Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Monday, April 8, 2024

April 8, 2024 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Stallion Spotlight - Tunwoo

• Caracaro Filly Fastest at Second Day of OBS Spring Under Tack Show

• OBS Under Tack Show Times

• AdventHealth Ocala Foundation Establishes an Equine Worker Health Initiative

• Milestone Watch

• Florida-breds in OBS Spring Sale

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Tunwoo TB Stallion - Serita C. Hult ©

Stallion Spotlight - Tunwoo

It is a Thoroughbred breeding truism that the more foals in a stallion's first crop, the more runners he has to attract mares to his future courts. Nonetheless, sometimes a horse breaks through against the odds. Such is the case with Bridlewood Farm's Tunwoo.

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Equine are big business in Florida. Tammy Gantt & Steve Koch share new economic impact estimates.

The Florida Horse Podcast

E39 – Tammy Gantt With Tami Bobo

FTBOA’s Tammy A. Gantt talks with Tami Bobo, co-owner of Florida’s 2022 Horse of the Year Simplification, about why both Simplification and Gunnevera, standing at Pleasant Acres Stallions, are good matches for Florida breeders.

Hip 199, a filly by Caracaro - Judit Seipert

Caracaro Filly Fastest at Second Day of OBS Spring Under Tack Show

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

A filly by first crop sire Caracaro worked a quarter mile in :20.40 to clock the fastest time at the distance Monday during the second under tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale.

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AdventHealth Ocala Foundation Establishes an Equine Worker Health Initiative

Industry Members Invited to Support Program

BY TAMMY A GANTT

Reducing barriers to health care for equine workers in Marion County is a top priority for AdventHealth Ocala and has led to the establishment of the Harnessing Health: Equine Worker Health Initiative. The health initiative program will include a bilingual healthcare navigator to assess needs, build services, and bridge gaps of care for equine workers.

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Eddie Plesa Jr. – Lauren King

Milestone Watch

Jockey Eddie Plesa Jr. is approaching a personal milestone of 2.500 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada). Through racing on Monday, April 8, Plesa has won 2,499 races. Plesa has one horse entered at Gulfstream Park on Thursday.

Scott Spieth – SV Photography

Milestone Watch

Jockey Scott Spieth is approaching a personal milestone of 5,000 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada).

Through racing Monday, April 8, Spieth was at 4,998 wins. He has one scheduled mount at Tampa Bay Downs on Wednesday.

Submit your photos of Florida-bred foals in jpeg format for publication in Wire to Wire to Brock Sheridan, Editor-In-Chief at: bsherida@ftboa.com. Please include sex, sire, dam, breeder and any requested photo credit.

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