September 19, 2025 Edition

 

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Inside This Issue

• Florida-breds Damon’s Mound, Buccherino and Bernie’s Mitts Among 13 in Parx Sprint

• Lets Go Koko Top Weighted in Ginger Punch Handicap

• Mystic Lake Goes for Fourth Straight in Liberty Bell at Parx

• HISA and Jockeys’ Guild Host Professional Athlete Mental Health Roundtable in Partnership with the Congressional Mental Health Caucus

• Chase to the Championship Point Standings 

• Florida-breds in the Keeneland September Yearling Sale

• Florida-breds Around the Country

• 2025 Leading Florida Sires 

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List 

• W2W Business Place

 
 
 

Florida-bred Damon's Mound - ©Lauren King


Florida-breds Damon's Mound, Buccherino and Bernie's Mitts Among 13 in Parx Sprint

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Florida-breds Damon's Mound and Buccherino, both veterans of the Gallant Bob Stakes at Parx Racing, return to the Bensalem oval Saturday for the $150,000 Parx Sprint along with Bernie's Mitts to make a trio of Sunshine natives in the six-and-and-half-furlong test.

 
 
 
 

Florida-bred Lets Go Koko (left) - ©Ryan Thompson


Lets Go Koko Top Weighted in Ginger Punch Handicap

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Florida-bred Lets Go Koko, a winner of three of her last four races and four of her last six, has been assigned to carry the highweight of 121 pounds in Saturday's $75,000 Ginger Punch Handicap set for one mile on the turf at Gulfstream Park.

 
 
 
 

Florida-bred Mystic Lake - ©Renee Torbit/Coady Media


Mystic Lake Goes for Fourth Straight in Liberty Bell at Parx

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Mystic Lake will try to match her count of five stakes victories achieved during her FTBOA Horse of the Year campaign in 2024 when trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. sends her postward for the $150,000 Liberty Bell going six-and-a-half furlongs at Parx Racing Saturday.

 
 
 
 

©Susie Raisher


HISA and Jockeys' Guild Host Professional Athlete Mental Health Roundtable in Partnership with the Congressional Mental Health Caucus

PRESS RELEASE (Edited)


WASHINGTON, DC-The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority and Jockeys' Guild, in partnership with the Congressional Mental Health Caucus, co-hosted a mental health roundtable on Tuesday, Sept. 16, in the U.S. Capitol.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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