Cajun’s Magic (outside) and Dean Delivers (inside)/LAUREN KING PHOTO (2019) and Breeze on By (2020); the My Dear Girl twice with Ivanavinalot (2002) and Scandalouis Act (2013); and the In Reality once with Well Defined. In the 2020 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Affirmed, Stonehedge LLC runners made up the Superfecta with Breeze on By winning Florida-breds over Big Daddy Dave in second, Seazan third and Top Boss fourth. The 10-cent Superfecta 6-4-5-7 paid $24.63. Make Florida Racing Cajun’s Magic and Dean Delivers created the $1 exacta of Did you know $21.30 with the same owner, breeder, trainer and sire. Wire to Wire Florida-bred staff are researching as to whether that accomplishment has event thoroughbreds won been achieved in a black type stakes. 31.5% of races run at the The official leader in the Florida Sires Stakes owner standings recent Gulfstream Park Championship is Fred Brei’s Jacks or Better Farms, who has won 19 runnings of Meet? the Florida Sire Stakes for 2-year-olds and 24 wins total in the se- ries counting Florida Sire Stakes races for older horses at Gulf- This demonstrates how vital Florida-breds stream Park and Tampa Bay Downs. are to the success of Gulfstream Park With Cajun’s Magic’s win, trainer Michael Yates now has three throughout the year—not just during the winners in the Florida Sire Stakes series from 20 starters. Spring/Summer season. Trainer David Braddy won a Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen with My Sassanach, giving him five victories in the series from 47 Additional good news for starters. His first starter was Exclusive Agenda, who finish off the Florida breeders—66% of board in the second division of the 1984 Susan’s Girl. those Florida-bred winners during Jockey Jesus Rios won his fifth race from 50 mounts in the the Gulfstream Park Championship FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes with My Sassenach Saturday in the Meet were sired by Florida Desert Vixen. It was his second victory in the Desert Vixen after stallions. winning with Leap Year Luck in 2014. Jockey Miguel Vasquez won his fourth race in the FTBOA Florida-breds: Florida Sire Stakes and second in the Desert Vixen. Vasquez also Race ‘Em or Chase ‘Em! rode Cajun Firecracker for Yates in the 2018 Desert Vixen. Wire to Wire August 3 & 4, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire August 3 & 4, 2021 Back to Top Page 7 Jackie’s Warrior Much the Best in Wiring G2 Amsterdam Field BY BRIAN BOHL, NYRA PRESS OFFICE___ SARATOGA, NY—Jackie’s Warrior surged to the front, set fast fractions and closed strong in a gate- to-wire seven-and-a-quarter-length victory in Sun- day’s $200,000 Amsterdam (Grade 2) for 3-year-olds sprinting six-and-a-half furlongs on Saratoga Race Course’s main track. Owned by J. Kirk and Judy Robison, Jackie’s Warrior won for the sixth time in nine starts and improved to three-for-three at the Spa, adding to his scores as a juvenile in last year’s Grade 2 Saratoga Special and Grade 1 Hopeful. Not even a half-hour delay due to heavy rainfall deterred Jackie’s Warrior, who broke from post three under Joel Rosario as the 1-2 favorite and led the six-horse field through an opening quarter- mile in :21.46 and the half in :43.85 over a sloppy and sealed track.

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