June 2, 2026 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Stallion Spotlight: Ocean Vision (Ire)

• Total of 72 Supplements Added to OBS June Sale

• Florida-bred Foals Spotlight: Nashville - Heart of the Ocean and Loggins - Pleadthefifth

• FTBOA Export Incentives - May 2026

• A Look Back: Remembering the Florida-bred Belmont Winners

• NTRA Top 3-Year-Old Poll and Top Thoroughbred Poll

• 2026 Stakes Wins by State or Province

• 2026 Leading Florida Sires

• Florida-bred Belmont Stakes Winners

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Ocean Vision (Ire) - ©Scoop Dyga

Stallion Spotlight: Ocean Vision (Ire)

BY LAURIE ROSS

Ocean Vision (IRE) (U S Navy Flag - Balaagha, by Mr. Greeley) gives Florida breeders a different kind of stallion prospect to study. Standing at JR Ranch, the son of U S Navy Flag brings international form, juvenile speed and a female family with serious black-type depth, offering a blend of turf sharpness, American influence and race-tested toughness that fits a market always looking for useful options beyond the obvious.

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Total of 72 Supplements Added to OBS June Sale

BY OBS PRESS OFFICE

OCALA, FL-Ocala Breeders' Sales Company announces a total of 72 horses have been supplemented to the 2026 June Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age taking place June 16-18.

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Florida-bred Foals Spotlight: Nashville – Heart of the Ocean

This Florida-bred colt by Nashville is standing next to his dam, the unraced Astern (Aus) mare Heart of the Ocean, at owner and breeder Tim and Crystal O’Donohue’s Castle Gate Farm in Ocala. This is the second foal out of Heart of the Ocean, who has a yearling Florida-bred colt by Global Campaign, also bred by Castle Gate Farm.

Purchased by Castle Gate Farm for $40,000 out of the 2021 Ocala Breeders’ Sales October Yearling Sale, Heart of the Ocean is out of the Silver Train mare Blue Valentine, a half-sister to Grade 1-placed Itemise, dam of Group 2 and Group 3-winner Tally (Aus) and stakes-producer Checklist (Aus).

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Florida-bred Foals Spotlight: Loggins - Pleadthefifth

This Florida-bred filly at Castle Gate Farm in Ocala is by Loggins out of Pleadthefifth by Into Mischief and was bred in Florida and owned by Castle Gate Farm and Dr. James Chicklo of Ocala.

Pleadthefifth was purchased in foal to Loggins for $8,000 out of the 2025 Fasig-Tipton December Digital Sale by Tim O’Donohu’s Shakeyoudown. Her unraced 3-year-old colt, Al Husaam, by Rock Your World, sold for $180,000 at the 2025 OBS March Sale and her unraced 2-year-old colt, Inquest, by Idol, brought $210,000 at this year’s OBS Spring Sale. She has an unnamed yearling filly by Loggins.

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