Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation Named Florida Breeder Of The Year, Leading Owner

The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association has announced its Florida-bred Champions for 2019. Typically, the awards are presented at an annual awards gala held on the Monday prior to OBS's March auction. The event was not held this year, however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and it will not be rescheduled.

For the 16th time in FTBOA history, Charlotte Weber was honored with a Florida-bred champion that was bred by her Live Oak Stud and owned by her Live Oak Plantation, located in Ocala, as Global Access was named the Florida-bred Champion 3-Year-Old Colt or Gelding. Live Oak Stud was also named the Florida Breeder of the Year for the third time and the Leading Owner by Florida-bred Earnings for the fourth time. She previously won the Breeder title in 2006 and 2007 and the Leading Owner title in 2011, 2016, and 2017.

During the year, Global Access won the Grade 3 Marine Stakes and Grade 3 Ontario Derby at Woodbine, the Grade 3 Saranac Stakes at Saratoga, and the DRF Bets Sophomore Turf Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. He was also second in the Wando Stakes at Woodbine, with thirds in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga and in the Charlie Barley Stakes at Woodbine.

By Giant's Causeway out of Daveron (Ger), by Black Sam Bellamy (Ire), Global Access won four of nine starts with a second and three thirds while earning $337,733 during 2019. Trained by Michael Trombetta, Global Access finished the year with a career bankroll of $373,402.

Another Florida-bred who took home multiple honors was Starship Jubilee, the Champion Older Female and Champion Female Turf Horse. Bred by William P. Sorren of Miami Beach, Fla., Starship Jubilee received Sovereign Awards as Canada's Horse of the Year and Champion Female Turf Horse for 2019, adding to the titles she also earned in 2017 and 2018.

Trained by Kevin Attard for Blue Heaven Farm, in 2019 Starship Jubilee won the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes and her second consecutive Canadian Stakes presented by the Japan Racing Association (G2), both at Woodbine. The Canadian was not the only stake she won for the second straight time, as she also defended her title in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park. In 2019, she was also second in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly Stakes and Nassau Stakes at Woodbine and second in the Grade 3 Cardinal Stakes at Churchill Downs. The well-traveled mare was also third in the Grade 3 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga.

Starship Jubilee is by Indy Wind out of the Forest Wildcat mare Perfectly Wild, and she finished the year with three wins, three seconds, and a third from seven starts, with earnings of $604,929. She finished the year with $1,171,387 in career earnings.

Once again in 2019, the Florida-bred Champion 2-Year-Old Colt or Gelding title went through the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes series at Gulfstream Park.

Shooting Star Thoroughbreds' Chance It garnered the title after winning the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager and the $400,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes In Reality, while finishing second in the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Affirmed.

By Currency Swap out of Vagabon Diva, by Pleasantly Perfect, Chance It was bred by Bett Usher of Ocala, Fla., and finished the year with three wins and two seconds from five starts, with earnings of $384,150.

K P Dreamin was named the Florida-bred Champion 2-Year-Old Filly based on her two third-place finishes in the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita and in the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos.

Trained by Jeff Mullins for Karl Pergola, K P Dreamin was bred in Florida by Peter Vegso's Ocala-based Vegso Racing Stable. She is by Union Rags out of Litigating, by Point Given and she finished the year with one win and two thirds from five starts, with earnings of $132,260.

William Stiritz's Wildwood's Beauty used the Florida Sire Stakes program for older horses and Florida-bred stakes to catapult herself to the title as the Florida-bred Champion 3-Year-Old Filly and Champion Female Sprinter.

During the year, the Scott Becker trainee won the Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies Stakes and FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Ivanavinalot at Tampa Bay Downs and the Sheer Drama Stakes and Sunshine Million Distaff Stakes at Gulfstream Park. She was also second in the Florida Sire Stakes City of Ocala at Tampa Bay Downs and in the Florida Sire Stakes Wildcat Heir at Gulfstream Park, while amassing a record of four wins and five seconds from 10 starts. She racked up $327,895 in earnings in 2019 and finished the year with career revenues of $355,395.

Bred by Philip and Karen Matthews of Ocala, Wildwood's Beauty is by Kantharos out of Miss Propitious, by J P's Gusto.

In the stallion categories, Journeyman Stud's Khozan was Florida's Leading Juvenile Sire and Leading Freshman Sire, while Ocala Stud resident Adios Charlie was Florida's Stallion of the Year.

Khozan had 44 runners, 19 winners, and three black type stakes horses for progeny earnings of $1,275,632, and Adios Charlie progeny acquired $3,753,347 from 106 runners, 65 winners, and three black type stakes winners.

Khozan was represented by his leading money earner and stakes-winner Liam's Lucky Charm ($233,800), while multiple graded stakes-winner Jean Elizabeth was the leading money earner for Adios Charlie with $264,888.

Kathleen O'Connell and Saffie Joseph, Jr., tied with 58 Florida-bred wins at Florida tracks while O'Connell was also the Leading Florida Trainer of Florida-breds by black type stakes wins with six, and Joseph was the Leading Florida Trainer by Florida-bred earnings with $1,977,046.

It was the 12th time O'Connell has won or shared the title as the Leading Florida Trainer by wins (2003, 2009-2018) and the first time Joseph has won a Florida-bred title in either category. O'Connell has won or shared the Florida black type wins title twice before in 2013 and 2017.

The Joe O'Farrell Memorial Award presented by Ocala Breeders' Sales Company went to William A.T. and Lyn Rainbow's The Acorn as the original consignor of Starship Jubilee, the year's top Florida-bred graduate of OBS.

Sally J. Andersen of Ocala was presented the Needles Award as Florida's small breeder of the year. Andersen bred multiple stakes-winner Anyportinastorm, and recorded earnings of $843,513 as a breeder of Florida-breds. Andersen was presented a John Deere Riding Mower 330 as the Needles Award winner.

In June, the FTBOA recognized Imperial Hint as the Florida-bred with the top Beyer Speed Figure during 2019, as awarded by the Daily Racing Form. Imperial Hint logged an electrifying 114 Beyer while setting a Saratoga track record for six furlongs in 1:07.92 in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes.

Imperial Hint is trained by Luis Carvajal, Jr., for Raymond Mamone, and he was bred in Florida by Bert and Martha Pilcher's Shade Tree Thoroughbreds in Fairfield.

Horse Capital Television is partnering with the FTBOA and will air a special awards edition honoring each champion and their connections. The event will premiere on Wednesday, July 15 at 8 p.m. on https://www.facebook.com/HorseCapitalTV/ and https://www.horsecapitaltv.com/.

The re-aired show will be available on www.ftboa.com, The Florida Horse Twitter page and the FTBOA Facebook page.

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‘Progressive’ Ny Traffic Could Take Another Step Forward In Saturday’s Haskell

Cash is King, LC Racing and Paul Braverman's Ny Traffic has a trio of graded stakes placings on his resume, and will be looking to add a win to that list in this Saturday's Grade 1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park. The 3-year-old son of Cross Traffic drew the outside post in the field of seven, and will be ridden by regular jockey Paco Lopez.

Trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. has enjoyed seeing the colt move forward over the first half of the 2020 season, beginning with an allowance win at Gulfstream in January. Shipped over to New Orleans for the Risen Star, Ny Traffic finished third. In March, the colt ran a good second behind Wells Bayou in the Louisiana Derby.

After a short break, Ny Traffic returned to the races in the G3 Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 23. The colt ran a big race to finish second to top Derby contender Maxfield, beaten a length at the wire.

“I watched that race with such a rare feeling because I know how important it was to finish in the first two or even the first three, and so when he crossed the wire, I felt really good,” Joseph said on Wednesday's media teleconference organized by the NTRA. “Normally, you run second in a race, you feel a little disappointed, but there was no disappointment in me. I knew I ran behind a really nice horse, Maxfield, and just to run so close to him, it was an honor to see our horse show up but continue to improve himself.”

Ny Traffic currently has 70 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, likely enough to guarantee him a spot in the starting gate on the first Saturday in September. Should the colt continue to show improvement the way he did in the first part of the year, Ny Traffic could be a major player in the Haskell.

“It hasn't been huge jumps, but it's been just progressive jumps,” said Joseph. “And that's what you want to see from a 3-year-old because he's headed in the right direction. I don't think he was the best horse of the crop, but the way things have worked out, he's just climbing higher and higher.”

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Equibase Analysis: Authentic Out For Redemption In Grade 1 Haskell

This year's Grade 1, $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes is both a “Road to the Derby” points race and a “Win and You're In” race for the Breeders' Cup Classic, so extra attention is warranted. Seven 3-year-old colts are expected to line up, led by multiple stakes winner Authentic, who suffered the first defeat of his career last month when second in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby after victories in both the Grade 3 Sham Stakes in January and Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes in March.

His biggest opponent appears to be Dr Post, an improving colt who won the Unbridled Stakes in April before a runner-up finish behind division leader Tiz the Law in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes last month. Lebda is another with credentials in the division having won the Miracle Wood Stakes and Private Terms Stakes in February and March, respectively, before a sixth place effort in the Grade 3 Ohio Derby last month.

Ny Traffic enters the race off back-to-back runner-up efforts in similar races in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby in March and then in the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes in May. Ancient Warrior and Jesus' Team are two horses that are trying stakes competition for the first time, while Fame to Famous has finished no better than third in three stakes tries to date and only one on dirt, in which he finished last of 11.

Dr Post appears capable of posting the very mild upset over betting favorite Authentic in this year's TVG.com Haskell Stakes. Two races back in his third career start, Dr Post tried two-turns for the first time in the Unbridled Stakes and won very professionally, earning a career-best 101 Equibase Speed Figure. Stretching out to the distance of the Haskell last month in the Belmont Stakes, Dr Post closed from sixth in the early stages to second but was no match for Tiz the Law. Considering no horse has been a match for Tiz the Law in months, I think that effort is akin to running a winning race. The new career-best 107 figure was significant as well, as it was higher than the 105 and 101 figures Authentic earned in his two most recent starts. While the figures Authentic has earned are on a declining pattern, Dr Post is on an improving pattern and that is why he should win the Haskell.

Ancient Warrior is my longshot play to possibly split the two betting favorites, Authentic and Dr Post, by finishing second, although a huge upset win isn't totally out of the question. Ancient Warrior stretches out to a route for the first time while making his second start after a three month rest. He earned a 92 figure in his prep race and a career-best 100 figure last fall in his first start. Although he has never raced in a stakes, Ancient Warrior has the class in his pedigree to contend here as he is by the sire Constitution, whose first 3-year-olds are on the track this year. Constitution is the sire of three horses which have made their mark in the division at some point since last fall – Independence Hall, Gouverneur Morris and, most importantly, “Road to the Derby” points leader Tiz the Law. Stretching out from six and one-half furlongs to this mile and one-eighth trip while stepping into stakes company for the first time may be a tall order, but considering Jerry Hollendorfer trains Ancient Warrior I have some confidence in the move. Hollendorfer has saddled 13 grade 1 stakes winners to victory in route races over the past five years and he believes the colt has what it takes to run well, I won't argue.

Authentic is trainer Bob Baffert's #1 Kentucky Derby prospect as he is tied for third on the “Road to the Derby” points leaderboard with 100 points. Authentic won the first three starts of his career, earning a career-best 113 figure in the Sham Stakes in January before a 105 figure effort in the San Felipe Stakes. Stretching out to the distance of the Haskell for the Santa Anita Derby last month, Authentic was no match for winner Honor A.P. and regressed again in terms of how fast he ran, to a 101 figure. It does appear as the distances are getting longer, Authentic is not running as fast, and that may be due to his breeding. According to STATS Race Lens, although sire Into Mischief has produced many stakes winners, the record of his sons and daughters at distances of nine to 10 furlongs in stakes on dirt is just four-for-58 in the last five years. It must be noted, however, that record includes two very good three year old colts – Audible (who won the Florida Derby) and Owendale (who won the Ohio Derby).

The rest of the field, with their best Equibase Speed Figures, is Fame to Famous (96), Jesus' Team (106), Lebda (91) and Ny Traffic (99).

Win Contenders:
Dr Post
Ancient Warrior
Authentic

TVG.com Haskell Stakes – Grade 1
Race 12 at Monmouth Park
Saturday, July 18 – Post Time 5:48 PM E.T.
One Mile and One Eighth
Three Years Old
Purse: $1 Million
T.V.: NBC 5 – 6 PM E.T.

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