Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Thursday, Sept 24 2026

Sept 24, 2026 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Rated by Merit to Stand at Ocala Stud

• Grade 1 Winner, Leading Florida Sire First Dude Has Died

• Liberty Rings Takes On Boys in Hollywood Beach

• 2026 Breeder’s Cup TV Schedule

• Florida-breds in the 2026 Keeneland Sept. Yearling Sale and Current Results

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Rated by Merit - ©Lauren King

Multiple Stakes Winner Rated by Merit to Stand at Ocala Stud

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OCALA, FL-St. Elias Stable's Florida homebred Rated by Merit, who swept the 2024 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes series at Gulfstream Park as an undefeated 2-year-old and won the 2025 Discovery Handicap at three, has been retired and will stand the 2027 breeding season at Ocala Stud, the farm announced today. He will stand for $3,500 S&N.

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Donald R. Dizney, jockey Martin Garcia and Florida-bred First Dude - ©Benoit

Grade 1 Winner, Leading Florida Sire First Dude Has Died

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

OCALA, FL—First Dude, the Florida Stallion of the Year in 2017 and 2018, leading freshman sire in Florida in 2015 and Florida's leading second crop in 2016, passed away last night at Donald R. Dizney's Double Diamond Farm in Ocala, Florida. First Dude was 19.

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Florida-bred Liberty Rings - @Ryan Thompson

Liberty Rings Takes on Boys in Saturday's Hollywood Beach

BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE (Edited)

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL-Turf or dirt; it hasn't mattered to Teresa and David Palmer's homebred Liberty Rings thus far in her career. The 2-year-old Florida-bred daughter of Ocala Stud's Awesome Slew has won two stakes from four starts, her first on turf, her second on dirt.

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