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2019 Legislative Update Please Flatter Me Looks to Stay Undefeated $438,679 Rainbow Six Carry Over at Santa Anita Thursday Asmussen Barn Looking Forward to Gotham Yes I Am Free Tops Florida-bred Exacta in Texas Glitter Kentucky Derby Leaderboard Gulfstream Park Charts
Florida-bred World Approval/BILL DENVER/EQUIPHOTO Tampa Bay Downs Charts Florida Stallion Progeny List Eclipse Champion Florida Breeders’ List Wire to Wire Business Place World Approval Retired Featured Advertisers PRESS RELEASE______adjoining paddock to his dam and his multiple Graded stakes-winning siblings Ocala Stud Live Oak Plantation’s homebred Revved Up and Za Approval. Pleasant Acres Stallions World Approval, Eclipse Award champi- “How lucky we have been at Live Oak Double Diamond Farm on turf horse and Florida-bred Horse of Stud/Plantation to have championed such the Year of 2017 and winner of that a winning family,” said Charlotte Weber. Get Away Farm year’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile at “I am proud and privileged to have expe- Bridlewood Farm Del Mar, has been retired from racing. rienced this Sport of Kings with such The gelded, 7-year-old son of Northern outstanding racehorses and shall protect Florida Department of Agriculture Afleet is the last foal produced from the them as we grow older together.” FTBOA blue hen mare Win Approval. He is a World Approval rattled off three con- half-brother to Champion Turf Male and secutive Grade 1 victories to close out Seminole Feed Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner his 2017 campaign. He captured the College of Central Florida Miesque’s Approval and he will take up Foustardave Handicap (G1) at Saratoga Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply residence at Live Oak Stud in Ocala, by two-and-one-quarter lengths in Fla. World Approval will reside in an Journeyman Stud See WORLD APPROVAL on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 2019 Legislative Update
BY MATT BRYAN, casino gambling must be approved by a statewide vote of the FTBOA LOBBYIST ______citizens of the State of Florida. This amendment clearly makes destination resorts and other expanded gaming very difficult in The 60-day 2019 the future. More importantly, it takes the decision on expansion Legislative Session begins on of gaming out of the hands of the legislature (there are, howev- March 5, 2019 and is sched- er, some in the legislature who believe the issue is more open to uled to end on May 3. As interpretation than others in the process). If nothing else, the usual, predicting the results new restriction will force the legislature to take a much more of the session is a risky targeted approach to gaming and pari-mutuel legislation this proposition. Despite that coming session. fact, I am going to take a stab In addition, Amendment 13 was approved by the voters. This at it for the membership! amendment bans wagering on dog racing and will end dog rac- First, allow me to report on ing in Florida in the not too distant future. Now that the dog our recent activities. The track decoupling issue is settled, there should be less pressure to FTBOA Executive Committee decouple thoroughbred tracks this session. In recent meetings came to Tallahassee last week with the thoroughbred tracks, they expressed a desire to contin- on their annual lobbying trip. ue to run thoroughbreds, which is certainly very encouraging! Matt Bryan/FILE PHOTO They met with Senate Having discussed what is not likely to happen this session, President Bill Galvano, Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob let’s talk about what might actually occur over the next 10-12 Bradley, House Gaming Control Chairman David Santiago, weeks. Clearly, the Florida Senate is interested in passing a Senator Keith Perry, Senator Dennis Baxley, Senator Debbie Compact bill to lock in the payments from the Seminole Tribe Mayfield, House member Charlie Stone’s legislative aide, Evilio of Florida. The payments are currently around $350 million per Silvera, House Judiciary Chair and future House Speaker Paul year and some believe that the State could generate more rev- Renner, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried, and others. It enue from the Tribe in negotiations on a new Compact bill. The was certainly a long day at the Capitol, but rest assured that your Compact is the foundation of any bill this session and may be Association leadership discussed decoupling, increasing purses the only issue that is seriously considered. Many of the leading and breeder incentives, the disappointing situation with Calder, legislators are tired of the constant battling between the players and many more complicated pari-mutuel issues in great detail in the industry and think just passing a bill that locks in the rev- with the leadership of the House and Senate. enue from the Tribe is the best path to pursue. However, there It should be noted that even prior to the meeting just men- are others who are willing to put more issues into the mix. In tioned, a few weeks earlier FTBOA facilitated and organized a previous years, we would have been overjoyed not to see thor- rare in-person meeting in Tallahassee for the express purpose of oughbred issues on the table because it would have meant that finding legislative common ground. The meeting included own- there would be no thoroughbred decoupling. But with Calder ership and management principals, lobbyists and attorneys for likely planning to end all or some payments to purses and both tracks as well as leadership and lobbyists from the FHBPA breeder awards and race incentives of more than $12 million and OBS. Our message was simple, the only way we can get annually, we are actually encouraging the passage of a bill this something done legislatively for the thoroughbred industry is session. through a united industry effort while leaving competitive and The House is certainly in a “wait and see” mode and will self interests behind. We left that meeting feeling cautiously most likely react to the Senate bill which is no different from optimistic. We continue to count on our fellow stakeholders to previous years. We can also expect any House legislation to be work out their differences for the greater good of the entire even more narrowly focused than the Senate bill. industry. Our mission for the session is to defeat decoupling of thor- This session looks much different than previous sessions oughbred tracks, find a solution to the Calder problem as they because some of the most controversial issues have been charge down the path to end racing and become a jai-alai fron- resolved, or at least partially resolved, by amendments to the ton, and to increase purses and breeder incentives significantly. Florida Constitution approved by the voters in November 2019. While there is no guarantee that a bill will pass this session, I Amendment 3, Voter Control of Gambling, is now in the Florida can guarantee you that your Association leadership and I will be Constitution. The amendment provides that any expansion of working diligently to secure a result we can all celebrate! World Approval A stakes winner in four consecutive seasons (2015-2018), Continued from COVER August and followed that with a two-and-one-half-length World Approval recorded the first stakes win of his career in the score in the Woodbine Mile (G1) in September before defeat- 2015 Sophomore Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. The Oldsmar, ing an accomplished international field under John Velazquez Fla., oval was also home to his final stakes score, a win in the in the Breeders’ Cup Mile for trainer Mark Casse. World 2018 Tampa Bay Stakes (G3). All told, he won 10 stakes, eight Approval notched his first Grade 1 win in 2016, taking the of them Graded, and earned $3,062,363 in a stellar racing career United Nations Stakes (G1) at Monmouth Park. to ranked as the 12th richest Florida-bred of all-time.
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BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE______SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY—Please Flatter Me remains on target for the $250,000 Busher Invitational on Gotham Day Mar. 9, as trainer Mark Reid said the undefeated Munnings filly remains scheduled for one final workout at Pimlico before shipping to Aqueduct Racetrack. After starting her career three-for-three, including a five-and-three-quarter-length win in the seven-furlong Gin Talking last out on Dec. 29 at Laurel, Please Flatter Me will look to make an impression in her 3- year-old debut when she competes in the Busher, offering 50-20-10-5 qualifying points to the top-four finishers towards the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks on May 3 at Churchill Downs. She breezed a bullet five furlongs in :58.60 in her previous work at Pimlico on Aqueduct Racetrack/COGLIANESE PHOTO Feb. 16. “She’s training phenomenally and had a furlong Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies by Reid, who saddled his first winner in great work last week,” Reid said. “She’ll four lengths on Nov. 21 at Penn before 1976, according to Equibase, has won probably have one more breeze and a earning a personal-best 78 Beyer in the more than 1,700 races in his career but did blowout, but we’re planning on coming.” Gin Talking. Reid said the one-turn Busher not train from 2001-13, working as a Owned by Madaket Stables and the mile could suit her style. bloodstock agent in the interim before Heider Family, Please Flatter Me has suc- “You never know about two turns, but returning to training with two starters in cessfully stretched out in distance in every I’m very confident that a mile around one 2014. race, winning her debut in a five-furlong turn, she’ll be murder because she has Reid has five graded-stakes wins to his maiden special weight by eight-and-a-half plenty of natural speed and will dial it record, with the last coming in the 1992 lengths on Oct. 13 at Penn National. down a notch anytime you ask her,” Reid Grade 3 Vineland. Please Flatter Me has Stepping up in class, she won the six- said. the potential to end the 27-year drought. Bred by Mary Katherine Haire, Please “I’m sure if it was back in the day, I’d be Flatter Me has grown into her sizable a bundle of nerves, but I’m just enjoying frame, according to her connections. She it,” Reid said. “She’s easy to train, which $438,679 Rainbow also has been comfortable shipping. makes my job easier. The main thing is the Six Carry at Santa “She’s putting on the muscle now,” Reid [winning or losing] won’t change my life said. “She’s 16.1 [hands] and well over a one way or another. But it’s going to give Anita Thursday thousand pounds. There’s enough of her me great joy to do something I love; that’s there. She’s going to be able to stand the gap. why I got back into training. ARCADIA, CA—Live racing will “Her first two races, I shipped her from “To be honest, I didn’t think I’d stumble resume on Thursday at Santa Anita and Pimlico two hours to Penn, and she never across one of these [potential stakes win- a sizeable Jackpot carryover of picked her head up,” he added. “She has ners]. I was fortunate enough to do it and $438,679 will await fans wagering on that attitude of, ‘OK, is this what we’re I’m tickled pink to be training her. She’s so the popular 20 cent Single Ticket doing? All right.’ It’s never a problem.” good. She’s such a nice filly.” Rainbow Pick Six. With first post time for an eight-race card on Thursday set at 4 p.m. ET, the BARN CREW – FULL AND PART TIME AVAILABLE Rainbow Six will begin with race three, which has an approximate post time of BOTH LOCATIONS: OCALA & SUMMERFIELD 5 p.m. ET. There was $247,559 in “new” We have an immediate opening for an enthusiastic, money bet into Sunday’s Rainbow Six hard-working team player to join our Barn Crew. This position is sequence, creating a total pool of $629,560. With 276 consolation tickets, instrumental in ensuring the cleanliness of the barns and sup- each was worth $479.90. porting a healthy environment for our patients. Apply in person or call 1-352-237-6151, ext. 223 for more details. EOE/DFWP
Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Asmussen Barn Looking Forward to Stretching Out Tikhvin Flew in Gotham BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE______Busanda in good shape,” said Byron Hughes, assistant to trainer Todd Pletcher. SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY—Bloom “She’s back to the track galloping and her Racing Stable’s Tikhvin Flew, a bay son of energy is good. We’re happy with her over- Street Sense purchased for $110,000 at the all appearance so far.” Keeneland September Yearling Sale and in With one win and two seconds in the care of Hall of Fame conditioner Steve three starts at a mile or more, Hughes Asmussen, will look to make his graded- thinks Always Shopping just needed stakes debut in the $300,000 Gotham some distance to begin to show the best (Grade 3) at one-mile to be run on Mar. 9 of her ability. at Aqueduct. “It took her a little time to get acclimat- As part of New York’s Road to the ed to racing, but she’s always been want- Kentucky Derby series, the Gotham offers ing to go two-turns,” said Hughes. 50-20-10-5 qualifying points to the first “Timing wise, things worked out taking a four finishers. shot in the Busanda and thankfully things After impressively winning his debut worked out, so we’ll look to take the next going seven furlongs on Jan. 4 at the Big A step here targeting the Busher.” by a length-and-three-quarters, Tikhvin Steve Asmussen/LOU HODGES PHOTO Flew followed up on that performance by finishing a game third in the Jimmy Winkfield, also going seven furlongs on Feb. 9. Set to stretch out to a mile for the first time in the Gotham, assistant trainer Toby Sheets, who oversees Asmussen’s New York division, thinks the colt will appreci- ate the stretch out. “I think he will stretch out well,” said Sheets. “We’re going to play it by ear until we get the entries for the race, but he’s con- tinued to look good in the mornings and we’ll cross our fingers that he maintains his good form heading into the race.” Always Shopping Set For Next Step in Busher
After breaking her maiden in the $100,000 Busanda at a mile-and-one-eighth in her fourth career start to earn 10 qualify- ing points to the Kentucky Oaks (Grade 1), Repole Stable’s Always Shopping will take the next step towards the premier race for 3- year-old fillies by targeting the $250,000 Busher Invitational on Mar. 9. Always Shopping/ELSA LORIEUL PHOTO A Repole Stable homebred sired by multiple-graded-stakes-winner Awesome Prominent Employment Opportunity Again and out of multiple graded-stakes- placed-mare Stopshoppingmaria, Always General Superintendent, Shopping made an inauspicious debut on Experienced Broodmare Employee, July 29 at Saratoga Race Course, where she ran fifth. Training Groom & Maintenance Person Following a pair of seconds in the fall Excellent Benefits and Year Round Employment. at Belmont and Aqueduct, she stalked a Call today to set up interview with nationally recognized field of nine to win the Busanda by a Home of 2018 Grade 1 Thoroughbred Farm in the heart of Ocala and become part of length and one-quarter. Winner’s UNBRIDLED MO our Grade 1 Winning Team! “She came out of her race in the and MIND CONTROL Call: 352-804-6691
Back to Top Back to Top Page 9 Florida-bred Weekend Recap Yes I Am Free Tops Florida-bred Exacta in Texas Glitter BY BROCK SHERIDAN______Florida-breds Yes I Am Free and Jackson completed the Sunshine State exacta respectively as they caught long- shot Gladiator King in Deep Stretch to win the $75,000 Texas Glitter Stakes at Gulfstream Park Saturday. The Texas Glitter presented a field of nine 3-year- olds going five furlongs on the turf. Yes I Am Free remained undefeated in two starts for owner Gary Barber and trainer Mark Casse as he had previously won a maiden special weight at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 17 while leading from start to finish, also at five furlongs on the grass. However, Yes I Am Free and jockey Irad Oritz Jr. were unable to get the early lead in the Texas Glitter as the Irish-bred Never Have I Ever from post eight and Gladiator King from the number nine gate got the early advantage. Yes I Am Free was never far behind down the backstretch as he stalked in third from about two lengths off Florida-bred Yes I Am Free (#4)/LESLIE MARTIN PHOTO of the top two. Meanwhile, Jackson was Ever continued to lead around the far turn Crosstown Shootout, Standup and Half racing in ninth and last after bumping at as Yes I Am Free ranged up on the outside Shot completed the order of finish. the start with 50-1 longshot Halfshot. as they made their way into the stretch. Yes I Am Free is by the Ocala Stud After a first quarter-mile in a very rapid Never Have I Ever and Gladiator King stallion Uncaptured out of Yes It’s Valid, :21.41, Gladiator King and Never Have I were heads apart after a half-mile in :44.05 by Yes It’s True. He was bred by Sherry R. but the pace was beginning to take its toll Mansfield and Kenneth H. Davis and he on the leaders as Yes I Am Free moved up earned $44,640 to increase his earnings to to challenge in deep stretch and Jackson $75,340 in his two races. was making a furious run from last. He went off as the 2-1 second choice Yes I Am Free moved past Gladiator behind favorite Standup in the Texas King inside the sixteenth pole and was Glitter where he paid $6.40, $3.60 and $3. able to hold off Jackson from between Yes I Am Free is also a graduate of the horses as a half-length separated the two 2018 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Open Sale of Florida-breds at the finish in a time of 2-year-olds in training held in June. There :56.21. Gladiator King held on for third, a he brought a price tag of $135,000 on a neck better than R Boy Bode in fourth. final bid from Justin Casse as an agent. Never Have I Ever, Running for Riz, He was consigned by Hawks Nest Farm.
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