Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Tuesday, November 4 2025

November 4, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Damon’s Mound Tops Florida-bred Exacta in Grade 3 Bold Ruler With Buccherino

• Graded Stakes Winning Florida-bred Sabatini Brings $1.35 at Fasig-Tipton November Sale

• Ropes Keeping Florida-bred Millionaire Dorth Vader

• NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll

• Florida Statute 550: A Broken Revenue Model

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Damon's Mound (far left) and Florida-bred Buccherino (far right) - ©Joe Labozzetta

Damon's Mound Tops Florida-bred Exacta in Grade 3 Bold Ruler With Buccherino

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-breds Damon's Mound and Buccherino finished first and second respectively in the $175,000 Bold Ruler (Grade 3) Sunday to complete a big weekend of stakes winners for breeders' in the Sunshine State.

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Florida-bred Sabatini - ©Michael Burns

Graded Stakes Winning Florida-bred Sabatini Brings $1.35 at Fasig-Tipton November Sale

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-bred Sabatini, who was a graded stakes-winner for NK Racing and LNJ Foxwoods, sold for $1.35 million in foal to Gun Runner at the Fasig-Tipton November Sales held at the Newton Paddocks in Lexington, Ky., Monday evening.

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Florida-bred Dorth Vader - ©Susie Raisher

Ropes Keeping Florida-bred Millionaire Dorth Vader

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Grade 1-winning Florida-bred millionaire Dorth Vader, who was fifth in the $1.840 million Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) Saturday, was cataloged as Hip 209 in Monday night's Fasig-Tipton November Sale but was bought back by owner and breeder John Ropes as a $1.95 million RNA.

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Gulfstream Park - ©Lauren King

Florida Statute 550: A Broken Revenue Model

BY STEVE KOCH

Florida breeders produce champion Thoroughbreds. Florida bettors churn billions. But when 90% of those billions flow through digital platforms, the breeders get shorted.

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