May 28, 2026 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Fla-breds Roll On Big Joe and Mad House Meet Again in Grade 3 Aristides at Churchill Downs

• So Delicious Upset Candidate in Woodbine’s Jacques Cartier

• FTBOA Wins Media Awards at 2026 American Horse Publications Conference

• A Look Back: Remembering the Florida-bred Belmont Winners

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-breds Mad House (far right) and Roll On Big Joe (red cap) - ©Shelby Layne Ridgway/Coady Media


Florida-breds Roll On Big Joe and Mad House Meet Again in Grade 3 Aristides at Churchill Downs

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Florida-bred sprinters Mad House and Roll On Big Joe, who were first and second respectively last out in the Grade 3 Count Fleet Handicap at Oaklawn Park, hook up again Saturday at Churchill Downs in the $275,000 Aristides, a Grade 3 test for seven 4-year-olds and older set to go six furlongs.

Woodbine - ©Michael Burns


So Delicious Upset Candidate in Woodbine's Jacques Cartier

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Bruno Schickedanz homebred So Delicious looks for an upset victory in the Grade 3 Jacques Cartier at Woodbine Saturday, a six-furlong test on synthetic for eight 4-year-olds and older with a purse of Can$100,000.

AHP award winning illustration by Remi Bellocq



FTBOA Wins Media Awards at 2026 American Horse Publications Conference

OCALA, FL-Illustrator Remi Bellocq, editor-in-chief Brock Sheridan and graphic designer Nancy Moffatt swept the editorial Illustration category at the 2026 American Horse Publications Equine Media Conference held May 16 in Lexington, Kentucky.

Video thumbnail of a film photo of racehorse Affirmed racing with his rival. (©Coglianese/NYRA)

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