Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

June 3, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• FTBOA Member Spotlight: Karen Grimes

• 2025 Florida Connections to the Belmont (G1) Contenders

• Florida-bred Firenze Fire Sires First Winner, Porta Romana (Jpn)

• 2025 Bill Kraatz Thoroughbred Makeover Ambassador Award Now Open for Nominations

• NTRA Top 3-Year-Old Poll

• NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll

• The Florida Horse Podcast E58 – Recent Florida-Bred Winners

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Karen Grimes - Photo Courtesy: Farm Tours of Ocala

FTBOA Member Spotlight: Karen Grimes

BY SARAH WELK BAYNUM

Karen Grimes is the owner and founder of Farm Tours of Ocala, which provides people with an up-close and intimate experience of numerous farms around the Horse Capital of the World™.

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Florida-bred Firenze Fire - ©Coglianese

Florida-bred Firenze Fire Sires First Winner, Porta Romana (Jpn)

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

As first reported in Blood-Horse, Florida-bred Firenze Fire was represented by his first winner, Porta Romana (Jpn), a four-length winner of the second race at Mombetsu Racecourse in Japan on May 27.

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2025 Bill Kraatz Thoroughbred Makeover Ambassador Award Now Open for Nominations

PRESS RELEASE

The Retired Racehorse Project announced that the nomination period for the 2025 Bill Kraatz Thoroughbred Makeover Ambassador Award is now open.

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New Episode!

THE FLORIDA HORSE PODCAST:

Episode 58 - Recent Florida-Bred Winners

Florida-breds shined over Memorial Day weekend (May 24-26), adding five black-type stakes victories to their already impressive 2024 campaign. Join Brock Sheridan for an update on these standout horses as they continue their banner year in top-tier competition.

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