Florida-bred Mrs Worldwide second choice on morning line
BY BROCK SHERIDAN
Troy Johnson and Maritza Weston’s Win N Your In has been tabbed the morning line favorite for Saturday’s $150,000 Gasparilla, a seven-furlong test for seven 3-year-old fillies at Tampa Bay Downs. The Gasparilla, which is one of three stakes on the Skyway Festival card at the Oldsmar, Fla., oval, includes a $50,000 bonus for runners eligible for the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes and a $25,000 win bonus for registered Florida-breds. Both bonuses are presented by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association.
Set at 2-1 in the program, the multiple stakes-winning Win N Your In returns to one turn after her first off-the-board finish of her young career in her last start. She was sixth in the $300,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes My Dear Girl won by Florida-bred My Denysse going a mile-and-sixteenth at Gulfstream Park on Nov. 30.
The dark bay or brown daughter of Ocala Stud’s leading first crop sire of 2024 Win Win Win had a productive 2024 however, scoring in half of her six starts, all at Gulfstream Park, including two stakes while earning $218,950.
After breaking her maiden by seven-and-a-half lengths going five-and-a-half furlongs in July, Win N Your In won the $95,000 Sharp Susan by nearly five lengths going six furlongs in her next start on Aug. 10. She was then third behind winning Florida-bred R Morning Brew going six furlongs in the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen in August before bouncing back to take the $200,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Susan’s Girl by four-and-a-half lengths at seven furlongs in September.
Trained by Carlos David, Win N Your In is out of Hello Rosie, by Yes It’s True and was bred in Florida by Marion G. Montanari of Ocala, Fla. She was purchased by Troy Johnson for $12,000 on the advice of bloodstock agent Charles Weston at the 2023 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Winter Mixed Sale where she was consigned by Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck’s Summerfield.
Jockey Miguel Vasquez has ridden Win N Your In in all six of her career starts and gets the return mount for the Gasparilla. They will depart from the outside post seven.
Breaking from just to the inside of Win N Your In in post six is Florida-bred Mrs Worldwide, who is 5-2 in the program for trainer Brian Lynch.
The well-traveled Mrs Worldwide brings into the Gasparilla a record of three wins, including two stakes, and two seconds in six starts while racing at five different tracks last year.
The chestnut filly won the $65,000 Juvenile Fillies Sprint going six-furlongs at Gulfstream Park in November and finished off her freshman campaign with a half-length victory in $75,000 Sandpiper going six furlongs at Tampa Bay Downs.
She started her career with a third-place finish against special weight maiden fillies at Churchill Downs in June then broke her maiden in her next start at Ellis Park over a muddy five-and-a-half furlongs in July.
An earner of $124,700 for owner Flying Dutchmen Breeding and Racing LLC, Mrs Worldwide is another OBS alumnus having sold for $100,000 to Boardshorts Stables out of the Dynasty Thoroughbreds consignment at the 2024 March Sale.
Mrs Worldwide is by Global Campaign out of Scatmeifucan, by Scat Daddy and was bred in Florida by Rebecca Ming.
Irad Ortiz Jr. ships to Tampa Bay from his base at Gulfstream Park to ride Mrs Worldwide.
Florida-bred Vuela Paloma will try for another shot at Win N Your In after finishing sixth in last year’s Sharp Susan.
The bay daughter of Bridlewood Farm stallion Valiant Minister enters with a victory over the Tampa Bay surface after a three-and-a-half-length victory against special weight maidens going six furlongs in her last race on Dec. 7.
Vuela Paloma is trained by Gerald Bennett and sports a career record of one win and two seconds in four starts with earnings of $54,090.
Out of the El Corredor mare La Parcela, Vuela Paloma was bred in Florida by Orlando Barrera and is a two-time graduate of OBS. She first sold for $15,500 to Ramon Minguet out of the Victory Stable consignment at the 2023 October Yearling Sale then went for $57,000 Winning Stables and Mary Bennett at last year’s Spring Sale where she was consigned by Cardozo’s Brothers.
Vuela Paloma is 8-1 on the morning line and will break from post four with Daniel Centeno in the irons.
Rounding out the field are Tessitura with Willie Martinez named to ride, Junior Alvarado takes the call on Dancing Magic, Lynn’s Milky Way and jockey Jose Ferrer and Another Cleeshay with Rosario Montanez aboard.
