BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Mrs Worldwide circled the field around the far turn then wore down front-running Carroll’s Honor with a furlong to run and win her second consecutive added-money test in the $75,000 Sandpiper at Tampa Bay Downs Saturday. Trained by Brian Lynch for Flying Dutchmen Breeding and Racing LLC, Florida-bred Mrs Worldwide was one of six 2-year-old fillies going six furlongs after three fillies scratched.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

John Rowe’s homebred gelding Lord Eddard Stark shot to the front in the shadow of the wire to catch odds-on favorite Utah Beach and produce an astonishing victory at 60-1 odds in the $108,000 H. Allen Jerkens Handicap at Gulfstream Park Saturday. It was the first career stakes win in 28 starts for the 6-year-old Florida-bred, who defeated eight other 3-year-olds and older over the marathon distance of two miles on the grass. 

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

DECEMBER 7, 2002—Florida-bred Captain Squire, who would go on to win $1.3 million in his career, broke his maiden at Hollywood Park in his second start for trainer Jeff Mullins and owner Jeffrey S. Diener of Sacramento, Calif.

With the support of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Equine Disease Communication Center is completing a study to determine the awareness and knowledge of biosecurity in the horse industry. We need your help to determine knowledge and use of biosecurity for your horse(s). The goal is to help protect our horses from infectious diseases.