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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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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. I just feel maybe the two turns got to him.” taking a big gamble when he entered lightly raced Collaborate in Saturday’s sprint stakes should be more to Collaborate’s liking, the Curlin Florida Derby (Grade 1) off an impressive maiden win. Joseph said. And it could position him for major stakes this sum- And the result, a fifth-place finish, validated his initial concern mer. Joseph has set the Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on that perhaps it was too Aug. 28 as one potential much too soon. target for the son of Into “We were trying to get Mischief. a little adventurous,” “You want to think Joseph acknowledged of ambitiously with horses,” the one-shot, all-or-noth- Joseph said. “If this horse ing attempt to reach the shows up, he’ll be very Kentucky Derby (G1). tough to beat. He has to “Maybe it was a little win Saturday to justify quick off a maiden win. going on any further. He But I still believe in him. has to prove he can beat I haven’t lost faith in horses. But this is going him.” to be a test.” With the Triple Crown Collaborate, who will no longer a considera- be ridden for the first tion, Joseph has devised time by Edwin Gonzalez, a new campaign for the could face his stiffest 3-year-old, starting with challenge from two of his Saturday’s $75,000 The stablemates, Moonlite Roar at Gulfstream Park. Strike and Lauda Speed. Collaborate will face five Sonata Stable’s Moonlite Collaborate/COGLIANESE PHOTO rivals in the six-and-a- Strike ran third in the half-furlong stakes, including two of his own stablemates. Tampa Bay Derby (G2) while Stefania Farms’ Lauda Speed fin- “We’re going back to one turn,” Joseph said. “I think that’s ished third in the six-furlong Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream on going to be his strength.” March 6. Joseph said he fully intends to race all three horses in Collaborate, owned by Three Chimneys Farm and e Five The Roar. Racing Thoroughbreds, created an instant buzz in late February “All three are going to run,” Joseph said. “This race was the tar- when he broke his maiden by more than 12 lengths in a one-turn get for all three. But we’ve got to beat the other three horses, too.” mile event. That performance was so electric that Collaborate was The rest of the field includes Penny Lopez’s Oh Steve, fresh off sent off as the 9-2 second choice in the Florida Derby. a maiden win, Arindel Stable’s Florida-bred Gatsby, which will be But Collaborate was unable to duplicate his maiden win, faded seeking his first stakes win, and Just for Fun Stable’s Florida-bred late in the mile-and-one-eighth stakes, and lost by nearly 15 Warrior’s Pride, who is exiting a win in the Texas Glitter Stakes at lengths to winner Known Agenda. five furlongs on the turf. Joseph said the colt’s outside post position nine was not to Of his three horses, Joseph said “I think Collaborate has shown blame. the most ability of all of them. But the others have all proven “If he had carried himself to the sixteenth pole and got beat by themselves and have more experience.”
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Back to Top Page 9 Bienville Street Looks to Return to Winning Ways in Powder Break
BY BROCK SHERIDAN______CJ Thoroughbreds and DTF Racing LLC’s Florida-bred Bienville Street will try to reverse her recent form Saturday when she goes in the $75,000 Powder Break at Gulfstream Park. A field of 14 fillies and mares, including two Florida-breds with main track only designations, 3- year-olds and older have entered the one mile turf event. Trained by Cam Gambolati, Bienville Street start- ed the year with a neck victory ahead of Powder Break rival and fellow Florida-bred Mo of the West in the $75,000 Sunshine Filly and Mare Turf for state- breds going a mile-and-one-sixteenths on Jan. 16. However, the 6-year-old daughter of Street Boss has since faltered with two off the board finishes Florida-bred Bienville Street/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO in the Grade 3 Honey Fox won by Got Stormy on Feb. 27 going a mile on turf at Gulfstream and in the $100,000 Pleasant Acres Stallion Distaff Turf won by Summering on Jockey Edwin Gonzalez Tallies Five Wins Florida Cup day at Tampa Bay Downs on March 28. Out of Milk Run, by Running Stag, Bienville Street was bred on Thursday’s Card at Gulfstream in Florida by Double W Thoroughbred Racing Inc. She has won Edwin Gonzalez continued to make his presence felt in the five of 34 career starts with three seconds and seven thirds with South Florida jockey colony, riding the winners of five races earnings of $236,735. Thursday at Gulfstream Park. She will be ridden by Samy Camacho from post six and is 9-2 The native of Puerto Rico, who won at a better-than-30% clip in the program. the previous two years at Penn National, has ridden 33 winners at Favored at 3-1 in the morning line is Morning Molly from the the Spring/Summer Meet since moving his tack to South Florida. barn of trainer Thomas Proctor and set to carry the white and red Gonzalez won aboard silks of owner Willow Lane Stable Inc. Laurel Canyon in Morning Molly comes into the Powder Break with similar form Thursday’s second race, as Bienville Street having finished sixth behind winner War Like K’s Running Free in the Goddess in the Grade 3 Orchid Stakes going a mile-and-three- third, Karen’s Cove in the eighths on turf at Gulfstream on March 27 in her last start. fourth, Vow Me Now in Before that, the 5-year-old mare was second to Michelin in the the fifth and Panarea in Grade 2 Hillsborough going a mile-and-one-eighth on the turf at the eighth and final race Tampa Bay Downs on March 6 after she won the $75,000 Jersey on the program. Lily Stakes going a mile-and-one-sixteenth on the turf at Sam A multiple group Houston on Jan. 31. stakes winner in his native Morning Molly is by Morning Line out of Honor Your Gift, by Puerto Rico, where he Sightseeing and she has won four of nine career starts with three won 443 races before seconds and earnings of $153,280. coming to the U.S. in The third choice in the morning line at 4-1 is Belle Laura, a 5- 2013, Gonzalez is closing year-old mare trained by Juan Avila for GU Racing Stable LLC. in on 1,500 career wins. The daughter of Florida-bred stallion Mucho Macho Man out He ranked 14th overall in of Belle Chaussee, by Giant’s Causeway was eighth in the Orchid North American wins in in her last race after finishing second to Antoinette in the Grade 3 2020 with 177 and 11th in The Very One Stakes going a mile-and-three-sixteenths at 2019 with 236.
Gulfstream on Feb. 27. Edwin Gonzalez/SV PHOTOGRAPHY “We’ve been north Belle Laura has won four of 16 lifetime starts with a second here the last two years and and three thirds while earning $238,339. it’s been good,” Gonzalez said at the start of the meet in explaining Edgard Zayas will ride from post two. his decision to ride at Gulfstream. “But we only race two days a The remainder of the field includes North Broadway, Lashara week and I’d like to ride at a better track with some better horses. (GB), Florida-bred Sky Chaser, Florida-bred Crumb Bun, Katama I’m looking forward to riding here during the summer. I’ll keep Moonlight, Jabuticaba, Florida-bred Kelsey’s Cross, Shifty She working hard to win some races.” and Florida-bred Mo of the West. Sky Chaser and Crumb Bun He is represented by agent Kevin Meyocks. both carry the main track only designation. — Gulfstream Park Press Office
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Back to Top Page 11 Laki Tests Pimlico Streak in Maryland Sprint BY PIMLICO a half-length triumph in PRESS OFFICE ______Pimlico’s six-furlong Frank Y. Whiteley April 24. BALTIMORE—Already having “I always thought he would stretched his streak of having like this surface. Going back captured at least one stakes in and looking at his races, maybe each of the past five years, it wasn’t so much his doing. I Hillside Equestrian Meadows’ think in a couple of them he Grade 3-winner Laki goes after got bounced around. I don’t his third straight victory at care where he is, he finds trou- Pimlico Race Course in ble. He could be in an elevator Saturday’s $150,000 Maryland by himself and he’ll bump into Sprint (G3). something. So maybe it was The 34th running of the that,” Dilodovico said. “I kind Maryland Sprint is for 3-year- of felt like this surface would olds and older and is among 10 be good to him, but his last stakes, six graded, worth $2.25 Laki/JIM MCCUE PHOTO couple have been fantastic. As million in purses on a spectacu- long as he keeps doing that, it’s lar 14-race program headlined by the 146th renewal of the way better than the other stuff.” Preakness Stakes (G1), Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown. Regular rider Horacio Karamanos has the call from the rail in First race post time is 10:30 a.m. a field of 11. Bred and based in Maryland with trainer Damon Dilodovico, Euro Stable’s Lebda will face Laki for the fifth straight race, Laki has run twice previously in the Maryland Sprint, finishing after running fourth in the General George and third in the Fire fifth in 2017 and sixth in 2018. Those were the 8-year-old geld- Plug this year and fifth in the Dave’s Friend in December. Lebda ing’s only other races at Pimlico before notching the biggest win finished two-and-a-quarter lengths ahead of Laki in the six-fur- of his 33-race career in the Frank J. De Francis Memorial (G3) last long Fire Plug. fall on the undercard of 145th Preakness (G1). Lebda has not won since taking the Miracle Wood and Private Laki went winless in four subsequent starts, all in stakes, Terms in succession at Laurel in the winter of 2020. The 4-year-old including a third in the Feb. 20 General George (G3) at Laurel gelding has run second or third three times over the last eight races, Park before out-finishing fellow multiple stakes-winner Lebda for See LAKI on page 12
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Page 12 The Chosen Vron Heads Lazaro Barrera Stakes BY SANTA ANITA PRESS OFFICE ___ Chosen Vron is out of the Tiz Wonderful mare Tiz Molly. With two wins and a third ARCADIA, CA—Owner/trainer Eric from three starts, he has earnings of Kruljac’s talented The Chosen Vron heads $150,600. a field of four sophomores going six-and- The Chosen Vron has post three and a-half furlongs in Saturday’s $100,000 jockey Umberto Rispoli. Lazaro Barrera Stakes (Grade 3) at Santa Juddmonte Farms’ homebred Laurel Anita. River, a sharp six-and-a-half-furlong maid- Named for the late Hall of Fame trainer en winner in his second start here on April who conditioned 1978 Triple Crown win- 3 rates a solid chances as well. ning Florida-bred Affirmed, the Barrera, Trained by Bob Baffert, Laurel River, originally run at Hollywood Park in 1981, by Into Mischief out of the Empire Maker will be run for the 41st time and for the mare Calm Water, Laurel River pressed the eighth time at Santa Anita on Saturday. early pace en route to a resounding four- The Chosen Vron, a chestnut gelding by and-a-quarter-length maiden score, earn- Vronsky, was a scintillating first-out maid- ing a Barerra-best 92 Beyer Speed figure en winner here on Dec. 27, taking a six- in the process. In what will be his third and-a-half furlongs maiden special versus start, Laurel River figures to be head and California-breds by six-and-three-quarters head in the betting with The Chosen Vron. lengths. Subsequently third, beaten three- Laurel River will be ridden by Abel The Chosen Vron/BENOIT PHOTO and-a-quarter lengths by top sophomore Cedillo from post two. (G3) taken by longshot Weyburn at Concert Tour going seven panels in the Trainer Doug O’Neill will be represent- Aqueduct on March 6. Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes Feb. 6, The ed by half the field in Wipe the Slate and I I Stand Taller was most recently fourth Chosen Vron was much the best in a Stand Taller. in the $75,000 Silky Sullivan Stakes won length-and-a-half win versus statebreds in Wipe the Slate was on the Triple Crown by None Above the Law at Golden Gate the six-and-a-half furlong Echo Eddie trail earlier in the year but could only Fields on April 25 over a mile on their Stakes April 3. muster a sixth-place finish in the Jan. 30 Tapeta main track. Owned by Kruljac, Robert Fetkin, John Robert B. Lewis (G3) won by Florida-bred I Stand Taller has post four and jockey Sondereker and Richard Thornburgh, The Medina Spirit and a seventh in the Gotham Juan Hernandez. Laki Continued from page 11 including the Whiteley, where trainer stakes. He was a three-and-a-half-length Breezy Gust, Seven Nation Army, War Claudio Gonzalez’s strategy nearly paid off. allowance winner March 11 and was fourth Tocsin and Yodel E.A. Who. “All the time we look too much in the in the Count Fleet (G3) April 10, both six paper [and say], ‘This one has speed or that furlongs at Oaklawn, the latter less than one has speed,’” Gonzalez said. “The last two lengths behind runner-up Whitmore, time I said, ‘okay, I don’t want to look at the 2020 male sprint champion. anybody. We’ll go.’ He did a good job tak- Strike Power is now trained by Hall of ing the lead and tried to go easy, and he ran Famer Steve Asmussen, winner of the last a big race. He got beat by a really good two editions of the Maryland Sprint with horse.” Switzerland in 2018 and New York Central Paradise Farms Corp. and David in 2019. The race was not run in 2020 Staudacher’s Special Reserve enters the when the schedule was altered amid the Maryland Sprint after running second by a coronavirus pandemic. length-and-a-quarter in the seven-furlong Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Commonwealth (G3) April 3 at Keeneland, William Branch’s Frosted Grace will be his second start since being claimed for making 24th career start and just his third $40,000 by trainer Mike Maker. It was the away from South Florida seeking his first 18 career start and first in a stakes for the stakes victory. The 5-year-old son of Mark 5-year-old gelding. Valeski was second in the Gulfstream Park Courtlandt Farm’s Strike Power, by Sprint (G2) and Sir Shackleton in his only champion sprinter Speightstown, won each two starts this year, the latter coming of his first two starts including the 2018 March 27. Swale (G3) at Gulfstream Park second Completing the field are 2020 General time out, but has won just twice in 14 starts George runner-up Threes Over Deuces; since though placed twice in graded- Mucho, fifth in the Commonwealth;
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BY PIMLICO PRESS OFFICE ______addition of the barn mascot, a baby goat named Doris. BALTIMORE—Five Hellions Farm’s mul- “She’s changed a lot in the last six tiple stakes-winner Dontletsweetfoolya, months. She’s really become more of a unraced since having her five-race win laid-back filly. It’s kind of hard to say streak snapped in the Runhappy Barbara because of her last race that she doesn’t Fritchie (G3) Feb. 20, is set to make her want to run anymore, but I think between return in Saturday’s $100,000 Runhappy the goat and maturing a little bit, she’s just Skipat at Pimlico Race Course. The Skipat really become a little more relaxed,” will be contested over six furlongs and has Gaudet said. “I’d like to see her get outside attracted a field of eight fillies and mares. and maybe she can relax off the pace and Dontletsweetfoolya ran seventh in the make a move. I think that’s what she’s seven-furlong Fritchie, her graded-stakes going to end up liking as she matures.” debut, after drawing an inside post and Ten Strike Racing’s French Empire will dueling up front with fellow multiple be racing first time for her owners and stakes winner Hello Beautiful for more reigning Eclipse Award-winning trainer than a half-mile. It was also the first time Brad Cox, who bypassed the Vagrancy (G3) in nine career starts the Stay Thirsty filly May 8 at Belmont for this spot. Claimed for ran without Lasix. $20,000 last September by trainer and co- “I don’t work them on Lasix or anything owner Cipriano Contreras, she enters the like that. She came out of it fine,” trainer Skipat having won four straight races, two Lacey Gaudet said. “I use a different sys- on the all-weather surface at Turfway Park tem and I looked at all the numbers. and two at Oaklawn Park. Obviously, she ran bad last time and got a “She’s in really good form. Obviously crappy number. We’re going to hope that Lacey Gaudet/JIM MCCUE PHOTO she was a private purchase, and she’s we can throw that race out. I’m really hop- trained very well since we’ve had her. We ing she can come back to a win.” really like her. We actually had her in the Vagrancy and we opted Dontletsweetfoolya needed four starts to break her maiden, for the listed stakes as opposed to the graded,” Cox said. “Cipriano graduating by nine-and-a-half lengths last July over a sloppy track Contreras claimed her and he did well with her. We’re hopeful we at Laurel Park and kicking off a streak where she won by 28 ¾ can continue her good form.” combined lengths, all in front-running fashion. It included an Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Inc. and Stretch Run Ventures’ allowance win last October at Pimlico as well as the Primonetta in Casual ran behind such horses as Grade 1-winner Kimari and multi- November and Willa On the Move in December at Laurel, each ple Grade 2-winner Frank’s Rockette while placing in back-to-back sprinting six furlongs. stakes at Oaklawn Park over the winter and spring. Hall of Fame Gaudet gave Dontletsweetfoolya a break following the Fritchie, trainer Steve Asmussen won the 2018 Skipat with Vertical Oak. one extended during an equine herpesvirus (EHV-1) quarantine at “She ran well at Oaklawn. It’s good timing from those races to Laurel that wasn’t lifted until mid-May. She has worked twice this the Preakness weekend,” Asmussen’s assistant, Scott Blasi, said. month at Delaware Park including a five-furlong move in 1:00 “She’s good.” May 9. Daniel Lopez and George Chestnut’s Chub Wagon has yet to “It was unwarranted time, but it really was good for her,” taste defeat in five career starts, four of them at trainer Guadalupe Gaudet said. “We took our horses to our farm at the house and she Preciado’s Parx base, including the seven-furlong Unique Bella by really did flourish. Everything happens for a reason. Maybe she seven-and-a-half lengths April 27. She also shipped up to needed the 21 days away. Until she runs I’m going to say I defi- Aqueduct to capture a six-furlong optional claiming allowance by nitely don’t think it hurt her.” four-and-three-quarters lengths April 2. Gaudet has been impressed by how Dontletsweetfoolya has Never Enough Time, front-running three-quarter-length winner developed, not only during the down time but also as she has of the 2020 Skipat; Club Car, third in the 2021 Barbara Fritchie gained more experience through training and racing and with the (G3); Call On Mischief and Paisley Singing are also entered. It’s FTBOA Membership Time! New to the Florida thoroughbred industry? Don’t have a Florida-bred yet? You can still join FTBOA or RENEW your membership at FTBOA Member Forms
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The Florida Thorobred Fillies Club “Mower and innovative blade design for easy to go from mulching to Myrtles” fundraiser kicked off this month and runs bagging, and variable speed from 0 to 4.2 mph. through June 5 at 3 p.m. The crepe myrtle sale is The Florida Thorobred Fillies began in 1962 Saturday, June 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 411 to establish a closer rapport between women in NW 106th Ave, Ocala FL 34482, off high- Florida’s horse industry, to provide social way 50 just West of I-75. The cost is $4 per activities, to establish a program of meet- gallon bucket and orders can be placed in ings beneficial to members and the farms advance at 352-817-6619 or they can be they represent and to participate in civic bought off the trailer on June 5. Advance activities to benefit the organization and orders will be given some preference of community life. colors including red, pink, white and pur- “We are so excited to have this oppor- ple. The plants are about a foot tall and tunity to fundraise thanks to the donation grow rapidly into small ornament bushes of the Exmark mower club president Joan or trees depending on pruning techniques. Dilibero said. “The women in our club are The mower fundraiser consists of a thrilled to be able to hold this fundraiser chance to win a $1,200 value Exmark mower. since we were unable to hold our traditional Part of the 2020 “Now More Than Ever” cam- cake table sales at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales this paign created by Equine past year. Equipment, mowers were given to “We are very thankful to local equine charities to use as Exmark and all the dealers fundraisers. when the pandemic involved for partnering with us on began. this worthy endeavor,” Equine “We urge everyone to support, Equipment program founder Steve and we are proud to donate Andersen said. “The horse indus- Exmark commercial mower to try has always been very generous them,” family run Gilbert’s and willing to help others in need, Hardware’s Tommy Gilbert said. and this partnership is another The Fillies Club is selling tick- great example of that.” ets at $10 each with only 300 tick- The Equine Equipment pro- ets to be sold. The drawing is June gram helps the horse industry save 5 at 3 p.m. Tickets are on sale at on a variety of equipment and the crepe myrtle event, with Fillies products from Exmark, Toro, New board member Dottie Williams at Holland, Tenda and FarmPaint. Ocala Breeders’ Sales, Fillies Working with Exmark and Second Vice President Tammy local dealers, Equine Equipment Gantt at FTBOA, via messaging facilitated the donation of eight on the Florida Thorobred Fillies 21” Exmark commercial mowers Facebook page @Filliesclub, or to local charities in Florida. by e-mailing Gantt at [email protected]. “We’ve always tried to do our part to give back to the industry, The Exmark Commercial 21 S-Series is a self-propelled lawn and we believe that to be more important than ever right now,” said mower with front height adjustment and a 21 inch mower deck. Andersen. “These great charitable programs all operate with lim- There are zero grease points and less than half the parts of other ited budgets, so we are more than happy to help them out with walk-behind mowers in its class. Also, it has a single-speed trans- these donations so that they can continue to do their important mission, simplified bail system, single-point rear height adjust, an work.”
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