Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Saturday, February 7 2026

February 7, 2026 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Mystic Lake Makes Waves at Tampa Saturday

• El Potente has a Very Special Performance Indeed

• Roll On Big Joe Plans to Rock in King Cotton

• Speed Boat Beach Vies to Stop the Watch in Clocker’s Corner

• TOBA Pedigree and Conformation Clinic Educates Breeders

• Florida-bred Foal Spotlight

• Florida-breds Around the Country

• Tampa Bay Downs Purse Increase

• 2025-2026 Road to the Kentucky Derby and Oaks

• FTBOA 2026: No to Decoupling Updates

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Mystic Lake - ©SV Photography

Mystic Lake Makes Waves at Tampa Saturday

BY TAMMY A GANTT

Mystic Lake led nearly every point of call gate-to-wire pulling away impressively in the stretch to win by seven and a half lengths in the $125,000 Minaret Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs on Feb. 7.

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Florida-bred El Potente - ©Benoit

El Potente has a Very Special Performance Indeed

BY TAMMY A. GANTT

Florida-bred El Potente strolled to a five-length victory at a mile on the turf to repeat in the Grade 3 $100,000 Thunder Road at Santa Anita on Saturday in a field of five.

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Florida-bred Roll On Big Joe - ©Kurtis Coady/Coady Media

Roll On Big Joe Plans to Rock in King Cotton

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A field of nine, headed by 7-5 program favorite Florida-bred Roll On Big Joe, is entered in the $150,000 King Cotton Stakes for older horses at six furlongs Sunday at Oaklawn.

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Florida-bred Speed Boat Beach - ©Benoit

Speed Boat Beach Vies to Stop the Watch in Clocker's Corner

BY TAMMY A GANTT

Michael Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman's Florida-bred Speed Boat Beach faces a field of six in the $100,000 Clocker's Corner for older horses going six furlongs on the turf at Santa Anita Park Sunday.

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OBS Sale - ©Brock Sheridan

TOBA Pedigree and Conformation Clinic Educates Breeders

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LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Pedigree & Conformation Clinic, sponsored by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association, is scheduled for March 9-10 to coincide with the Ocala Breeders' Sales two-year-old-in-training sale. The FTBOA/TOBA joint member fee is $79, a $50 savings.

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Photo: Rosegrove Farm

John Ropes’ Rosegrove Farm’s first foal of 2026 is a filly by Win Win Win out of Island Sand, a 2001 mare by Tabasco Cat. Island Sand is a multiple graded stakes winner of $1,182,777.

The foal was born Feb. 6 at 9:40 p.m. in Ocala, the home of Florida-bred champion Dorth Vader.

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FTBOA 2026: No to Decoupling

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