October 25, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Bentornato Has Final Tune Up for Breeders’ Cup Sprint

• 2025 FTBOA Hall of Fame

• The Florida Horse Podcast E63 FTBOA Hall of Fame

• Dorth Vader to Work Sunday in Final Prep for Breeders’ Cup Distaff

• Roll On Big Joe Returns to Churchill For Next Saturday’s Bet On Sunshine

• 2025 Breeders’ Cup Florida-bred Contenders

• Most Breeders’ Cup Starts by Owner with Florida-bred Horses

• Florida-breds Around the Country 

• Florida-breds in Stakes 

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Bentornato - ©Shelly Radosevich/Coady Media


Bentornato Has Final Tune Up for Breeders' Cup Sprint

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Trainer Jose D'Angelo put Florida-bred Bentornato through his final serious preparation for next Saturday's $2 million Cygames Breeders' Cup Sprint (Grade 1) with four-furlong breeze at Keeneland Saturday morning.

2025 FTBOA Hall of Fame


The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association hosted the 2025 FTBOA Hall of Fame inductees and their families and guests at a ceremony held at the FTBOA offices Friday afternoon.


Pictured above: Outgoing FTBOA president George Isaacs (far right) salutes Linda Appleton-Potter (representing her late father and 2025 HOF inductee Arthur Appleton), FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell, 2025 HOF inductee Charlotte Weber, 2025 HOF inductee Donald Dizney, Stephen Wolfson Sr. (representing 2025 HOF inductee Louis Wolfson), Jim Scott (representing 2025 HOF inductee Peter Vegso), David O’Farrell and Joseph M. O’Farrell III (representing their father and 2025 HOF inductee Michael O’Farrell Jr.).



Other class of 2025 FTBOA HOF inductees not pictured are the late Fred Brei, the late Gilbert G. Campbell, the late Jack Dreyfus, the late John Franks, the late Joseph LaCroix, the late Leonard Lavin, the late Tim Sams, the late Harold Plumley, the late Michael Sherman.

THE FLORIDA HORSE PODCAST

Episode 63 FTBOA Hall of Fame

Florida-bred Dorth Vader - ©Scott Serio/Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders' Cup


Dorth Vader to Work Sunday in Final Prep for Breeders' Cup Distaff

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


John Ropes' homebred Dorth Vader was out training at 7:00 a.m. PT at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Saturday morning as she prepares for Saturday's $2 million Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff at the seaside oval.

Florida-bred Roll On Big Joe - ©John Gallagher/Coady Media


Roll On Big Joe Returns to Churchill For Next Saturday's Bet On Sunshine

BY CHURCHILL DOWNS PRESS OFFICE (Edited)


LOUISVILLE, KY-Florida-bred Roll On Big Joe is set to return to Churchill Downs next Saturday, where he'll attempt to win his second stakes event beneath the Twin Spires this year while facing a competitive cast of seven sprinters entered in the $300,000 Bet On Sunshine (Listed).

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