Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Tuesday, April 8, 2025

April 8, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Lennilu Takes Keeneland Maiden Special Weight as First Winner For Leinster

• FTBOA Member Spotlight: Sergio Armelin Ramos

• Florida-breds Again Fire Fast Performances at OBS Spring Sale Under Tack Show Tuesday

• Tariffs’ Effects on the Thoroughbred Racing Industry

• OBS Spring 2025 Under Tack Times: Hips 347 - 519

• NTRA Top 3-Year-Old Poll

• NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll

• 2024-2025 Road to the Kentucky Oaks

• Decoupling: What You Need to Know

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Lennilu - ©Coady Media

Lennilu Takes Keeneland Maiden Special Weight as First Winner For Leinster

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Pleasant Acres Stallions' first crop sire Leinster was represented by his first winner Sunday at Keeneland when Amy E. Dunne's Lennilu won a $72,826 maiden special weight, the first juvenile race in the North America this year.

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Sergio Armelin Ramos - Courtesy: Sergio Armelin Ramons

FTBOA Member Spotlight: Sergio Armelin Ramos

BY SARAH WELK BAYNUM

Sergio Armelin Ramos may be new to Ocala and Thoroughbred racing, but he is no stranger to the sport of horse racing. He is a generational horseman who spent most of his life running a large-scale horse business in Brazil.

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Hip 363, a Florida-bred filly by Mitole - ©Judit Seipert

Florida-breds Again Fire Fast Performances at OBS Spring Sale Under Tack Show Tuesday

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

A Florida-bred filly by Yaupon produced the fastest quarter-mile work while a Florida-bred colt by Galilean had one of the two fastest times for an eighth mile Tuesday during the third day of under tack works previewing next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale.

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