ftboa.com • Saturday & Sunday • May 15 & 16, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FSS Yearling Deadline EXTENDED TO MONDAY May 17* - $250 Click here for form Click here to check eligibility *Deadline falls on a Saturday In This Issue: Collaborate to Make Noise in The Roar Memorial Service: Peggy Sprinkles Bienville Street Returns in Powder Break Laki Tests Streak in Maryland Sprint The Chosen Vron Heads Lazaro Barrera S Florida-bred Medina Spirit/JERRY DZIERWINSKI PHOTO Dontletsweetfoolya Back in Skipat Medina Spirit the One to Fillies’ Mower & Myrtle Fundraiser Catch in Preakness Stakes Gulfstream Park Charts Track Results & Entries BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ A field of 10 3-year-olds have entered the Preakness, which will be contested at a Medina Spirit, the Florida-bred winner mile-and-three-sixteenths. Florida Stallion Progeny List of the Kentucky Derby presented by Baffert is hoping to continue with his Woodford Reserve (Grade 1) on May 1 at success of bringing his Derby winners to Florida Breeders’ List Churchill Downs, is the 9-5 favorite to win Pimlico for the Preakness. Five of his pre- Saturday’s $1 million Preakness Stakes vious six Derby winners also won the Wire to Wire Business Place (G1), the second jewel of thoroughbred Preakness in their next starts with racing’s Triple Crown. Authentic the only Derby winner from the While trainer Bob Baffert disclosed Baffert barn to miss that prestigious dou- Featured Advertisers Sunday that his team had been notified by ble. Last year, Authentic was second to the the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission filly Swiss Skydiver in the Preakness. His Florida Department of Agriculture that a post-race sample taken from Medina other Derby-Preakness winners include Spirit tested positive for 21 picograms of Florida-bred Silver Charm (1997), Real FTBOA the therapeutic drug betamethasone, (10 Quiet (1998), War Emblem (2002), Journeyman Stud picograms is the legal limit) there has been American Pharoah (2015) and Justify no ruling on the matter as Kentucky offi- (2018). Baffert has also won the Preakness Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply cials await the results of additional testing. with Point Given in 2001 and with Therefore, Medina Spirit continues Looking and Lucky in 2010. Ocala Stud onto the next leg of the Triple Crown at A victory in the Preakness would give Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Seminole Feed See PREAKNESS on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Preakness Continued from COVER Baffert the all-time record for Preakness victories as he is current- ly tied with Ben Perkins and is one ahead of Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas with six. Should Medina Spirit win the Preakness, he would follow the same four-race pattern of Silver Charm. Before their Derby victo- ries, both finished second in the Grade 2 San Felipe in March of their respective 3-year-old campaigns and in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby in early April. Bred in Florida by Gail Rice, Medina Spirit is by Protonico out of Mongolian Changa, by the Florida-bred stallion Brilliant Speed. He is a two-time graduate of Ocala Breeders’ Sales includ- ing when purchased for $1,000 by Christy Whitman out of the 2019 Winter Mixed Sales. That is the least expensive purchase of a future Kentucky Derby winner at public auction according to the Kentucky Derby media guide, which goes back to 1960 with their See PREAKNESS on page 5 France Go de Ina/JIM MCCUE PHOTO Florida-breds Make Florida Racing Did you know Florida-bred thoroughbreds won 31.5% of races run at the recent Gulfstream Park Championship Meet? This demonstrates how vital Florida-breds are to the success of Gulfstream Park throughout the year—not just during the Spring/Summer season. Additional good news for Florida breeders—66% of those Florida-bred winners during the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet were sired by Florida stallions. Florida-breds: Race ‘Em or Chase ‘Em! Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Preakness Continued from page 3 and three thirds from eight figures. starts while earning $461,420. Whitman then sold Medina Spirit By Tiznow out of Catch the for $35,000 at the 2020 OBS Open Moon, by Malibu Moon, Sale held in July where he was pur- Midnight Bourbon will be rid- chased by current owner Zedan den from post five by Irad Racing Stables on the advice of Ortiz Jr. bloodstock agent Gary Young. Trainer Chad Brown looks Medina Spirit has won half of his for his second Preakness win six career races with three seconds after taking the race in 2017 while earning $2,175,200. Should he with Cloud Computing. win the Preakness, Medina Spirit Labeled at 10-1 in the pro- would be the seventh Florida-bred to gram, Crowded Trade comes win the race following Carry Back in into the Preakness off of a 1961, Affirmed (1978), Codex (1980), third-place finish behind long- Aloma’s Ruler (1982), Gate Dancer shot Bourbonic in the Grade 2 (1984) and Afleet Alex in 2005. Wood Memorial presented by John Velazquez will ride Medina Midnight Bourbon/JIM MCCUE PHOTO Resorts World Casino over a Spirit for the fourth time in the mile-and-one-eighth. Preakness and they will depart from Lightly raced with only post three. three career stars, Crowded Baffert has also entered Concert Trade won his first career Tour in the Preakness for owners starts against special weight Gary and Mary West. maidens on Jan. 28 before fin- Concert Tour has won three of ishing second by a nose to four career starts with his only Weyburn in the Grade 3 defeat coming when third behind Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct winner Super Stock in the Grade 1 on March 6 going a mile. Arkansas Derby on April 10 at Crowded Trade is by More Oaklawn. Than Ready out of Maude S., Before that, the son of Street by Jump Start and he has Sense out of Purse Strings, by Tapit earned $179,000 for owner defeated a field of special weight Seth Klarman in the name of maidens by three-and-a-half lengths his Klaravich Stables Inc. on Jan. 15 before winning both the Brown has given the riding Grade 2 San Vincente Stakes over assignment of Crowded Trade seven furlongs on Feb. 6, both at to Javier Castellano and they Concert Tour/JIM MCCUE PHOTO Santa Anita. He was then impres- have post four. sive in winning the Grade 2 Rebel by four-and-a-quarter lengths Brown will also saddle Risk Taking, who was seventh in the at Oaklawn before faltering in the Arkansas Derby. Wood and won the Grade 3 Withers Stakes two starts back. Concert Tour was still a qualifier for the Kentucky Derby but Risk Taking is by Medaglia d’Oro out of Run a Risk, by Baffert withdrew him from consideration in the weeks leading up Distorted Humor and he has won two of five career starts with to the Run for the Roses. earnings of $200,030. Concert Tour has earned $856,600 in his four races and Mike Jose Ortiz will ride the 15-1 morning line shot from post nine. Smith will ride for the first time. They will break from the outside Adding international intrigue to the Preakness is France Go de post 10 and are the second choice in the morning line at 5-2. Ina, the Japane-based colt who was last seen finishing sixth in the Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen will be trying for his third Group 2 UAE Derby present by Emirates NBD. Preakness win Saturday with 5-1 morning line selection Midnight Trained by Mori Hideyuki for Yuji Inaida, France Go de Ina Bourbon. Asmussen won the 2007 Preakness with Curlin and two broke his maiden in his second career start by four lengths at years later with the filly Rachel Alexandra. Hanshin Race Course in Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan on Nov. 28 Midnight Bourbon was sixth in the Derby after being bumped before winning an allowance race there by five lengths on Dec. early in the race and is one of only three Preakness starters who 19. The UAE Derby at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai has been his ran in the Derby with Medina Spirit and Keepmeinmind. only start of 2021. Owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC, Midnight Bourbon’s Joel Rosario will ride the chestnut colt by Will Take Charge out last stakes victory came in the Grade 3 Lecomte at Fair Grounds of Dreamy Blues, by Curlin and they have post seven. France Go on Jan. 16 but the bay colt took a consistent record to Louisville de Ina is 20-1 in the morning line. with a third in the Grade 2 Risen Star won by Mandaloun on Feb. The remainder of the field in post position order is recent 13 and a second in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby won by Hot Rod maiden winner Ram for trainer D. Wayne Lukas, Kentucky Jockey Charlie on March 20. The Risen Star and Louisiana Derby were Club (G2)-winner Keepmeinmind, El Camino De Real Derby- also run at Fair Grounds. winner Rombauer and Stonestreet Lexington Stakes second-place Midnight Bourbon has a career record of two wins, two second finisher Unbridled Honor. Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Collaborate Looks to Make Noise in The Roar BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE _______________ three or four lengths, I could have blamed the draw,” Joseph said. “But he just came up empty. He went from traveling good to HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. knew he was empty.