Pleasant Acres Stallions

01/06/2025

JANUARY 3, 2025 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Gunnevera gets first 2025 victory on New Year’s Day
After a late-season surge that gave Gunnevera six winners in his freshman crop, Princess Vera made it seven on New Year’s Day with a “last-to-first” effort at Parx Racing in her career debut.

The just-turned 3-year-old filly bred by Tom McCrocklin and Bloom Racing broke last in the field of seven going 6 1/2 furlongs over a sloppy track, and rider Eliseo Ruiz was content to let her get into stride, about 12 lengths back. She began her run coming to the turn, and with a strong late kick, ran down 2-1 favorite Edge of the Blade to win by a neck. She was clocked in 1:26.43, paid $10, and her first check came to $15,600.

01/06/2025

DECEMBER 30, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Neoking comes from out of the clouds for Turfway score
With just two days left to decide second place on Florida’s general sire list for 2024, Neolithic has a slight edge on his two rivals with $2,874,224 in progeny earnings, thanks to the come-from-behind victory by Neoking at Turfway Park on Saturday.

The 4-year-old gelding owned and bred by Just For Fun Stable raced well back in the pack early, about 15 lengths off the pace in the race at six furlongs, with Fernando De La Cruz in the saddle. He began to close the gap on the turn, but at the top of the stretch Neoking looked well beaten. He then dug in and closed with authority in the last sixteenth, getting up by half a length over three others at the wire.

Neoking was clocked in 1:11.19, paid $35.26 and earned a check for $9,939. He raised his record to 4-3-4 in 20 starts, and his bank account jumped to $63,586, with $47,301 coming in 2024. He was claimed out of the race.

01/06/2025

DECEMBER 23, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Neolithic filly finds a home on the grass
It took owner/breeder Terry Bruner and his team four sprint starts on the dirt and Tapeta at Gulfstream Park before they found the hole card for their 2-year-old filly, Das Ist Alles Ally. When they switched the daughter of Neolithic to a mile and one-sixteenth on the grass, she looked like a different horse.

With Sam Marin in the irons, Das Ist Alles Ally broke from the No. 7 post and was caught in a switch between two horses, and forced to drop back to ninth. Marin took her to the rail, and midway down the backstretch, she began to quickly pass fillies on the inside. Marin swung her out turning for home, and she proceeded to leave her rivals in the dust, drawing off to score by seven widening lengths. She paid $8.80 and earned a check for $11,720, lifting her total to $17,880, and she may spend the rest of her career on the turf.

01/06/2025

DECEMBER 17, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Neolithic’s 48th winner comes in Puerto Rico
Malicious Lady went through several jockeys without enjoying any success in her first five races at Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico. Then, Andy Hernandez Sanchez hopped aboard and it all changed.

In a maiden race at one mile over a muddy track, Sanchez put the 2-year-old Neolithic filly on the lead leaving the gate, and she turned it into no contest, opening up by daylight and going on to score by an eye-catching 10 1/4 lengths. The filly bred by Terri Latner and Jeff Lovelady, a $20,000 OBS June 2-year-old, earned a check for $4,792, and became Neolithic’s 48th winner of 2024 from 74 starters, for an excellent 65 percent.

01/06/2025

DECEMBER 16, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Gunnevera’s 6th winner has a fountain of talent
Gunnevera has added his sixth winner to his first-crop list, and Fontana Di Trevi’s score at Gulfstream Park may have been the most impressive of all.

Tyler Gaffalione was aboard the 2-year-old filly in the race at six furlongs, and the rider who just achieved his 2,500th winner had her in a stalking position heading down the backstretch. When Tyler gave her the go sign, Fontana Di Trevi proved to be a ton the best, winning by more than three lengths without being threatened in the late stages, clocked in 1:13.27.

After posting a second and a third in her first two races, the filly bred by Shade Tree Thoroughbreds was sent off at 7/5 and paid $4.80. She earned a check for $26,000, raising her three-race total to $38,800.

01/06/2025

DECEMBER 10, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Winner No. 5 for Gunnevera
Freshman sire Gunnevera’s fifth winner is The Mole Baby, an $8,000 OBS June 2-year-old who broke her maiden in her third start a boat ride away, at Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico.

With J. C. Diaz in the saddle, in a race at 6 1/2 furlongs over a muddy track, the 2-year-old Kentucky-bred filly took the lead after a half and ran away and hid down the lane, scoring by seven widening lengths. She paid $3.10, earned a check for $3,480, and was claimed out of the race.

01/06/2025

DECEMBER 7, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Two more 3-year-old filly winners for Neolithic; he’s passed $2.8 million
After My Denysse broke her maiden with a sensational $72.80 upset in the $300,000 My Dear Girl Stakes at Gulfstream Park last Saturday, Neolithic added two more winners at Gulfstream to give him 46 for the year from 74 starters, an excellent 62 percent.

BEDROCK BIRDIE – The 3-year-old filly bred by Matalona Thoroughbreds in partnership with Joe and Helen Barbazon, a $20,000 OBS October yearling, had Sam Marin aboard in a race at 5 1/2 furlongs over the Tapeta surface. She stalked the leaders in the two path, moved on the turn and ran down even-money favorite Fulminate in the last jump, winning by a nose. She paid $5.60 after getting the distance in 1:04.28, and earned a check for $24,100, boosting her total to $115,010 on a record of 3-4-1 in 11 starts.

VANISHING WISH – This 3-year-old filly is a stablemate of My Denysse, both owned and bred by Just For Fun Stable and trained by Ruben Sierra. After a pair of seconds in her previous two starts, she was sent off at 8/5 with Reylu Guterriez aboard in a race at five furlongs on the Tapeta. Fourth down the backstretch, she swung five wide into the lane and went on to score by 1 1/4 lengths, clocked in :57.66. She added $15,000 to the Just For Fun week, after My Denysse struck for $180,000.

Neolithic is now comfortably sitting in second place on Florida’s 2024 general sire list with earnings of $2,801,896, double her total of 2023.

01/06/2025

DECEMBER 2, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
My Denysse scores $72.80 stunner in $300,000 My Dear Girl
My Denysse, still a maiden after her first four races, scored one of the biggest upsets in the many years of the $300,000 My Dear Girl Stakes, final leg of the Florida Stallion Stakes series for fillies.

The 2-year-old daughter of Neolithic, ridden by Jesus Rios, lit up the board at Gulfstream Park to the tune of $72.80, winning the 1 1/16th-mile race by a neck after a ding-dong stretch battle with unbeaten Stunner, who went off as the 1/5 favorite. It was 7 1/4 lengths back to the third-place finisher.

My Denysse, owned and bred by Ruben Sierra’s Just For Fun Stable, became the third black-type winner for Neolithic, and the check for $180,000 raised her total to $201,900. She had previously finished second once, third twice and fourth once in maiden specials. She also became her sire’s 44th winner of 2024, and moved him into second place on Florida’s general sire list, $75,000 clear of third.

01/06/2025

NOVEMBER 30, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Gunner Glacken scores in Churchill Downs debut
Luis Saez guided Gunner Glacken to a wire-to-wire score in his career debut at Churchill Downs on Friday, giving freshman sire Gunnevera his fourth winner in his first crop.

The 2-year-old c**t bred by Norman Dellheim and Katie Liebe sprinted to the lead in the $79,240 maiden special at six furlongs, held it through swift fractions of :21.75, :45.22 and :57.63, then drew off in the lane to prevail by nearly three lengths, clocked in 1:10.48. He paid $11.76 and earned a check for $40,320.

01/06/2025

NOVEMBER 23, 2024 BY BERNIE DICKMAN
Reyes and Great Venezuela make a great team
In her first career start as a 2-year-old at Gulfstream Park on September 26 of 2023, Great Venezuela finished second with Jesus Rios in the irons. For her second start, trainer Victor Barboza Jr. opted for a new rider, Leonel Reyes, who has since compiled a record of 6-0-1 in seven starts, all at Gulfstream, with the 3-year-old Neolithic filly owned and bred by Ocala’s Orlyana Farm.

Reyes’ seventh ride aboard Great Venezuela came Friday in a $41,000 starter optional claimer at five furlongs over the Tapeta surface, with the filly riding a three-race winning streak. At odds of 1 to 9, she made it four straight, fighting off some early challenges through fractions of :22.16 and :45.40, and running away late to score by 3 1/4 lengths, clocked in :57.78.

Great Venezuela paid $2.20, and earned a check for $24,100. The last four victories have come by an incredible combined total of 19 1/2 lengths. With her record of 6-1-1, she’s now given her owners eight checks amounting to earnings of $178,200, and eight breeders’ awards.

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01/04/2025

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01/04/2025

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