Thursday • July 29, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION www.wiretowire.net FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $700,000 Reports of Mares Bred Due at The Jockey Club by Aug. 1 Violenza, Eons Win Andy Guest and Buckland Stakes Monday Monthly Virtual Thoroughbred Owner Conference Series Potts Enters Weekend One Win Behind Delgado in Monmouth Trainer Race Each Horse Tells a Story in LongRun Graduate Virtual Race to The Plate Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Florida-bred First Captain/COGLIANESE PHOTO Wire to Wire Business Place First Captain Defends Featured Perfect Record in Curlin Advertisers BY RYAN MARTIN, $120,000 Curlin for sophomores going nine Bloodstockauction USA NYRA PRESS OFFICE______________ furlongs at Saratoga Race Course. The restricted stakes outing for 3-year- Florida Department of Agriculture SARATOGA, NY—First Captain has olds who have not won a sweepstakes over stamped himself as a rising star through a one mile in 2021, is named in honor of the FTBOA perfect three-for-three record, and will try 2007-08 Horse of the Year who became the to keep his winning ways intact when rac- first North American thoroughbred to reach Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply ing outside of Belmont Park for the first the $10 million earnings mark. Seminole Feed time in Friday’s 12th running of the See FIRST CAPTAIN on page 3 Wire to Wire July 29, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 First Captain Continued from COVER First Captain will look to become the second Curlin offspring to capture his sire’s namesake race after Connect won in 2013. Since breaking his maiden at seven furlongs by three- quarters of a length over next-out winner Ma- haamel in April at Bel- mont Park, First Captain scored once more against first condition allowance runners five weeks later over Big Sandy going a one-turn mile. Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey entered First Captain for his first Shug McGaughey/COGLIANESE PHOTO stakes test last out in the Grade 3 Dwyer on July 5 at Belmont Park, and he handled the class boost with flying colors, capturing the one-turn mile by a length- and-three-quarters. “He is doing really well up here,” McGaughey said. “He lost his whole 2-year-old year so he’s still behind, but he’s trying to catch up. I think that his last race was good and he certainly likes this track here. I’m looking forward to it. We have been taking it one step at a time.” First Captain is owned by West Point Thoroughbreds, Siena Farm, Woodford Racing and celebrity culinary artist Bobby Flay, the latter of whom also bred the chestnut colt. Purchased for $1.5 million from the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale, First Captain is out of the graded stakes- winning and Grade 1-placed A.P. Indy broodmare America and hails from the prestigious line of blue hen mare Best in Show, whose descendants include Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and Rags to Riches as well as multiple Group 1-winning Irish cham- pion distaffer Peeping Fawn. Jockey Jose Ortiz, who guided 2019 Curlin victor Highest Honors, retains the mount from post four. Three Chimneys Farm and e Five Thoroughbreds’ Collaborate seeks to live up to the hype he garnered following an astonishing 12 ½-length maiden romp on Feb. 27 at a one-turn mile at Gulf- stream Park. The son of Into Mischief followed with a distant fifth in the nine-furlong Grade 1 Curlin Florida Derby presented by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm at Xalapa for trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. After a significant cutback in distance when third to stablemate Moonlite Strike in the six-and-a-half-furlong Roar on May 15, Col- laborate defeated winners in a one-mile allowance on June 20, both at Gulfstream Park. See FIRST CAPTAIN on page 5 CLICK HERE for the latest The Florida Horse ONLINE Wire to Wire July 29, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 29, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 First Captain Continued from page 3 “The Florida Derby was a bit disap- Jockey Frankie Pennington retains the pointing; but it was probably a bit quick mount from post five. back also,” Joseph said. “He ran third after Trainer Rodolphe Brisset will saddle CHC that. We did a minor throat procedure on and WinStar Farm’s regally-bred Harvard, a him and thought we saw the right horse last full-brother to 2016 champion 2-year-old time going a mile again. I’m hoping to Classic Empire who is unbeaten in two starts build on that. The Curlin will be a big test.” around two turns. Collaborate is out of the graded stakes After making the third time the charm in winning Quiet American mare Quiet Tem- his two-turn debut in May at Indiana Grand, per and was bought for $600,000 at the the son of Pioneerof the Nile bested winners 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale. in a nine-furlong allowance race on June 11 Jockey Tyler Gaffalione will ride from at Churchill Downs, which featured next-out post six. winner Dack Janiel’s. Repole Stable, Phipps Stable and St. Harvard will be ridden by Luis Saez from Elias Stable’s Dynamic One is the lone post three. Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Peter Brant and Robert V. LaPenta’s Miles Reserve (G1) alumni in the Curlin field and D, a son of Curlin, makes his two-turn debut has not raced since finishing 18th in the for trainer Chad Brown after a sharp one-turn ‘Run for the Roses’. mile maiden triumph on June 12 at Belmont Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, Park. The bay colt made his first start since the son of Union Rags broke his maiden at October, when fourth on debut finishing be- fourth asking at nine furlongs on March 7 hind Speaker’s Corner and stakes-winners at Aqueduct. Caddo River and Greatest Honour. Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. has the call from Breaking from post one, Miles D will be post seven. ridden by Joel Rosario. Susan Quick and Christopher Feifarek’s Completing the field is Juddmonte Farms’ Beren arrives at the Curlin as the most sea- Dynamic One/COADY PHOTO Snow House, who was previously third in the soned horse in the field with ten starts and Grade 3 Dwyer. The bay son of Twirling brings three consecutive stakes victories into the race for trainer Candy broke his maiden going a two-turn mile on April 21 at Butch Reid Jr. Keeneland before defeating winners around a one-turn mile on May The son of Weigelia, a previous track record holder at Belmont 29 at Churchill Downs for trainer Brad Cox. Park for six furlongs over the inner turf [1:07.04 on June 17, 2006], Snow House will break from post two under Manny Franco. captured the Gold Fever and an off-the-turf edition of the Paradise First post Friday is 1:05 p.m. EDT. Saratoga Live will present Creek over Big Sandy before beating his Pennsylvania-bred coun- daily television coverage of the 40-day summer meet on FOX terparts in the Crowd Pleaser on June 22 at Parx Racing. Sports and MSG Networks. 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