Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Thursday, February 5 2026

February 5, 2026 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Strategic Risk Ready for Southwest on Friday

• Stakes-Winner Grade 1-Placed Florida-bred Sweetontheladies Relocates to Solera Farm for 2026 Breeding Season

• FTBOA Museum Talk Kicks off FAM Encounter Tour

• Florida-breds Around the Country

• 2025-2026 Road to the Kentucky Derby and Oaks

• Industry Leaders Unite Against CS/HB 881 in House Commerce Committee

• FTBOA 2026: No to Decoupling Updates

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Strategic Risk - ©Hunter Fridley/Coady Media

Strategic Risk Ready for Southwest on Friday

EDITED OAKLAWN PARK PRESS RELEASE

Hot Springs, Ark. - Florida-bred Strategic Risk takes the 'Road to the Kentucky Derby' in the $1 million Grade 3 Southwest on Friday for 3-year-olds at mile-and-a-sixteenth at Oaklawn Park, due to the rescheduling of last weekend's card due to weather.

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Florida-bred Sweetontheladies - ©Lauren King

Stakes-Winner Grade 1-Placed Sweetontheladies Relocates to Solera Farm for 2026 Breeding Season

SOLERA FARM PRESS RELEASE

WILLISTON, Fla - John Kasbar has officially announced the return of Third-Crop Sire Sweetontheladies to Florida. The multiple stakes winner and graded stakes performer will stand at Solera Farm in Williston for the upcoming 2026 breeding season.

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Visit Florida FAM Tour - ©Tammy A. Gantt

FTBOA Museum Talk Kicks off FAM Encounter Tour

On Feb. 5, Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association's Tammy A. Gantt and FTBOA intern Rebecca Ramirez hosted a Florida Huddle and Encounter tourism group to kick off a three-day area familiarization tour showcasing Horse Capital of the World®.

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New Thoroughbred breeders Jake and Teresa Hoffman of Avon Park, Fla just registered their first Florida-bred foal born on Feb. 4.

The colt is by Charge It out of Fancy Looker by Lookin At Lucky. Fancy Looker won one of three races for earnings of $46,1999. She was purchased for $13,000 from Pope McLean out of the Keeneland November Mixed sale in foal.

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FTBOA President Valerie Dailey

Industry Leaders Unite Against CS/HB 881 in House Commerce Committee

BY STEVE KOCH

TALLAHASSEE, FL - Representatives of Florida's Thoroughbred industry presented unified opposition to CS/HB 881 before the House Commerce Committee yesterday.

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FTBOA 2026: No to Decoupling

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