Florida-Bred Speech Leads Six Runners in Friday's Beaumont Stakes
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ftboa.com • Thursday • July 9, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION Florida-bred Speech Leads FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION Six Runners In Friday's or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or Beaumont Stakes email: [email protected] BY KEENELAND PRESS OFFICE ____________ In This Issue: LEXINGTON, KY—Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Shivaree Draws First Post for Blue Grass Madaket Stables LLC’s Speech headlines a field of six 3-year- Shackleford Filly Fastest at Under Tack old fillies in the 35th running of the $100,000 Beaumont Stakes Brown Proud of Instilled Regard (G3) Presented by Keeneland Select. The seven furlong Long Weekend Seeks Fourth Victory Beaumont will be run on turf and offers 34 points on the Road Social Paranoia Pointed to Fourstardave to the Sept. 4 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) on a 20-8- Keith Asmussen to Make Riding Debut 4-2 scale to the top four finish- ers. The Beaumont will go as the Track Results & Entries seventh race on Friday’s nine- race program with a 4:24 p.m. Gulfstream Park Charts post time. The Michael McCarthy- Florida Stallion Progeny List trained Speech will try to snap a streak of four consecutive sec- Florida Breeders’ List ond-place finishes, the last of which came in the Grade 2 Santa Wire to Wire Business Place Anita Oaks won by Swiss Skydiver over a mile-and-a-six- Featured Advertisers teenth at the Great Race Place on June 6. She was also a runner-up Bloodstockauction USA to the Bob Baffert-trained Gamine, who won the Longines FTBOA Acorn Stakes (G1) at Belmont on Florida Department of Agriculture June 20 in her next start, and to Florida Equine Communications winner Donna Volce in the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes at Santa Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company Anita in March. de Meric Thoroughbred Sales Speech is by Mr Speaker out Eddie Woods Stables of Scribbling Sarah and was bred Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply in Florida by Gail Rice. She has won one of six career starts while RiceHorse Stables banking $113,840 in earnings. Six K’s Training & Sales, LLC See BEAUMONT on page 3 Four Graces/COADY PHOTO Seminole Feed Back to Top Page 3 Beaumont Continued from COVER She is also a graduate of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales 2019 March Sale where she was consigned by SBM Training and Sales and garnered a final bid of $190,000 from her current owners. She was also sold at OBS as a yearling by Summerfield for $65,000 to First Finds. Speech will be ridden in the Beaumont by Javier Castellano and they have drawn post two. They are the 7-5 program favorites. Also look for JoAnn and Alex Lieblong’s Wicked Whisper, winner of last fall’s Frizette Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park, who will make her 2020 debut Friday. Trained by Steve Asmussen and to be ridden by Joel Rosario, Wicked Whisper has not raced since finishing fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Santa Anita. Wicked Whisper will break from post four and is the second choice in the morning line at 3-1. Looming as one of the main threats to Speech and Wicked Whisper is Whitham Thoroughbreds’ Four Graces. Winner of the Dogwood Stakes (G3) last month at Churchill Downs, Four Graces has won three of four career starts for trainer Ian Wilkes. Julien Leparoux has the mount Friday and will exit post position three. Another possible contender is Sconsin at 9-2 in the program. Trained by Gregory Foley for Lloyd Madison Farms, Sconsin won a first condition, $75,000 optional claiming race in her last start at Churchill on June 13. Prior to that race, Sconsin was fourth behind Four Graces in a May 16 optional claiming race with the same conditions. The field for the Beaumont Presented by Keeneland Select, with riders and weights from the rail out, is: Slam Dunk, Speech, Four Graces, Wicked Whisper, Sconsin and Turtle Trax. CLICK HERE for the latest The Florida Horse ONLINE Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Florida-bred Shivaree Draws Post One for Blue Grass, Swiss Skydiver in Post Seven BY BROCK SHERIDAN____________________________ LEXINGTON, KY—Keeneland officials held the post posi- tion draw for the $600,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes Wednesday morning and Jacks or Better Farms Inc.’s Shivaree has drawn post one while Swiss Skydiver, who will try to become the first filly to win the track’s marquee event, will break from post seven. The Blue Grass will be run at a mile-and-one-eighth and a field of nine 3-year-olds have entered Saturday’s edition. Shivaree exits a third-place finish behind winner Sole Volante in a $100,000 optional claiming race at Gulfstream Park on June 10 at a mile and a second-place finish to winner Tiz the Law in the Grade 1 Curlin Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on March 28. By Ocala Stud stallion Awesome of Course out of Garter Belt, by Anasheed, Shivaree has won three of 11 starts includ- Florida-bred Shivaree/RYAN TOMPSON PHOTO ing the $75,000 Limehouse Stakes at Gulfstream on Jan. 4 and the Mike Smith gets the return mount. Buffalo Man Stakes, also at Gulfstream on Nov. 30. The Blue Grass will offer qualifying points for the Grade 2 Bred in the Sunshine State by Jacks or Better Farm, Shivaree Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve to be run Sept. 5 at has earned $344,005. Churchill Downs. The top four finishers in the Blue Grass will receive Swiss Skydiver has dominated the 3-year-old filly division thus 100-40-20-10 points towards a starting spot in the Run for the Roses. far in 2020 with victories in the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Park Oaks The nine entrants for the Blue Grass include Shivaree, Finnick (G2) in March, in the Grade 3 Fantasy Stakes at Oaklawn on May 1 the Fierce, Art Collector, Man in the Can, Hard Lighting, Swiss and in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks at Santa Anita on June 6. Skydiver, Basin and Attachment Rate. Swiss Skydiver is trained by Kenneth McPeek for Peter J. Callahan No morning line had been set for the Blue Grass Stakes at press and she has won four of seven career starts with earnings of $557,980. time. Additional coverage will appear in the coming issues of She is by Daredevil out of Expo Gold, by Johannesburg and Wire to Wire. Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Shackleford Filly Fastest at July Sale Under Tack Show Monday Session BY OBS PRESS OFFICE _______ in :21.20. Hip 51, consigned by G. A. OCALA, FL—Hip 15, Shack’s Lil Thoroughbred Sales as an agent, is Mishap, a daughter of Shackleford a bay filly by Jack Milton out of consigned by Jesse Hoppel’s Coastal Purely Promising, by Pure Prize, a Equine LLC as an agent, breezed a half-sister to stakes-winner Code quarter-mile in :20.80 to post the Satan. fastest work at the distance at the Hip 103, a bay colt by Not This opening session of the Under Tack Time consigned by Ocala Stud, is a Show for Ocala Breeders’ Sales half-brother to stakes-winner Company’s 2020 July Sale of Two Softly Lit out of Running Creek, by Year Olds in Training & Horses of Cape Town, a daughter of graded Racing Age Monday. The bay filly is stakes-winner Palliser Bay. out of Peace Queen, by Indian Hip 107, consigned by Charlie, a half-sister to graded Goldencents Thoroughbreds, is stakes-winner Tizaqueena. Florida-bred filly by Hip 120, a dark bay or brown colt Itsmyluckyday out of Sadie, by by Air Force Blue consigned by Ocala Stud stallion In Summation, Brick City Thoroughbreds as an a half-sister to stakes placed Lucky agent, turned in a quarter-mile in :21 Peridot, from the family of champi- flat. He’s a half-brother to stakes- on Storm Song. The filly was bred placed Take Ten out of Savviest, by by Marion G. Montanari. El Corredor, from the family of Hip 113, a dark bay or brown Grade 1-winner Tactical Cat. filly by Raison d’Etat consigned by Five youngsters worked quarters Bobby Dodd/FASIG-TIPTON PHOTO See OBS on page 9 Walking Videos from our OBS July consignment are now available for viewing. Click Here Our approach and philosophy for training and preparing horses for the sales ring and the track have helped Woods establish a reputation for having horses’ best interest in mind. 14840 W. Highway 40 • Ocala, Florida Cell: 352.427.9995 • Office: 352.489.8915 Back to Top BE SURE TO CALL EARLY AND PLACE YOUR ADS IN WIRE TO WIRE & WIRE TO WIRE.Auction FOR THE UPCOMING OBS SALES July Two-Year-Olds & Horses of Racing Age July 14-16, 2020 CALL EARLY TO ASSURE GOOD PLACEMENT OF YOUR AD IN WIRE TO WIRE 352-732-8858 Call or email [email protected] 38350 Back to Top Page 9 OBS page 7 stakes-winner Runway Model, dam of multiple Grade 1-winner Continued from Brandon and Ali Rice’s RiceHorse Stable, is out of stakes- McKinzie. placed Sally’s Dream, by Utopia (Jpn), a half-sister to stakes- Hip 115, a chestnut filly Malibu Moon consigned by Ciaran winner Shot Berry. Dunne’s Wavertree Stables, Inc., as an agent, is out of Hip 130, consigned by Blue River Bloodstock, Inc., as an Samsational, by Unbridled’s Song, a half-sister to Grade 1 agent, is a dark bay or brown filly by Summer Front out of stakes-winner I Want Revenge.