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The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association announced today enhanced incentives for Florida-breds in Gulfstream Park stakes races. The estimated $2 million FTBOA program begins with the April 1 Curlin Florida Derby card and extends through December, 2023.

The Curlin Florida Derby card on April 1 includes more than $650,000 performance bonuses for FTBOA registered Florida-breds and for Florida Sire Stakes (FSS) eligible contenders.

FTBOA offers $100,000 to owners of FTBOA registered Florida-breds plus $100,000 for eligible FSS owners that finish first, second or third in the Grade 1 Curlin Florida Derby, to be paid on a 60%-30%-10% basis, respectively.

The Gulfstream Park Oaks (Grade 2) similarly includes $50,000 for owners of FTBOA registered Florida-breds plus $50,000 for eligible FSS owners that finish first, second or third, also to be paid on a 60%-30%-10% basis.

For the April 1 undercard stakes – including the Pan American (G2), Orchid (G3), Ghostzapper (G3), Appleton (G3), Sand Springs, Sir Shackleton, Cutler Bay and Sanibel Island – FTBOA offers $25,000 to registered Florida-breds winners plus $5,000 per Florida-bred second through fifth-place finisher.

After April 1 and through the end of 2023 FTBOA offers a $25,000 win bonus to owners of FTBOA registered Florida-breds that officially win an unrestricted stakes at Gulfstream Park including listed, black-type or graded races. Owners of runners eligible for the Florida Sire Stakes who win stakes restricted to Florida-breds may receive a $25,000 FSS bonus, also paid by FTBOA.

All bonuses are an FTBOA program and payments will be administered through the FTBOA.  Eligible contenders must be FTBOA registered Florida-breds and/or eligible for the Florida Sire Stakes.

“Shortly upon my arrival at FTBOA close to 12 years ago I made it a priority to use a large part of our promotional and sponsorship-type funding to enhance the marketing and economics of our races under our FTBOA and Florida Sire Stakes brands at Florida tracks with an eye towards owners, buyers, sellers, breeders and trainers of Florida-bred horses via select bonuses, supplements and incentives,” said FTBOA CEO Lonny Powell. “Hopefully these specific Florida incentives, which we are excited and proud to offer once again, will be of assistance to the track and its quest to fill the best races possible.”

Steve Koch, FTBOA associate vice president, emphasized, “Florida-breds routinely compete and win at the highest levels. FTBOA and FSS win-bounties acknowledge that competitive spirit and ensure the best of our runners have every reason to perform on their Gulfstream Park home turf.”

2023 FTBOA Stakes Incentives at Gulfstream Park (April – December)

• April 1 Florida Derby Card:
• Curlin Florida Derby (G1) = $100,000 FTBOA, $100,000 FSS (60%-30%-10%)
• Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) = $50,000 FTBOA, $50,000 FSS (60%-30%-10%)
• Eight undercard stakes = $25,000 FTBOA Win Bonus plus $5,000 per 2^nd-5^th
• Open Stakes = $25,000 FTBOA Win Bonus
• Restricted Stakes = $25,000 FSS Win Bonus

About the FTBOA

Established in 1948, the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association is a not-for-profit association with the mission of promoting the Florida Thoroughbred. The FTBOA represents more than 1,300 thoroughbred breeders and owners internationally who breed, raise, sell, train and race horses born in the state of Florida. The FTBOA is located at 801 SW 60th Avenue in Ocala, Fla., the heart of one of the top equine regions worldwide and recognized as the Horse Capital of the World®.

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Spendthrift Farm's four first-season stallions – Cyberknife, Greatest Honour, Jackie's Warrior and Mo Donegal – have all had their first respective mares confirmed in foal.

Gun Runner's three-time Grade 1-winning son Cyberknife had his first mare reported as in foal at Wynnstay Farm. The mare, Afleet Lover, is a graded stakes producing daughter of Northern Afleet who herself was a stakes-placed performer on the track.

Greatest Honour, the regally bred Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes winner by Tapit, had his first reported mare check in foal at Watershed Equine. American Jak, a young Pioneerof the Nile mare who hails from the immediate family of champion Halfbridled, was a juvenile winner on the track.

Brilliant five-time Grade 1 winner and champion Jackie's Warrior's first reported in-foal mare came from Chesapeake Farm. The stakes-producing Arch mare Battle Bridge is the dam of notable three-time stakes winner, Joe.

Classic winner Mo Donegal, last year's Belmont Stakes winner by Uncle Mo, had his first reported mare confirmed as pregnant by Adan Mandujano, who's Petionville mare Allez Jete checked in foal.

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The first mares bred to WinStar Farm's multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Good and track-record setter Nashville have been confirmed in foal, the farm announced today.

Both stallions have multiple mares reported in foal, including Tiz Breathtaking, a graded stakes-winning daughter of Tiznow, and Tapas, a $1.3 million daughter of Tapit owned by CHC Inc, who have been scanned in foal to Life Is Good.

A four-time Grade 1 winner in his sensational career, Life Is Good won the 2021 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile by 5 3/4 lengths—the largest margin of victory in that year's Breeders' Cup; the $3-million Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes over Horse of the Year Knicks Go; and scored impressive front-running victories in both the G1 Whitney Stakes and the G1 Woodward Stakes.

Into Mischief's fastest son, Life Is Good earned nine triple-digit Beyers, topped by a career-best 112 in winning the G2 John A. Nerud Stakes at Belmont Park. Life Is Good tipped his hand early, winning a Del Mar maiden special weight by 9 1/2 lengths in his career debut at two, registering a 91 Beyer and earning a TDN Rising Star designation.

A winner in nine of 12 starts, Life Is Good amassed earnings of $4,541,700 for CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm and trainer Todd Pletcher. Produced from the Distorted Humor mare Beach Walk, Life Is Good was a $525,000 Keeneland September Sale acquisition in 2019.

Nashville, a brilliantly fast son of Speightstown for CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm, set a new track record winning the Perryville Stakes at Keeneland over six furlongs on Breeders' Cup Day in 2020—1:07.89. The final clocking was nearly a second faster than subsequent Eclipse champion sprinter Whitmore's time of 1:08.61 in winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint that same day.

Undefeated in his first three starts for trainer Steve Asmussen, Nashville broke his maiden in his career bow and was named a TDN Rising Star for the 11 1/2-length score at Saratoga, setting fractions of :21.50, :43.87, and 1:07.92 with a final time of 1:14.48 for 6 ½ furlongs. In just his second start, Nashville won a Keeneland allowance by an eye-catching 9 3/4 lengths in 1:09.10, the fastest six-furlong time of the 2020 Keeneland Fall meeting. He also displayed his world-class speed in capturing a six-furlong Fair Grounds allowance in 1:08.61, the fastest sprint time of the 2021-22 winter meet and the fastest time at the distance in more than two years.

Out of the Mizzen Mast mare Veronique and hailing from the direct female family of Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo and G1 Santa Anita Derby winner Tiago, Nashville was a $460,000 purchase at the 2018 Keeneland September Sale.

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Fifty years ago this March, Secretariat began his 3-year-old campaign in the Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct. Over the ensuing months, the chestnut colt became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, setting new track records in each of the three races. His 31-length Belmont Stakes victory was the stuff with which legends are made.

Secretariat's story has been told again and again, and he is still considered by many to be the greatest horse to ever set foot on a racetrack. As a stallion, however, he rarely received the recognition he deserved. After all, he was expected to reproduce himself, a near impossible task.

The new book Secretariat's Legacy, by award-winning journalist and photographer Patricia McQueen, explores the great horse's accomplishments as a sire. There are tales of his most important offspring, from his Horse of the Year daughter Lady's Secret and champion son Risen Star, to the mares who secured his lasting legacy including Terlingua, Weekend Surprise, and Secrettame. There's a look at his top international runners, led by Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule, Japanese trail-blazer Hishi Masaru, tough French filly Athyka and even snow specialist Sectori, who twice won the featured event at the unique White Turf meeting in St. Moritz, Switzerland. And there's much more, including stories of all of Secretariat's stakes winners, a close examination of the stallion's first and last crops, and the impact of his descendants over the decades.

As a stallion, Secretariat ranked in the top 1.5% of all sires in his era based on the Average Earnings Index, was the leading sire of 2-year-olds in 1978 and the leading broodmare sire in 1992. He is the broodmare sire of two of the most influential stallions in history, A.P. Indy and Storm Cat. In fact, based on annual statistics in The Jockey Club Fact Book Racing Chronicle, he is the only stallion since 1950 who is the broodmare sire of two different leading general sires.

Accompanying the detailed research and storytelling in the 298-page coffee table book are more than 280 photos of Secretariat's sons, daughters and descendants, assembled from around the world.

Secretariat's Legacy is available now at secretariatslegacy.com, and will soon be available at other online sites and retail outlets. Retailers interested in selling the book can contact the author through the website or at (508) 788-1367.

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