March 14, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Florida-bred Win N Your In Eyes Melody of Colors

• News Feature: Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine Pens Op-Ed About ‘Critical Florida industry’

• DERBY TRAIL: Alvarado on Sovereignty: ‘I Wouldn’t Trade My Horse for Anyone’

• Steal Sunshine Preps for Dubai at Gulfstream

• Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse: “Decoupling would be an economic disaster”

• Decoupling: What You Need to Know

• 2025 OBS March Top Sellers

• Florida-breds in the 2025 OBS March Sale: Results

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Win N Your In - ©Ryan Thompson


Florida-bred Win N Your In Eyes Melody of Colors

EDITED GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS RELEASE


HALLANDALE BEACH, FL-Florida-bred Win N Your In is one of 15 nominees to the $115,000 Melody of Colors for 3-year-old fillies scheduled at five furlongs on the turf Sunday, March 23.

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News Story Feature:

Miami Herald

Philip Levine with his horses in Ocala - ©Philip Levine



Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine Pens Op-Ed About ‘Critical Florida industry’

In an op-ed titled, "State legislators hold a critical Florida industry in their hands: horse racing," Philip Levine, a cruise industry entrepreneur and a former two-term mayor of Miami Beach, talks about very special residents who have an outsized impact on our state economy - thoroughbred horses.

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Junior Alvarado - ©Ryan Thompson


DERBY TRAIL: Alvarado on Sovereignty: 'I Wouldn't Trade My Horse for Anyone'

GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS RELEASE


HALLANDALE BEACH, FL - Since coming to the U.S. from Venezuela in 2007, jockey Junior Alvarado has compiled an enviable list of accomplishments with more than 2,200 wins including three in the Breeders' Cup, two on Horse of the Year Cody’s Wish, the $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) in 2023 at his winter home of Gulfstream Park, and the $20 million Saudi Cup last winter.

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Steal Sunshine - ©Lauren King


Steal Sunshine Preps for Dubai at Gulfstream

GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS RELEASE


HALLANDALE BEACH, FL-Steal Sunshine, a last-out second to Mindframe in the Gulfstream Park Mile (G2) March 1, will be back on the work tab this weekend ahead of a next scheduled start in the $1 million Godolphin Mile (G2) on the Dubai World Cup undercard April 5 at Meydan Racecourse.

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Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse: "Decoupling would be an economic disaster"

Thoroughbred Racing Initiative Press Release


"Ocala is my world."


That's Mark Casse, a Thoroughbred racing Hall of Famer in both America and Canada. In this interview with Alicia Hughes shot at the Casse Racing training center in Ocala, Casse speaks out about the devastating consequences for a labor-intensive industry if decoupling legislation passes.

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