May 17, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Florida-bred Most Handsome Puts in Dashing Performance to Win Roar

• PODCAST: Quantity Fills the Starting Gate, But Quality Gets The Win

• Florida-bred As Catch Can Looks To Snap Streak of Seconds Sunday in Grade 3 Honeymoon

• This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History – Codex Survives Claim of Foul to Win Preakness ahead of Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk

• La Cantidad Llena El Partidor, Pero La Calidad Consigue La Victoria

• Florida-breds in the Fasig-Tipton Midatlantic May Sale

• Wire to Wire Podcast: Lennilu Looks to Royal Ascot

• 2025 Florida Connections to the Preakness (G1) Contenders

• Leading the Defense for Florida Thoroughbreds Against Decoupling

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Most Handsome - ©Lauren King

Florida-bred Most Handsome Puts in Dashing Performance to Win Roar

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Most Handsome bounced out the starting gate on top and led from flag to finish to score in the $75,000 Roar at Gulfstream Park Saturday. The Florida-bred son of Pleasant Acres Stallions' Neolithic won for the second time in two starts, both times sprinting five furlongs on the turf with Emisael Jaramillo aboard.

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Quantity Fills the Starting Gate, But Quality Gets The Win

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Florida-bred As Catch Can - ©Coady Media

Florida-bred As Catch Can Looks To Snap Streak of Seconds Sunday in Grade 3 Honeymoon

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Second in two stakes in her last two efforts, Augustin Stables' As Catch Can is the 2-1 second choice to end that trend in Sunday's Grade 3 Honeymoon at Santa Anita.

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Florida-bred Codex - ©Maryland Jockey Club

This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History - Codex Survives Claim of Foul to Win Preakness ahead of Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

MAY 17, 1980-In one of the more controversial races in Triple Crown history, Florida-bred Codex and jockey Angel Cordero, Jr. survived a claim of foul lodged by jockey Jacinto Vasquez, who was riding the Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk, to win the 105th running of the $250,600 Preakness Stakes (Grade 1) at Pimlico Race Course.

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La Cantidad Llena El Partidor, Pero La Calidad Consigue La Victoria

POR STEVE KOCH

En el mundo de las carreras de caballos pura sangre, es fácil centrarse en los números. Pero juzgar la salud de la industria del Pura Sangre de un estado únicamente por el número de potros producidos es perder la visión de conjunto.

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