ftboa.com • Tuesday & Wednesday • Dec. 29 & 30, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST REMINDER: FTBOA Florida-bred Florida-bred Imprimis Foal registration deadline is Looks to Bounce Back in December 31. FOR ADVERTISING Friday’s Janus Stakes INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call BY GULFSTREAM PARK Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or PRESS OFFICE ___________ email: [email protected] HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Breeze Easy LLC’s Florida-bred Imprimis will seek to put the In This Issue: bad luck of 2020 behind him and start off the New Year with a Stablemates Smiley Sobotka, Sittin On return to the Gulfstream Park Go Top Mucho Macho Man Noms winner’s circle following Friday’s $75,000 Janus Stakes. Cathkin Peak Rallies to Win Eddie Logan The Janus, a five-furlong turf Kilroe Next for Smooth Like Strait dash for 4-year-olds and older, will be featured on Friday’s New No Cents Hits Paydirt in $100,000 Heft Year’s Day program that will also include the $75,000 Florida-bred Pair Favored in Tampa Bay Abundantia, a five-furlong Downs Allowance sprint on turf for older fillies and mares, and the $75,000 Mucho Unusual Returns to Customary Cash Run, a mile stakes for 3- Spot in Santa Anita Winner’s Circle year-old fillies. First-race post Gulfstream Park Charts time is set for 12:35 p.m. EST. Imprimis concluded his 2020 Tampa Bay Charts campaign with a nightmare journey in the Nov. 7 Breeders’ Track Results & Entries Cup Turf Sprint (Grade 1) won Florida Stallion Progeny List by Glass Slippers (GB) at Keeneland, where he was Florida Breeders’ List ‘stymied’ and ‘steadied’ in the five-and-a-half furlong dash, Wire to Wire Business Place Florida-bred Imprimis/MATT WOOLEY / EQUISPORT PHOTOS according to the Equibase chart caller. The veteran star turf sprinter was that day. I had one in and that was my best Click for Holiday Hours shut off while making a move between shot. He was the best horse but unfortu- horses, forcing jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. to nately the best horse didn’t win. It was just Featured Advertisers sharply steady his mount during the stretch a shame for all the connections. It was like run. a kick in the gut.” Florida Department of Agriculture “He got shut off for no reason. He was Imprimis’ 2020 season started off with FTBOA up in there and going. The horse was just some bad luck as well. The 6-year-old Journeyman Stud starting to run,” trainer Joe Orseno said. “It gelding came off a long layoff to prevail by Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply was tough. It takes a lot to get him to where two-and-a-quarter lengths in the Sept. 6 Troy (G3) at Saratoga, only to be disquali- Ocala Stud he is and peak like that and keep him like Seminole Feed that. It wasn’t like I had three or four in See JANUS STAKES on page 3 QGLDQ&KDUOLH7HDN7RWHPE\1RUWKHUQ$ÁHHW $4,000 I Adios Charlie | $2,500 Flatter - Galloping Ami, by Victory Gallop Ami’s Flatter | $4,000 Awesome Again - Slewfoundmoney, by Seeking the Gold Awesome Slew | $1,500 Unbridled’s Song - Tamboz, by Tapit Batallion Runner | NEW $2,500 Ghostzapper - Indian Spell, by Indian Charlie Dak Attack | $6,000 Tale of Ekati - Catch the Moon, by Malibu Moon Girvin | $3,500 Bernardini - Ava Knowsthecode, by Cryptoclearance Greenpointcrusader | $2,500 Put It Back - Fiesta Baby, by Dayjur In Summation | $4,000 Curlin - Rachel Alexandra, by Medaglia d’Oro Jess’s Dream | $4,000 Birdstone - Anyhow, by Tiznow Noble Bird | NEW $5,000 Perfect Soul (IRE) - Seeking the Title, by Seeking the Gold Seeking the Soul | $4,000 Yes It’s True - V V S Flawless, by Deputy Minister Inquiries to David O’Farrell The Big Beast [email protected] | P.O. Box 818, Ocala, FL 34478 NEW $5,000 352/237-2171 • FAX 352/873-3223 Hat Trick (JPN) - Miss Smarty Pants, by Smarty Jones www.ocalastud.com Win Win Win | Back to Top Page 3 Janus Stakes Continued from COVER fied through a controversial ruling by the stewards. The son of Broken Vow out of Shoppers Return, by Put It Back came right back to tune up for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint with a late-running victory in the $700,000 Runhappy Turf Sprint (G3) at Kentucky Downs over six furlongs listed as soft. Imprimis has had nothing but good luck at Gulfstream, where he has been victorious in all four starts, including three consecutive victories to launch his career. He came back the following year to capture the $75,000 Silks Run Stakes in March of 2019. “We were talking about waiting until the Gulfstream Turf Sprint Feb. 12, but he’s Emisael Jaramillo/???? PHOTO doing so well,” Orseno said. Ortiz has the return call on the dark bay or brown gelding, who was bred in Florida by Craig L. Wheeler. Another Florida-bred is DARRS Inc.’s Extravagant Kid, who finished fourth while avoiding trouble in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, is scheduled to defend his title in the Janus. The Brendan Walsh-trained 8-year-old gelding, who fell just a length short at Keeneland last start, defeated two next-out winners in last year’s Janus and followed that score up with a victory in the Sunshine Millions Turf Sprint at Gulfstream. Tyler Gaffalione, who was aboard for both victories, has the mount aboard the dark bay son of Kiss the Kid out of Pretty Extravagant, by With Distinction. He was bred by Frank Vicino in the name of his Vicino Racing Stable Blind Ambition, Florida-bred Fully Loaded, Harry’s Ontheloose, Sayyaaf and The Critical Way round out the main body of the field. Edgemont Road and Frosted Grace are main- track-only entrants. Florida-bred Lenzi’s Lucky Lady Takes to the Turf for Abundantia David Bernsen LLC and Jeffrey Lambert’s Lenzi’s Lucky Lady will return to the turf at Gulfstream Park for Friday’s $75,000 Abundantia after taking to the turf in her most recent start. A stakes winner on dirt, the 4-year-old daughter of With Distinction debuted on turf in a Dec. 13 optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream Park with a front-running victory at the See JANUS STAKES on page 5 FTBOA New Year’s Schedule • The FTBOA, FEC offices will be closed Friday, Jan. 1 for the New Year’s Day holiday. • The Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 2-3 issue of Wire to Wire will not be published in order for staff to celebrate New Year’s Day. Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Janus Stakes Continued from page 3 five-furlong distance of the Abundantia. “It looks like she found a new home on turf,” trainer Bob Hess said. Formerly trained by Kathleen O’Connell, Lenzi’s Lucky Lady won two stakes during her juvenile season, including the $100,000 Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen. She returned from an 11-month layoff to finish second to Reluctant Bride in a first level optional claim- ing going six furlongs on dirt Aug. 22, when she was claimed by her current connections for $75,000. The Florida-bred filly was forwardly placed before fading to eighth to Fly On Angel in the Charles Town Oaks (G3) on Aug. 28 in her first start for Hess. “Dave Bernsen is the principal owner and he picked her out. Kathleen is a friend and a top-notch horsewoman, so I really had no illusions of moving the horse up at all,” Hess said. “She ran great the day we claimed her. We had a fiasco up at Charles Town and I brought her to Del Mar trying for the ‘Ship & Win.’ I worked Florida-bred Hear My Prayer/LAUREN KING PHOTO her on the turf and she worked great, but the race didn’t fill and we brought her back to Gulfstream.” Team Valor International’s Victory Kingdom, who finished a Emisael Jaramillo has the call aboard Lenzi’s Lucky Lady, who close second in Ontario Fashion Stakes (G3) over Woodbine’s syn- was bred by Gilbert and Marilyn Campbell’s Stonehedge LLC. thetic surface two starts back, returns to turf for the Abundantia. Three Diamond Farm’s Jakarta will seek her third victory over Group stakes-placed in Europe, the 6-year-old daughter of Animal the Gulfstream Park turf in as many starts Friday. The Michael Kingdom has made three starts in the U.S. for trainer Rodolphe Maker-trained 6-year-old mare is coming off a two-and-a-quarter- Brisset, including a fourth-place finish in the Smart N Fancy length victory in the Claiming Crown Distaff Dash at five fur- stakes on turf at Saratoga last August. longs. Julien Leparoux is scheduled to ride Victory Kingdom for the The daughter of Bustin Stones has also shown versatility, hav- first time Friday. ing won the off-the-turf Powder Break at a mile over a sloppy Cara Oliver’s Florida-bred Hear My Prayer will seek her third Gulfstream track last May. victory in five starts over the Gulfstream Park turf course, where Luis Saez has the return mount aboard Jakarta. she captured the five-furlong Melody of Colors in March. David Melin, Leon Ellman and Laurie Plesa’s Miss Auramet, Irad Ortiz Jr. is scheduled to ride the daughter of Ocala Stud who has also enjoyed success on dirt and turf, is scheduled to seek resident The Big Beast out of Additional Prayer, by her fourth straight victory Friday.