March 19, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Stallion Spotlight: Doppelganger

• Florida-bred Mares Spirit Wind, R Harper Rose, Top Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale

• Hamelback: We All Must Defend Horse Racing’s Future

• Equineline Reveals New OTTB Profile

• The Florida Horse Podcast E54 – The Perrys

• Decoupling: What You Need to Know

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Doppelganger - ©Louise Reinagel

Stallion Spotlight: Doppelganger

BY AVALYN HUNTER

No stallion has dominated the top of the American sire list like Into Mischief since the days of eight-time champion sire Bold Ruler, who earned his last title in 1973.

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Florida-bred Spirit Wind - ©McCarlee Perkins / Coady Photography

Florida-bred Mares Spirit Wind, R Harper Rose, Top Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale

Spirit Wind Sells for $500,000 while R Harper Rose Brings $400,000

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Florida-breds proved popular at the Fasig-Tipton March Digital Sale as Spirit Wind and R Harper Rose led the way with price tags of $500,000 and $400,000 respectively.

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Eric Hamelback - ©Gwen Davis

Hamelback: We All Must Defend Horse Racing's Future

What Florida's decoupling bill and NYT hit piece have in common: Both ignore facts to say our labor-intensive industry is subsidized

The following is a version of National HBPA CEO Eric Hamelback's quarterly letter in the upcoming spring edition of Horsemen's Journal

LEXINGTON, KY-The first quarter of 2025 has been nothing short of a tsunami for most of us in the industry.

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Equineline Reveals New OTTB Profile

BY THE JOCKEY CLUB PRESS OFFICE

LEXINGTON, KY-The Jockey Club today announced the new Off-Track Thoroughbred Profile, the first equineline.com report centered on Thoroughbreds in their second careers.

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The Florida Horse Podcast E54 – The Perrys

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