KHOZAN is the leading 2023 Florida sire by progeny earnings with $6,294,608. It was
the fourth consecutive year that Khozan was the leading Florida sire by progeny earnings.
He had progeny totals of $4,513,950 in 2022, $3,671,794 in 2021 and $3,521,813 in 2020.
Khozan was also the leading 2023 Florida juvenile sire by progeny earnings with
$1,551,382. This was the second time that Khozan had topped that list as he posted
$1,275,632 in 2019.
In 2023, Khozan was represented by 188 starters with 105 winners (56%), including
15 Florida-bred black type horses. Of that latter number, Khozan recorded six black-type
winners, including one graded-stakes winner, and nine black type stakes-placed winners.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY is the 2023 leading Florida freshman sire by progeny earnings with
$426,163. He was represented by 30 starters with eight winners, including one Florida-bred
black type-placed horse.
Jive, owned by BC Racing LLC and trained by Juan Alvarado, was third in the FTBOA
Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager at Gulfstream Park. On the season, he banked $57,243. The
2021 bay colt out of Skylarbdancing, by Sky Mesa, was bred by Jennifer A. Johnson and
Gillian K. Johnson.
St. Patrick’s Day’s leading earner was Fiona’s Magic, who earned $87,400 on two wins
and one third in three starts. A Stonehedge LLC homebred, the 2021 bay filly is out of Mollie’s
Magic, by Factum.
Rounding out St. Patrick’s Day’s juvenile stakes winners and their seasonal earnings
were: Miss Miezie ($52,488), who won the non-black type Princess Margaret Stakes and
Sturgeon River Stakes at Century Downs; Emblem Bomb ($48,301); Immaculate Spirit
($28,570); Sir Mason ($27,939); Drewmania ($25,750) and Mumayaza ($13,680).
