ftboa.com • Monday • July 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: Art Collector Wins Blue Grass War Of Will Wins Maker’s Mark Enola Gay Sets Stakes Record Monomoy Girl Impressive in Ruffian Guarana Wins Madison Leinster Takes Shakertown Hit the Road Takes Oceanside Rushing Fall Wins Jenny Wiley Bob and Jackie by a Neck Espinoza Tests Positive for Virus Gulfstream Park Charts Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Florida-bred Speech/COADY PHOTO Wire to Wire Business Place Making A Statement Featured Advertisers Bloodstockauction USA Florida-bred Speech Sets Keeneland Covert Appraisal Services FTBOA Track Record in Grade 1 Ashland Florida Department of Agriculture BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ one-sixteenth in the $400,000 Central Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company Bank Ashland Stakes (Grade 1). de Meric Thoroughbred Sales Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and The Mike McCarthy-trained Speech Eddie Woods Stables Madaket Stables LLC’s Speech snapped a won a maiden special weight by nine Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply lengths at Los Alamitos in December in streak of four bridesmaid performances RiceHorse Stables against some of the best fillies of her class her second start before beginning her span Saturday at Keeneland and the Florida- of second-place finishes in an $80,000 Six K’s Training & Sales, LLC bred did it in style with a three-length vic- optional claiming race won by Aubrege on Seminole Feed tory in track record time for a mile-and- Showcase Properties See SPEECH on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Speech Continued from COVER Feb. 1 at Santa Anita. She was then second to Donna Volce in the Grade 3 Ysabel Stakes at Santa Anita on March 8, second to the Bob Baffert-trained and future Grade 1 Longines Acorn-winner Gamine in a $100,000 optional claiming at Oaklawn on May 2 and second to Swiss Skydiver in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks on June 6. Two races later at Keeneland Saturday, Swiss Skydiver would finish second to Art Collector as the 2-1 favorite in the Grade 1 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes. Despite the credentials however, Speech was the 4-1 third choice in the Ashand behind 3-5 favorite and Grade 3 Las Virgines Stakes-winner Venetian Harbor, who was also second to Swiss Skydiver in her last start which came in the Grade 3 Fantasy Stakes at Oaklawn on May 1. Fair Grounds Oaks (G2)-winner Bonny South was the second choice in the wagering at 7-2 for trainer Brad Cox. As expected, Venetian Harbor and jockey Joel Rosario went right to the front from post three in the $400,000 Ashland as Speech and Javier Castellano took up position in second to her out- side as they went around the club- house turn. Venetian Harbor shook free to a clear lead over Speech in second down the back- stretch and through Florida-bred Speech/COADY PHOTO fractions of :24.04 for the first quarter-mile and the half :47.14 followed by a close up Envoutante in third. Venetian Harbor took them into the far turn but Speech ranged up to her outside at the three-eighths marker and those two locked up at the top of the stretch after six furlongs in 1:10.44. But Speech took over inside the final furlong and went on to win by three lengths in 1:41.26. That eclipsed the track record of 1:41.36 set by Seeking the Soul in an Oct. 21, 2017 optional claiming race. “Very happy,” McCarthy said. “We had our mind set on run- ning in the [Grade 3] Beaumont Stakes [Friday at Keeneland] for the last five weeks or so and the last minute, we kind of called an audible and sometimes these things work out. To come back today and think we would set a track record in a race we weren’t espe- cially pointing to says something about Speech. She trained well. She shows up every time. I call her the ultimate overachiever.” It was the first stakes victory at Keeneland for McCarthy. Castellano said the pace of the race set up very nicely for Speech. “I just wanted to keep track of the right time, the right place to win the race,” Castellano said. “Today it was easier to keep track of the speed. Everything fell in the right direction for the filly to See SPEECH on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Speech page 3 really special,” Rice continued. Continued from win the race.” Rice also noted that Speech had shown she was a standout from Venetian Harbor was second and three-and-three-quarters a very young age. length ahead of Envoutante in third followed by Bonny South and “Her mother is quite demanding-a type A kind of mare,” Rice Alta’s Reward. Tonalist’s Shape was scratched. said. “And [Speech] was much the same way. When we weaned Speech returned $10 on a $2 win ticket and earned $240,000 to her, she took the same position as if to tell the other babies that her push her career bankroll to mother was in charge before, so $353,840. She has won two of she’s in charge now. She was also seven career races. very intelligent and had good Speech is from the first crop of conformation and carried herself Mr Speaker out of Scribbling well. She was always a standout.” Sarah, by Freud and she was bred Eclipse Thoroughbred in Florida by Gail Rice. Partners purchased Speech for Scribbling Sarah is a full-sister to $190,000 from the SBM Training Grade 3-placed Jung Man Scott and Sales consignment at the and Deciphering Dreams and 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sales stakes-placed Amazing Anne. March Sale. Frances and Barbara Scribbling Sarah also has a 2- Vanlangendonck also sold year-old in training with Niall Speech at the OBS Winter Mixed Brennan by Upstart, a yearling by Sales for $65,000 to First Finds. Unify and was bred to West Coast With the victory, Speech in 2020. moved into second place on the Speech is the first Grade 1- Longines Kentucky Oaks winner bred by Rice. (G1)leaderboard with 160 points. Venetian Harbor picked up 40 “I was so excited during the The Ashland Start/COADY PHOTO race,” Rice said. “I was screaming Oaks points to raise her total to when she passed [Venetian Harbor]. I knew she had the speed to 90, which ranks fifth. Bonny South, who finished fourth in her go with these fillies and when they went in :24 I said ‘I know she first start since March, added 10 points to her Oaks total for 110 can do this.’ I knew it was her day. It all came together. points, good for third. The Oaks is limited to the top 14 point earn- “I’ve never had many mares so having a Grade 1-winner is ers that pass the entry box. Back to Top National Eclipse winners and Florida Sire Stakes winners are clockwise from left: BRAVE RAJ, National 2-Year-Old Filly Champion / BIG DRAMA, National Male Sprint Champion / AWESOME FEATHER, National 2-Year-Old Filly Champion / SMILE, National Sprint Champion / NOT SURPRISING, National Sprint Champion / HOLY BULL, National Horse of the Year FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND CONSUMER SERVICES AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Lonny T. Powell, CEO For Information: Jacqueline Basha, Tammy A. Gantt, Associate Vice President Division of Marketing and Development Membership Services & Events (850) 617-7286 – Direct Line 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 [email protected] 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 www.FDACS.gov www.ftboa.com • [email protected] Back to Top Page 7 Art Collector Defeats Swiss Skydiver to Win Toyota Blue Grass Stakes BY KEENELAND PRESS OFFICE _____________ LEXINGTON, KY—Bruce Lunsford’s homebred Art Collector roared past the filly Swiss Skydiver at the eighth pole and drew off to a three-and-a-half-length victory Saturday afternoon in the 96th running of the $600,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (Grade 2) for 3- year-olds. Trained by Tom Drury Jr. and ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr., Art Collector picked up 100 qualifying points toward the $3 million Kentucky Derby present- ed by Woodford Reserve (G1) to be run Sept. 5 at Churchill Downs. With Saturday’s victory, Art Collector has 100 points, good for fourth place on the leaderboard. The Kentucky Derby is limited to the top 20 point earners that pass the entry box. The victory was the first in the Toyota Blue Grass for Hernandez and the first graded stakes win for Drury. Swiss Skydiver, who is the runaway leader in points for the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1), picked up 40 points in her first race against males. That total match- es Toyota Blue Grass third-place finisher Rushie, who is not Triple Crown nominated. Enforceable picked up 10 points for finishing fourth to boost his total to 43, Art Collector/COADY PHOTO See ART COLLECTOR on page 9 Back to Top Back to Top Page 9 Art Collector page 7 Continued from good for 12th place. third. It was another neck back to Enforceable, who was followed Breaking from post one, Florida-bred Shivaree shot to the early in order by Attachment Rate, Mr. Big News, Finnick the Fierce, lead with slight favorite Swiss Skydiver and Art Collector in clos- Tiesto, Hard Lighting, Basin, Shivaree, Hunt the Front and Man in est pursuit.