Stats were mixed up for awhile, but Neolithic now has 12 winners and is fifth on the sire list

Neolithic’s early-season heroics are coming so fast and furious that the Bloodhorse stallion list and the Stallion Register statistics page hadn’t caught up with each other for several hours today. After Trumpets went wire-to-wire under Edgar Perez in the second race at Gulfstream Park yesterday to become 2024 winner No. 11, and New Rome followed with a wire-to-wire score under Javier Castellano in the ninth to become No. 12, there proved to be a discrepancy in both the number of winners column and in 2024 progeny earnings.

But just before 2 p. m., somebody discovered the errors and now Neolithic is listed with 12 winners on both lists, and earnings of $294,314. Plus, he’s moved up to fifth place on Florida’s general sire list.

Trumpets, an $8,000 OBS October yearling bred by Matalona Thoroughbreds, had finished a strong second with Perez at odds of 40-1 in her debut in December. The 3-year-old filly came back in a $50,000 maiden optional claimer going five furlongs over the Tapeta surface and scored at 4/5, winning by nearly six lengths in :55.36. That’s just .47 hundredths of a second off the course record. She earned $30,000, giving her a two-race total of $40,430.

New Rome was never threatened in her journey in a $37,000 allowance race at one mile over the turf course. The 4-year-old Kentucky-bred filly bred by Michael and Suzanne Masters won in her first try at Gulfstream after her first eight came at Laurel Park. With Javier Castellano riding, she went by the poles with fractions of :23.32. :47.88 and :1:11.79 en route to a 1 1/4-length score in 1:23.31 and paying $13.60. The check for $19,800 increased her bank account to $103,360 on a record of 4-1-1 in those nine starts.