Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Tuesday, March 12, 2024

March 12, 2024 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Galloping Gray Tapit Colt Opens OBS March With $1.2 Million Price Tag

• FTBOA Member Spotlight: Brad and Misty Grady

• OBS Top Sellers List

• Under Tack Times for OBS Horses Selling Wednesday

• 2023 Stakes Winners by State or Province

• Fully Eligible Florida Sires Stakes Horses in OBS March Sale

• Leading Florida Sires

• Florida-breds in OBS March Sale

• Milestones

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Hip 173, a colt by Tapit - Judit Seipert Photo

Galloping Gray Tapit Colt Sells for $1.2 Million Tuesday To Start OBS March

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Hip 173, gray or roan colt by Tapit, drew a final bid of $1,200,000 to top Tuesday's action at the Ocala Breeders' Sales March Sale of Two Year Olds in Training as West Point Thoroughbreds, D J Stable, C J, Lane's End Bloodstock as agent outlasted all bidders.

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

The Florida Horse Podcast

E37 – Economic Impact Study

Equine are big business in Florida. FTBOA's Tammy A. Gantt and Steve Koch share all-new economic impact estimates for Florida horses, highlighting Florida Thoroughbreds.

Misty and Brad Grady with Girvin - Amanda Hodges Weir/Hodges Photography

FTBOA Member Spotlight: Brad and Misty Grady

By Sarah Welk Baynum

For Brad and Misty Grady, the start of their successful breeding and racing operation, including their Grand Oaks Equine Training Center in Reddick, Fla., began with Texas verterinarion Dr. Joe Cannon and pinhooking their first horse. "He was like a father figure to me," Brad Grady says fondly of the late Dr. Cannon.

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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 Tuesday, March. 12, Spieth was at 4,998 wins. He has no scheduled mounts.

Thursday, March 14

_{All Times Eastern}

Turf Paradise

$60,000 Turf Paradise Derby

[Race 7, 7:05 p.m.]

3-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles

........ Norweigian Callum (#3)

Turf Paradise

$60,000 Phoenix Gold Cup

[Race 8, 7:36 p.m.]

3-year-olds and older, 6 furlongs

........ Kingdom Heart (#2)

Saturday, March 16

_{All Times Eastern}

Gulfstream Park

$100,000 Hutcheson S.

Plus $20,000 FTBOA Florida-bred Top 3 Bonus (50%-30%-20%)

[Race 3, 2:08 p.m.]

3-year-olds, 6 furlongs

........... Improptude (#2)

Laurel Park

$100,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial S.

[Race 9, 4:33 p.m.]

4-year-olds and older, one mile

........... It’s Sizzling Time (#4)

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