Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Saturday, May 18, 2024

May 18, 2024 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Mattingly Travels to New York for Paradise Creek

• Florida-bred Sophomores Face Off in Sunday's Gulfstream Feature

• Florida-breds in the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale

• Milestones

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

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Florida-bred Mattingly - ©Ryan Thompson Photo

Florida-bred Mattingly Ships to New York for Paradise Creek

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-bred stakes-winner Mattingly travels to New York from his base in South Florida to make his second start of the year in the $150,000 Paradise Creek on Sunday during the Belmont at Big A meet.

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Florida-bred Sophomores Go In Sunday's Gulfstream Feature Race

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

A field of 10 Florida-bred 3-year-olds will face off in Sunday's featured eighth at Gulfstream Park, a $48,000 first condition allowance to be run at seven furlongs. Jacks or Better Farm Inc.

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Equine are big business in Florida. Tammy Gantt & Steve Koch share new economic impact estimates.

The Florida Horse Podcast

E41 – FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell Interviews FTBOA Lobbyist Jon Rees

CEO Lonny Powell interviews FTBOA Lobbyist Jon Rees. They review recent legislative wins, acknowledge major Tallahassee supporters and celebrate outgoing FTBOA Lobbyist Matt Bryan and his 30 years of service to the Florida

Thoroughbred industry.

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Scott Spieth – ©SV Photography

Milestone Watch

Jockey Scott Spieth is approaching a personal milestone of 5,000 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada). Through racing Friday, May 17, Spieth was at 4,998 wins. He has three Mounts at Presque Isle Downs on Monday.

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