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Inside This Issue

• Florida-Bred Colt by First Crop Sire Yaupon Tops Rescheduled Monday Session During OBS October

• Undefeated Florida-bred Rated by Merit Tunes Up for FSS Affirmed

2024 OBS October Yearling Sale Top Sellers

• Florida-bred Tapit Kissit Winit to Make Second Start in Woodbine Allowance Optional Claiming

• Hurricane Checklist for Florida Horse Farms

• Florida Hurricane – Evacuation Stalls

• Alicia Hughes to Join OBS Staff

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• Florida-breds in the 2024 OBS October Yearling Sale & Today's Results

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• W2W Business Place

Hip 78, a Florida-bred colt by Yaupon - ©Judit Seipert Photo


Florida-Bred Colt by First Crop Sire Yaupon Tops Rescheduled Monday Session During OBS October

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Due to the impending hurricane Milton, Ocala Breeders’ Sales officials were forced to alter the schedule for the October Yearling Sale, moving 200 head from the first session originally scheduled for Tuesday to today. The remainder of the juveniles will be sold during a Tuesday session that will begin at 11:30 a.m.

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Florida-bred Rated by Merit - ©Lauren King


Undefeated Florida-bred Rated by Merit Tunes Up for FSS Affirmed

BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE


HALLANDALE BEACH, FL—Undefeated and unchallenged Florida-bred Rated by Merit breezed five furlongs over a fast Gulfstream Park track Sunday morning in preparation for a highly anticipated start in the $200,000 Affirmed, the seven-furlong second leg of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes series to be run Oct. 19.

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Mark Casse - ©Walter Wlodarczyk


Florida-bred Tapit Kissit Winit to Make Second Start in Woodbine Allowance Optional Claiming

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Live Oak Plantation's Florida homebred Tapit Kissit Winit graduates to face winners in his second start in a first level, $75,000 optional claiming on the Woodbine turf Thursday.

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©Ross Helen


Florida Hurricane - Evacuation Stalls

If you have equine stalls available for Hurricane Milton evacuees, please register with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Florida Equine Evacuation List.


To join the FDACS Florida Equine Evacuation List, whether you have two stalls or more than 100 stalls available, please click here below to register.

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Alicia Hughes to Join OBS Staff

BY OBS PRESS OFFICE


Ocala Breeders' Sales Company announced today that award-winning writer Alicia Hughes has been named to the position of Director of Communications.


Hughes comes to OBS with nearly three decades of experience covering and working in the Thoroughbred industry.

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