Robert and Lawana Low, who campaign undefeated Kentucky Derby (G1) contender Magnum Moon, spent $750,000 on their next two-turn hopeful April 25 and topped the second session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales April 2-year-olds in training sale.
Bloodstock agent Marette Farrell signed the ticket on Fluor's behalf for the striking dark bay daughter of Malibu Moon out of Just Joyful, a half sister to champion and grade 1 winner Boston Harbor and black-type winner Cloudburst.
Nearly a dozen protesters with seven-foot-tall signs disparaging a consignor at the ongoing Ocala Breeders' Sales April 2-year-olds in training sale greeted participants April 25 as they headed to the second session of the four-day auction.
Owners Robert and Lawana Low spent $750,000 on Hip 352, their next two-turn hopeful during the second session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales April 2-year-olds in training sale.
A Speightstown half brother to Good Magic, the champion 2-year-old of 2017, sold for $700,000 during the second session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales April 2-year-olds in training sale April 25.
A Quality Road filly from the family of top sire and dual Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner Tiznow set the bar at $800,000 during the opening session April 24 of the four-day Ocala Breeders' Sales April 2-year-olds in training sale.
Owner Alex Lieblong said the colt impressed him by working :10 into a stiff headwind during the under tack show. The colt will go to trainer Ron Moquett.
A Quality Road filly and a Strong Mandate colt shared the fastest eighth-mile workout time of :10 during the April 16 first session of the under tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales spring 2-year-olds in training sale.
Hi Happy (ARG), who took the 2015 Carlos Pellegrini (G1) in his native Argentina, returned to the winner's circle for the first time since to land his first stateside win in the $250,000 Pan American Stakes (G2T) March 31 at Gulfstream Park.
The auction posted the second-highest average and median in the sale's history, and the highest in both categories since the move to Gulfstream Park in 2015.
Four weeks after having her streak snapped at three consecutive stakes, Peter Deutsch's Take Charge Paula seeks a return to her winning ways March 31 in the $300,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2).
Larry Best's OXO Equine went to $1.2 million to acquire the Into Mischief colt consigned by Eddie Woods as agent. The colt's second and third dams, respectively, are graded stakes winners Added Asset and Added Elegance.
The chestnut Orb filly that worked a quarter-mile in :21, the fastest work since Fasig-Tipton began selling at Gulfstream Park, sold to Baoma Corp. The filly's second dam is grade 1 winner Dream of Summer, the dam of Creative Cause and Destin.
Trainer Todd Pletcher signed the ticket for the colt on behalf of Coolmore. Sold as Hip 31, the colt is out of the stakes winner Risky Rachel and the family of multiple graded stakes winner Say Florida Sandy.
Rigney Racing's Madison's Luna conceded considerable experience in the $100,000 Hutcheson Stakes (G3) March 24 at Gulfstream Park, in his stakes debut in just his second start.
A stumble at the start and heavy traffic late did nothing to deter Ivy Bell March 17 at Gulfstream Park, as the Archarcharch mare overcame with a late-closing victory in the $200,000 Inside Information Stakes (G2).
Phoenix founder and CEO Amer Abdulaziz Salman was in attendance at this year's first day of the OBS March sale and left with a filly from the last crop of Scat Daddy purchased for a session-topping $875,000
Progeny by Uncaptured, He's Had Enough, and Central Banker taking to training
Trainer Rodolphe Brisset will talk to WinStar Farm president Elliott Walden and representatives of Quip's other owners, China Horse Club International and SF Racing, to determine how best to get to Louisville.
Details on these entries can be viewed online or through the Equineline catalog app.
The strong-galloping filly all but put herself in the entry box for the $225,000 Hillsborough Stakes (G2T) with the way she trained in Florida the past few months for Ken McPeek, who will send her out to her first start as a 4-year-old March 10.
Reeves Thoroughbred Racing's Classic Rock split horses at the top of the stretch and pulled away to a three-length victory in the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Sprint (G3) March 3 at Gulfstream Park.
Thewayiam used a bold inside move March 3 to win the $100,000 Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T), while Maraud edged past pacesetter Speed Franco inside the final 70 yards to win the $100,000 Palm Beach Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park.
Sadler's Joy made his connections sweat in the March 3 $200,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes (G2T) at Gulfstream Park but produced a joyous result as the chestnut runner came from the clouds to best One Go All Go by three-quarters of a length.
One of the favorites in the 1 1/16-mile event is Grupo 7C Racing Stable's Speed Franco. The son of Declaration of War enters the Palm Beach off a gutsy performance in the one-mile Feb. 3 Dania Beach (G3T), when he got his nose down at the wire.
The 2017 champion 2-year-old filly has been on the muscle with trainer Ralph Nicks in Florida, and finally was able to stretch her legs for the first time this season with a three-furlong move in :38.45.
The RMTC board granted interim accreditation to the University of Florida Racing Laboratory at its Feb. 13 meeting at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
The son of Blame has evolved into an accomplished turf performer who is set to compete in the $300,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Stakes (G1T) Feb. 10 at Gulfstream Park.
Former stallion has begun retraining at New Vocations.
The first reported foal for Social Inclusion (Pioneerof the Nile—Saint Bernadette, by Saint Ballado) is a bay filly, out of Got Dimples, born Jan. 27 in Florida, announced Woodford Thoroughbreds Feb. 1.
A sizzling debut by Courtlandt Farms' Strike Power earned him a step up to graded company in just his second start.
An earner of $804,395, Rainbow Heir has been retired from racing and arrived Jan. 30 at Ocala Stud Farm in Florida, where he will take up his new career as a stallion in 2018. His fee has been set at $3,500 stands and nurses.
New Farm's homebred Rainbow Heir went out a winner in the $175,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Jan. 27, while Stormy Victoria and Celestine gave trainer Christophe Clement a 1-2 finish in the $125,000 South Beach Stakes.
There was no sophomore slump for the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1). The first edition last year handled $40.2 million, a Gulfstream Park record for a non-Breeders' Cup program. It was a high bar, but Pegasus 2 vaulted over it.
Paul Pompa Jr.'s Tommy Macho powered to the front around the far turn and fended off game longshot Conquest Big E to snap a six-race losing streak in the $175,000 Fred W. Hooper Stakes (G3) Jan. 27 at Gulfstream Park.
Trainer Jonathan Thomas shipped the homebred son of More Than Ready to the oval in Oldsmar, Fla. to breeze Jan. 27 in preparation for his 3-year-old debut in the Feb. 10 Sam F. Davis Stakes (G3).
Multiple grade 1-placed Neolithic, who retired from racing in December, will stand at Joe and Helen Barbazon's Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., for the 2018 breeding season. He is the first son of Harlan's Holiday to stand in the state.
While some in the Thoroughbred breeding industry bemoan the large books of mares required to be a commercial stallion, a book of 100-plus mares is what Ocala Stud's grade 3 winner High Cotton required to be a viable, potent sire.
Curlin's Approval is back as the horse to beat in defense of her victory in the $175,000 Hurricane Bertie Stakes (G3) presented by Fasig-Tipton Jan. 27 at Gulfstream Park.
Foal was bred by and born at Jacks or Better Farm.
Globetrotting Toast of New York completed the final leg of his journey from England Jan. 20 and settled in at Gulfstream Park, where he will compete Jan. 27 in the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1).
Anne D. Scott's Galleon Mast returned to winning ways Jan. 20 in the $150,000 Sunshine Millions Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Coolmore's Stellar Wind got an early four-furlong leg-stretcher Jan. 20 in preparation for her run against males in the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1).
The Stronach Group announced enhanced security measures for horses competing in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1).
Gun Runner, the likely favorite for the upcoming $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1), took his first trip around Gulfstream Park the morning of Jan. 19. He arrived at the Florida oval Jan. 18.
The first reported foal out of Ashford Stud's Air Force Blue is a big, bay filly born Jan. 16 at Jason and Ashley Schappert's Leading Edge Farm near Ocala, Fla.
After setting the pace for now-retired champion Big Blue Kitten, 8-year-old Shining Copper has carried on to earn graded accolades of his own—the latest of which set him up for a trip to compete in the Barbados Gold Cup.
Giant Expectations recorded the fastest five-furlong workout at Santa Anita Park Jan. 12 in preparation for a scheduled start in the $16 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) coming up Jan. 27 at Gulfstream Park.
Group 3 winner Long Island Sound will enter stud at Joe and Helen Barbazon's Pleasant Acres Stallions near Morriston, Fla., it was announced Jan. 1.
Margoth's Gunnevera stepped up his training for the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) at Gulfstream Park during a five-furlong breeze Dec. 30 at Gulfstream Park West.
