May 17, 2024 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Florida-bred Mystic Lake Dominates Miss Preakness

• Florida-bred Sabatini and Vives Team Up in Ruling Angel

• Florida-bred Sweet Dani Girl Goes in Gallorette

• Florida Connected Preakness Contenders

Florida-breds in the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale

• Milestones

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

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Florida-bred Mystic Lake - ©Jim McCue Photo


Florida-bred Mystic Lake Sails to Victory in Miss Preakness

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


C2 Racing Stable LLC and Stefania Farms LLC's Mystic Lake led from start to finish to dominate the Grade 3 Miss Preakness, winning by six lengths at Pimlico Race Course Friday.

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Florida-bred Sabatini and jockey Sofia Vives - ©Michael Burns Photo


Florida-bred Sabatini and Jockey Vives Team Up Again in Ruling Angel

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Florida-bred Sabatini and jockey Sofia Vives of Ocala have been labeled the 2-1 morning line favorites for Saturday's CA$100,000 Ruling Angel presented by Ketel One at Woodbine. They will take on five other 3-year-old fillies going seven furlongs on the all-weather main track.

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Equine are big business in Florida. Tammy Gantt & Steve Koch share new economic impact estimates.

The Florida Horse Podcast


E41 – FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell Interviews FTBOA Lobbyist Jon Rees



CEO Lonny Powell interviews FTBOA Lobbyist Jon Rees. They review recent legislative wins, acknowledge major Tallahassee supporters and celebrate outgoing FTBOA Lobbyist Matt Bryan and his 30 years of service to the Florida

Thoroughbred industry.

Florida-bred Sweet Dani Girl - ©Lauren King Photo


Florida-bred Sweet Dani Girl Returns to Graded Company in Gallorette

BY BROCK SHERIDAN


Multiple graded stakes-placed Sweet Dani Girl tries to win at that level for the first time Saturday when she goes postward in the Grade 3 Gallorette, a $100,00 contest for fillies and mares at a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the Pimlico turf.

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Mugatu - ©Renee Torbit/Coady Media


Florida Connected Preakness Contenders

Catching Freedom

He was purchased by Barry Berkelhammer as a yearling for the Albaugh Family Racing Stable. He was started and trained at Abracadabra Farm in Ocala.


Mugatu

A graduate of 2023 OBS Spring Sale where he was purchased for $14,000. Received his early training at Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables in Ocala, who also consigned him to the OBS Spring Sale.


Mystik Dan


A graduate of the early training program at Silverleaf Hills Training Center in Summerfield, Fla. Silverleaf Hills is owned and operated by Ken McPeek, who trains Mystik Dan.

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Milestone Watch


Jockey Scott Spieth is approaching a personal milestone of 5,000 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada). Through racing Friday, May 17, Spieth was at 4,998 wins. He has three Mounts at Presque Isle Downs on Monday.

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