ftboa.com • Wednesday • April 21, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST In This Issue: Janae Delivers Malibu Moon Colt as Part of Foal Patrol Season 4 Florida-bred Fillies and Mares Face Off in Optional Claiming Allowance Prairie Meadows Hires Track Announcer Bobby Neuman Essential Quality Holds No. 1 Ranking in NTRA Sophomore Poll Top Thoroughbred & 3 YO Polls Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Wire to Wire Business Place Featured Advertisers Midnight Bourbon (outside)/COADY PHOTO Covert Appraisal Services Florida Department of Agriculture Fred Burton Paving Midnight Bourbon Drills FTBOA Journeyman Stud Five Furlongs in :59.80 Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Ocala Stud placed colt Midnight Bourbon continued BY CHURCHILL DOWNS Peterson Smith PRESS OFFICE __________________ his serious preparation for the $3 million Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford RiceHorse Stables LOUISVILLE, KY—On a brisk Monday Reserve (Grade 1) with a swift five fur- Seminole Feed morning in Louisville, Winchell long move in :59.80, the fastest of 13 Showcase Properties Thorougbreds’ multiple graded stakes- Six K’s Training & Sales See DERBY WORKS on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Derby Works Continued from COVER horses at the distance. Trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, Midnight Bourbon worked in company with recent Turfway Park maid- en-winner Bajan Rum through fractions of :12.40, :24, :35.60. The TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby (G2) runner-up galloped out six furlongs in 1:12.80 and completed seven furlongs in 1:26, according to Churchill Downs clocker John Nichols. “We’re obviously very excited about who Midnight Bourbon is,” Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen said. “Physically, he’s an absolutely beautiful horse. Going over the track now, he’s as good as he’s ever been. He’s always had a big frame, now there’s just more of him in the right Steve Asmussen/COADY PHOTO spots.” Erv Woolsey and Keith Asmussen’s upset Arkansas Derby (G1)-hero Super Stock had a scheduled walk day. Tuesday will be the first day on the track for Blue Grass (G2) runner-up Highly Motivated, who arrived at trainer Chad Brown’s Barn 25 at 8 a.m. EDT from Keeneland. Brown is scheduled to be at Churchill Downs Tuesday. Two-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Todd Pletcher sent his four hopefuls for the Run for the Roses out for mile- and-three-eighths gallops Monday morning. Pletcher utilized the 7:30-7:45 training window for Derby and Kentucky Oaks candidates to send out St. Elias Stable’s Known Agenda with Hector Ramos aboard; Repole Stable, See DERBY WORKS on page 5 Known Agenda/COADY PHOTO Back to Top Distorted Humor – Delta Princess, by A.P. Indy I Fee $10,000 S & N Florida’s Leading Sire in 2021! Florida’s leading sire in 2020. Florida’s leading 2 year old sire by money in 2020. Florida’s leading sire of stake winners in 2020. Photo by Louise Reinagel Watch for hips 61, 151, 272, 417, 619, 715 & 756 in the April Sale Me and Mr. C Winner of the 2021 Grey Goose Turf Classic at Tampa Bay Downs Me and Mr. C Photo by SV Photography Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners 5571 NW 100th St., Ocala, FL 34482 Office: 352.629.1200 | Fax: 352.629.2101 [email protected] www.JourneymanStallions.com Back to Top Page 5 Derby Works page 3 Continued from Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stable’s Dynamic One with Carlos Perez Quevedo aboard; and WinStar Farm and CHC Inc.’s Sainthood with Amelia Green aboard. Calumet Farm’s Bourbonic galloped after 9 o’clock with Ramos aboard. Pletcher said Monday morning that no rider has been con- firmed for Sainthood, who comes into Derby 147 off a run- ner-up finish in the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) at Turfway Park March 27. Godolphin’s Kentucky Derby-favorite Essential Quality and Juddmonte Farm’s Mandaloun jogged at 6:20 a.m. Monday at Churchill Downs for trainer Brad Cox while stablemate Caddo River galloped at 5:15 a.m. “[Essential Quality and Mandaloun] both came out of their Saturday works in good shape,” trainer Brad Cox said. “We’re gearing up. It’s getting exciting around the barn and we’re ready for the Derby.” Shortleaf Stable’s Arkansas Derby (G1) runner-up Caddo River plans to run in the Kentucky Derby remain tentative. D J Stable’s Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby (G2)-win- ner Helium along with Live Oak Plantation’s Florida-bred, Curlin Florida Derby presented by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms at Xalapa (G1) runner-up Soup and Sandwich had a scheduled walk day at trainer Mark Casse’s Barn 36 at Churchill Downs. “We had an easy day around the barn today,” Casse’s assis- tant David Carroll said. Both horses are scheduled to work this weekend. Essential Quality/COADY PHOTO See DERBY WORKS on page 7 Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Derby Works page 5 Probable Kentucky Derby 147 Starters Continued from Klaravich Stables’ homebred Highly Motivated, runner-up Horse Jockey Trainer in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) in his most recent start Essential Quality Luis Saez Brad Cox April 3, arrived at Churchill Downs at 8 o’clock Monday Hot Rod Charlie Flavien Prat Doug O’Neill morning from Keeneland. Super Stock Ricardo Santana Jr. Steve Asmussen The Chad Brown trainee had worked a half-mile in :47.20 Like the King Drayden Van Dyke Wesley Ward Sunday morning that was the best of 27 at the distance. Known Agenda Irad Ortiz Todd Pletcher Spendthrift Farm, Cypress Creek and Arnold Bennewith’s Rock Your World Joel Rosario John Sadler Keepmeinmind jogged two miles early Monday morning under Bourbonic Kendrick Carmouche Todd Pletcher exercise rider Enrique Benitez for trainer Robertino Diodoro. Medina Spirit* John Velazquez Bob Baffert Winner of the Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) here last fall, Midnight Bourbon Mike Smith Steve Asmussen Keepmeinmind had worked five furlongs in 1:00.60 under Mandaloun Florent Geroux Brad Cox Benitez at Keeneland on Saturday and arrived at Churchill Highly Motivated Javier Castellano Chad Brown Downs on Sunday. Helium Julien Leparoux Mark Casse He currently sits Soup and Sandwich* Tyler Gaffalione Mark Casse No. 22 on the Road Dynamic One Jose Ortiz Todd Pletcher to the Kentucky Sainthood TBA Todd Pletcher Derby leaderboard. Hidden Stash Rafael Bejarano Vicki Oliver Fern Circle Stables Dream Shake TBA Peter Eurton and Three Chimneys O Besos Marcelino Pedroza Greg Foley Farm’s King Fury gal- Get Her Number TBA Peter Miller loped a mile-and-one- half at 5:30 under *Florida-bred exercise rider Danny Ramsey for trainer Kenny McPeek. Possible Kentucky 147 Starter He needs one Caddo River TBA Brad Cox defection to make Keepmeinmind/COADY PHOTO the field of 20 for Next Up the first Saturday in May. King Fury Brian Hernandez Jr. Kenneth McPeek Barrett Bernard, Tagg Team Racing and West Point Keepmeinmind David Cohen Robertino Diodoro Thoroughbreds’ Louisiana Derby third-place finisher O Besos Starrininmydreams TBA Dallas Stewart jogged about one mile under Margarito Fierro at 6:30 a.m. Monday at Churchill Downs. Out of race: Rebel’s Romance (IRE) (June 5 Belmont O Besos is scheduled to work Wednesday. Stakes); Greatest Honour (rest); Life Is Good (ankle chip); Stewart Racing and WinStar Farm’s Lexington Stakes (G3) Weyburn (May 8 Peter Pan); Panadol; Crowded Trade (May 8 third place-finisher Starrininmydreams galloped about a mile- Peter Pan or May 15 Preakness); Concert Tour, Proxy; and-a-half at 6:30 a.m. under exercise rider Emerson Chavez. Rombauer (May 15 Preakness); Drain the Clock (shorter dis- Starrininmydreams sits No. 23 on the Road to the Kentucky tances); New Treasure (Ire); Hozier; Hockey Dad; Spielberg Derby leaderboard. (rest); and Jackie’s Warrior (May 1 Pat Day Mile). Janae Delivers a Colt by Malibu Moon at Safari North Farm As Part of National Museum of Racing’s Foal Patrol Season 4 BY NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING by Mizzen Mast in 2019 and a filly by Daredevil in PRESS OFFICE______________________________ 2020. Along with Janae, Foal Patron Season 4 features the VERSAILLES, KY—Janae, a 6-year-old mare owned by mares Miss Always Ready (Three Chimneys Farm), Susan Moulton, delivered a colt by Malibu Moon on Miss Chapin (Mill Ridge Farm), and To the Moon Alice April 17 at Moulton’s Safari North Farm as part of the (Old Tavern Farm), all of whom previously foaled this National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s Foal season. Patrol Season 4. This is the fourth and final foal of the Foal Patrol is a one-of-a-kind interactive web project season delivered on Foal Patrol. Both the mare and foal that features a collection of live cameras where people are healthy and doing well. can view real-time streams of mares and their foals. A bay daughter of Closing Argument out of the The live camera feeds will be available according to Petionville mare Debs Pet, Janae was bred in Louisiana each horse’s daily schedule, set by the farm. The cam- by Jim and Sue Harris. Janae, who won twice in seven eras will be active for Season 4 through June. For more starts in her racing career, previously produced a filly information, please visit www.foalpatrol.com. Janae and colt/FILE PHOTO Back to Top Breed and Race Florida-breds! 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