ftboa.com • Friday • June 18, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Sconsin One To Beat in Roxelana Mystic Lake Derby Headlines Northern Stars Racing Festival at Canterbury FTC Soliciting Auction Items and Sponsors for Golf Tourney Fundraiser Streaking None Above the Law Returns Saratoga to Re-Open at 100% Capacity Oklahoma Derby and Springboard Mile Keystone Remington Park Stakes Woodbine/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO Sweet Souper Sweet Makes Track Entries and Results Florida Stallion Progeny List 2021 Debut in Star Shoot Florida Breeders’ List BY BROCK SHERIDAN ____________ Shoot well-prepared with a sold four fur- long work on June 12 over Fair Hill Wire to Wire Business Place Florida-bred Sweet Souper Sweet will Training Center’s Tapeta surface in which make her sophomore year debut Saturday she was clocked in :48.60, the sixth at Woodbine as the 3-year-old filly is set fastest work of 58 that morning. She also Featured Advertisers for the CAN$125,000 Star Shoot Stakes had a bullet work on June 5 at Fair Hill for 3-year-olds fillies going six furlongs. when she went five furlongs in 1:00 flat. Berrettini Feed A field of 8 fillies have entered. Lightly raced with only four career Trained by Michael Trombetta for starts, Sweet Souper Sweet won her first Equistaff Inc. Live Oak Stud, the homebred filly won race by three lengths against special the $75,000 Presque Isle Downs weight maidens at Woodbine going five Florida Department of Agriculture Debutante by two-and-a-quarter lengths furlongs on June 27. She was then off the in October of last year before the board in the $85,000 Bolton Landing FTBOA COVID-19 pandemic shut down racing in Stakes at Saratoga before going Presque Canada. Isle for the Debutante win. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Despite the long layoff, Sweet Souper Sweet appears to be coming into the Star See STAR SHOOT on page 3 Seminole Feed Back to Top Page 3 Star Shoot Continued from COVER She finished 2020 with a fifth-place finish behind winning Inthewinnerscirle in the $60,000 Juvenile Turf at Gulfstream Park West going a mile on Nov. 21. Sweet Souper Sweet is by First Samaurai out of Our Lady Striper, by Candy Ride (Arg) and she has earned $79,120. She is 4-1 in the morning line, has Patrick Husbands named to ride and they have post one. Trombetta will fire at the Star Shoot with both barrels having also entered Can’t Buy Love for owner R. Larry Johnson. The bay filly by Twirling Candy (Arg) out of Pay the Kitten, by Kitten’s Joy ships into Canada from Fair Hill where she fired a bullet four furlongs in :48 flat on June 14. In her last race at Belmont on May 15, she was sixth in the Grade 3 Soaring Softly Stakels won by Bye Bye going seven furlongs on the turf after Patrick Husbands/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO she had finished third to Wink in the $75,000 Melody of Colors Stakes at Gulfstream going five furlongs on the turf on Feb. 25. Can’t Buy Love has won two of eight starts with a second and a third while earning $59,350 and is 10-1 in the program. She has post five and Justin Stein will be in the saddle. One of two undefeated starters in the Star Shoot is 7-5 morn- ing line favorite Drunk Dial, a winner in her only career start See STAR SHOOT on page 5 Florida-breds Make Florida Racing Did you know Florida-bred thoroughbreds won 31.5% of races run at the recent Gulfstream Park Championship Meet? This demonstrates how vital Florida-breds are to the success of Gulfstream Park throughout the year—not just during the Spring/Summer season. Additional good news for Florida breeders—66% of those Florida-bred winners during the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet were sired by Florida stallions. Florida-breds: Race ‘Em or Chase ‘Em! Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Star Shoot page 3 Continued from when she was five-and-a-half lengths the best in a maiden special weight going six furlongs at Woodbine on Nov. 7. Trained by Jose Carroll for LNJ Foxwoods, Drunk Dial has a series of solid works to her credit coming into the Saturday’s race including a four-furlong breeze in :48.60 at Woodbine on June 13 which was the 31st fastest of 95 that morning. Drunk Dial is by Dialed In out of Candy Sioux, by Indian Charlie and she earned $33,073 in her lone start. Luis Contreras has accepted the riding assignment on Drunk Dial and they have post seven. The only other unbeated Star Shoot entrant is Polyanthus, a Mark Casse trainee who won by two-and-a-half lengths in her only start against special weight maiden going four-and-a-half furlongs at Woodbine in June of 2020. Polyanthus is by Bernardini, out of State Cup, by Elusive Quality and she earned $45,496 in her only race. She has jockey Kazushi Kimura and post four and they are 8-1 in the program. Casse will be busy with four entered in the Star Shoot including California Lily for Gary Barber, Dirty Dangle for Eclipse TB Partnership and Gary Barber; and La Libertee for Tracy Farmer. California Lily has won two of three starts outside of stakes company including a two-and-a-half-length win against first condition, $50,000 optional claiming allowance fillies at Turfway Park on March 12 going a mile on their Tapeta main surface. In two starts against stakes company however, the chestnut daughter of California Chrome was last of 10 in the $150,000 Bourbonette Oaks won by Joy’s Rocket going a mile at Turfway on March 27 and she again finished out of the money in the $123,000 Songbird Stakes won by Advernturing at Keeneland in November. California Lily has won two of five starts while earning $55,765. Emma-Jayne Wilson will ride from post five and they are 3-1 in the morning line. La Libertee was eighth in the Soaring Softly Stakes in her last start and in the race before that was seventh in the $100,000 Sanibel Island going a mile on the turf at Gulfstream on March 27. Her last win came three starts back against a first condition, $75,000 optional claiming allowance field going five furlongs on the turf at Gulfstream on Feb. 25. La Libertee is by Constitution out of La Rambla, by City Zip and she has won two of six career starts with one third while earning $57,620. She has morning lines odds of 12-1 and post two with jockey Jerome Lermyte. Magical Soul rounds out the entries for owner Copper Water Thoroughbred Company and trainer Pat Parente. A non-winner of two races in seven career starts and 20-1 morning line odds, Magical Soul will be looking for an upset in the Star Shoot with jockey Leo Salles aboard. Her only victory came in a maiden special weight at Monmouth Park in September in her second career start and her last race resulted in a fifth-place finish behind winner Minaun in a first condition allowance race at Belmont Park on Apri 30 going a mile on the turf. By More than Ready out of the Sadler’s Wells mare Secretariat’s Soul (Ire), Magical Soul has earned $52,352. Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Sconsin One To Beat in Roxelana Overnight Stakes BY CHURCHILL DOWNS PRESS OFFICE____ LOUISVILLE, KY—Lloyd Madison Farm’s multiple graded stakes-winner Sconsin headlines a field of six fillies and mares that were entered in Saturday’s $110,000 Roxelana Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs. The six-and-a-half-furlong Roxelana will go as Race 10 in an 11-race program that begins at is 12:45 p.m. EDT. Sconsin, a 4-year-old homebred daughter of Include, won the $150,000 Winning Colors (Grade 3) four weeks ago beneath the Twin Spires in her most recent start and two starts back finished sec- ond behind Gamine in the $500,000 Derby City Distaff (G1) on the undercard of the Kentucky Derby presented by Wooddford Reserve (G1). Sconsin is trained by Gregory Foley and last year won the Grade 2 Eight Belles presented by Twinspires.com at Churchill Downs so she has three wins locally including a allowance optional claiming victory in June of last year on Sept. 4. Overall, Sconsin sports a stout record of four wins, three seconds and a third from 12 starts with purse earnings of $546,512. She is by Include out of Sconnie, by Tiznow. Sconsin/COADY PHOTO Current Churchill Downs leading rider Tyler Gaffalione has the return mount and will break from post five. Also entered in the Roxelana is Lothenbach Stables 2020 Derby City Distaff (G1)-winner Bell’s the One. Trained by Neil Pessin, Bell’s the One is searching for her Florida-breds first victory in her 5-year-old campaign having finished second behind Kimari in the $300,000 Madison (G1) in early April at Make Florida Racing Keeneland and fourth in the aforementioned Derby City Distaff Did you know Florida-bred thoroughbreds won by Gamine. She finished last year with a third-place per- won 36.8% of races run at the recent Tampa formance in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Bay Downs season? at Keeneland in November, which was also won by Gamine.