Wildwood's Beauty Seeks Winning Ways in Saturday's Musical Romance
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ftboa.com • Saturday & Sunday • May 16 & 17, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Jerkens Gives Homebred ‘Green Light’ Tampa Bay Downs Requests June Dates NYRA Secures Covid Antibody Testing Classy Bellafina Takes On Baffert Pair Social Distancing Shirts Fund Track Pantries Trainers Continue to Make Plans 1/ST Preakness at Home Live Stream Clocker Sees ‘Authentic’ SA Derby Horse Racing Without Spectators Allowed to Return in First Stage Longtime Owner Larry Foggle Dies at 80 Florida-bred Wildwood’s Beauty/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Churchill Downs to Air on ‘America’s Day at the Races’ Gulfstream Park Charts Wildwood’s Beauty Seeks Tampa Bay Downs Charts Track Results & Entries Winning Ways in Saturday’s Florida Stallion Progeny List Musical Romance Florida Breeders’ List Florida-Bred Sprint Tops Three Stakes Worth $250,00 Featured Advertisers BY GULFSTREAM PARK The seven-furlong Musical Romance Journeyman Stud PRESS OFFICE ___________________ for Florida-bred fillies and mares, 3-years- Live Oak Stud old and older is the richest of three stakes Stonehedge Farm South HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – William worth $250,000 on an 11-race program, Horse Farms Forever Stiritz’s Wildwood’s Beauty, runner-up in joined by the $75,000 Powder Break for FTBOA females on turf featuring Grade 1-winning three consecutive races including back-to- Florida Department of Agriculture back graded-stakes during the millionaire Got Stormy and $75,000 Roar Championship Meet, hopes to find the for 3-year-olds sprinting six-and-a-half Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply cure for her recent second-itis in Saturday’s furlongs. Seminole Feed $100,000 Musical Romance at Gulfstream First race post time is 12:45 p.m. Berrettini Feed Park. Wavertree Stables See GULFSTREAM on page 3 Distorted Humor – Delta Princess, by A.P. Indy ONE CROP OF RACING AGE AND ALREADY FLORIDA’S LEADING SIRE Watch For His Second Crop To Run In 2020 3 Stakes Winners 11 Stakes Horses 31 Winners From 57 Runners (Through May 12) Half-brother to Royal Delta By perennial leading sire Distorted Humor Also standing Fury Kapcori and St Patrick’s Day Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners SERITA HULT PHOTO HULT SERITA 5571 NW 100th Street, Ocala, FL 34482 | Office: 352.629.1200 | Fax: 352.629.1201 • [email protected] | www.journeymanstallions.com 45756 Back to Top Page 3 Santa Anita Continued from COVER Named for the champion female sprinter of 2011 that was bred in Florida, won 12 of 41 career races and more than $1.6 million in purse earnings from 2009-12, the Musical Romance marks a return to state-bred company for Wildwood’s Beauty. She was beaten a total of five-and-three-quarters lengths by multiple grad- ed-winners Pink Sands and Sally’s Curlin respectively in the Jan. 25 Inside Information (G2) and March 14 Hurricane Bertie (G3) at Gulfstream. &632'3%2()2(96) Unable to hold off either winner while making her own typical late move, Wildwood’s Beauty, who was named the Florida-bred *0=746%=7%0) champion female sprinter and champion 3-year-old filly of 2019, 0$< has pleased trainer Scott Becker with three works over Gulfstream’s main track since the Hurricane Bertie. “Everything’s been right on par, as it has been all year. She has- n’t missed a beat. Everything’s good and she’s doing great,” Becker said. “She ran her race the last couple times and made her nor- mal move, but she just got beat by a couple of very nice horses. Both of those horses came from the back of the pack to win those races, which doesn’t happen all the time there, but she ran big both times.” Such consistency has been Wildwood’s Beauty’s calling card, with five wins and seven seconds from 13 lifetime starts. Six of those run- ner-up finishes have come at Gulfstream, where the 4-year-old Todd Pletcher/COGLIANESE PHOTO Kantharos filly beat older horses in last fall’s seven-furlong Sheer Drama for her lone triumph in eight tries over the surface. “She’s the kind of horse where we’re lucky,” Becker said. “We’re able to find a spot and put her in, and she shows up.” All five of her wins have come against Florida-breds, four in stakes, including the Millions Distaff Preview in November at Gulfstream Park West, her most recent victory. In between that 6DYH and her graded efforts, Wildwood’s Beauty was second in the FSS City of Ocala Dec. 14 at Tampa Bay Downs to J P’s Delight, who also returns in the Musical Romance. “We were looking at going to a couple of other graded races 2))48$576 before everything got shut down, but I’m happy to be able to run here again now, at a distance and track where she’s run well 2))*$//216 before,” Becker said. “There’s some good ones in there, and they’re capable of running well in open company, too.” Two-time defending Eclipse Award-winner Irad Ortiz Jr. will get a leg up on Wildwood’s Beauty for the first time from post three in a field of nine. “She’s always had a little bit of ability before she ever run. She was a little quirky filly when she was young so it took her a little longer to run as a 2-year-old,” Becker said. “We didn’t run her REIVFRP until the Gulfstream West meet late in her 2-year-old year, but +LJKZD\ after that everything has come together. She’s trained well and has $LUSRUW5RDG See GULFSTREAM on page 5 Back to Top to trainer Mark Casse on your well-deserved election to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. You have been such a signicant part of our team, and we thank you for your outstanding work with Live Oak Plantation homebred World Approval, Eclipse Champion Turf Male of 2017 and winner of that year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), as well as other multiple Graded stakes winners. Wishing you the best for continued success. Your friends at Live Oak Plantation Charlotte Weber, Mark Casse, and World Approval. 9275 SW 9th St Rd, Ocala, FL 34481 (352) 854-2691 | www.LiveOakStud.com Back to Top 3:32 PM Page 5 Gulfstream page 3 Continued from grown up.” Mathis Stable’s Grade 3-winner Bellera has dis- played similar consistency, with four wins and two seconds from seven starts for trainer Todd Pletcher, including a runner-up finish in her debut last May against older horses – her lone previous try at Gulfstream. The seven-furlong sprint was also the last time 4-year-old Bellera has run shorter than a mile-and- one-sixteenth. Her only time off the board came in her stakes debut, the Turnback the Alarm (G3) last fall at Aqueduct, where she lost rider Jose Lezcano after getting squeezed at the start. “She’s a filly that we feel is probably best at two turns, a mile-and-an-eighth, but being a Florida-bred we figured with limited opportunities this was our best option,” Pletcher said. “We fig- ured we’d give it a try and see what she can do.” Bellera has put together a two-race win streak, but hasn’t been out since a three-quarter-length vic- tory in the Jan. 19 Ladies Handicap at Aqueduct. She capped her sophomore season with a length- and-three-quarters triumph over previous undefeat- ed Arrifana in the Nov. 29 Comely (G3). Both races Florida-bred Two Sixty/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO came at a mile-and-one-eighth. them wins, including six of 11 at Gulfstream. Second behind Luis Saez will ride Bellera from post two. Stormy Embrace in last year’s Musical Romance, her only other “I like the way she’s training. She’s coming into the race in try at the distance, the speedy Lady’s Island owns four lifetime good order, we just hope that seven furlongs isn’t too short for stakes wins topped by the Sugar Swirl (G3) in December. She has her,” Pletcher said. “We shortened up her last couple works and won two straight, both in Tampa, the most recent an April 19 tried to put some kind of sharp half-miles into her and I like the starter optional claimer. way she’s coming into it. She’s certainly training like she’s ready Also entered are 2019 Claiming Crown Glass Slipper winner to go.” Liza Star; 2018 and 2019 Millions Filly & Mare Turf Preview win- Hall of Fame-elect trainer Mark Casse, who entered Got ner Picara; and multiple stakes winner Starship Bonita, making Stormy in the Powder Break, will send out Two Sixty and Oceans just her second start since finishing fifth in last year’s Musical of Love in the Musical Romance. Live Oak Plantation homebred Romance. Oceans of Love has not started in six months but takes a two-race win streak into her season and stakes debut. Gary Barber’s Two Sixty has raced twice this year, both in Tampa, winning the seven-furlong Gasparilla Stakes and finishing fifth in the one-mile, 40-yard Suncoast, the latter Feb. 8. The 3- year-old daughter of Uncaptured is two-for-four at Gulfstream, breaking her maiden at first asking last July and springing a front- running six-and-a-quarter-length upset of the FSS My Dear Girl CLICK HERE for the latest in September before a failed attempt in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile The Florida Horse ONLINE Fillies (G1).