Lugamo Racing

by Jessica Martini & Stefanie Grimm OCALA, FL - A colt by Tapit brought the high price of $1 million during a day which featured lively trade at the top of the market at the opening session of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training Tuesday in Central Florida. A total of 153 juveniles had sold by the end of Tuesday's session for a gross of $19,615,000. The average was $128,203 and the median was $60,000. During last year's opening session, 145 horses had sold by...

Luis Gavignano's involvement in horse racing, which began innocently enough with a few claiming horses at Laurel Park in 2017, has blossomed into a racing, breeding and pinhooking operation with its own burgeoning home base in Ocala. His Lugamo Racing, with a dozen broodmares to support its graded-stakes winning first-season stallion, as well as a new stakes winner among its 10 horses in training, will offer 14 juveniles at the upcoming Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. Gavignano traces his love of horses back to his...

Lugamo Racing Stable's Cloe (f, 3, Tiz the Law--Nuhood, by Smart Strike) went wire-to-wire and came home much the best while making her turf debut and first start for trainer Jose D'Angelo in the Melody of Colors Stakes at Gulfstream Sunday. The 5-1 shot was pressed by favored Me Governor (The Factor) through an opening quarter in :21.32 and put that foe away in upper stretch before drawing clear to the wire to win by 1 3/4 lengths. She completed the five furlongs in :54.83. A debut winner while sprinting...