ftboa.com • Monday, November 2, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST Tiz the Law, Higher Power Work FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION Toward Breeders’ Cup Classic or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Extravagant Kid, Harvest Moon Breeze for BC Distaff Majestic Dunhill Prevails in Bold Ruler Never Be Enough Takes Kathryn Crosby Video: Trainer McPeek discusses Swiss Skydiver Halladay and Valiance Post Final Breeders’ Cup Works Tiz theLaw/COADY PHOTO BY KEENELAND Costanzo Named Racing Secretary at PRESS OFFICE __________ Gulfstream Park LEXINGTON, KY—Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law, who looms Gulfstream Park West Charts as one of the favorites for next Saturday’s $6 million Breeders’ Track Results & Entries Cup Classic (Grade 1), com- pleted his major preparation for Florida Stallion Progeny List the mile-and-a-quarter test by working five furlongs in :59.20 Florida Breeders’ List and galloping out six furlongs in 1:12.20 under Heather Wire to Wire Business Place Smullen over a fast track. “I saw just what I wanted. He went perfectly,” trainer Featured Advertisers Barclay Tagg said. “We wanted him to go in :59 and he went in :59.20 so it was just right.” Florida Department of Agriculture Tiz the Law arrived at FTBOA Keeneland Oct. 18, and this morning’s work was his second Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply over the track. He worked six Seminole Feed furlongs in 1:13.20 on Oct. 23. Higher Power/COADY PHOTO Sparr Farm and Building Supply See BREEDERS’ CUP on page 3 Mucho Macho Man (2013) World Approval (2017) Musical Romance (2011) Caledonia Road (2017) Little Mike (2012) FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Lonny T. Powell, CEO FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Tammy A. Gantt, Associate Vice President AND CONSUMER SERVICES Membership Services & Events Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 www.FDACS.gov 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 www.ftboa.com • [email protected] LITTLE MIKE/BENOIT; WORLD APPROVAL/MICHAEL BURNS; MUCHO MACHO MAN/COGLIANESE; MUSICAL ROMANCE/COGLIANESE; CALEDONIA ROAD/ECLIPSE SPORTSWIRE Back to Top Page 3 Breeders’ Cup Continued from COVER “I thought he needs to get a good feel of this track [because] he has never run over it,” Tagg said of the early arrival. “He has to run against older horses; it is going to be a tough race. “I have a super-duper crew and everything has gone right [with Tiz the Law]. We pay attention to the horses. We carry 30 horses at the most and try to get the best out of what we got and every now and then we get a good one.” The only Classic pre-entrant to have been at Keeneland longer than Tiz the Law is Hronis Racing’s Higher Power. Early Saturday morning, Higher Power recorded his fifth work since arriving here the first of the month from Southern California. With Juan Leyva, assistant to trainer John Sadler, aboard, Higher Power worked five furlongs in :58.80 and galloped out six furlongs in 1:11.60. “I liked the way he came back from it,” Leyva said. “He was blowing a little bit but not out of this world. His level of fitness has really progressed here.” Extravagant Kid, Harvest Moon Breeze for BC Distaff Florida-bred Extravagant Kid/???? PHOTO BY KEENELAND PRESS OFFICE ______________________ LEXINGTON, KY— Trainer Brendan Walsh sent out a trio of Breeders’ Cup hopefuls for half-mile works Saturday at Keeneland including DARRS Inc.’s Florida-bred Extravagant Kid (Turf Sprint), G. Chris Coleman and Brad King’s Into Mystic (Turf Sprint) and The Cool Silk Partnership’s Midnight Sands (Dirt Mile). Extravagant Kid (:48.20) worked with Plus Que Parfait; Into Mystic (:48.20) worked with Midnight Sands (:47.20). See DISTAFF on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Distaff Winner of the Spinaway Continued from page 3 “The rider was pretty Stakes (G1) by nine-and-a- much motionless the whole half lengths and then second way (on Extravagant Kid),” in the Frizette (G1) in her Walsh said. “That was the most recent start, Vequist kind of work you like to see arrived at Keeneland from going into a race. He did it Parx on Monday. well within himself. He “I think a work over the gives me all the signs that he track is very important and is coming into the race the that is why we came when way we like. This year for we did,” Reid said. “She had whatever reason he seems to three or four good gallops be working better.” and the work was fine. She Of Into Mystic, who did work at Saratoga [before needs one defection among the Spinaway] but didn’t the Turf Sprint pre-entries to before the Frizette because get in the gate, Walsh said: Belmont is just up the road “She did her usual thing: from Philadelphia.” went off a little slower and Reid, whose only previ- Harvest Moon/COADY PHOTO picked up good and finished ous Breeders’ Cup starter good and galloped out good. was Afleet Again, who won We are very pleased.” the 2011 Marathon (G2) at Alice Bamford and Churchill Downs, never has Michael Tabor’s Harvest had a Keeneland starter. Moon and Paul and Karen In the Breeders’ Cup Eggert’s Ollie’s Candy, two Juvenile Fillies, Vequist will pre-entrants for next be making her first start Saturday’s $2 million going around two turns in Breeders’ Cup Distaff the mile-and-one-sixteenth (Grade 1), put in their final race. works for the mile-and-one- Reid said Joel Rosario eighth main track test. would have the mount in the With jockey Flavien Prat Breeders’ Cup. aboard, Harvest Moon worked five furlongs in 1:01 Other Breeders’ Cup in company shortly after the Works track opened for training at Hronis Racing’s Chaos 6:00 a.m. Theory (Turf Sprint) “Flavien was very, very Dreaner’s Disease/OADY PHOTO worked a half-mile in :47 happy [with the work]. I got and galloped out five- her in a minute and four-fifths,” said trainer Simon Callaghan, eighths in :59.20 for trainer John Sadler. who arrived in Lexington Wednesday night from his Southern Kristen Boice and Marylou Holden’s Indian Summer winner California base, a few days after Harvest Moon arrived. “She has Bodenheimer (Juvenile Turf Sprint) worked a half-mile in :47.80. settled in nicely and it looks like she handled the track well.” “It was a very nice work and he did it easily,” trainer Valorie Lund Currently housed in the Calumet Farm training barn, Harvest said. Moon will make the short trip of less than a half-mile south on Calumet Farm’s True Timber (Dirt Mile) and Bon Raison Rice Road to the Breeders’ Cup barns on Tuesday. (Sprint) worked half-miles in :50 and :49.80, respectively, for Ollie’s Candy, second here Oct. 4 in the Juddmonte Spinster trainer Jack Sisterson. Bon Raison is first on the preference list for (G1), worked six furlongs in 1:11 in company under Juan Leyva, the Sprint and would need one defection from the pre-entrants to assistant to trainer John Sadler. make the 14-horse field. True Timber would need four defections “I talked with John last night and he said she needed a good from the Dirt Mile. work,” Levya said of Ollie’s Candy, who had worked a bullet five “I got all his eighths in 12 and change and he finished great,” furlongs in :59 Oct. 24. “It was a little quick, but she did it well.” Sisterson said of Bon Raison. He added of True Timber: “That was his best work. I got his last eight in :11 and 2. If he doesn’t get in, Vequist Gets Keeneland Test Run we have the ($150,000) Lafayette (presented by Keeneland Select on Nov. 7) to fall back on.” Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Swilcan Stable’s Vequist, who Cypress Creek and Arnold Bennewith’s Keepmeinmind (:48) figures to be one of the major players in Friday’s $2 million and Dreamer’s Disease (:48.40 out five-eighths in 1:00.80) Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (Grade 1), worked a half-mile in worked separate half-miles for trainer Robertino Diodoro in :47.20 and galloped out five-eighths in 1:00.40 under Jorge Vargas preparation for the $2 million TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile pre- for trainer Butch Reid. See DISTAFF on page 6 Back to Top Page 6 Distaff Continued from page 5 sented by Thoroughbred :48.40 to the satisfaction Aftercare Alliance (G1). of trainer Jose D’Angelo. “David Cohen worked both It was the second of them and he will ride Keeneland work for Jesus’ Dreamer’s Disease and Jose Team, who arrived Oct. 9 Ortiz will be on and worked five furlongs Keepmeinmind,” Diodoro said. in 1:00.80 last Saturday. … Working half-miles for train- Michael and Jules er Chad Brown were Peter Iavarone et al’s Lady Brant’s Raging Bull (Fr) Prancealot (Ire) (Filly and (:48.20) and Klaravich Stables’ Mare Turf) worked a half- Front Run the Fed (:48.20) for mile in :49.20 and gal- the Mile and Turf Sprint, respec- loped out five-eighths in tively. 1:02.20 under Julien On the work tab for trainer Leparoux for trainer Doug O’Neill were WCR II’s Richard Baltas. Wildman Jack (Turf Sprint) and “She works on dirt all Roadrunner Racing, Boat the time at home in Racing and Strauss Bros.