Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Tuesday, May 13, 2025

May 13, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• FTBOA Names 2024 Champions and Award Winners

• FTBOA Member Spotlight: Don and Jackie Duppenthaler

• Peterson: Biggest Budgets Don’t Always Equal Safest Surfaces

• El FTBOA nombra a los campeones y ganadores de sus premios de 2024

• 2025 International Cataloguing Standards Book Available

• 2025 Florida Connections to the Preakness (G1) Contenders

• NTRA Top 3-Year-Old Poll

• NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll

• Leading the Defense for Florida Thoroughbreds Against Decoupling

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

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Florida-bred Mystic Lake - ©Coglianese

FTBOA Names 2024 Champions and Award Winners

Mystic Lake is Florida-bred Horse of the Year

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Ocala, FL-Mystic Lake is named the 2024 Florida-bred Horse of the Year in a vote by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association board of directors and announced at the FTBOA Awards Gala held Monday night at the Circle Square Cultural Center in Ocala.

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FTBOA President George Isaacs (Left) presents the Horse of Year Trophy to Peggy Costanzo, breeder of Mystic Lake, and her husband Tony Costanzo. (Photo Credit: H.H. Photography)

Don and Jackie Duppenthaler - Photo Courtesy: Jackie Duppenthaler

FTBOA Member Spotlight: Don and Jackie Duppenthaler

BY SARAH WELK BAYNUM

A chance encounter through their children's high school romance unexpectedly launched Don and Jackie Duppenthaler into Thoroughbred breeding and racing.

"We got started in the horse business about 15 or 20 years ago with the same partners we still have today," Jackie Duppenthaler said.

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Dr. Mick Peterson

Peterson: Biggest Budgets Don't Always Equal Safest Surfaces

'The maintenance personnel is one of your most valuable assets'

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Churchill Downs track superintendent Jamie Richardson and Dr. Mick Peterson, director of the University of Kentucky's Racetrack Safety Program and executive director of the industry's non-profit Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory presented a conversation on racing surface best practices at the Association of Racing Commissioners Inc. annual meeting on May 7.

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Mystic Lake, criado en Florida - ©Coglianese

El FTBOA nombra a los campeones y ganadores de sus premios de 2024

Mystic Lake es el Caballo del Año criado en Florida

POR BROCK SHERIDAN

OCALA, FL-Mystic Lake ha sido nombrado Caballo del Año 2024 criado en Florida en una votación de la junta directiva de la Asociación de Criadores y Propietarios de Caballos Pura Sangre de Florida, anunciado en la Gala de Premios FTBOA celebrada el lunes por la noche en el Centro Cultural Circle Square en Ocala.

Leer Ahora

2025 International Cataloguing Standards Book Available

The Jockey Club Information Systems in association with the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities have published the 2025 International Cataloguing Standards Book, also known as The Blue Book.

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The FTBOA has consistently defeated attempts to decouple Thoroughbred horse racing, thanks to the advocates, industry leaders, and state officials who have joined our efforts. This is a fight we can win.

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