BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Mrs Worldwide shook off the challenge of 3-5 favorite Bella Cleopatra and Volatiled with a quarter mile to run before drawing off in the stretch to win the $65,000 Juvenile Fillies Sprint at Gulfstream Park Saturday. In winning her first career stakes, Mrs Worldwide defeated four other 2-year-old fillies bred in Florida at six-and-a-half furlongs on the main track.

BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE (Edited)

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL—As long as he’s been training horses, Eddie Plesa Jr. knows that sometimes change is good. With that in mind, the 75-year-old South Florida mainstay will give Rodney Lundock’s homebred mare Maryquitecontrary—a Grade 2 winner on dirt—her first start over an all-weather surface in Sunday’s $75,000 Daring Kathy overnight handicap at Gulfstream Park.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN



Anthony Rogers’ Echo Lane pressured Devil’s Harvest through six furlongs before taking over at the top of the stretch and holding on to a half-length victory over Sugoi in the $189,105 Claiming Crown Emerald at Churchill Downs Saturday. The Claiming Crown Emerald, a $25,000 starter allowance for a dozen 3-year-olds and older going a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the grass, was one of eight Claiming Crown races at Churchill Saturday worth $1.1 million for various divisions, all under starter allowance conditions.

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

NOVEMBER 16, 2002—Live Oak Plantation homebred Miesque’s Approval rallied to win the $150,000 Bonnie Heath Turf Cup Handicap by head over Sir Brian’s Sword at Calder Race Course on the inaugural Florida Million card.

BY CORNELL EQUINE HOSPITAL PRESS OFFICE 

ITHACA, NY—Drugs are commonly used in horses for infection, pain, endocrine disorders, and a variety of other conditions. But what about behavioral disorders? In this webinar, Dr. Kate Anderson will delve into considerations for behavioral medications in horses with stereotypies, anxiety, aggression, sleep deprivation, and other conditions.

The future is bright for breeding, racing, and owning Thoroughbred racehorses here in Florida for horseman Joseph M. Imbesi, who relocated his operation to Briardale Farm near Belleview, FL.