ftboa.com • Friday • January 29, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Laoban Filly Tops OBS Mixed Sale Competitive Speed Tests Streak in $100K Forward Gal Festival Preview Day 41 Attracts 120 Nominations Florida-bred Lady’s Island/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Veterans Pete’s Play Call, Stan the Man, FL-bred Drafted Meet Again Lady’s Island, Wildwood’s Idol and Tizamagician Face-Off Against Florida Invader King Guillermo Beauty Bring Florida USDA Temporarily Suspends Collections, Flavor to American Beauty Foreclosures on Loans Gulfstream Park & Tampa Bay Charts BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ The daughter of Solera Farm stallion Greatness also had a solid second-place Florida Stallion Progeny List Lady’s Island and Wildwood’s Beauty, effort to Come Dancing in the Grade 2 two of the top female sprinters among Honorable Miss Stakes going six furlongs Florida Breeders’ List Florida-breds in the last two years, take at Saratoga but was then off the board in their talents on the road Saturday in the the six furlong Thoroughbred Club of Wire to Wire Business Place $150,000 American Beauty Stakes at America Stakes (G2) won by Oaklawn. The six furlong American Inthemidstofbiz at Keeneland on Oct. 3. Beauty Stakes has nine fillies and mares, Out of Broadway Martha, by Broad 4-years-old and older list among the Brush, Lady’s Island was bred in Florida Featured Advertisers entries. by Bailey Bolen and is trained by Georgina Lady’s Island comes into the American Baxter for Matties Racing Stable LLC and Florida Department of Agriculture Beauty off of a victory in the Grade 3 Averill Racing LLC. The 7-year-old mare FTBOA Sugar Swirl Stakes going six furlongs at has been the definition of consistency hav- Gulfstream on Dec. 12. She also had a ing won half of her 34 career starts with Journeyman Stud three-race win streak last year beginning five seconds and four thirds while earning Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply with the $60,000 Minaret at Tampa Downs $604,195. in February through May when she won She will break from post nine with Ocala Stud the Musical Romance. Seminole Feed See AMERICAN BEAUTY on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 American Beauty Continued from COVER jockey David Cabrera aboard. She is 9-2 in the morning line. Wildwood’s Beauty, who is the Florida-bred champion 3-year- old filly and champion female sprinter of 2019 as recognized by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association, makes her first start since finishing third to American Beauty foe Amy’s Challenge in the $150,000 McConnell Springs Stakes at Keeneland on Nov. 6 at the same six furlong distance. Trainer Scott Becker is hop- ing for a better trip in the American Beauty as Wildwood’s Beauty was four-wide on the turn and missed a photo finish for second to a late running Unique Factor on a day when the track favored clos- ing running styles. Although she faces Amy’s Challenge again, Wildwood’s Beauty should not be intimidated by the competition in the American Beauty having finished fifth in the Grade 1 Derby City Georgina Baxter/COGLIANESE PHOTO Distaff presented by Derby City Gaming won by Bells the One in September and fourth to Guarana in the Grade 1 Madison at Keeneland in September. She also rattled of three runner-up performances at Gulfstream Park last year in the Grade 2 Inside Information won by Pink Sands and in January and to Sally’s Curlin in the Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie on March 14. She will also be trying to turn the tables on Lady’s Island having finished second to her in the $100,000 Muscial Romance Stakes at Gulfstream in May. Wildwood’s Beauty was bred by Philip Matthews and Karen Matthews and owned by William Stiritz, who purchased her for $47,000 at the 2017 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Yearling where she was consigned by Summerfield. See AMERICAN BEAUTY on page 5 New Stallions Standing in Florida Click to View Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 American Beauty page 3 Continued from She is by Kantharos out of Miss Popitious, by J P’s Gusto and has won five of 18 career races with eight seconds and two thirds while banking $489,945. Wildwood’s Beauty and jockey Joseph Rocco Jr. will start from post five and 6-1 in the morning line. Amy’s Challenge will be trying to win a second consecutive stakes victory for trainer McLean Robertson and owner Novogratz Racing Stable Inc. having won the McConnell Springs in her last start. The 6-year-old daughter of Artie Schiller out of Jump Up, by Jump Start also has an affinity for Oaklawn having won the 2018 Dixie Belle, the 2019 Spring Fever and the American Beauty in Clockwork Fury Donated for Fundraiser By Journeyman Stud Clockwork Fury, the most unique model in the Marion County Horse Fever public art series, debuted Sunday, Jan. 24 at Ocala Breeders’ Sales courtesy of Journeyman Stud. The model horse art was purchased as part of a fundraiser a decade ago and has stood at Journeyman Stud in Reddick greeting visitors, tourists and clients ever since. In 2020, Journeyman Stud’s Crystal Fernung Frank’s Rockette (#5)/DOM NAPOLITANO PHOTO announced the model would be donated to be sold at 2019 in her eight starts at Oaklawn. Last year at Oaklawn, she was auction at the March OBS sale with the proceeds bene- second in both the Spring Fever won by Midnight Fantasy on Feb. 29 and in the Carousel Stakes won by Mia Mischief in April. fitting the Marion Cultural Alliance and Florida With eight wins, four seconds and two thirds from 19 career Thoroughbred Charities’ thoroughbred retirement farm starts, Amy’s Challenge has earnings of $647,273. and youth education programs. The horse spent much of She has jockey Francisco Arrieta Saturday and they are set to 2020 at the studio of Ocala-based artist Mark break from post six Amy’s Challenge is set at 3-1 in the program. Favored at 2-1 in the morning line is Frank’s Rocket, who Hershberger to be upgraded with special mechanical fea- makes her first start since finishing 11th in Whitmore’s Breeders’ tures. The horse will be on display during the OBS sale in Cup Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 6 at six furlongs. March and at many community events throughout Prior to that disappointment however, the William Mott-trained February. Clockwork Fury sells on the first day of the daughter of Into Mischief had a four-race winning streak going and had won five of six going back to her seven-length victory in March sale. the $75,000 Any Limit Stakes at Gulfstream on Feb. 22 at six fur- longs. CliCk Here for complete story. During that span she also won a third level, $100,000 allowance optional claiming race at Churchill Downs in May going six furlongs, the Grade 3 Victory Ride Stakes at Belmont Park over six-and-a-half furlongs on July 4, the Grade 2 Prioress Stakes going six furlongs at Saratoga on Sept. 5 and dominated the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom with a seven-and-a-half-length romp going six-and-a-half furlongs at Belmont on Oct. 3. A homebred for Frank Fletcher and Frank Fletcher Racing Operations Inc., Frank’s Rockette is out of Rocket Twentyone, by Indian Charlie and has won six of 11 career starts with four sec- onds and earnings of $606,103. She will depart from post seven with Florent Geroux aboard for the first time. The remainder of the field includes French Empire for trainer Cipriano Contreras, Shesomajestic from the barn of John A. Ortiz, the Steve Asmussen-trained Magic Dance, Sunny Date for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and Best Kept Secret from the barn of trainer Click to View Robert Cline. Back to Top Kris S. “Produced 63 stakes winners with 5 Breeders’ Cups and earners of $50 million” File Photo Mr. Prospector File Photo “One of the most Fortunate Prospect influential sires of the “Produced earners of $43.1 20th century” million, a remarkable Photo File 74% winners from foals” Florida breeders bred to these Florida stallions before they became legends. Introduce Your Mare to a Future Legend Today. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND CONSUMER SERVICES AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Lonny T. Powell, CEO www.FDACS.gov Tammy A. Gantt, AVP Membership Services & Events 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 • www.ftboa.com • [email protected] 46217 Back to Top Page 7 Laoban Filly Tops Winter Mixed Sale Finale BY OBS PRESS OFFICE ______________________________ For the Horses of Racing Age session, 74 horses grossed $1,696,500 compared with 70 selling for a total of $1,366,900 in OCALA, FL—The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2020 2020. The average was $22,926, up from $19,527 a year ago, Winter Mixed Sale ended on a high note as Hip 805, a yearling while the median price was $13,000 compared to $11,000 last daughter of Laoban consigned by McMahon of Saratoga year. The buyback percentage was 10.8%; it was 26.4% in 2020. Thoroughbreds LLC as an agent was sold to Sand Hill Stables for For the entire Winter Mixed Sale, 406 horses sold for a total of $175,000 topping Wednesday’s Open Session as well as the entire $5,686,600, compared to 354 horses bringing $4,928,100 last sale.