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Inside This Issue

• Neoequos Dominates Jersey Shore for First Stakes Victory

• Baby Yoda, Damon’s Mound to Carry Florida Flag into Vanderbilt

• Local FFA Student Wins State FFA Equine Proficiency Award

• NTRA Partners with Dean Dorton to Host Webinar on One Big Beautiful Bill

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Neoequos - ©Grace Hanley / EQUI-PHOTO


Neoequos Dominates Jersey Shore for First Stakes Victory

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Graded stakes-placed twice against some of the best of his class, Florida-bred Neoequos earned his first stakes victory Friday with a runaway performance in the $95,000 Jersey Shore at Monmouth Park. Featuring just four 3-year-olds after two scratches, the Jersey Shore was contested over six furlongs.

Florida-bred Baby Yoda - ©Adam Coglianese


Baby Yoda, Damon's Mound to Carry Florida Flag into Vanderbilt

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Baby Yoda and Damon's Mound will represent their Florida breeders Saturday at Saratoga Race Course in the $400,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt (Grade 2) for eight 4-year-olds and older at six furlongs.

Ava Densmore - Photo Courtesy: North Marion High School


Local FFA Student Wins State FFA Equine Proficiency Award

Ava Densmore of North Marion High School FFA was named state winner in the 2025 Florida FFA State Agricultural Proficiency Awards for her equine science placement project on June 18 at the 97th Florida FFA State Convention & Expo in Orlando, Fla.

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NTRA Partners with Dean Dorton to Host Webinar on One Big Beautiful Bill

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LEXINGTON, KY-The National Thoroughbred Racing Association is teaming up with Dean Dorton, a Top 100 CPA and advisory firm, to host a deep dive webinar on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and its tax implications affecting Thoroughbred racing.

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