BY BROCK SHERIDAN
Curlin’s Honor, who stands at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., was represented by his first winner Friday at Gulfstream Park when R Morning Brew won a maiden special weight for Florida-bred fillies by four-and-a-half lengths in her first start.
The 2-year-old filly led from gate to wire with jockey Edgard Zayas aboard and paid $7.20. R Morning Brew is trained by Saffie Joseph Jr., owned by Averill Racing LLC and earned $29,000 for winning the six-furlong contest. She covered six furlongs in 1:11.45 on the sloppy and sealed track.
R Morning Brew was purchased by Steven Skaggs as an agent for Averill for $30,000 at the 2024 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale where she was consigned by Rivera Training and Sales. She is out of Foolhearted Woman, by Uncaptured and is a half-sister to the multiple graded stakes-placed, Florida-bred Dancing N Dixie, by Pleasant Acres Stallion’ Neolithic, who won the $233,418 Tepin at Churchill Downs on June 29.
R Morning Brew is eligible for the $1.2 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes that begins Sept. 7 with the $100,000 Desert Vixen for eligible fillies going six furlongs at Gulfstream Park.
Curlin’s Honor is by Curlin out of the Stormin Fever mare Franscat and was a graded stakes-placed, stakes winner for owners John C. Oxley and Breeze Easy LLC. Oxley and Breeze Easy paid $1.5 million for Curlin’s Honor at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of Two Year Olds in Training and saw him win the US$78,306 Woodstock going six furlongs on synthetic at Woodbine and the $150,000 Artie Schiller going a mile on the grass at Aqueduct.
He stood during the 2024 breeding season for a $2,500 fee.
