Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Saturday, May 3, 2025

May 3, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Decoupling Stalled. FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell Thanks Leaders for Continued Support of Florida Thoroughbreds

• Macho Music Upsets Pat Day Mile With Impressive Wire to Wire Score

• A Determined Tank Wins English Channel Stakes

• This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History – Foolish Pleasure Wins 1975 Kentucky Derby

• 2025 Florida-bred Foal Spotlight

• 2025 Florida Connections to the Kentucky Derby (G1) Contenders

• 2025 Florida Connections to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) Contenders

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida Capitol - ©Aneese

Decoupling Stalled. FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell Thanks Leaders for Continued Support of Florida Thoroughbreds

FTBOA PRESS RELEASE

OCALA, FL-The Florida Legislature has concluded policy discussions for the 2025 Regular Legislative Session, effectively killing the proposed decoupling provisions of Senate Bill 408, House Bill 105, and House Bill 1467, all of which the Florida Senate declined to approve for final passage.

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Florida-bred Macho Music (far right) - ©Katherine Romano / Coady Media

Macho Music Upsets Pat Day Mile With Impressive Wire to Wire Score

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Macho Music sprinted out the one-mile chute at Churchill Downs with a short lead then never looked back on his way to a three-and-a-quarter-length upset victory in the $539,500 Pat Day Mile (Grade 3) at Churchill Downs.

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Florida-bred Tank the English (center) - ©Ryan Thompson

A Determined Tank Wins English Channel Stakes

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-bred Tank challenged Forged Steel around the far turn then outran the even-money favorite in the stretch to win the $80,000 English Channel for 3-year-olds going a mile on the turf at Gulfstream Park Saturday.

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Florida-bred Foolish Pleasure - ©Churchill Downs Photo

This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History - Foolish Pleasure Wins 1975 Kentucky Derby

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

MAY 3, 1975-Florida-bred Foolish Pleasure became the third Florida-bred to win the Kentucky Derby, winning as the 8-5 favorite with jockey Jacinto Vasquez aboard for trainer LeRoy Jolley and owner John L. Greer of Knoxville, Tenn.

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Florida-bred filly out of Pappacap - Dirty Martini, by Hard Spun. The filly was bred in Florida by Bobby and Terri Latner.

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