Eight Juvenile Fillies Make for Competitive Schuylerville
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ftboa.com • Wednesday • July 15, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Down Memory Lane… 1982 GP’s Rainbow 6 Guaranteed $500,000 Canterbury Turf Festival $350,000 Purses FTBOA Names 2019 FL-Bred Champions FTBOA Champions Photo Gallery Horse Capital TV Debuts Champions Show Chris Perkins Obituary FL-Bred Distaffers to Meet at Gulfstream Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Beautiful Memories/COADY PHOTO Wire to Wire Business Place Eight Juvenile Fillies Make Featured Advertisers Bloodstockauction USA for Competitive Schuylerville Covert Appraisal Services send out John C. Oxley’s impressive maid- FTBOA BY RYAN MARTIN, NYRA PRESS Florida Department of Agriculture OFFICE __________________________ en winner Beautiful Memories, who romped by 10 lengths in her career debut Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Stakes action at on May 28 at Churchill Downs. Enviro Equine historic Saratoga Race Course kicks off The homebred chestnut daughter of de Meric Thoroughbred Sales with a field of eight 2-year-old fillies Hard Spun received encouragement com- Eddie Woods Stables assembled for the 102nd running of the ing out of the gate in her debut before tak- Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply $100,000 Schuylerville Stakes (Grade 3) ing command and extending her lead RiceHorse Stables on Thursday, Opening Day of the summer through every point of call, crossing the Six K’s Training & Sales, LLC meet. wire on cruise control under jockey Jose Seminole Feed Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse will Showcase Properties See SCHUYLERVILLE on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Schuylerville Continued from COVER Ortiz in a final time of :58.05 for the five-furlong sprint. Casse said Beautiful Memories demonstrated potential from the start. “We broke her and had her down at the training center all win- ter and she seemed special,” Casse said. “I told Mr. Oxley when I breezed her that she gave me chills and that doesn’t happen often.” Beautiful Memories, a Kentucky homebred, is out of the Sky Mesa broodmare Sky Dreamer who is a half-sister to turf Grade 1-winner Dream Dancing as well as graded stakes-placed Dream Maker. Beautiful Memories has been training forwardly for Casse, working two bullets at Churchill Downs heading into Thursday, most recently registering a five-furlong drill in :59.20 on July 4. Casse said he is hoping for another impressive perform- ance from Beautiful Memories on Opening Day at Saratoga. “You always want to see more than just one time,” Casse said. “She’s come back and trained well and her last two works have been really good. It was not a shock to see her run the way she did first out. We’re hoping for a similar performance, but we’ll let her do the talking.” Jose Ortiz/ZOE METZ PHOTO Ortiz, who piloted Florida- bred Catherinethegreat to a 2018 Schuylerville victory for Oxley and Casse, will retain the mount aboard Beautiful Memories from post three. Casse also sends out Gary Barber’s Make Mischief, who won her debut as the favorite in a five-furlong maiden special weight against her Empire State-bred counterparts on June 18 at Belmont. The bay daughter of Into Mischief tracked two lengths off the pace in her five-furlong career debut and was a bit green in the stretch but had enough to score a half-length triumph. Bred by Avanti Stable, Make Mischief is out of the Speightstown broodmare Speightful Lady and was purchased for $285,000 from the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred Yearling Sale last August. Casse said he is looking for Make Mischief to step her game up a notch on Thursday. “She’s a horse we were high on this winter,” Casse said. “I thought her win was good, but I think she’s better than what she showed—at least I’m hoping so. She’ll have to come with a better performance.” Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez will attempt a sixth Schuylerville triumph when piloting Make Mischief from the inside post. Quinoa Tifah will try to join Catherinethegreat as a Florida- bred winner of the Schuylerville for owner and breeder Arindel and trainer Juan Avarado. The bay filly won her first and only race at Gulfstream Park when she upset 1-5 favorite Lime in the first 2-year-old race of the year at Gulfstream Park on April 16. See SCHUYLERVILLE on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Schuylerville page 3 Continued from Wesley Ward after displaying a victorious late kick on debut for a By Gemologist out of Atrea, by Storm Cat, Quinoa Tifah sat $75,000 tag on June 6 at Churchill. second behind the front-running Lime early in the four-and-a-half The bay daughter of Jimmy Creed broke from the outside, furlong maiden special weight and made a late run to win by where she laid mid pack early on, was caught seven wide at the top three-quarters-of-a-length. of the stretch but shifted to the inside of rivals down the lead to Quinoa Tifah will be ridden score a narrow victory. by Manuel Franco from post “When you have a 2-year- four. old maiden winner you’re Hall of Fame trainer Steve halfway mandated to try stakes Asmussen will saddle Hopeful company so that’s what we’re Princess, who arrives off a doing here,” Ward said. “If you three-quarter length maiden hit the board in a graded stakes score at Churchill Downs. race that’s enshrined in their Owned by Stonestreet Farm, pedigree forever. We should be the dark bay filly gave fresh- able to come from behind, so man stallion Not This Time his we’ll sit back and ask Irad to first winner when stalking the be a cool-sitter and a go-getter, pace from second, battling which is what he is. If there’s a down the stretch with a foe and strong pace up front, then here eventually coming out on top we come.” while galloping out with Bred in Kentucky by her authority on May 21 at owners and Dixiana Farm, Churchill, earning a 75 Beyer Sunny Isle Beach is out of the Speed Figure. Kitten’s Joy broodmare Hopeful Princess/COADY PHOTO Bred in Kentucky by Elm Kathern’s Kitten. Tree Farm, Hopeful Princess is out of the More Than Ready Completing the field are Hara, Queen Arella and broodmare More Than Magic. Dayoutoftheoffice. Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. will pilot Hopeful Princess from The Schuylerville is slated as the eighth race on Thursday’s 10- post eight. race card, which offers a first post of 1:10 p.m. ET. Saratoga Live Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Sunny Isle Beach, who will exit post will present daily television coverage of the 40-day summer meet five under Irad Ortiz, Jr., will take a big step up in class for trainer on FOX Sports and MSG Networks. Back to Top National Eclipse winners and Florida Sire Stakes winners are clockwise from left: BRAVE RAJ, National 2-Year-Old Filly Champion / BIG DRAMA, National Male Sprint Champion / AWESOME FEATHER, National 2-Year-Old Filly Champion / SMILE, National Sprint Champion / NOT SURPRISING, National Sprint Champion / HOLY BULL, National Horse of the Year FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND CONSUMER SERVICES AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Lonny T. Powell, CEO For Information: Jacqueline Basha, Tammy A. Gantt, Associate Vice President Division of Marketing and Development Membership Services & Events (850) 617-7286 – Direct Line 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 [email protected] 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 www.FDACS.gov www.ftboa.com • [email protected] Back to Top Page 7 DOWN MEMORY LANE…1982 BY JOANN GUIDRY ________________________ Conquistador Cielo, Gold Beauty and Fred W. Hooper all garnered Eclipse Awards while Aloma’s Ruler captured the Preakness Stakes (Grade 1) to head- line a stellar year for the Florida thoroughbred industry. Not only was Conquistador Cielo named the Eclipse champion 3-year-old colt, but he became the fourth Florida-bred to be named North American Horse of the Year. That put him in the elite company of Roman Brother (1965), Dr. Fager (1968) and Affirmed (1978-79). And he did it in spectacular fashion, winning the Metropolitan Handicap (Grade 1) on May 31 and the Belmont Stakes (G1) on June 5. Not only did he win two of the most important North American races within five days, he won them by a combined total of more than 21 lengths. Conquistador Cielo came into the Met Mile off three straight allowance wins at three different tracks. But still no one expected the performance he deliv- ered that day. After posting 1:09 for six furlongs, the Mr. Prospector colt kicked into high gear and won by seven-and-a-quarter lengths in 1:33 for the mile. The Florida-bred Conquistador Cielo/J. RAFTERY PHOTO winning time was the fastest ever run at a New York track for a mile. Conquistador Cielo also became the first 3-year- Keystone. Next stop was the Test Stakes at Saratoga, where she old since 1969 to beat older horses in the Met Mile. won by a length in 1:22 4/5 for the seven furlongs. Gold Beauty Five days later, it was another eye-opening performance in the then took on the boys in the Fall Highweight Handicap at Belmont Belmont Stakes. Taking the lead at the half-mile pole, on Sept.