{"id":328584,"date":"2026-07-03T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328584\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:44:08","slug":"florida-bred-foal-spotlight-simplification-russian-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328584\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida-bred Foal Spotlight: Simplification &#8211; Russian River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY BROCK SHERIDAN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-f.-Simplification\uf022Russian-River2Judit-Seipert.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37225\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-37225 size-fusion-800\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-f.-Simplification\uf022Russian-River2Judit-Seipert-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"A Florida-bred filly by Simplification canters happily around her lush paddock. The filly\u2019s ears are pricked, and the white blaze on her face shines in the Florida sun. More wooden fenced pastures frame the backdrop of the scene, lined by shady trees. (Photo: \u00a9Judit Seipert)\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\"  data- data-orig-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-37225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2026 f. Simplification \u2013 Russian River (\u00a9Judit Seipert)<\/p>\n<p>This Florida-bred filly celebrates her independence sprinting around the pasture at Tom McCrocklin\u2019s farm in Ocala. Bred by McCrocklin and Frank Mermenstein of Richmond Hill, Ontario, this filly foaled on March 15 is by Pleasant Acres Stallions\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/stallion\/simplification\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simplification<\/a> and is the ninth foal out of the winning Florida-bred mare Russian River, by Stravinsky.<\/p>\n<p>An earner of $124,010 during her racing career, Russian River has produced six winners from seven starters including Marckie\u2019s Water, by Tribal Rule. An earner of $543,634, Marckie\u2019s Water in 2019 won the Grade 2 Charles Whittingham at Santa Anita, was second in the Grade 2 Eddie Read at Del Mar and third in the Grade 2 San Luis Rey Stakes at Santa Anita. He also won the $201,035 Snow Chief in 2017 at Santa Anita.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Return to the July 3 issue of\u00a0Wire to Wire <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY BROCK SHERIDAN 2026 f. Simplification \u2013 Russian River (\u00a9Judit Seipert) This Florida-bred filly celebrates her independence sprinting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,131825,11763],"class_list":["post-328584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-bred-foal-spotlight","tag-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}