Neolithic’s sons are at it again

On November 29, three sons of Neolithic – Prevent, Private Thoughts and Brawn – finished 1-2-3 in the $100,000 Sabal Palm Handicap at Gulfstream Park. Prevent earned $59,500, Private Thoughts $22,200, and Brawn $11,450; a generous $93,150 boon for Neolithic’s 2025 progeny earnings.

On Saturday, the trio battled again in the $100,000 St. Augustine Handicap and the result was somewhat different. Private Thoughts was the winner, Brawn finished third, and pace-setter Prevent tired to finish sixth. The respective payouts were $59,500, $10,600 and $850, adding another $70,950 to Neolithic’s account, which now stands at $3,513,939, easily second best among all Florida stallions for 2025, and easily best of his five years.

Private Thoughts, a 4-year-old gelding bred by Joe and Helen Barbazon, was an $11,000 OBS March 2-year-old. Under Tyler Gaffalione, he followed Prevent in the early going in the 1 1/16-mile trip over the Tapeta surface, then kicked in and won by 2 1/4 lengths, clocked in 1:40.50, just 59 hundredths of a second off the track record. He paid $6, and raised his record to 8-4-2 in 18 starts for his highly successful co-owners, attorney David Romanik and trainer Ron Spatz. The $59,500 prize lifted his earnings to $359,474, of which $197,700 has come this year, and he’s 5-3-0 in his last eight races.