December 18, 2024 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Florida Stallion Spotlight: Roadster

• Oaklawn’s Poinsettia Next Possible Stop for Florida-bred Spirit Wind

• Honoring the memory of Jonathan “Slade” Stodghill

• DHS Final Rule Modernizes H-2 Programs

• Gaming Execs Address Wagering Innovation at NCLGS Winter Meeting

• OBS Catalogues 316 for 2025 January Winter Mixed Sale

• 1,000 Milestone: Trainer Antonio Sano

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

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Roadster - ©Louise Reinagel


Florida Stallion Spotlight: Roadster

BY AVALYN HUNTER


Finding a stallion with both early speed to promise good juvenile winners and the pedigree and performance to suggest the ability to get classy two-turn horses is not easy. Fortunately for Florida breeders, Ocala Stud has such a horse in Roadster. Now entering his third year at stud, Roadster combines a sire line with proven punch, a Grade 1-producing family, Grade 1 performance and solid conformation.

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Florida-bred Spirit Wind - ©Adam Coglianese


Oaklawn's Poinsettia Next Possible Stop for Florida-bred Spirit Wind

BY BROCK SHERIDAN



Miller Racing LLC’s Spirit Wind, who has raced at six different tracks in her 15 career starts, may add Oaklawn Park to her list should trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. decide to send her to Arkansas for the $150,000 Poinsettia Saturday. The Florida-bred mare is the 8-5 morning line favorite for the five-and-a-half-furlong contest that has attracted a dozen fillies and mares, 3-years-old and older.

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Jonathan "Slade" Stodghill

July 24, 1968 – Dec. 14, 2024

Devoted Father

Avid Thoroughbred Trainer

Irreplaceable Friend


Slade Stodghill is the son of Jason Coyote. A former leading Tampa Bay Downs trainer, Stodghill grew up riding surfboards in Hawaii until he was 18, when he came home to Ocala to learn the horse business from his father.

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©Simpson33


DHS Final Rule Modernizes H-2 Programs

COURTESY NTRA



The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday a final rule that will enable U.S. companies in need of seasonal workers to fill those positions more quickly and efficiently. The rule is designed to modernize and improve the H-2 nonimmigrant visa programs, which allow qualified U.S. employers unable to find sufficient U.S. workers to petition for foreign nationals to fill temporary or seasonal agricultural and nonagricultural jobs.

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Gaming Execs Address Wagering Innovation at NCLGS Winter Meeting

NEW ORLEANS—Gaming industry leaders gathered at the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States winter meeting last Saturday to discuss the transformation of horse racing through historical horse racing and fixed-odds wagering, highlighting the industry’s evolution to meet modern gaming preferences.

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©Brock Sheridan


OBS Catalogues 316 for 2025 January Winter Mixed Sale

BY OBS PRESS OFFICE



OCALA, FL—Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company has catalogued 316 horses for its January Winter Mixed Sale to be held Jan. 28, 2025. The single-session auction will begin at 11 a.m. ET and features newly turned yearlings, broodmares and broodmare prospects.

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Antonio Sano - ©Coglianese


Milestone


Trainer Antonio Sano is approaching a personal milestone of 1,000 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada). Through Wednesday Dec. 18, Sano was at 998 wins. He has one horse entered to run at Gulfstream Park on Thursday.

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