Medina Spirit was named the 2021 Florida-bred Horse of the Year in a vote by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association board of directors and announced at the FTBOA Awards Gala held Monday night at the Circle Square Cultural Center in Ocala.
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May 12, 2021
ANTHONY, Fla. Medina Spirit has been entered to run in the Preakness on Saturday, so Gail Rice is going to Baltimore. She has a plane ticket and a ticket to the race, with details still to be ironed out regarding a rental car and hotel. “And I have to buy a dress,” she says with one of her frequent laughs.
Rice helped bring Medina Spirit into this world literally pulling his forelegs out of his mother, Mongolian Changa, at a postage stamp of a farm here on April 5, 2018. She drove into the yard there isn’t much of a driveway that afternoon and saw that it was high time for a baby. So she grabbed her daughter-in-law, Emily, to assist.