June 26, 2026 Edition

 

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Inside This Issue

• Back to Synthetic for Classic Move in Woodbine’s Grade 3 Selene Stakes

• OBSOnline Catalogues 22 Horses for ‘Second Chance’ June Digital Auction

• Florida-breds in the OBSOnline 2026 June Second Chance Sale

• Just a Philly Shoots for Third Straight in Musical Romance

• Rockies Balboa Upset Winner of Churchill Allowance Optional Claiming

• Boyhood Dream Debuts With Gulfstream Maiden Special Weight Win on Synthetic

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

 
 
 

Florida-bred Classic Move - ©Ryan Thompson


Back to Synthetic for Classic Move in Woodbine's Grade 3 Selene Stakes

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Third behind multiple stakes-winner Spirit Doll and multiple stakes-placed Florida-bred Laigina last out in the $96,000 Honey Ryder on the Gulfstream Park turf, Florida-bred Classic Move shifts back to a synthetic course Saturday for the Grade 3 Selene Stakes at Woodbine.

 
 
 
 

Original Photo: ©heads-off


OBSOnline Catalogues 22 Horses for 'Second Chance' June Digital Auction

BY OBS PRESS OFFICE


Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has catalogued 22 horses for its OBSOnline June "Second Chance" digital auction taking place June 26-30. The OBSOnline June sale features horses that were either unsold or breezed and scratched from the record-setting OBS June Two-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale held June 16-18.

 
 
 
 
 

Diego Herrera - ©Ryan Thompson


Just a Philly Shoots for Third Straight in Musical Romance

Cooey Makes Stakes Debut


BY BROCK SHERIDAN


A pair of Florida-bred fillies in Just a Philly and Cooey will try for their first stakes victories Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the $100,000 Musical Romance, a six-and-a-half-furlong test for fillies and mares, 3-years-old and older.

 
 
 

Florida-bred Rockies Balboa - ©Coady Media


Rockies Balboa Upset Winner of Churchill Allowance Optional Claiming

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Florida-bred Rockies Balboa came back against Lincoln's Law in the turn then drew off in the stretch to upset a first condition, $125,000 optional claiming at Churchill Downs Thursday, winning at odds of 15-1.

 
 
 

Florida-bred Boyhood Dream (inside) - ©Ryan Thompson


Boyhood Dream Debuts With Gulfstream Maiden Special Weight Win on Synthetic

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Kenneth Ramsey's Boyhood Dream put a nose in front of fellow Florida-bred King Cousin B to top a Florida-bred trifecta that included third-place finisher Vermont, in Friday's second race at Gulfstream Park, a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds going five furlongs on the all-weather course.

 
 

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