April 18, 2024 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Nyquist Colt Tops Thursday Session of OBS Spring

• Forever Souper Shortens To A Mile While Trying For Third Straight Stakes

• Top Sellers Thursday OBS Spring

• OBS Under Tack Times Selling April 19 (Hips 907 - 1208)

• FTBOA Florida Thoroughbred Gala Honors

• Florida-breds in OBS Spring Sale

• Leading Florida Sires of 2024

• 2024 Graded Stakes Winners

• Milestones

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Hip 891, a colt by Nyquist - Judit Seipert Photo

Nyquist Colt Tops Thursday Session of OBS Spring

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

A bay colt by Nyquist led Thursday action at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Spring Sale as Donato Lanni went to $550,000 to make the purchase for Amr Zedan's Zedan Racing Stable.

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

The Florida Horse Podcast

E40 – Tammy Gantt with Amy Mangan of the AdventHealth South Foundation

AdventHeath South Foundation's Amy Mangan joins host Tammy Gantt to share details of an exciting new initiative benefiting the health of equine farm workers in Marion County.

Florida-bred Forever Souper - Adam Coglianese Photo

Forever Souper Shortens To A Mile While Trying For Third Straight Stakes

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-bred Forever Souper will be trying for his third consecutive stakes victory Saturday at Laurel Park in the $100,000 Henry S. Clark, featuring a field of nine 3-year-olds and older going a mile on the turf. The 5-year-old Live Oak Plantation homebred won his first career added-money event on Jan. 21 at Gulfstream Park, taking the $95,000 Sunshine Turf by a length against fellow Florida-breds over a mile-and-a-sixteenth.

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FTBOA Florida Thoroughbred Gala Honors

FTBOA Florida-bred Horse of the Year & Florida Broodmare of the Year

Cathy and Richard Heysek accept the awards presented to their Caperlane Farm for Florida Broodmare of the Year Sophia Mia and as breeders of FTBOA Florida-bred Horse of the Year Speed Boat Beach.

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FTBOA Breeder of the Year

FTBOA Board Member Brent Fernung presents the Breeder of the Year trophy to Stonehedge Farm LLC’s Marilyn Campbell. This is Stonehedge Farm LLC's fourth Breeder of the Year award.

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Scott Spieth – SV Photography

Milestone Watch

Jockey Scott Spieth is approaching a personal milestone of 5,000 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada).

Through racing Thursday, April 18, Spieth was at 4,998 wins. He has three scheduled mounts at Tampa Bay Downs on Friday.

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