ftboa.com • Saturday & Sunday • Sept. 12 & 13, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Horse Farms Forever Welcomes Quail Roost Foundation as Supporters American Pharoah Colt Tops Second Session of Selected Yearling Showcase Lynch Seeking First Career Win Kwist Gives Nyquist First Md. Winner President’s Remarks Ruling Angel Stakes Listed on Queen’s Florida-bred Lontano/FILE PHOTO Plate Undercard Florida-bred Duo Invade Gulfstream Park Charts Queen’s Plate Day Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List BY TAMMY A. GANTT ______________ added blinkers for the race. The horse caught the eye of current Florida Breeders’ List Florida-breds Lontano and Cajun owner, Stonestreet Stables, who was will- Casanova face off against Francatelli, the ing to spend $535,000 for the horse at the Wire to Wire Business Place 8-5 favorite, in the $100,000 King Corrie 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sales April Two- Stakes on the Queen’s Plate Day undercard Year-Olds-in-Training sale. Lontano was in a five-furlong sprint for three-year-olds bred by Ocala Stud and is by Street Boss, on the inner turf course at Woodbine on out of Woodland Park, a Bernardini mare. Featured Advertisers Saturday. His last race out was July 30 over the While Lontano is at morning line odds course at Woodbine where he finished Florida Department of Agriculture of 10-1, the lightly raced colt is trained fourth. His only win in four starts came FTBOA by 11 time record-breaking Canadian on March 14 at the Fair Grounds in a Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. trainer of the year Mark Casse. In May, maiden special weight where he bested the Casse was inducted into the U.S. Racing field by three-and-a-quarter lengths. He Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Hall of Fame and has earned more than Seminole Feed $174 million in purse earnings. Casse has FLORIDA-BRED DUO See on page 3 Fred Burton Paving Back to Top Page 3 Florida-bred Cajun Casanova/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Florida-bred Duo Continued from COVER will be ridden by multiple graded stakes winning jockey Rafael Manuel Hernandez. The other Florida-bred in the race, Cajun Casanova, goes off at 5-1 with Patrick Husbands on board for trainer Michael V. Pino. Owned by Smart Angle LLP, the colt was bred by Frank D. Yates’ Shadybrook Farm in Morriston. Out of ten starts, the horse has four firsts, one second and two thirds with earnings of $186,750. One of the rare times the horse hasn’t finished in the money was his last time out at Monmouth Park on July 12 where he finished sixth in the My Frenchman Stakes. Since then, he has been posting regular workouts at Parx Racing. The 2017 colt is by Cajun Breeze and is out of the Concerto mare Theladysaidno. Theladysaidno was bred to Cajun Breeze annu- ally from 2016 to 2019, meaning Cajun Casanova has three full siblings. The up and coming Florida-breds will be in tough company as they face the 8-5 favorite Fracatelli. A newcomer to the course, the Kentucky-bred City Zip gelding has won his last two of four starts including an impressive nine-and-a-half length win at Laurel Park in a five-and-a-half furlong allowance race in mid- August. Justin Stein gets the call aboard the Cathal Lynch trainee, who is co-owned by Maribeth Sandford. Among the contenders they face is local Greenwood Stakes champion Forester’s Turn, who is five-for-seven lifetime for train- er Robert Tiller and owner/breeder Rolph Davis. Another Casse trainee is also in the field, Duke of Carthania. See Forever and Aye Aye Sir round out the field. 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The Foundation was founded to honor the bred Prove Out, but Hobeau Farm was his owner. memory of Harriet and Elmer Heubeck, Jr. Kerry, Elmer’s son, grew up on Rosemere, which was owned The Heubecks are considered true pioneers in the Florida thor- by Carl Rose, and managed by Elmer until early 1961. It was a oughbred horse industry and thousand acres, and when you drive were partners in marriage on Highway 200, passing the inter- and business for more than section with Shady Lane, you are 63 years. They passed away traveling the northernmost border of less than two months apart the original property. in 2003, but their legacy Kerry remembers his idyllic life of lives on with the Quail roaming rolling pasturelands, riding Roost Foundation. In the horses and playing around a magical 1940s, the Heubecks man- spring and sinkhole. He hunted for aged Rosemere Farm, the first thoroughbred horse farm in Marion arrowheads after rainstorms, and wandered through the oak County. In the early 1960s, they built and managed Hobeau Farm, forests every day. Kerry fondly remembers Rosemere as “a beau- as well as their own farm, Quail Roost, where they raised thor- tiful place. There was no way it couldn’t stay that way forever.” He oughbreds, cattle, and exotic game. Quail Roost Farm was so thought that the land’s beauty would be all the protection it would unique as it brought together one of Florida’s best-known thor- ever need. oughbred breeding and training venues, a large purebred and com- However, Rosemere was sold and all but 26 acres of the 1,000- mercial beef operation, and one of the finest private exotic game acre farm is covered in concrete and commercial buildings. The preserves in the nation. magical spring and the cave still exist, although it is now known Elmer is most well-known for building and managing Hobeau as Scott Springs Park and owned by Marion County. The park is farm, owned by Jack Dreyfus. Elmer also broke and trained the bordered by a Wal-Mart parking lot. young horses at the farm, which were then they were sent to the track The Heubeck family held a deep love for the land upon which with trainer Allen Jerkens. Kerry recalls that his dad was a well- they lived and worked. Witnessing the loss of the beloved respected trainer. One trainer mentioned that when they received Rosemere Farm, Kerry was inspired to protect Quail Roost, his horses from Elmer, they were ready to go to the track in two days. family’s farm, with a conservation easement. American Pharoah Colt Tops Second Session of Selected Yearlings Showcase FASIG-TIPTON PRESS RELEASE ____________________ for SF/Starlight/Madaket from the consignment of Indian Creek, agent. Hip 501 is the first foal out of Blind Copy, a full The Selected Yearlings Showcase concluded its two-day run sister to juvenile stakes winner Lucky Folie, from the immedi- in Lexington, Ky. on Thursday with another solid session of ate family of Grade 1 winners Golden Pheasant and Henley's sales, led by a seven-figure colt from the third crop of last Joy. Hip 501 was bred in Kentucky by Fifth Avenue year's champion first-crop sire American Pharoah. Bloodstock. Speedway Stables purchased the session-topper for The sale's top priced filly came during the first session, $1,250,000 from the consignment of Denali Stud, agent. when Hip 232, a filly by Quality Road out of Irish One Offered as Hip 400, the American Pharoah colt is out of the Thousand Guineas (G1) winner Marvellous (Ire) sold to stakes winning Victory Gallop mare Swingit, whose first five Robbie Medina, agent for Joseph Allen, for $1,500,000. The starters are all winners, including multiple Grade 1 placed top filly was consigned by Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency, agent. millionaire Neolithic (Harlan's Holiday). This colt is also a "One of the greatest compliments you can have is when half-sibling to Travel Column (Frosted), who broke her maid- someone entrusts you with something of value," said Fasig- en impressively on debut at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Tipton President Boyd Browning on the success of the sale Oaks day. The session topper hails from the immediate family despite the uncertainty brought to the industry by the of champions Housemaster and Carnuaba. Hip 400 was bred Coronavirus-19 pandemic. "Our commitment to those men in Kentucky by Mr.