Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Sunday, March 11, 2024

March 11, 2024 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Florida Legislature Parlays $65 Million Win Ticket

• OBS March Sale Starts Tuesday

• Legislative Update

• Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Leaderboards

• Fully Eligible Florida Sires Stakes Horses in OBS March Sale

• OBS Under Tack Times

• Florida-breds in OBS March Sale

• Equibase Offering Complementary Data

• Milestones

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida Capitol Building - Aneese Photo

Florida Legislature Parlays $65 Million Win Ticket

Promotes Long Run Stability, Investment in Florida's Signature Thoroughbred Industry

BY STEVE KOCH

TALLAHASSEE, FL-The Florida Legislature passed a sweeping omnibus tax package (HB 7073) on March 8 that includes the extension of Florida's all-time strongest Thoroughbred breeding and racing incentives and maintains state funding of Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) federal regulatory assessments.

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Editor's Note: This story was reprinted from the March 9 issue of Wire to Wire

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

The Florida Horse Podcast

E37 – Economic Impact Study

Equine are big business in Florida. FTBOA's Tammy A. Gantt and Steve Koch share all-new economic impact estimates for Florida horses, highlighting Florida Thoroughbreds.

Brock Sheridan Photo

OBS March Sale Begins Tuesday

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

OCALA, FL-The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company kicks the 2-year-old in training sales season in North American Tuesday with their annual March Sale set to run three days through Thursday, March 14. All three session will begin at 11:00 a.m. with Tuesday action offering Hips 1 - 284.

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Legislative Update

BY MATT BRYAN, FTBOA LOBBYIST

Thoroughbred industry veterans will appreciate HB7073's long term commitments are unprecedented in the State of Florida. We are fortunate to have presiding officers in the Legislature who understand the depth of the Thoroughbred industry and its substantial and continuing contribution to the state's economy.

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Kentucky Derby Leaderboard

Updated: March 9, 2024

Kentucky Oaks Leaderboard

Updated: March 9, 2024

Click here for OBS March Sale FSS Horses PDF

This is a list of horses foaled in Florida. To verify FTBOA registered Florida-bred status, visit www.ftboa.com or call 352-629-2160.

Equibase Offers Dataset with Full Year of Complimentary Data

BY EQUIBASE PRESS OFFICE

LEXINGTON, KY-Equibase announced today the availability of a complimentary dataset with a full year of past performance data and corresponding results charts for development, research and evaluation purposes. The dataset will include all racing information for the 2023 calendar year with the appropriate supporting documentation.

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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 Monday, March. 11, Spieth was at 4,998 wins. He has no scheduled mounts.

Sunday, March 10

_{All Times Eastern}

Florida-bred Stone Silent – Ryan Thompson Photo

Gulfstream Park

$100,000 Captiva Island S.

Won by Stone Silent (Fla)

Stone Silent earns $10,000 FTBOA Florida-bred Top 3 Bonus

Sol Hope earns $4,000 FTBOA Florida-bred Top 3 Bonus

4-year-olds and older, 5 furlongs turf

........ Stone Silent (#1) Winner

........ Fulminate (#3) Eighth

........ Sol Hope (#4) Third

OBS Note: Stone Silent was a $410,000 purchase by West Point Thoroughbreds and Talla Racing at the 2022 OBS March Sale where she was consigned by Ocala Stud.

Stone Silent is a graduate of the 2022 OBS March Sale

Thursday, March 14

_{All Times Eastern}

Turf Paradise

$60,000 Turf Paradise Derby

[Race 7, 7:05 p.m.]

3-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles

........ Norweigian Callum (#3)

Turf Paradise

$60,000 Phoenix Gold Cup

[Race 8, 7:36 p.m.]

3-year-olds and older, 6 furlongs

........ Kingdom Heart (#2)

Saturday, March 16

_{All Times Eastern}

Gulfstream Park

$100,000 Hutcheson S.

Plus $20,000 FTBOA Florida-bred Top 3 Bonus (50%-30%-20%)

[Race 3, 2:08 p.m.]

3-year-olds, 6 furlongs

........... Improptude (#2)

Laurel Park

$100,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial S.

[Race 9, 4:33 p.m.]

4-year-olds and older, one mile

........... It’s Sizzling Time (#4)

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