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Inside This Issue

• Florida-bred Charlie's Wish One to Beat in Monroe

• Florida-bred Royal Poppy Teams with Dettori in Skipat

• Florida Connected Preakness Contenders

• Florida-breds in the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale

• Milestones

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

 

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Florida-bred Charlie's Wish - ©SV Photography


Florida-bred Charlie's Wish One to Beat in Monroe

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Charlie's Wish will be among the favorites to win Saturday's $75,000 Monroe at a mile-and-sixteenth on the turf at Gulfstream Park as the Florida-bred filly looks for her second consecutive stakes victory.

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Florida-bred Royal Poppy - ©Coglianese Photo


Royal Poppy Teams with Dettori For Skipat

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Royal Poppy will have the riding services of jockey Frankie Dettori Saturday at Pimlico Race Course when the Florida-bred filly makes her stakes debut in the $100,000 Skipat. A field of seven fillies and mares have entered the six-furlong contest.

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

The Florida Horse Podcast


E41 – FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell Interviews FTBOA Lobbyist Jon Rees



CEO Lonny Powell interviews FTBOA Lobbyist Jon Rees. They review recent legislative wins, acknowledge major Tallahassee supporters and celebrate outgoing FTBOA Lobbyist Matt Bryan and his 30 years of service to the Florida

Thoroughbred industry.

 
 

Mugatu - ©Renee Torbit/Coady Media


Florida Connected Preakness Contenders

Catching Freedom

He was purchased by Barry Berkelhammer as a yearling for the Albaugh Family Racing Stable. He was started and trained at Abracadabra Farm in Ocala.


Mugatu

A graduate of 2023 OBS Spring Sale where he was purchased for $14,000. Received his early training at Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables in Ocala, who also consigned him to the OBS Spring Sale.


Mystik Dan


A graduate of the early training program at Silverleaf Hills Training Center in Summerfield, Fla. Silverleaf Hills is owned and operated by Ken McPeek, who trains Mystik Dan.

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May 16, 2024

Public Notice – FTBOA Board of Directors Meeting on May 24, 2024

Conducted Live in FTBOA Boardroom, 801 SW 60th Ave., Ocala, FL 34474 AND Remotely via Zoom         

 

 

A meeting of the FTBOA Board of Directors will be held on Friday, May 24, 2024.

 

The portion of the meeting dealing with the following agenda item will be open in order for members of the public to provide comments and/or observe the Board’s proceedings, with this open portion of the meeting commencing at 1:10 PM:

 

• 2023 Florida Thoroughbred Breeder & Stallion Awards Program Annual Audit

 

Members of the public wishing to provide comments and/or observe the Board’s proceedings may do so either in-person or remotely via Zoom video teleconference during the public portion of the meeting.

 

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Any person wishing to offer public comment on the agenda item identified above via Zoom must indicate their desire to do so in advance by emailing the FTBOA at info@ftboa.com no later than 10:00 AM on Friday, May 24, 2024, providing your name, address, and telephone number.

 

Any person wishing to attend in-person to offer public comment on the agenda item identified above must indicate their desire to do so on the available sign-in sheet, prior to the announced commencement of the public comment period. 


Public comments will be limited to no more than three minutes per person. 

 

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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 Wednesday, May 15, Spieth was at 4,998 wins. He has no scheduled mounts.

 
 

Wednesday, May 15

Racing Canceled Due to Weather

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