Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Saturday, April 4 2026

April 4, 2026 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Florida-breds Win Seven of 10 Races at Tampa Bay Downs Saturday

• Florida Vacation on Tap for Well-Traveled Reef Runner

• This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History – Hooh Why Upsets Keeneland’s Grade 1 Ashland at Odds of 24-1

• 2026 Florida-bred Foal Spotlight

• Tampa Bay Downs Florida Cup - FTBOA Member Day

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Majestic Lucia (inside) - ©SV Photography

Florida-breds Win Seven of 10 Races at Tampa Bay Downs Saturday

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

After having center stage last Sunday for the 23rd edition of the Florida Cup, Florida-breds kept the spotlight at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday, winning seven of 10 races.

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Florida-bred Reef Runner in Riyadh - ©Mathea Kelley/JCSA

Florida Vacation on Tap for Well-Traveled Reef Runner

BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL - His nearly two-month residency in the Middle East complete, Alex and JoAnn Lieblong's multiple graded-stakes winning millionaire Reef Runner is back in the U.S. and due a well-deserved break before returning home to Gulfstream Park to resume his 5-year-old campaign.

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Florida-bred Hooh Why (right) - ©EquiSport

This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History -

Hooh Why Upsets Keeneland's Grade 1 Ashland at Odds of 24-1

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

APRIL 4, 2009-Florida-bred Hooh Why and jockey Corey Lanerie upset odds-on favorite Stardom Bound and seven other 3-year-old fillies with a wire-to-wire victory in the $400,000 Ashland Stakes (Grade 1) at Keeneland.

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Photo by Kelli Charles

The Florida-bred filly with the “half-moon” shaped marking on her face is by Blazing Sevens and appropriately out of the winning Henny Hughes mare Miss Luna. She was bred by Lance Colwell, who purchased Miss Luna in foal to Blazing Sevens at the 2025 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Miss Luna has three winners from five starters and nine foals, including an unnamed yearling filly by Taiba and an unnamed 2-year-old filly by Speaker’s Corner. Miss Luna is out of the Grade 1-placed Miswaki mare In Her Glory and is a half-sister to Sambuca Classica, dam of Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1)-winner Classic Empire, stakes-winners Anytime Classic and stakes-winning, stakes-producer Uptown Twirl. Miss Luna is also a half-sister to stakes-placed Seattle Glory and stakes-placed, stakes-producer Combanchera.

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