ftboa.com • Thursday & Friday • November 22 & 23, 2018 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION Southern Sis, Looking to Strike FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION Give Casse OBS Double or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or BY BROCK SHERIDAN______________ Sprint Stakes for 3-year-olds and older at six furlongs. Both stakes were non-wager- email: [email protected] Ocala native Mark Casse had a pleasant ing events and were restricted to horses that homecoming Tuesday afternoon at the had passed through the auction ring at OBS. Ocala Breeders’ Sales Championship Day Ridden by Tyler Gaffalione, Southern at the Ocala Training Center having taken a Sis raced in a stalking position early in the In This Issue: stakes double by winning the OBS Filly and Filly and Mare Sprint as stablemate Sierra Mare Sprint with Southern Sis and the OBS Aleone set the fractions of :23 for the first Divine Miss Grey Expected Favorite in Sprint with Lookin to Strike. quarter-mile and :46 for the half-mile with Falls City After finishing second in her last two Rich Mommy second and R Happy Ending First Kentucky Derby Future Wager races, Florida-bred Southern Sis put it all Third. together to win the $125,000 Ocala Gaffalione saved ground with Southern Opens Thursday Breeders’ Sales Filly and Mare Sprint in a Sis racing on the rail in third on the turn as Blamed Looks to Stretch Out in Comely field of eight fillies and mares, 3-years-old Sierra Aleone continued to show the way and older going six furlongs on the with R Happy Ending challenging just to Spinal Injury Forces Stevens Safetrack surface at OBS. The Filly and her inside. Retirement Mare Sprint was the co-feature on a 10-race R Happy Ending and Sierra Aelone card that also included the $125,000 OBS Chase to the Championship See OBS on page 3 OBS Day of Racing Charts Awesome Slew To Stand at Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Ocala Stud Wire to Wire Business Place BY PRESS RELEASE_______________ Featured Advertisers OCALA, FL—Multiple graded stakes winner Awesome Slew has been retired Ocala Stud and will stand the upcoming breeding sea- son at Ocala Stud for $5,000 S&N. Double Diamond A versatile Florida-bred son of Awesome Again, Awesome Slew won Florida Department of Agriculture stakes ranging in distance from seven fur- longs to a mile and one-sixteenth and won FTBOA or placed in 12 graded stakes over three seasons and over nine different racetracks, The Florida Mile Training Track Florida-bred Awesome Slew/COADY PHOTO OCALA STUD See on page 3 Woodford Thoroughbreds Wire to Wire Holiday Schedule Seminole Feed In Recognition of the Holiday Season, Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Wire to Wire will not be published on Friday, Nov. 23 or Tuesday, Dec. 25. Journeyman Stud Mark J. Barrett photo ,QGLDQ&KDUOLH7HDN7RWHPE\1RUWKHUQ$ÁHHW • $3,000 • $2,500 Put It Back - Fiesta Baby, by Dayjur Adios Charlie In Summation NEW • $3,500 • $5,000 Flatter - Galloping Ami, by Victory Gallop Curlin - Rachel Alexandra, by Medaglia d’Oro Ami’s Flatter Jess’s Dream • $4,000 • $5,000 Awesome Again - Mais Oui, by Lyphard Birdstone - Anyhow, by Tiznow Awesome of Course Noble Bird • $2,500 • $3,000 Awesome of Course - Lottsa Talc, by Talc Malibu Moon - Spirited Away, by Awesome Again Fort Loudon Prospective NEW • $7,500 • $3,500 Tale of Ekati - Catch the Moon, by Malibu Moon Wildcat Heir - Rainbow Pride, by Prospectors Gamble Girvin Rainbow Heir • $5,000 • $6,000 Bernardini - Ava Knowsthecode, by Cryptoclearance Yes It’s True - V V S Flawless, by Deputy Minister Greenpointcrusader The Big Beast • $6,000 Lion Heart - Captivating, by Arch Uncaptured P.O. Box 818, Ocala, FL 34478 Inquiries to David O’Farrell 352/237-2171 • FAX 352/873-3223 [email protected] www.ocalastud.com Back to Top Page 3 OBS Continued from COVER turned for home on even terms as Southern Sis swung out for a clear run to the wire. Southern Sis took her momentum past the two front runners in deep stretch and drew away to a two length victory over R Happy Ending in sec- ond with Sierra Aleone Florida-bred Southern Sis/TIBOR AND JUDIT PHOTO third in a running time of 1:09.40 over the fast track. Southern Sis won for the fourth time in 12 career starts and earned $63,000 for owners Bill and Vicki Poston Racing Inc. She now has career earnings of $194,092. She was bred in Florida by OBS Ocala Stud See on page 11 Continued from COVER recording five triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures. The Live Oak Stud homebred was a dominating winner of the Grade 3 Smarty Jones Stakes at Parx at age three in 2016 and the Grade 3 Commonwealth Stakes at Keeneland and the Grade 3 Ack Ack Stakes at Churchill Downs at four in 2017, earning triple-digit Beyers in the latter two. “We held high expectations for this horse from the start and he delivered on the racetrack,” said Live Oak Stud’s general manager Bruce Hill. “He is immensely talented, and we have always loved his family. We are thrilled to be able to stand Awesome Slew in Florida and especially excited to stand him at Ocala Stud. We have the utmost respect for the O’Farrell family and their entire staff and they do a tremendous job of developing top stallions.” In winning the Smarty Jones by seven lengths, Awesome Slew controlled the pace in a commanding performance, defeating a competitive field that included subsequent Grade 1 winners Seeking the Soul and Discreet Lover. Awesome Slew won the 2017 Commonwealth Stakes by a length and one-half over Grade 1 winner A.P. Indian and multiple graded stakes winner Limousine Liberal, circling rivals eight wide around the turn. He stopped the clock for seven furlongs in a lively 1:22.31, less than a second off Keeneland’s track record, earning a 102 Beyer. Awesome Slew also won the Ack Ack Stakes, again demonstrat- ing an impressive turn of foot to run down graded stakes winner The Player to win the one-mile test by a length with a 101 Beyer. In addition to his graded stakes victories, Awesome Slew fin- ished second to eventual Eclipse champion Drefong in the Grade 1 Forego and was also runner-up in both the Grade 1 Carter Handicap and Grade 1 Belmont Sprint Championship and was third behind Battle of Midway and Sharp Azteca in the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar. A debut winner at two, Awesome Slew earned $1,223,310 in a superb career. “We appreciate the opportunity to partner with Live Oak to stand this exciting stallion prospect,” said Ocala Stud’s David O’Farrell. “We’re proud to be able to offer him to Florida’s breeders.” By elite sire Awesome Again, the sire of 14 Grade 1 winners, Awesome Slew is out of the stakes-winning and graded stakes- placed Seeking the Gold mare Slewfoundmoney. The first four dams in his female family were all stakes winners and each has produced at least two stakes horses. Back to Top by Stephen Got Even–Run Sarah Run by Smart Strike by Gone West–Midway Squall by Storm Bird #1 Florida Sire G2 Winner Sire of G1 Breeders’ Cup Winner Graded Sprint Champion Lifetime Progeny Earnings 117 Speed Rating More Than $12.5 Million Placed in 10 Graded or Stakes Races Donald R.Dizney https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Dude/130049330338431 Standing: First Dude & Bahamian Squall • Contact Roger Brand, Jimmy Alexander or Melissa Anthony for stallion inquiries 899 S.W. 85th Ave., Ocala, FL 34481 • (352) 237-3834 Fax: (352) 237-6069 • visit-www.doublediamondfarm.com 44401 Back to Top Page 5 Divine Miss Grey Expected Favorite in Falls City BY CHURCHILL DOWNS PRESS OFFICE __________________ LOUISVILLE, KY – Corms Racing Stable and R. A. Hill Stable’s Chilukki Stakes (Grade 2) winner Divine Miss Grey is the 122-pound starting high weight for Thursday’s 103rd renewal of the $200,000 Falls City Handicap (G2) – the centerpiece of a Thanksgiving holiday racing feast at Churchill Downs. The mile and one-eighth Falls City for fillies and mares is scheduled as race 11 on a 12-race program that begins with a special first race post time of 11:30 a.m. The undercard also includes the 45th run- ning of the $100,000 Cardinal Handicap (G3) for fillies and mares at nine furlongs on the Matt Winn Turf Course, which goes as race nine. Divine Miss Grey, a 4-year-old filly by Divine Park with earnings of $807,672 from 11 wins in 22 starts, ral- lied from just off the early pace in the Nov. 3 Chilukki to defeat four rivals as the 4-5 favorite for east coast trainer Danny Gargan. The Kentucky-bred filly Divine Miss Grey/COADY PHOTO previously finished second by three and one-quarter lengths in Belmont Park’s Rutherford and Hall of Fame trainer Steve (Ricardo Santana Jr., Will VanMeter, 116); $400,000 Beldame Invitational (G1) on Asmussen. The daughter of Midnight Lute Skeptic (Hernandez, Arnold, 116); Oct. 6 after winning the $182,000 Dr. will try to round back into form following Dreamcall (Albarado, Asmussen, 119); James Penny Memorial Stakes at Parx by non-competitive finishes in the Beldame Prado’s Sweet Ride (Florent Geroux, Chris more than seven lengths in September. and Royal Delta Stakes. Prior to that, she Block, 118); Honor Ride (Corey Lanerie, Jockey Tyler Gaffalione has the call on finished a close second to Berned in July’s Grant Forster, 114); Red Dane (Edgar Divine Miss Grey in the Falls City and will Molly Pitcher (G3) at Monmouth Morales, Charlie LoPresti, 116).