Tampa Bay Downs Media Guide 2023

Welcome To Tampa Bay Downs!

Thrilling Thoroughbred racing. Daily no-limits action and big-money tournaments in The Silks Poker Room. A golf practice facility unique to the area, and the racing world.

All combine to make Tampa Bay Downs the premier multi-entertainment destination on Florida's west coast. As the track enters its 97th anniversary season, its remarkable history is worth another look.

Matt J. Winn, legendary promoter of the Kentucky Derby, teamed with Ohio investor Harvey Myers to bring horse racing to the “Top of the Bay” in 1926. Since then, Tampa Bay Downs has provided area sports fans and visitors with live racing action during the winter and spring months, while in 2013 adding an annual twoday Summer Festival of Racing held each June 30 and July 1.

Originally opened as Tampa Downs, the racetrack was renamed Sunshine Park in 1947. It entered the “modern” era that year with the installation of an electric starting gate, photo-finish camera and electronic tote board. The racetrack became popular with sportswriters who came to the area to cover baseball spring training. Legendary scribes Grantland Rice, Red Smith, and Arthur Daley were devoted regulars, with Rice nicknaming the track the “Santa Anita of the South.”

In 1965, the facility was acquired by a group of Tampa sportsmen and renamed Florida Downs. It became Tampa Bay Downs 15 years later after another change in ownership. The current owners assumed the reins before the start of the 19861987 meeting, heralding a period of unprecedented growth that has raised the track’s profile throughout the Thoroughbred racing world.

In the spring of 1997, Mrs. Stella Thayer, President and Treasurer of Tampa Bay Downs, announced plans for the installation of a 7/8-mile turf course with a quarter-mile chute. The course was completed in the spring of 1998 and the first turf race was contested on Kentucky Derby Day, May 2, 1998. Ever since, the track’s turf racing program has been a boon for horsemen and patrons alike.

Tampa Bay Downs launched The Downs Golf Practice Facility in 2003 as a stateof-the-art, first-of-its-kind golf practice and wagering facility. The 22 acres of fully lighted golf property include 270 yards of open range for full-swing shots, plus putting and short-game areas. The Downs Golf Clubhouse features a fully stocked pro shop, snack bar and wagering terminals, complete with numerous TV monitors to catch all the action.

The opening of the 2003-2004 season saw the debut of The Silks Poker Room. In July of 2007, the Florida Legislature granted Tampa Bay Downs permission to operate The Silks Poker Room year-round. It is now open on the third floor of the Grandstand Sunday through Thursday from 10 a.m.-2 a.m., and on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.-3 a.m.

The track’s profile skyrocketed in 2007 when Street Sense used his thrilling nose victory in the then-Grade III Tampa Bay Derby as a springboard to winning the Kentucky Derby. In 2010, third-place Tampa Bay Derby finisher Super Saver triumphed in the Run for the Roses, and the Tampa Bay Derby was awarded Grade II status the following spring. IIt is one of seven graded stakes conducted annually at Tampa Bay Downs.

The Oldsmar oval was able to boast a third graduate to win the Kentucky Derby in 2017 when Always Dreaming, winner of a maiden special weight race here that January, captured the Run for the Roses.

During the 2011-2012 meeting, bettors heralded the introduction of Trakus, an electronic system which displays the position and location of each horse during a race. Prior to the start of the 2013-14 season, the Grandstand was remodeled to include a pub-style gathering place, Riders Up!, with marble countertops, a candyapple redwood finish and a variety of craft beers, and the Metro Deli, resembling an old-time, big-city eatery.

The improvements have continued in recent seasons with the unveiling of a bright, redesigned circular driveway entrance, a revamped tote board, a new highdefinition video board and other upgrades to fan comfort and convenience. Prior to the start of the 2018-2019 season, Tampa Bay Downs installed new AmTote International wagering terminals throughout the facility and members of the track’s Maintenance Department and outside contractors installed a NuCore waterproof, vinyl plank floor throughout the Grandstand. Workers also redesigned the main Grandstand entrance to enhance the ease of access and egress for patrons. Racing fans, horse lovers and the Tampa Bay community embrace the Downs for its distinctive, country fair-style charm and welcoming ambiance.

At the outset of the 2018-2019 meeting, a museum-like display called "Tracking Our History" was unveiled inside the main Grandstand entrance, consisting of a video retrospective and a glass-enclosed collection of memorabilia, newspaper articles and milestones from 1926 to the present day.

Along with the rest of society, Tampa Bay Downs was severely challenged by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic during the 2019-2020 meeting, forcing the track to race without spectators after its March 15 card. The track was granted two extensions by the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering, with the additional dates providing much-needed relief to horsemen and horsewomen and the backstretch community. The extra dates resulted in a 111-day meeting, the longest in Oldsmar oval history.

During the 2021-2022 meet, Tampa Bay Downs overcame numerous challenges to show significant gains in all-sources wagering handle, attendance and total purse money.

There truly is no better place for fun-seekers and thrill-chasers to "Live It Up!"

Physical Address

Contact Information

Mailing Address

11225 Race Track Road P. O. Box 2007 Tampa, FL 33626 Oldsmar, FL 34677

Telephone Numbers

Main Number 813.855.4401 Racing Office 800.200.4434 Main Fax 813.854.3539

Web and E-mail Address www.tampabaydowns.com service@tampabaydowns.com

Directions

From I-275:

Take Tampa Airport exit. Follow signs to Veterans Expressway. Take Expressway to Exit 4 (Hillsborough Avenue). Turn west on Hillsborough Avenue. Travel approximately 10 miles to Race Track Road. Make a right on Race Track Road and travel 1 mile to Tampa Bay Downs.

From Pinellas County:

On U.S. Highway 19, go to the intersection with State Road 580 at Countryside Mall; go east on State Road 580 about 6 miles to the stoplight at Race Track Road; go left on Race Track Road, 1 mile to Tampa Bay Downs.

From St. Petersburg:

Take the Bayside Bridge north to McMullen Booth Road; go east on State Road 580 about 4 miles to the stoplight at Race Track Road; turn left on Race Track Road, 1 mile to Tampa Bay Downs.

From Pasco County:

On U.S. Highway 19, go to the intersection with Tampa Road (State Road 584); go east on Tampa Road 7 miles to the stoplight at Race Track Road; turn left on Race Track Road, 1 mile to Tampa Bay Downs.

Media Policies

Tampa Bay Downs is extremely pleased to have you with us for our 97th anniversary season of Thoroughbred racing. Outlined below are guidelines to assist your coverage of the current meeting that commenced on July 1, 2022 and resumed on Nov. 23:

1. In order to gain access to the stable area, all media MUST have prior approval and the proper credentials. These credentials are available in the Publicity Office, and media members are required to wear their Press ID at all times.

2. All photographers MUST check in with the Track Photographer, Stephanie Valenti, Ext. 1246. Valenti will issue credentials to all photographers, as well as offer advice on good locations from which to shoot, both on the front side and the stable area. These credentials are mandatory in order to shoot from the area adjacent to the track surface; publication credentials alone will not suffice. Valenti’s office is located on the lower level of the Grandstand adjacent to the State Licensing Office.

3. Phone lines are available in the Press Box for those who need to file their stories electronically. If any other special needs exist, please contact the Publicity Office, Ext. 1368. Tampa Bay Downs provides free wireless access throughout the facility.

4. The Press Box is located on the fourth floor of the Grandstand.

5. Photography is NOT permitted in the Grandstand or Clubhouse Mutuel areas at any time without prior permission of Track Management.

6. On March 11, 2023 (Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Day), winning owners, trainers and jockeys will be taken to the V.I.P. Room for interviews immediately after the presentation in the winner’s circle.

7. Parking for all credentialed media will be in the Horsemen’s Parking Lot, north of the Grandstand.

For further information or questions, contact Margo Flynn in the Publicity Office at Tampa Bay Downs at 813-855-4401, Ext. 1368 or mjflynn@tampabaydowns.com

Tampa Bay Downs Officers

Track Officers

The Track

Main Track

The main track is a one-mile oval with a sand-and-loam composition, and is rated one of the most consistent and safest surfaces in the nation for both training and racing. It is unrivaled in terms of drainage and cushion. The main track is 75 feet wide, the length of the stretch is 976 feet, and the track features a seven-furlong chute. Starting-gate schooling is available on race days from 7:30-10 a.m., and training hours are from 6-10 a.m. unless otherwise noted (the track is closed for harrowing from 8:30-9 a.m.). The banking of the track is 4 degrees on the straightaways and 6 degrees on the turns.

Turf Course

The turf course, which opened for racing in 1998, is seven-eighths of a mile in circumference with a quarter-mile chute. The width of the turf course is 80 feet. The grass is Tifton #419 Bermuda Turf. The course supports rail settings of 0 feet, 12 feet, 24 feet and 30 feet.

Paddock & Walking Ring Area

Located adjacent to the Grandstand at the north end of the facility, the paddock consists of a 14-stall covered saddling area that abuts the rubbermulch walking ring where the horses are united with their jockeys and paraded prior to each race. Once the field has circled the walking ring, the horses move onto the track for the post parade and pre-race warmup.

Backstretch

The backstretch houses 1,460 horses in 31 barns, including two receiving barns. The Track Kitchen and Racing Office complex are located on the south end of the backstretch along with soccer and softball fields and the Veterinary Office. Adjacent to the entrance and exit chutes on the backside of the track are the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association Office, the Chaplain’s Office, main shower and restroom facilities, a tack shop and basketball court. A feed-and-tack store is located east of the barn area, as are paddocks available to trainers for seasonal rental.

Seating & Parking

The Grandstand seats 4,300 people and the Clubhouse seats 1,700 patrons. There are many casual options available trackside, such as the Picnic Pavilion Area, which seats 500, and the Post Time Cabanas, complete with TV monitors and seating for up to 16. On the Clubhouse apron, bench seating is also offered, along with the Stella Artois Trackside Garden Suite, a fully contained private area that seats a party of 35 comfortably. There is parking for approximately 5,000 cars on the property.

The Downs Golf Practice Facility

Located just south of the racetrack, The Downs Golf Practice Facility celebrates the Tampa Bay area’s rich golf heritage while enabling visitors to stay attuned to the Thoroughbred action next door. The 22-acre facility includes 270 yards of open range for full-swing shots, plus putting, short-game and bunker areas. Betting machines are available for anyone wanting to combine horses with birdies. The facility has been the site of 11 weekend Golfest events, featuring celebrities such as LPGA legend Annika Sorenstam, world-renowned instructor David Leadbetter, major-championship winner Brittany Lincicome of nearby Seminole, Fla., and PGA Tour standout Andy Bean of Lakeland. The Downs Golf Practice Facility has also played host to local qualifying events for the annual Drive, Chip & Putt Championship for junior golfers which culminates in a trip to the Masters for the winners.

Golfest 2023 will take place on Friday, Feb. 10 and Saturday, Feb. 11. “Our goal in building the range was to make Tampa Bay Downs a total entertainment destination. With live racing, full-card simulcasting, golf, concerts and poker, we are realizing that vision,” said Peter Berube, Vice President and General Manager of Tampa Bay Downs. “We currently offer facility rental, fullservice dining and group plans catered to our patrons’ needs, rounding out the total experience.”

The Downs Golf Practice Facility is committed to offering the finest learning and practice environment in the community, featuring 45 grass-tee stations that are rotated daily to give the golfer near-perfect practice conditions every day. A recent addition is a 250-foot artificial grass teeing area used occasionally to help the grass fill in for pristine conditions.

Not a fan of mats? Not to worry, as grass hitting areas will always be available. Concerned about the heat? We have you covered, literally, with a 100-foot covershot that allows up to 10 hitting areas of shade.

The Pro Shop features equipment and golf products from all of the top brands, guaranteeing a fine selection of balls, hats, clubs, gloves, apparel and much more.

Joey DiPompo, Director of Golf at The Downs Golf Practice Facility, is responsible for day-to-day operations, including the Pro Shop, range, instruction, food and beverage and grounds maintenance. “We have developed a first-class golf

practice facility to introduce more players to the game and to help experienced golfers keep their practice habits on the right track,” DiPompo said.

The Downs Golf Practice Facility offers top-of-the-line instructional clinics that cover a range of topics, from swing and short game to specialty shots. Matt Mitchell, a PGA Class A professional with more than 30 years of experience, conducts lessons, clinics and schools on an ongoing basis. He is highly respected as one of the area’s premier instructors.

Another option for learning the game and improving players’ skills is Fun Golf, a monthly instructional program offering unlimited clinics and lessons for a monthly fee. The range is uniquely designed with the look and feel of a golf course, encouraging players to bring every club in their bag. There are numerous bunkers and practice-green areas to help golfers fine-tune pitching, chipping and approach shots. The nearly two-acre short-game area consists of:

• 8,000 square feet of putting green surface

• 6,000 square feet of greens for practicing chipping and sand game

• 7,000 square feet of greens for approach shots from 10 to 65 yards

Best of all, golf enthusiasts can practice 362 days a year (closed Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day), while enjoying simulcast racing and wagering from the convenience of The Downs Golf Clubhouse, a first in the nation for any racetrack or golf facility.

The Silks Poker Room

The Silks Poker Room offers players top-notch competition, with a variety of high-stakes games and tournament action. Five- and Seven-Card Stud, Ultimate Texas Hold ‘Em and Three-Card Poker are only the tip of the iceberg.

The elegant air-conditioned room is completely non-smoking and includes 30 poker tables. There are plenty of television monitors and roaming tellers, so fans can watch, wager and win on all the live horse racing and simulcast action. Tableside beverage service and in-house masseuses are available, so no one has to miss a hand.

Whether patrons are experienced poker players, newcomers, or somewhere in between, The Silks Poker Room offers a friendly, welcoming environment. Our professional, outgoing, and experienced staff is always willing to help.

The Silks Poker Room, which opened in December of 2003, is located on the third floor of the Grandstand and is accessible by both stairs and elevator. During live racing hours, players pay the track’s regular Grandstand admission at the gate and proceed to the Poker Room. Guests can stop by the reception desk to reserve a spot at the table where the game of their choice is being played. There is additional playing space located on the first floor of the Grandstand for overflow demand.

The Silks Poker Room is open every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Sunday; hours are from 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 10 a.m.-3 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

Tampa Bay Downs In The Community

Each season Tampa Bay Downs holds five Charity Days during its meet, with proceeds earmarked for charitable organizations that qualify under Florida law to receive such contributions. The recipients are in both the Tampa Bay community and the Thoroughbred industry. Over the past 15 seasons, more than $1-million has been raised for these organizations through Charity Days at Tampa Bay Downs and the Tampa Greyhound Track Poker and Racebook. A sampling of the charities that have received direct aid from Tampa Bay Downs include Rotary’s Camp Florida in Brandon, Tampa Bay Sports Commission, Upper Tampa Bay Education Foundation, Florida Thoroughbred Charities, Oldsmar Cares, Thoroughbred Retirement of Tampa, Inc. (TROT) and the Sulphur Springs Pool in Tampa.

In addition, Tampa Bay Downs directly contributes more than $31 million into the community each year, while providing more than 500 employment positions during the live racing season.

In the summer months, Tampa Bay Downs continues to support the community by offering job opportunities to more than 100 individuals. The track’s annual payroll exceeds $7.1 million.

History

1926 - The track opens for its inaugural meeting under the name of Tampa Downs. The season lasts 39 days and is headed by Ohio investor Harvey Myers and Kentucky Colonel Matt J. Winn, famed promoter of the Kentucky Derby. Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen and John Ringling help inaugurate the opening on Feb. 18. Torcher wins the $4,450 “Florida Derby,” which is actually a precursor to the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park.

1927- Tampa Downs reopens, but is forced to close after nine days of a scheduled 37-day meeting due to economic reasons.

1932 - Lexington (Ky.) Herald editor-publisher Desha Breckinridge and Major Thomas McDowell of Lexington oversee repairs and restoration of the facility, but conflicts cause the cancellation of the meeting.

1934 - The Tampa Turf and Field Club is formed, headed by Hal Thompson. The track reopens as Tampa Downs. Inadequate handles during the heart of the Great Depression force the meeting to close after only six days.

1943 - As World War II rages on, the U.S. Army constructs barracks and turns the track into a jungle warfare training center.

1946 - Sunshine Park Racing Association is formed and provides 650 stalls. A 1947 season is approved by referendum. New Yorker Justin O’Connor buys the track but dies just two days before opening.

1947 - Frank Hobbs buys the track from the O’Connor family. The modern era begins as Sunshine Park runs its inaugural meeting. The first official tote board is in operation, an electric starting gate is introduced and a photo finish camera is installed.

1948 - A horsemen’s boycott is averted by increasing the daily purse distribution by $500. Following the 1948 meeting, the Florida Racing Commission denies a request from Sunshine Park’s management to run at night.

1950 - Legendary sportswriters including Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Fred Russell and Arthur Daley are regulars at the track as they travel south to cover baseball spring training games. Rice coins the phase “Santa Anita of the South” in his columns to describe the racetrack. John W. Kane of Wilmington, Del., wins control of the track following a stockholders’ squabble. A Quarter Horse meet runs for three weeks in February.

1951 - A record crowd of 6,060 greets the return of Thoroughbred competition on Opening Day.

1953 - A dozen barns burn but are quickly replaced. The Florida Legislature passes a special bill allowing the track to keep 15% of the takeout and to pay a $4,000 daily fee instead. The track begins to show a profit for the first time and new Clubhouse construction begins at a cost of $300,000.

1954 - The new Clubhouse opens. Four new 50-stall concrete barns are constructed to meet demand from horsemen, increasing stable capacity to 900 horses. The track surface is rebuilt, improving drainage and drawing raves from trainers and jockeys.

1955 - Control of the track is passed to a syndicate headed by Frederick Ballon, director of Yonkers Raceway; Richard West of Rhode Island; and Frank Hobbs, a Tampa attorney.

History

1956 - A $1,000 minimum purse is instituted as the track celebrates its 10th season since reopening as Sunshine Park. All 900 stalls on the back side are occupied.

1957 - President Frank Hobbs creates the Florida Breeders’ Futurity and is voted Florida’s Man of the Year. Champion filly Indian Maid wins the first Futurity.

1958 - Benell captures the second running of the Florida Breeders’ Futurity.

1959 - Top owners Sanford Stud, Llangolen Farm, Gene Mori and Fred Hooper send strings to race at Sunshine Park.

1964 - A syndicated TV show called “Let’s Go to the Races” debuts in numerous major markets, using already-run races from Sunshine Park to award prizes and money to game-card holders. Track restaurants are restyled and redecorated, and an informal fashion show produced by Priscilla Parker is held each Thursday before the first race.

1965 - The franchise is acquired by a group of Tampa sportsmen headed by Chester Ferguson.

1966 - The track is renamed Florida Downs and Turf Club. Purses total $566,060. The track hosts its first sale of Thoroughbreds.

1968 - The double quinella wager is introduced, requiring bettors to pick the first two finishers in either order in the last two races. In September of 1968, a spectacular fire destroys the Grandstand facility, sparing only the Clubhouse building.

1969 - A new $800,000 Grandstand with the capacity for 6,000 people replaces the one ravaged by fire. The new building debuts with the season opener on January 17.

1972 - Tampa industrialist Sam F. Davis takes the reins of Florida Downs. The minimum purse is raised to $1,500 in an effort to lure higher-class horses from Northern tracks. The track goes into the black and season handle totals a record $11 million.

1973 - Eastern Airlines supports a series of races.

1974 - Season attendance surpasses 400,000 for the first time.

1976 - A Quarter Horse meeting is curtailed after losses of almost $500,000.

1977 - Trainer E.T. Clark wins with nine consecutive starters. After his next entrant finishes third, his next two starters win.

History

1978 - The Florida Senate squashes a proposal to convert summer Quarter Horse racing dates to Greyhound racing.

1979 - An average attendance record of 4,414 is established.

1980 - Total handle reaches $29 million. Sam F. Davis retires as President at age 73. In a switch of corporations, the track is renamed Tampa Bay Downs. On March 15, Richard DePass becomes the first jockey in history to go 7-for-7 on a single card.

1981 - Paristo wins the inaugural running of the $50,000-added Budweiser Tampa Bay Derby. He would go on to finish third in the Preakness. Apprentice jockey Julie Krone earns her first career victory aboard Lord Farkle on Feb. 12 for trainer Les St. Leon, and subsequently becomes the most successful female jockey in history with 3,704 victories and a member of the sport’s Hall of Fame.

1982 - The second Budweiser Tampa Bay Derby is won by Reinvested, a Florida-bred owned by Harbor View Farm who goes on to finish third in the Kentucky Derby and to win the Grade II Super Derby at Louisiana Downs.

1983 - Arabian-bred racing is introduced, making Tampa Bay Downs the first track to hold a regular program for the breed. Morganmorganmorgan wins the Budweiser Tampa Bay Derby.

1984 - The track adds a seven-furlong chute. In a huge upset, 88-1 shot Bold Southerner edges Rexson’s Hope in the Tampa Bay Derby under jockey Wayne Crews.

1985 - Regal Remark wins the Tampa Bay Derby for owner Ernie Samuel's Canadian-based Sam-Son Farm, winner of 10 Sovereign Awards as Canada's Outstanding Breeder and 12 Sovereign Awards as Canada's Outstanding Owner. Richard Grunder joins Tampa Bay Downs as track announcer. Mary Hodge wins the training title by sending out 23 winners.

1986 - A new dirt track is installed prior to the start of the 1985-1986 meeting at a cost of $250,000. The old base and cushion are replaced and the track is crowned and banked to provide better drainage and give horses a safer racing surface. Bob Clark is named Racing Secretary, replacing Warren Wolf. Hall of Fame jockey Bill Hartack, who rode here briefly as an apprentice when the track was known as Sunshine Park, is named as a steward. My Prince Charming, owned by the Aronow Stable operation of speedboat racer Don Aronow, wins the Tampa Bay Derby.

1987 - Stella F. Thayer and her brother, Howell Ferguson, take full control of Tampa Bay Downs with a $16.2-million bid at auction a month before the start of the meeting. Tampa Bay Downs controller Lorraine M. King is named General Manager, completing what is believed to be the first instance of a wagering facility with separate female ownership and management. Mike Manganello, who won the 1970 Kentucky Derby on Dust Commander and won six Tampa Bay Downs jockey titles, rides career winner No. 2,500 on Siberian Gold. The first Sunday card in the history of Tampa Bay Downs is conducted on Dec. 7, 1986, drawing a crowd of 5,893. Ronnie Allen, Jr., wins the second of his four track riding crowns with 76 victories. Phantom Jet, trained by Phil Gleaves, becomes the first horse to win the Sam F. Davis Stakes and the Tampa Bay Derby.

History

1988 - Ronnie Allen, Jr., becomes the first jockey in track history to surpass 100 victories in a meeting, winning his third title in four seasons with 102 winners. In one of the most memorable renewals of the Tampa Bay Derby, Cefis, under jockey Eddie Maple, rallies from 25 lengths off the pace to win for legendary trainer Woodford Cefis "Woody" Stephens. Cefis rallies from 25 lengths off the pace to win for legendary trainer Woodford Cefis “Woody” Stephens. Queen Alexandra wins her second consecutive running of the Wayward Lass Stakes. Storm Predictions, owned by Three G Stables and trained by Luis Olivares, uses a victory in the Challenger Stakes as a 2-year- old at the outset of the meeting to build a foundation for his Tampa Bay Derby triumph.

1989 - Inter-track wagering debuts in Florida, and Tampa Bay Downs remains open year-round as a simulcast facility. Track owner Stella F. Thayer is installed as the first woman president of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce in the group’s 103-year history. The winner of the Florida Oaks, She’s Scrumptious, pays $169.20 to win. Gene, a 5-year-old Florida-bred purchased the previous year by horseman Gary Patrick for $150, wins two starter allowance races at the start of the 1988-1989 meeting to give him 16 victories for 1988, earning the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association Claiming Horse of the Year Award. Adored by Oldsmar fans, he is nicknamed “ Gene the Racing Machine” and wins his first two starts in 1989. The Sports Gallery opens and the Clubhouse Turn Restaurant is enlarged and renovated. Minors are officially allowed anywhere on track grounds except in the Sports Gallery and wagering lines.

1990 - The $1-million Tampa Premier Bonus is instituted to reward the connections of any horse winning the Challenger Stakes for 2-year-olds, the Tampa Bay Derby, the Tampa Premier Stakes (on closing day, April 8) and the Kentucky Derby. Jockey Ken Blackstun marries assistant publicity director Juli Youngren in a winner’s-circle ceremony on March 10; Blackstun wins that day’s sixth race on Easter Hawk. Former Oakland Raiders and Buffalo Bills head coach John Rauch, who coached Oakland in its Super Bowl II loss against Green Bay, is employed as a security guard. Ricardo Lopez wins the second of his three consecutive jockey titles.

1991 - A new inner rail is installed, and a new Grandstand dining area called the Silks Bistro opens, decorated with prominent silks from all eras of the track’s history. A tornado tears through the back side, ripping the roofs off barns and uprooting an oak tree. The overnight disaster causes the following day’s races to be canceled.

1992 - To the north of the Grandstand, the Picnic Area opens to give families a chance to enjoy the Florida sunshine and a day at the races. A Z-Alpha display board is added to the infield to keep the patrons better informed. Tampa sends its live racing signal to Birmingham, Ala.,the track’s first out-of-state site. More than $2.7 million is bet at Birmingham on Tampa Bay Downs races. Jockey Willie Martinez rides 123 winners, establishing a single-season track record.

1993 - John E. Grady is named Vice President and General Manager. Jockey William Henry rides 123 winners to tie the meet record. John Reading captures his second consecutive training title.

1994 - A $2,600 Alberta-bred yearling, Prix De Crouton, which had won previously at Northlands Park and Stampede Park, wins the Tampa Bay Derby for owners Lorne and Kathleen Berg.

1995 - The Tampa Bay Derby and the Florida Oaks are run on the same day for the first time in the history of the track. Don Rice wins the first of his eight training titles.

History

1996 - The track’s first 70 years are observed in gala style, and the Florida Oaks gains Grade III status. A record 360 simulcast outlets take Tampa Bay Downs’ signal, and 540 take the Tampa Bay Derby card. The Florida Legislature approves full-card simulcasting, giving pari-mutuel facilities the option of hosting signals from out-of-state tracks. Tampa Bay Downs takes over concession areas in the plant, providing more flexibility and lower prices to patrons. A new barn is constructed to house 50 horses.Thundering Storm wins both the Tampa Bay Derby and the Sam F. Davis Stakes.

1997 - The plant remains open seven days a week to host simulcast signals for the first time. Six purse increases of 5% result in a major bonanza for horsemen and establish the highest average purse distribution in the track’s history. The Challenger Stakes returns to the schedule as a 7-furlong race for 3-year-olds. Attendance is up 4.3% over the previous season and the on-track handle jumps an additional 15.74%, while out-of-state wagering increases 22%. Ground is broken for the turf course on May 14, and the grass is planted Sept. 9. Road improvements allow greater access with the Linebaugh Extension to the north. Widening and repairs also improve Race Track Road, Hillsborough Avenue and Tampa Road. William Henry wins the jockeys’ title for the fourth time in five seasons. Jerry Bailey wins the Tampa Bay Derby aboard Zede for owner Allen Paulson and trainer Bill Mott.

1998 - A record is set for an all-time, single-day total handle on Jan. 16 when $3,155,905 is wagered on the Tampa Bay Downs signal on-track, in-state and out-of-state. Tasso’s Magic Roo sweeps the Pepsi Challenge Series and becomes only the second filly to do so since the series began in 1988. Will Farish’s Parade Ground wins the 18th running of the Tampa Bay Derby, and Helen Alexander’s Pantufla captures the Grade III Florida Oaks. The unveiling of the turf course on May 2, Kentucky Derby Day, draws a crowd of 8,669, the second largest in the track’s history at the time. Ship Liner, owned by Phillip Williams, wins the

inaugural running of the Tampa Bay Turf Handicap and Artz Racing Stable’s Mercedes Song prevails over fillies and mares in the Tampa Bay Distaff Turf Handicap. Records are established during the 1997-1998 season for total handle, purses and simulcast outlets.

1999 - The conclusion of the 1998-99 racing meet once again sees gains over the previous season as Tampa Bay Downs enjoys the most successful season in the 73-year history of the track. The 91-day meet produced a rise in the average daily attendance and daily on-track handle, this during the third year of full-card simulcasting. Simulcasting revenue also leaped to an all-time high with an increase of 46%. Purses were additionally bolstered to record levels during the same period, luring top quality horses and stables to compete. Track owner Stella F. Thayer is the first woman to be elected head of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations in the organization’s 57-year history.

2000 - The Clubhouse is totally remodeled, with fan comfort as the highest priority. Clubhouse renovations include new central airconditioning, a newly refurbished elevator, paint, plush carpeting and luxury seating. The lower floor of the Clubhouse showcases a “Sports Book” atmosphere, with 100 individual carrels complete with private TV monitors. A state-of-the-art sound system is installed throughout the entire Clubhouse and Grandstand areas. Once again, new handle records were set and purses achieve all-time levels. Secret Status, a 3-year-old filly owned by William S. Farish and partners, uses a Florida Oaks victory as a stepping stone to winning the Kentucky Oaks. A crowd of 6,381 attends March 4 to watch a National Steeplechase Association race, won by Red Classic and jockey Sean Clancy.

History

2001 - Tampa Bay Downs celebrates its 75th Anniversary season on Feb 18, 2001, a day that highlights a meeting of record-breaking purse levels and an increase in average intra-state wagering on Tampa Bay Downs for the seventh consecutive year. Peter Berube is named Vice President and General Manager on June 10, 2001. A new single day co-mingled handle record is achieved on Tampa Bay Derby Day, March 18, 2001 with $3,877,477 wagered on the Tampa signal.

2002 - The Tampa Bay Derby regains Grade III status. Various maintenance projects continue throughout the year, including a new Grandstand roof, repaved backstretch roads, and a remodeling of the General Office. Handle on live races from all sources averages almost $2.1-million a day. The track posts record-breaking purses for the eighth consecutive year. Live racing is canceled on Opening Day due to street and parking-lot flooding caused by county drainage issues.

2003 - Tampa Bay Downs launches a state-of-the-art, first-of-its-kind Golf Practice and Wagering Facility. The 22 acres of fully lit property include 270 yards of open range, plus putting and shortgame areas. The Downs Golf Clubhouse features a fully stocked Pro Shop, Snack Bar and wagering terminals, complete with TV monitors to catch all the action. The racing season concludes with purses at their highest level ($128,620 a day) and a new record for average all-sources live handle ($2,550,096). Tampa Bay Downs once again posts a new single-day co-mingled record of $3,880,693, and Florida Cup Day debuts, offering six $75,000 stakes races on the one-day card.

2004 - Tampa Bay Downs enjoys an incredibly successful meet with track records set in 10 statistical categories, including double-digit increases in total live all-source handle (24% increase) and total attendance (11%). The track distributes a record $12,622,650 in purses ($135,727 per day), which leads to fields that average 9.4 starters per race, an all-time high

for the Oldsmar oval. Horsemen also halter a record $2,418,250 worth of horses at the claims box. Track improvements include a permanent tent over the popular picnic area, a new seven-furlong chute, and the opening of The Silks Poker Room, the track’s card room, which is an immediate hit with local poker enthusiasts.

2005 - Bucking national trends that have seen tracks across the nation experience declines in either handle, attendance, or both, Tampa Bay Downs concludes its 79th season by establishing 10 records in handle, attendance and purses. Increases include an all-time high attendance of 10,246 on Festival Day, which features Sun King winning the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby. Before the season starts, the track continues its expansion of and improvements to the track’s highly popular picnic area; adds a new luxury suite called the Trackside Garden Suite; and adds daily Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments in the Silks Poker Room. Horsemen benefit from a handsome new winner’s circle, a new outside rail, and a new receiving barn.

2006 - Explosive growth in on-track wagering, total handle and purse payouts, along with record-high attendance, highlight the track’s 80th year of Thoroughbred racing. As they did in 2004-2005, bettors on-track and nationwide continue to embrace Tampa Bay Downs’ full fields and improved racing quality on turf and dirt. Tampa Bay Downs receives the Large Business of the Year Award for 2006 from the Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce on May 10, 2006. The award is based on community involvement and support, and pays tribute to the tremendous growth the facility has recently undergone. Local racing fans, treated to an average of 9.57 horses per race, send the on-track handle up nearly 7 percent to $30,192,981, the highest since 1991; and the daily average on-track handle of $321,202 is the highest since 1994.

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2007 - Prior to the commencement of the 2006-2007 season, a Daktronics 16:9 ratio jumbo video board is installed in the infield, providing patrons with a state-of-the-art flat-screen monitor on which to view the live racing action. In front of a then record-high, single-day crowd of 10,593, Street Sense wins the Grade III, $300,000 Tampa Bay Derby by a nose in track and stakes-record time of 1:43.11 for 1 1/16 miles. Festival Day also marks the track’s largest co-mingled handle of $10,916,634 wagered. Tampa Bay Downs welcomes its largest crowd to date on May 5, 2007 when 11,014 fans cheer on Street Sense as he crosses the wire in front in the 133rd Kentucky Derby, becoming the first Tampa Bay Derby participant to win the Run for the Roses. Allison De Luca takes the reins as Racing Secretary, and the meeting ends with Tampa Bay Downs boasting record increases in total live-sources handle, purses paid, number of turf races offered, and total amount of horses claimed. Trainer Jamie Ness captures the first of his record nine consecutive Tampa Bay Downs titles.

2008 - Tampa Bay Downs’ 82nd season is highlighted by records set in both attendance and out-of-state wagering handle. On Festival Day,March 15, 2008, a record 12,746 fans arrive at the Oldsmar oval to witness Big Truck capture the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby. Tampa Bay Downs has three Eclipse award winners compete during the 2007-2008 meeting. Rosemary Homeister,Jr., who won the Outstanding Apprentice award in 1992, is a regular fixture in the jockeys’ room at the Oldsmar oval, finishing the season as the second- leading rider overall. Dreaming of Anna, who was the Champion Juvenile Filly of 2006, wins the Grade III

Endeavour Breeders’ Cup and the Grade III Hillsborough Stakes on the grass. War Pass, who was the 2007 Two-Year-Old Champion,competes in the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby.

Jockey Daniel Centeno establishes a track record by riding 144 winners. Before the 2007-2008 race meeting began, Tampa Bay Downs underwent several renovations, including the installation of the Grandstand elevator and the introduction of the all-new Silks Poker Room, located on the third floor of the Grandstand. The Party Suite, adjacent to the Silks Poker Room, was also updated with new flat-screen TVs installed. The Legends Bar, which includes a museum-quality exhibition of famed Thoroughbred Seabiscuit, became the newest feature on the second floor of the Grandstand. Horsemen enjoyed improvements to the Paddock area, with all-new stalls in the saddling barn ensuring the safety and comfort of horses and their connections. Other facility upgrades at the Oldsmar oval include a refurbished Racing Office on the backstretch, as well as a renovated track kitchen.

2009 - Graduates from the Tampa Bay Downs stakes program occupy five of the 19 stalls in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands field, with Grade III Tampa Bay Derby winner Musket Man placing third in the Run for the Roses. Musket Man also finishes third in the Preakness. Prior to the opening of the 2009-2010 race meeting, Tampa Bay Downs renovates all tack rooms in the barn area and forms an alliance with Thoroughbred Retirement of Tampa, Inc., (TROT), a nonprofit organization dedicated to re-homing and transitioning the Oldsmar oval’s equine athletes to new careers after their racing days are over.

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2010 - The outset of the 2009-2010 race meeting heralds a reduction in takeout for exacta, Pick-3, Pick-4, Super High-5 and Pick-6 wagering at the Oldsmar oval. A second Tampa Bay Derby graduate, third-place finisher Super Saver, wins the Grade I Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands. Other national performers competing at the Oldsmar oval in the 2009-2010 season include Grade I winners Dr. Zic and Karelian and dual Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti, as well as Musket Man, Uptowncharlybrown, Rule, Schoolyard Dreams, Odysseus and Phola, among others. Despite a slumping economy, Tampa Bay Downs concludes the season with its commingled all-sources handle increasing by 1.8%, bucking national trends for wagering across the nation. The season also features the implementation of the track’s social media networks, with Tampa Bay Downs starting profiles on both Facebook and Twitter. Prior to the beginning of the 2009-2010 meeting, Tampa Bay Downs officially affiliates itself with the Thoroughbred Retirement of Tampa, Inc., (TROT), a 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to repurposing Tampa Bay Downs Thoroughbreds into show and pleasure horses as their careers on the racetrack end. Additionally, the 2009-2010 season saw the arrival of Mouse, the Tampa Bay Downs mascot. Mouse, a 3-year-old Miniature Horse, was rescued by an affiliate of TROT and rehabilitated by the staff of Tampa Bay Downs and quickly grew in popularity both locally and nationally. In July of 2010, Florida state legislation allows for expanded hours and no-limit games in the Silks Poker Room. In the months following the 2009-10 meet, the Tampa Bay Derby receives a purse boost to $350,000 and is awarded Grade II status. Daniel Centeno wins his fourth consecutive riding title with 133 victories, giving him 540 at the track over the past four campaigns.

2011 - The Oldsmar oval’s 85th racing season ends with across-theboard increases. Handle, attendance, claims, and field size all expand; additionally, the Tampa Bay Derby achieves Grade II status for the first time, as well as an expanded purse of $350,000. The Tampa Bay Stakes (formerly the Tampa Bay Breeders’ Cup) is awarded Grade III status, also a first. Local trainers finish 1-2 in the Tampa Bay Derby, as the Kathleen O’Connell-trained Watch Me Go edges Crimson Knight from the barn of Gerald Bennett. Luis Garcia rides the 43-1 shot Watch Me Go to victory. The Florida Oaks for 3-year-old fillies is run on turf for the first time, with Dynamic Holiday under jockey Ramon Dominguez winning for owner Augustin Stable and trainer H. Graham Motion. Jamie Ness and Bennett tie for the training title with 61 victories apiece. It is the fifth consecutive title for Ness, who tied O’Connell the previous season with 51 victories. On the jockeys’ side, Ronnie Allen Jr. claims his fourth riding title at Tampa Bay Downs — and first since 1987- 88 — with 109 victories, 30 more than runner-up Daniel Centeno. Average daily wagering handle during the 90-day meeting is a record $4,572,074,an increase of 9.2 percent from the previous season. The Tampa Bay Derby card attracts a record all-sources wagering handle of $10,949,948, of which $876,063 is wagered on track. Average daily attendance is 3,195. A $1.5-million capital improvements project which includes the addition of a CREE LED lighting system throughout the Clubhouse and Grandstand and a “Cool Roof” coating system represents an early step in the track’s goal to provide a “net-zero impact” on the environment.

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2012 - Spectacular on-track accomplishments highlight a season in which Tampa Bay Downs is again the fourth most popular winter simulcast signal in the country. Eight track records are set - four apiece on the main dirt track and the turf course. It’s Me Mom, a 4-year-old filly owned by area residents Thomas and Jean Bosch, is the equine star of the meeting, winning three of her four starts, including the Minaret Stakes and the Florida Cup Hilton Garden Inn Sprint against males. In the latter, she set a six-furlong track record of 1:08.67. Jamie Ness wins his sixth consecutive training title, saddling a record 79 winners. His horses earn $875,384 and he ties a track record by saddling four winners Jan. 19. Ness trained exclusively for Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc., which captures a third consecutive owners’ title for Richard and Karen Papiese with 79 victories. Leandro Goncalves is the leading jockey with 88 victories, eight more than defending champion Ronnie Allen, Jr. Goncalves rides his 1,000th career winner Dec. 28. The top apprentice jockey is Erik Barbaran, who rides 27 winners. Veteran rider Scott Spieth joins the 4,000-victory club April 6 aboard 4-year-old filly Ula. Owner John C. Oxley’s 3-year-old colt Prospective wins the 32nd running of the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby in 1:43.35, the second-fastest renewal to that time. The Tampa Bay Derby draws a season-high crowd of 9,247 and total wagering of $9,183,788. Zagora, a 5-year-old mare owned by Martin Schwartz, wins both of the track’s graded stakes for older fillies and mares on the turf, the Endeavour and the Hillsborough. Zagora sets a then-course record of 1:46.97 in the mile-andan-eighth Hillsborough and goes on to win the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita. Other Tampa Bay Downs participants to experience Breeders’ Cup glory were Challenger Stakes winner Fort Larned, the Ian Wilkes-trainee who wins the Classic; trainer William Bradley, who captures the Filly and Mare Sprint with Groupie Doll; and past leading jockey Willie Martinez, who wins the Sprint on Trinniberg. A mile-and-a-sixteenth turf record is set by Lentenor, a full brother to 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro. Tampa Bay Downs introduces Trakus, an electronic system which displays the position and location on the track of each horse during a race and provides handicappers with a wealth of valuable information.

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2013 - Numerous firsts enhance Tampa Bay Downs’ reputation as a major player on the winter-spring Thoroughbred racing scene during its 87th season. For the first time, the top three finishers in the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby — Verrazano, Java’s War and Falling Sky, the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes winner — compete in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Verrazano also won the Grade I Wood Memorial and Grade I Haskell Invitational and Java’s War captured the Grade I Toyota Blue Grass). Tampa Bay Downs stages three graded stakes on a single card for the first time on Feb. 2 after the then-$150,000 Florida Oaks, a turf race for 3-year-old fillies, was awarded Grade III status by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners' and Breeders' Association. In addition to the Oaks, the Festival Preview Day program includes the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes for 3-year-olds and the Grade III, $150,000 Endeavour Stakes on the turf for older fillies and mares. Jockey Daniel Centeno wins his fifth title, riding 90 winners, and Jamie Ness is the first trainer to capture seven consecutive crowns, saddling 46 winners. Twotime Eclipse Award finalist Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc., also with 46 winners, wins its fourth consecutive owners’ title (Ness trained exclusively for Midwest). The leading apprentice jockey is 20-year-old Ricardo Mejias from Puerto Rico. For the second straight year, Tampa Bay Downs conducts 25 stakes worth $2.6-million in purse money, highlighted by the Tampa Bay Derby on Festival Day, March 9. The 33rd renewal draws a crowd of 10,476, the fifth-largest in track history; total all-sources handle of $10,291,827.76 is the fourth-highest ever. Verrazano’s jockey, Hall of Fame member John Velazquez, rides five winners on the Festival Day card, tying six other jockeys for the third-most in track history. Tampa Bay Downs reached an agreement with TVG, America’s Horseracing Network, to broadcast the meeting, spreading the track’s signal to countless new viewers. In addition to Verrazano’s victory, trainer Todd Pletcher scores two additional graded-stakes triumphs with his 5-year-old mare Old Tune, who

wins the Endeavour and the Grade III, $150,000 Hillsborough on the turf, both times under Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Joel Rosario. The rider was also aboard Florida Oaks winner Tapicat for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. Combining to win two of the track’s six graded stakes were trainer John Terranova II and jockey Jose Espinoza, who won the Sam F. Davis with Falling Sky and the Grade III, $150,000 Tampa Bay Stakes with Swift Warrior. The 11th annual Florida Cup Day on April 6 attracts many top Florida-breds, with James and Nannette McCullough’s 4-year-old gelding Wild About Chrome remaining unbeaten (5-for-5) in the Hilton Garden Inn/ Hampton Inn & Suites Sprint. In winning the Super Stakes on Feb. 23, Thomas Shank and Stan Young’s 6-year-old gelding Good Lord sets a seven-furlong track record of 1:22.03. Phase Two of the track’s ongoing green initiative continues to gain momentum with the introduction of a state-of-the-art geothermal HVAC system designed to save energy and costs while requiring almost no maintenance. The water and energy-saving system uses the constant below-ground temperature of soil or water to cool homes, commercial buildings and public facilities.On Feb. 16, the track holds the “Walk for Roz” to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure fight against breast cancer in memory of former Tampa Bay Downs Association Veterinarian Rosalyn Randall.

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2014 - The 88th anniversary season of Thoroughbred racing officially begins July 1, 2013, the second day of Tampa Bay Downs’ inaugural Summer Festival of Racing. The Summer Festival was formed to enable Tampa Bay Downs to control its simulcast income by becoming a year-round, live-racing facility. By the time the horses return for the December restart, horsemen and fans observe a new look on the first floor of the Grandstand. The enhancements included the Riders Up! Pub, featuring a variety of craft and domestic beers and liquor, and the Metro Deli, offering pizza, Cuban sandwiches, roast beef, ham, corned beef and turkey. On the racing front, a record $2,695,000 is paid out in stakes purses. The purse for the Grade III Florida Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on turf was increased $50,000 to $200,000; the race joined the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby and the Grade III, $150,000 Hillsborough Stakes on turf on the annual Festival Day card. Increases of $25,000 for the Turf Sprint and Lightning City Stakes, from $75,000 to $100,000, gives Tampa Bay Downs a record 11 races worth six figures. Jamie Ness wins his record eighth consecutive training title by sending out 53 winners. The late Don Rice is the only other conditioner to win eight titles, but they were not consecutive. Antonio Gallardo, a native of Spain, wins his first jockeys title by riding 124 winners and surviving a ding-dong battle over the final several weeks with four-time leading jockey Ronnie Allen, Jr. Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc., the ownership group of Rich and Karen Papiese, captures its fifth consecutive owners title with 45 victories. Track officials establish the Tampa Bay Downs Million Dollar Derby Bonus, with $1-million to be awarded to the owners of any horse winning the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes, the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby and the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands. Vinceremos — owned by WinStar Farm and Twin Creeks Racing Stables — wins the Davis and finishes second to Ring Weekend in the Tampa Bay Derby before fading to 17th in the Kentucky Derby.

Additionally, a fan who picked Vinceremos in the Davis is given an opportunity to win a $100,000 bonus. The Tampa Bay Derby winner, Ring Weekend, is owned by St. Elias Stable and West Point Thoroughbreds, trained by H. Graham Motion and ridden by Daniel Centeno. In tandem with Equus Technology Group, Tampa Bay Downs institutes the Live It Up Challenge handicapping contest, won by Glenn Wilson of nearby Westchase. Wilson is the only player to stay alive through the duration of the event; he wins $1,500 and a seat at the 2015 Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship in January in Las Vegas. On March 29, Tampa Bay Downs plays host to the first Jockeys and Jeans barbecue luncheon to benefit the Permanently Disabled Riders Fund. Among those attending are six-time Tampa Bay Downs leading jockey Mike Manganello; Hall of Famers Pat Day, Walter Blum, Jacinto Vasquez, Bill Boland and Ramon Dominguez; Dr. Eddie Donnally; female pioneers Barbara Jo Rubin, Diane Crump and Mary Russ; and disabled former riders Eibar Coa, William Klinke, Julia Brimo, Jose Diaz and Michael Straight. On Feb. 21, in what is believed to be a first, brothers Fernando, Walter and Juan De La Cruz all ride winners on a single card. L.J. McKanas, a trainer competing at Tampa Bay Downs for the first time, delights race goers by appearing as a contestant on the CBS reality show Survivor. Announcer Richard Grunder marks his 30th season at Tampa Bay Downs.

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2015 - As part of its ongoing capital improvements initiative, Tampa Bay Downs unveils a bright, redesigned circular driveway entrance in front of the Grandstand. Featuring tree-lined pathways, garden landscaping, enhanced lighting, benches and automatic sliding doors, it signals a friendly “welcome back” to all when the 89th anniversary meeting resumes Nov. 29. The racing action is fast and furious from the outset, as jockey Antonio Gallardo rides five winners on the first stakes Saturday of the season and 2-year-old Catalina Red sets a stakes record of 1:09.32 in the six-furlong Inaugural Stakes. Gallardo’s success is a recurrent theme throughout: The native of Cadiz, Spain rides five winners again on Dec. 31 and finishes the meeting with 147 to set a new track record and win his second consecutive title. Gallardo is joined at the top by trainer Jamie Ness, who captures an unprecedented ninth consecutive Oldsmar crown with 46 victories. The Nesstrained 6-year-old gelding Brother Pat becomes the first horse to sweep all four legs of the Tampa Turf Test starter handicap series, never trailing at a single point of call in any of his victories. Trainer Todd Pletcher wins the Tampa Bay Derby for the third time, capturing the Grade II, $350,000 showcase with Carpe Diem. The colt is owned in partnership by Stonestreet Stables, which also owns Ocean Knight, winner of the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes. The 35th renewal of the Tampa Bay Derby headlines a March 7 Festival Day program that includes the Grade III, $200,000 Florida Oaks, the Grade III, $150,000 Hillsborough Stakes and the $60,000 Challenger Stakes, making it the richest day in track history. A crowd of 10,379, the 10th largest in track history,watches Carpe Diem and fellow Tampa Bay Derby participant Danzig Moon compete in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands via simulcast on May 2.The outstanding stakes program at Tampa Bay Downs produces several record-breaking performances. Trainer Chad Stewart’s Catalina Red sets a stakes and track record in winning the Dec. 27 Pasco Stakes for 2-year-olds, speeding home seven furlongs in 1:21.40 under jockey Daniel Centeno.

That same day, 2-year-old filly Irish Jasper sets a stakes mark of 1:22.41 in the Gasparilla Stakes for trainer Derek Ryan. Bold Thunder establishes a course and stakes record of 54.63 in the five-furlong Turf Dash, the fifth victory in the race for Centeno. Evidently, a 4-year-old filly trained by Roy Lerman, sets a stakes mark in the Florida Cup Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf of 1:40.93 for a mile-and-a-sixteenth. The 4-year-old gelding Special Envoy sets a mile-and-an-eighth turf course record of 1:46.55 on March 18. On March 28, trainer Gerald Bennett saddles career winner No. 3,500, the 3-year-old filly Once More for Love. New York native Andrew Demsky is named host for the track’s “Paddock Preview” show, taking over from Vice President of Marketing & Publicity Margo Flynn, who continues in her executive role while shifting her focus to other responsibilities. On Dec. 15, seven members of the Tampa Bay Downs jockey colony travel to All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg to visit children with potentially life-limiting diseases. The group includes Ronnie Allen, Jr.; Dean Butler; Janelle Campbell; Daniel Centeno; Keiber Coa; Antonio Gallardo; and Pablo Morales.

Tampa Bay Downs purchases the Tampa Greyhound Track in January. Major League Baseball fans — specifically, New York Yankees rooters — cash in when horses named Mecke Mantle and Yogi Berra both win on the Dec. 21 card. The Downs Golf Practice Facility is recognized by the Golf Range Association of America as one of the nation’s top-50 ranges. Joseph Ricciardi of New Port Richey, Fla., wins a top prize of $500,000 playing the Florida Lottery JACKPOT scratch-off game.

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2016 - The popularity of the Tampa Bay Downs simulcast signal continues to spread, with a 5.1-percent increase in average daily interstate wagering to $3.71 million. That results in a 3.5-percent increase in all-sources average daily handle to $4.16 million. A new-look stakes schedule fuels interest, with the creation of six “big-event” cards featuring multiple stakes, outstanding purse money and the appearance of numerous toplevel Thoroughbreds, trainers and jockeys. Lambholm South, a 1,830-acre Thoroughbred facility in Reddick, Fla., becomes the first title sponsor of the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby in 30 years. The Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby for 3-yearolds is the centerpiece of the richest day in track history, a March 12 Festival Day card also featuring the Grade II, $200,000 Hillsborough Stakes for older fillies and mares on the turf, the Grade III, $200,000 Florida Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on the turf, and the $100,000 Challenger Stakes for older horses. Another lucrative afternoon takes place on Feb. 13, with the Festival Preview Day Presented by Lambholm South card offering three graded stakes and total stakes purse money of $650,000. Destin, a 3-year-old colt owned by Twin Creeks Racing Stables and trained by Todd Pletcher, becomes the first horse since Burning Roma in 2001 to win both the Sam F. Davis Stakes and the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby. Destin’s Tampa Bay Derby time of 1:42.82 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth is both a stakes and track record. He finishes sixth in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and second by a nose to Creator in the Belmont Stakes. The track’s two biggest days also see the reigning Eclipse Award Champion Grass Female, 5-year-old mare Tepin, delight bettors and Thoroughbred lovers with two outstanding victories in the Grade III, $150,000 Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes and the Hillsborough. The Robert E. Masterson-owned and Mark Casse-trained Tepin sets a course record of 1:46.26 in the mile-and-an-eighth Hillsborough. Gerald Bennett saddles 51 winners to capture the training title, ending a nine-year run atop the standings by Jamie Ness. Bennett and Ness tied for first

place during the 2010-2011 meeting. Bennett’s best horse is 4-year-old gelding Fast Flying Rumor, who sets a Tampa Bay Downs record — dirt or turf — by earning a 108 Beyer Speed Figure for his victory in the $100,000 Turf Dash on Jan. 9. On March 5, Bennett ties a track record by saddling four winners from four starters. Antonio Gallardo rides 135 winners to win his third consecutive jockeys’ title. Gallardo wins five races on Feb. 24 (including a dead-heat), marking his third five-victory performance at the Oldsmar oval. Ness claims the Leading Owner trophy, as the Jagger, Inc., operation he runs with wife Mandy sends out 15 winners. Chad Lindsay is the top apprentice jockey with 11 victories. On Dec. 30, 7-year-old El Grande Rojo equals Catalina Red’s seven-furlong main track record of 1:21.40. Danny Lobato is named Ambassador of The Silks Poker Room, becoming a liaison between players and the Director of Poker, Patrick Murphy, and his staff, with an emphasis on bringing in new business and creating additional opportunities for players. Appearances by actor Christopher McDonald, who played Shooter McGavin in the movie Happy Gilmore, and threetime PGA Tour winner Chris DiMarco highlight the sixth annual Golfest Presented by Valspar Championship at The Downs Golf Practice Facility. Three jockeys achieve career milestones during the meeting. On Feb. 14, Jose Ferrer wins back-to-back races to reach the 4,000 club. His big win came on Rocket Bottle, owned and trained by Robert G. Smith, who also celebrated his 50th birthday. On April 10, Scott Spieth earns victory No. 4,500 on Awesome Indeed, a 4-year-old filly trained by his fiancée, Aldana Gonzalez. Dean Butler grabs his 2,000th career triumph on April 22 on Impromptu, a 4-year-old gelding trained by Bernell Rhone. A crowd of 10,443 attends the May 7 racing card, the third largest in track history to view the simulcast of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands.

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2017 - For the first time, two horses that raced at Tampa Bay Downs won Triple Crown events. Always Dreaming, who broke his maiden at the Oldsmar oval on Jan. 25, won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands. Another 3-year-old from trainer Todd Pletcher’s barn, Tapwrit, finished second in the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes and won the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby en route to his victory in the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets. Always Dreaming’s Run for the Roses triumph marked the third time the classic has been won by a Tampa Bay Downs visitor, as he joined Street Sense (winner of the Tampa Bay Derby in 2007) and Super Saver (third in the Tampa Bay Derby in 2010). Tapwrit set a stakes record of 1:42.36 for the 1 1/16-mile distance of the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby. Earlier on the March 11 Festival Day card, 5-year-old Stanford, another Pletcher trainee who was wearing blinkers for the first time, set the track record for the distance of 1:41.75 in winning the Challenger Stakes. The Festival Day card attracted a crowd of 10,079, with total wagering handle of $12,123,021.60, the second-highest figure in track annals. The Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby was one of six graded stakes contested as part of a schedule featuring 24 stakes races offering almost $3-million in purses, a record. Jockey Daniel Centeno won his sixth Tampa Bay Downs riding title with 102 victories, tying Mike Manganello for the most titles in track history. Gerald Bennett won his second consecutive training title and third overall, saddling the winners of four stakes races. Bennett went 4-for-4 on Dec. 7 of 2016, marking the second consecutive season he enjoyed a 4-for-4 day. Bennett’s filly R Angel Katelyn won three stakes locally: the Sandpiper (as a 2-year-old), the Gasparilla and the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies. Ridenjac Racing, owned and operated by trainer Dennis Ward, won the track’s owners title. Tampa Bay Downs signed two new sponsors for its Florida Cup Day program, EG Vodka and 14 Hands Winery, while increasing the purse for each Florida Cup race to $100,000 from $75,000. Florida Cup Day stars

included 5-year-old gelding World Approval, a Grade I winner who captured the EG Vodka Turf Classic for his second Florida Cup victory. In November, World Approval captured the Breeders’ Cup Mile on the turf at Del Mar.On March 10, 25-year-old jockey Edwin Gonzalez became the second jockey in track history to win six races on a single card (Richard DePass was 7-for-7 here in 1980; Gonzalez was 6-for-7, including a dead-heat victory). Gonzalez rode 85 winners during the meeting to finish second to Centeno. McCracken, a promising 3-year-old colt from the barn of trainer Ian Wilkes, won the Sam F. Davis Stakes on the Feb. 11 Festival Preview Day presented by Lambholm South card in stakes and (then)-track-record time of 1:42.45 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth distance. On Jan. 29, 62-year-old jockey Sue Martin entered the winner’s circle on 5-year-old mare Blue Haze of Fire, trained by her husband, Wayne Martin. Martin rode her first winner in 1974 at the Coeur d’Alene Turf Club in Idaho. Tampa Bay Downs donated $50,000 to Oldsmar Cares toward construction costs for a new building. Oldsmar Cares is a non-profit, volunteer organization that operates as a stop-gap resource for individuals needing a hand up by providing food, clothing, a toy chest, rent and utilities.Tampa Bay Downs installed a new high-definition jumbo video board prior to Opening Day in November of 2016 to enhance racing fans’ viewing pleasure of the action.

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2018 - A festive crowd of 11,055, the second-largest in track history, attended the May 5 Kentucky Derby Day card, participating in the traditions of the world’s most famous horse race while enjoying the live action. Three Tampa Bay Downs “graduates” competed in the Run for the Roses, including Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes winner Flameaway, while the connections of Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby winner Quip opted to wait for the Preakness. Tampa Bay Downs introduced four new stakes races for 3-year-olds during the 2017-2018 meeting, all sponsored by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association. The $125,000 FTBOA Marion County Florida Sire Stakes for colts and geldings and the $125,000 City of Ocala Florida Sire Stakes for fillies were run Dec. 16; the $100,000 FTBOA Silver Charm Florida Sire Stakes for colts and geldings and the $100,000 FTBOA Ivanavinalot Florida Sire Stakes for fillies were contested May 5. Tampa Bay Downs presented its richest stakes schedule in history, with 28 stakes worth $3.65-million in purse money. Purse money for the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby was increased to $400,000 and the March 10 Festival Day program included five stakes worth $1-million. Total all-sources handle on the Festival Day card was $14,859,632, a Tampa Bay Downs record. Visitors to the track were impressed by a new 17-foot-by-30-foot Daktronics LED high-definition video display board rising above the infield tote board. Also enhancing customer convenience were technology upgrades allowing fans to wager, order food and drinks and purchase tickets for special events directly from the track’s website, www.tampabaydowns.com Tampa Bay Downs added a Spanish-language link that featured live race-day podcasts and enabled fans to acquire online program pages printed in Spanish. On the racing front, Gerald Bennett notched his third track training title and fourth overall with 53 victories. Antonio Gallardo returned to win his fourth riding title with 120 winners, while Bradenton, Fla., resident Rich Averill sent out 19 winners, both individually and in several partnerships, to capture the owners title. Jose A. Bracho was the leading apprentice jockey with 17 winners and added 14 to his total after becoming a journeyman. The leading Thoroughbred by number of victories was 4-year-old filly Jermyn Street, who won five times for owners Vince Campanella and Nation’s Racing Stable and trainer Keith Nations. The reigning Eclipse Award Champion Turf Male, World

Approval, made a triumphant return to the Oldsmar oval on Feb. 10, winning the Grade III Tampa Bay Stakes on the turf under Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez. World Approval had won twice previously at Tampa Bay Downs, taking the Florida Cup Sophomore Turf in 2015 and the Florida Cup EG Vodka Turf Classic in 2017. On Feb. 2, Gallardo rode five winners on a Tampa Bay Downs card for a record fourth time. That feat was also accomplished on April 7 by Samy Camacho, who finished second in the meeting standings with 100 victories. The third jockey to ride five winners on a single card was Hall of Fame rider Javier Castellano, whose haul on March 25 included four of six Florida Cup Day stakes, a first in track history. After returning to action from a spill at Delaware Park in which he suffered a collapsed lung, eight broken ribs and three fractured vertebrae, Jose Ferrer won the 69th annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey award in voting by his fellow riders. The Woolf Award honors a rider whose career and personal character earn esteem for the individual and the sport of Thoroughbred racing. Ferrer defeated Javier Castellano, Alex Birzer, Joe Talamo and Rodney Prescott in the balloting. Tampa Bay Downs trainer Kathleen O’Connell was honored as the Leading Trainer of Florida-breds by wins for the 10th time and as the Leading Trainer of Florida-breds by stakes wins for the second time at the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association’s Awards Banquet and Gala in Ocala in March. Matt Mitchell of The Downs Golf Practice Facility won the Teacher of the Year Award from the North Florida Section of the Professional Golfers’ Association of America for the second time. Mike Allen rode the 2,000th winner of his career on April 13 aboard 4-year-old filly Diva Chick for owner Ridenjac Racing and trainer Dennis Ward. On July 1, the second day of the Summer Festival of Racing and Music, Tampa Bay Downs played host to Corgi racing, delighting a rail-side throng that thrilled to the lovable dogs sprinting to their masters.

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2019 - The largest crowd to ever attend Tampa Bay Downs on a Kentucky Derby Day, 11,924, watched Grade II, $400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby winner Tacitus finish third in the 145th Run for the Roses, behind Country House and Code of Honor. The crowd was the second-largest ever at Tampa Bay Downs. Jockey Pablo Morales was 5-for-5 on the Oldsmar card, including stakes victories on Jackson in the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association Silver Charm Florida Sire Stakes and Wildwood's Beauty in the FTBOA Ivanavinalot Florida Sire Stakes. Trained by Hall of Fame conditioner Bill Mott, who also trained Country House, Tacitus set a stakes record of 1:41.90 in winning the 39th renewal of the mile-and-a-sixteenth Oldsmar showcase on March 9. Total all-sources handle on the Festival Day card was $13,956,020, the second-largest figure in track history. Gerald Bennett notched his fourth consecutive Tampa Bay Downs training title and fifth overall, sending out 69 winners to outdistance two-time champion Kathleen O’Connell. Bennett’s haul included a four-victory performance on Feb. 17. Samy Camacho captured his first jockeys’ title, riding 123 winners and also leading in total purse money with $1,825,058. Camacho rode three stakes winners during the meeting. Rich Averill of Bradenton, Fla., the force behind Averill Racing, was leading owner with 23 victories, 14 coming as sole owner and nine in various partnerships. Juan C. Rodriguez, 18, was the track’s leading apprentice jockey. Pablo Morales took third place (behind Camacho and Antonio Gallardo) with 69 victories. Morales scored one of the track’s most popular victories in recent years when he rode the O’Connell-trained Florida-bred gelding Well Defined to an upset victory in the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes on Feb. 9. On Jan. 19, another Florida-bred, 3-year-old colt Win Win Win, established a 7-furlong track record of 1:20.89 in winning the Pasco Stakes. Win Win Win finished third in the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby. Still another Florida-bred, World of Trouble, astounded onlookers on Dec. 15 by winning the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Marion County Florida Sire Stakes by 13 ¾ lengths on a sloppy track in 1:22.50 for 7 furlongs. The (then)-3year-old colt’s Beyer Speed Figure of 109 is the highest in track history. Another track record was set by 3-year-old colt Jackson, who won the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Silver Charm Florida Sire Stakes in 1:38.86 for a mile-and-40 yards. The 6-year-old gelding Marksman, who won the final leg of the Tampa Turf

Test starter handicap series in 2:15.94 for the mile-and-three-eighths distance, also set a track mark. Stakes records were set by Tacitus and World of Trouble (both mentioned, above); Miz Mayhem, in the Lightning City Stakes on the turf; Tapa Tapa Tapa, in the Wayward Lass Stakes; and Wildwood’s Beauty, in the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Ivanavinalot Florida Sire Stakes. Tampa Bay Downs unveiled a number of promotions designed to introduce newcomers to the majesty and excitement of Thoroughbred racing, and all were met with widespread public approval. The Tampa Bay Owners Club contest gave fans a chance to experience the thrills of ownership by allowing anyone who selected the winner of a designated race to join a fantasy stable “owning” the horse, rewarding the winners with free admission, a program, a mutuel voucher, and concession-stand discounts each time their horse ran at Tampa Bay Downs. The horse, War Bridle, finished fourth in the Pasco Stakes for his vast connections, as well as actual owner Backstretch Farms and trainer Joan Scott. The Tampa Bay Downs “College Days” essay contest aimed to generate fresh ideas from students on how racetracks can successfully market horse racing to a new generation of fans. A total of 95 students entered the contest, with five chosen as winners based on the quality and originality of their essays. Each of the winners received a $2,000 scholarship prize awarded through the Upper Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation. Tampa Bay Downs continued its outreach efforts to members of “Generation Z” by inviting all youngsters to the winner’s circle after a designated race each Sunday for the remainder of the meeting. Other popular new promotions included the High Rollers Handicapping Contest; Military Appreciation Day; Bourbon, Barbecue and Cigars; and Seafood Fest & Crawfish Boil. Parts of three racing cards were cancelled by heavy rain and lightning, including eight of the last nine races on May 5, Fan Appreciation Day. Emotions flowed freely on the afternoon of March 15 when David Flores, who rode 3,608 winners as a jockey, earned his first career training victory with the 3-year-old colt Higgins, who was ridden by the trainer’s close friend, fellow Mexican Jesus Castanon. Earlier in the meeting, on Jan. 5, Castanon rode career winner No. 2,500, scoring on the 6-year-old mare Tearless for trainer Derek Ryan. In a rarity that may be a first in track history, trainers Tyler Rotstein and Lee Cameron scored their first career victories in back-to-back races on April 6.

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2019 - Pete Crisswell, a former jockey who has been a chaplain at racetracks in California, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Wyoming and Pennsylvania, arrived at Tampa Bay Downs to assist horsemen, jockeys and backstretch workers in managing their daily walks.

2020 - Tampa Bay Downs, and the entire Thoroughbred racing industry, faced an unprecedented challenge when the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic resulted in a shutdown of business and recreation throughout much of the world. The Oldsmar oval raced without spectators from March 18 through the duration of the meeting, while a number of racetracks closed entirely and others had their spring openings postponed. The Tampa Bay Downs signal remained popular with account-wagering bettors, helping the track receive two dates extensions from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation and sustaining horsemen and horsewomen with limited options. Originally scheduled as a 90-day meeting, the 2020-2021 season was capped after a track-record 111 performances. Familiar faces topped the standings on June 30, the final day of the 2019-2020 meeting, as Antonio Gallardo rode 122 winners to earn his fifth Jockeys title in seven seasons and Gerald Bennett captured his fifth consecutive Trainers title (and sixth overall) with 61 victories. Bennett also won his first Owners championship, as his Winning Stables – as a sole entity and in various partnerships – sent out 24 winners, five more than runners-up Godolphin and Juan Arriagada. Those accomplishments, while hard-earned and well-deserved, took a backseat to the news off the racetrack. Less than two weeks after 49-1 shot King Guillermo won the 40th edition of the Grade II, $400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby on March 7, Tampa Bay Downs entered a new reality as track officials, Thoroughbred racing participants and lawmakers debated what came next. Tampa Bay Downs formulated health and safety protocol measures to protect backstretch workers, enabling horsemen to compete, while fans continued to bet on the races through account-wagering sites such as NYRA Bets, DRF Bets and TVG and watched the races online at www.tampabaydowns.com. The track reopened for simulcasting on July 2 with strict health and safety

measures in place, including requiring patrons to wear masks and practice social distancing. Given the rampant uncertainty, and following the postponement of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve from May 2 to Sept. 5, the events of March 7 and Festival Day 40 seemed a distant past to many. A crowd of 10,021 contributed to total wagering of $13,155,349 on Festival Day, the third-highest allsources handle in track history. King Guillermo was ridden by popular Venezuelan jockey Samy Camacho, trained by Camacho’s countryman Juan Carlos Avila and owned by former major league baseball slugger Victor Martinez, also from Venezuela. Avila had celebrated earlier that day when his 4-year-old colt Trophy Chaser won the Grade III Challenger Stakes while competing under the conditioner’s JCA Racing Stable banner. The other Festival Day stakes winners included Floridabred mare Starship Jubilee in the Grade II Hillsborough Stakes on the turf, 3-year-old filly Outburst in the Grade III Florida Oaks on the grass and 3-year-old Doc Boy in the Columbia Stakes on the turf. Four weeks earlier, on Festival Preview Day, the gelding Sole Volante, the second-place finisher in the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, won the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes. Six-time leading Tampa Bay Downs jockey Daniel Centeno won four races on the Festival Preview Day card, including victories in the Grade III Lambholm South Endeavour aboard Jehozacat and the Suncoast Stakes on Lucrezia, both for trainer Arnaud Delacour. Centeno also won two stakes on the Dec. 7 card: the Inaugural with Zaino Boyz and the Sandpiper with Lucrezia. The track’s 94th anniversary season started with a bang on the Nov. 27 Opening Day card when trainer Michael Stidham notched career victory No. 2,000 with 4-year-old colt Lem Me Tel Ya, owned by the conditioner’s assistant, Ben Trask. Riding newcomer Angel Suarez scored three victories on the Opening Day card and went on to a fifthplace finish with 58 victories. On Dec. 29, Gallardo won two races, boosting his 2019 total to 266, sixth highest in North America. Oldsmar jockey Pablo Morales finished 12th in the continent with 226 winners. Hall of Fame jockey Jacinto Vasquez, winner of the Kentucky Derby twice and best known as the rider of legendary filly Ruffian, was track announcer Richard Grunder’s “Morning Glory Club” show guest on Jan. 4. Former Thoroughbred owner Mike Buccina won the track’s “High Rollers Handicapping Contest” on Jan. 11, winning first prize of

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2020 - Buccina was one of 92 participants. On Jan. 18, Skyway Festival Day, jockey Edgard Zayas was 4-for-4, including stakes victories on Liam’s Lucky Charm in the Pasco and Two Sixty in the Gasparilla. The following day, Antonio Gallardo rode five winners on a card for the fifth time at Tampa Bay Downs. No other jockey has achieved the feat more than twice. A TwinSpires account bettor was the only player to hit the late Pick-5 on Feb. 8 (Festival Preview Day), collecting $435,029.40. The winning combination was 3-1-3-2-12. On Feb. 14, 3-year-old Gouverneur Morris, trained by Todd Pletcher and ridden by John Velazquez, won his 2020 debut in an allowance/optional claiming event in 1:38.88 for the mile-and-40-yard distance, .02 seconds off the track record. Pletcher had followed a similar path in 2017 with Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming, but Gouverneur Morris was forced off the Kentucky Derby trail in June with a case of colitis. On Feb. 22, Faction Cat, a 7-year-old Florida-bred gelding trained by Georgina Baxter, won the Turf Dash Stakes in 53.97 seconds, a 5-furlong course record. Albin Jimenez was the jockey. On the same card, 5-year-old mare Jean Elizabeth set a stakes record of 55.09 in the Lightning City Stakes on the turf. Jimenez rode for trainer and co-owner Larry Rivelli. Pablo Morales came back from a foot injury that sidelined him for more than two months to capture career victory No. 2,000 on June 24 aboard the maiden filly Sanguine.

2021 - Four 10-percent purse increases during the 2020-2021 meeting eased the anxieties of horsemen concerned about the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on racing at the Oldsmar oval. The fourth hike, which took effect April 14, raised purse money by $3,000 a race, with maiden special weight races offering $29,000. Previous boosts took place on Dec. 16, Feb. 3 and Feb. 20. When the meeting resumed on Nov. 25, track management mandated temperature checks and required horsemen, jockeys and fans to wear masks and observe social distancing (rules that had been in place since July 2, when the track reopened to fans for simulcast wagering). The regulations represented a concerted effort to minimize the risk of contracting the virus. Few complained, since spectators had been barred from attending the races since March 18.

Attendance was limited throughout the meeting to about 30 percent of capacity, with that figure eased on May 1 (Kentucky Derby Day), which drew a crowd of 4,872. Moving forward, it is the wish of everyone associated with Tampa Bay Downs that masks will no longer be required during the 2021-2022 meeting and that other COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted as a majority of the race-going population has been vaccinated.

The biggest race of the meeting, the Grade II, $400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby on March 6, produced an unexpected yet popular result. Making his third lifetime start, and first on a dirt surface, Helium rallied on the far turn and held off a belated bid by Hidden Stash to post a 15-1 upset under jockey Jose Ferrer, a 56-year-old Tampa resident who had not won a graded stakes in 10 years. It was Ferrer’s first Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby victory and the second for Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse, who used to watch the races in the early 1970s at Tampa Bay Downs from the back of his father’s truck, before children were allowed in the track. After racing in close attendance to the lead in the early stages of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, Helium finished eighth, the best finish of the four Run for the Roses entrants who competed at Tampa Bay Downs. Two stakes records were set on the Festival Day card, as 3-year-old colt Winfromwithin set a stakes and course record of 1:33.23 in the 1-mile Columbia Stakes on the turf and 3-year-old filly Domain Expertise established a stakes record of 1:41.12 in the Grade III Florida Oaks going a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the grass. When the proverbial dust had settled, the 12-race card had generated total mutuel handle of $15,229,366, a single-day track record.

A few weeks after the Festival Day Presented by Lambholm South excitement, Tampa Bay Downs followers were stunned by the announcement that announcer Richard Grunder would retire on May 2 after 37 years behind the microphone. Grunder, who at the time was the longest-tenured horse racing announcer in the United States, called his first race at age 20 in August of 1973 at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He called 37,587 races at Tampa Bay Downs, and after his final race, the jockeys and their valets lined up in the winner’s circle, waving toward the press box and shouting encouragement to the man whose voice is the only one most Oldsmar followers have ever known.

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2021 - His replacement is Jason Beem, who took over during the Summer Festival of Racing. Beem, a University of Washington graduate, also calls races at Colonial Downs in Virginia and Grants Pass Downs in Oregon.

The competition for leading jockey was spirited throughout the meeting. Most experts called the 2020-2021 riding colony the best in the track’s history, but by midseason, Samy Camacho and Antonio Gallardo had separated themselves from the pack. Camacho rode four winners on the May 2 card to forge a 107103 advantage, capturing his second title in three seasons and depriving Gallardo of a record-tying sixth crown. Gallardo rode five winners on Dec. 5 for an unprecedented sixth time. The trainers’ race was not as suspenseful, as Gerald Bennett sent out 56 winners, 22 more than runner-up Jose H. Delgado, to earn his sixth consecutive title and seventh overall. Along the way, Bennett passed the late Frank H. Merrill, Jr., as the No. 1 Canadian-born trainer in history with his 3,975th winner. Bennett also won his second consecutive Leading Owner title, with his Winning Stables concern scoring 27 victories, alone and in different partnerships.

On Jan. 2, six-time Oldsmar jockey champion Daniel Centeno, a product of Venezuela who calls Tampa home, thrilled his supporters by notching his 3,000th victory in North America aboard Lucy’s Town in the Fillies and Mares Division of the Tampa Turf Test. Centeno, who rode 847 winners in Venezuela, is No. 1 all-time at Tampa Bay Downs with 1,429 victories and 54 stakes triumphs. Gallardo achieved a major career milestone of his own on Feb. 3 with career victory No. 2,000 on 5-year-old mare Do What It Takes. Both Lucy’s Town and Do What It Takes were trained by Jose H. Delgado. Gallardo became the 11th active Tampa Bay Downs jockey with 2,000 or more victories.

2022 - On March 12, trainer Brian Lynch’s 3-year-old colt Classic Causeway became the seventh horse to win both of the Oldsmar oval’s graded stakes for Kentucky Derby prospects when he triumphed in the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, four weeks after his Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes score. In July, after being transferred to the barn of trainer Ken

McPeek, Classic Causeway won the Grade I Caesars Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes on the turf. The March 12 Festival Day card generated total all-sources wagering handle of $20,778,222, an all-time track record and a 36-percent increase from the previous mark of $15.2-million set in 2021. Total handle for 89 days of racing climbed to $401,467,564, marking the first time since 2011 – when 121 more races were contested – that handle surpassed $400-million. Average handle per starter was $64,317, a 10.2-percent increase, while average daily on-track handle increased 20.6 percent. Horsemen reaped the benefits of the additional wagering activity, as Tampa Bay Downs paid out $18,204,465 in purse money, up 8 percent from 2020-2021 and a 17-percent increase from the 2018-2019 (pre-pandemic) meet. The average daily purse distribution of $204,545 was a track record. Mirroring trends at most North American racetracks, the average field size per race fell from 8.27 horses to 7.86, a decline attributable in large part to a steady drop in the size of the North American foal crop, to an estimated 19,200 in 2021. The shortage resulted in horsemen filling out claims slips at a record pace to restock their stables. When the dust settled, an all-time track record of 351 horses were claimed (131 more than the previous season) at a total cost of $3,970,000. On the racetrack, Classic Causeway was one of numerous Thoroughbreds to make lasting impressions. Bleecker Street, a 4-year-old turf-loving filly owned by Peter M. Brant and trained by Chad Brown, won the Grade III Endeavour Stakes and the Grade II Hillsborough Stakes under jockey Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr., to improve her career record to 5-for-5. Bleecker Street became a Grade I winner in June, capturing the New York Stakes at Belmont. Another impressive performance was turned in by trainer Todd Pletcher’s 3-yearold filly Nest, who won the Suncoast Stakes in stakes-record time of 1:39.30 for the mile-and-40-yard distance on the main track. After a subsequent victory in the Grade I Central Bank Ashland Stakes at Keeneland, Nest finished second to Secret Oath in the Longines Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. Nest vaulted to the top of the Eclipse Award candidates list with subsequent Grade I victories at Saratoga in the Coaching Club

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American Oaks and Alabama Stakes. Nest’s victory in the Suncoast was one of five that day for south Florida-based jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., who also rode Classic Causeway and Pelican Stakes winner Bank On Shea. Ortiz returned in March to win the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, the Grade III Florida Oaks on the turf on trainer Chad Brown’s 3-year-old filly Dolce Zel and the Columbia Stakes on the turf on Heaven Street. Also capturing graded stakes were trainer Roger Attfield’s 5-year-old horse Shirl’s Speight, who won the Grade III Tampa Bay Stakes under jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson, and trainer Claude “Shug” McGaughey’s 4-year-old colt Scalding, who won the Grade III Michelob Ultra Challenger under Javier Castellano. For the second consecutive season, and third time in four years, Samy Camacho won the Leading Jockey title with 85 victories. Madeline “Maddie” Rowland, an 18-yearold apprentice jockey who scored her first career victory on Dec. 10, astounded onlookers by riding 34 winners, good for a ninth-place finish in the standings. She capped her meet with a four-victory effort on May 7, Kentucky Derby Day. A familiar face to Tampa Bay Downs fans, Pablo Morales, also made headlines, riding five winners on Jan. 1 and repeating the feat on Jan. 8. Morales, who also had a four-victory day on March 6, finished second in the standings with 71 victories. Gerald Bennett, born almost 60 years before Rowland, won his seventh training title in a row with 36 winners. The crown was the eighth overall for Bennett. Along the way, on Dec. 8, 2021, he became the 14th trainer to win 4,000 races by saddling Florida-bred D’craziness for a turf victory for owner Averill Racing and jockey Antonio Gallardo. Endsley Oaks Farm, located 50 miles away in Brooksville, Fla., was Leading Owner with 24 victories. Endsley Oaks Farm is owned by Bob and Jill Jones The entire Tampa Bay Downs community was saddened when long-time trainer Bobby Raymond died on May 8 from septic shock.

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Leading Jockeys

YEAR JOCKEY WIN

2021-2022 Samy Camacho 85 2020-2021 Samy Camacho 111 2019-2020 Antonio Gallardo 122 2018-2019 Samy Camacho 123 2017-2018 Antonio Gallardo 120 2016-2017 Daniel Centeno 102 2015-2016 Antonio Gallardo 135 2014-2015 Antonio Gallardo 147* 2013-2014 Antonio Gallardo 124 2012-2013 Daniel Centeno 90 2011-2012 Leandro Goncalves 88 2010-2011 Ronnie Allen, Jr. 109 2009-2010 Daniel Centeno 133 2008-2009 Daniel Centeno 138 2007-2008 Daniel Centeno 144 2006-2007 Daniel Centeno 125 2005-2006 Jose Lezcano 92 2004-2005 Jesus Castanon 101 2003-2004 Jesus Castanon 87 2002-2003 Joe Judice 117 2001-2002 Manoel Cruz 91 2000-2001 Derek Bell 93

YEAR JOCKEY WIN

1999-2000 T.D. Houghton 80 1998-1999 T.D. Houghton 81 1997-1998 Jesse Garcia 63 1996-1997 William Henry 78 1995-1996 Jorge Guerra 97 1994-1995 William Henry 95 1993-1994 William Henry 97 1992-1993 William Henry 123 1991-1992 Willie Martinez 123 1990-1991 Ricardo Lopez 106 1989-1990 Ricardo Lopez 92 1988-1989 Ricardo Lopez 114 1987-1988 Ronnie Allen, Jr. 102 1986-1987 Ronnie Allen, Jr. 76 1985-1986 Richard DePass 61 1984-1985 Ronnie Allen, Jr. 54 1983-1984 Rick Luhr 62 1982-1983 Heriberto Rivera, Jr. 70 1981-1982 Heriberto Rivera, Jr. 74 1980-1981 Benny Feliciano 67

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Ronnie Allen, Jr.

Born: April 24, 1964 | Birthplace: East Liverpool, OH | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: H.’s Shady Lady, Detroit Race Course, 1983 | Started Riding: 1983, Detroit Race Course Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Presque Isle Downs Nicknamed “Rock and Roll” early in his career, Allen proved to be “Mr. Resiliency” after a freak accident in October of 2021 at Presque Isle Downs resulted in a collapsed lung and fractured ribs. He returned to competition at Tampa Bay Downs on April 23 and won in his eighth start back aboard Peaceful Way, a 4-year-old filly trained by Gerald Bennett. Further confirmation that the veteran had returned to his former self came at Presque Isle Downs, where Allen rode 47 winners to finish fourth in the standings. Allen has spent much of his career confounding the naysayers. Two seasons ago at age 57, he finished fifth in the Oldsmar standings with 42 winners, including a victory on March 28 in the Florida Cup Equistaff Sophomore Turf Stakes with Indy Lyon, a gelding trained by his fiancée, Maria Bowersock. Allen rose to prominence at Tampa Bay Downs in the 1980s, winning jockey titles in three of four seasons while setting a (then)-track record of 102 winners in 1987-1988. Away from Tampa Bay Downs, his services were also in demand, and he rode Sport Jet in the 1985 Preakness. In 1993, he won both the Tampa Bay Derby and Sam F. Davis Stakes for 3-year-olds on Marco Bay. It was especially rewarding when Allen won his fourth Oldsmar riding title in 2010-2011 at age 47 with 109 winners. Allen achieved a career milestone in 2013 at Presque Isle Downs, posting victory No. 3,000 on Ghost Flower, a 3-year-old filly trained by Bowersock. His brother Mike is also a jockey, and their father, Ronnie Allen, Sr., saddled almost 1,500 winners during a 40-year training career. Allen entered the current season with 3,936 career victories, and would enjoy nothing more than reaching the 4,000 milestone at Tampa Bay Downs.

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Jose Batista

Born: February 6, 1997 | Birthplace: Chepo, Panama | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: Mejorana, Hipodromo Presidente Remon, Panama, 2014 | Started Riding: 2014, Hipodromo Presidente Remon, Panama

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park, Gulfstream Park

The soft-spoken youngster hopes a return to Oldsmar will enable him to regain his momentum after fracturing his heel and ankle in a fall in early July at Monmouth Park. Batista was sidelined almost four months before returning in late October at Gulfstream Park. Batista finished sixth at Tampa Bay Downs last season with 39 victories. Trainer Juan Arriagada believes Batista has all the tools needed for success. “He breaks sharp from the gate, he puts horses in the right spot and then. …forget it. It’s amazing to me how many of my horses feel good with him riding them.” Batista is a graduate of the Laffit Pincay Jr. Technical Jockey Training Academy in Panama, where he began his career. He started dreaming the dream when he was 13 and an uncle took him to the Presidente Remon Racetrack, which was about a 4-hour drive from their hometown. Batista was captivated by the Thoroughbreds and the sport and set his sights on becoming part of it. He was victorious in the first race he ever rode, in 2014 at Hipodromo Presidente Remon aboard Mejorana. Batista began his stateside career in 2017 at Gulfstream. In 2018, he won the Grade II Gulfstream Park Hardacre Mile Stakes on Conquest Big E. Batista considers Irad Ortiz, Jr., considered by many to be the best jockey in the sport, as a role model.

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Samy Camacho

Born: May 27, 1988 | Birthplace: Caracas, Venezuela | Residence: Miami, FL

First Win: Calder Race Course, 2012 | Started Riding: La Rinconada, Caracas Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, Colonial Downs, Presque Isle Downs

When Camacho won his third riding title in four seasons with 85 victories, he joined an exclusive club. The other jockeys to win three or more Tampa Bay Downs titles are Mike Manganello and Daniel Centeno (six apiece), Antonio Gallardo (five), Ronnie Allen, Jr. and William Henry (four apiece) and Ricardo Lopez (three). Camacho stayed hot through the summer, tying for third in the Monmouth Park standings with 41 winners while capturing the Wolf Hill Stakes with Breakthrough, the Colleen Stakes with Sweet Harmony, the Peach Street Stakes at Presque Isle Downs on Carpenters Call and the Gem City Stakes Sponsored by Ramard at Presque Isle on Christmas Diamond. Camacho’s popularity among Oldsmar oval followers transcends winning. He interacts freely with fans before and after races, and his easy smile is a reflection of his love for his profession. Camacho achieved a major career milestone in 2022, earning victory No. 1,000 at Monmouth Park aboard Toned Up for trainer Tim Hills. Camacho’s profile soared in March of 2020 when he piloted 49-1 shot King Guillermo to victory in the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby. It was his second graded-stakes victory of the meet, following his triumph on Admiralty Pier in the Grade III Tampa Bay Stakes on the grass. Camacho won three Oldsmar stakes races last season, capturing the Inaugural on Cattin, the Gasparilla on Outfoxed and the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Marion County Florida Sire Stakes on Shivaree. Camacho, who has ridden five winners on a single Tampa Bay Downs card on two occasions, comes from a race-riding family. His father, Samuel Camacho, Sr., rode his entire career in Venezuela, scoring more than 900 victories. Younger brother Samuel Camacho, Jr., is also a jockey. Camacho has won the $5,000 Jockeys’ Challenge during the Summer Festival of Racing three times: in 2016, 2017 and 2021.

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Jockey Profiles

Jesus Castanon

Born: March 4, 1973 | Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico | Residence: Shepherdsville, Ky.

First Win: She Is the World, Agua Caliente, 1989 | Started Riding: 1989, Agua Caliente

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Keeneland, Horseshoe Indianapolis, Churchill Downs, Delaware Park

When it comes to winning races, experience has taught Castanon not to force the issue. “I feel if I get too excited (during a race), I kind of lose the touch. So I just go with the motion and don’t over-think things. I do what I know to do on a horse,” he says. That philosophy resulted in 28 victories here last season. With almost 2,700 career victories, including 17 graded-stakes triumphs, the soft-spoken Castanon is a go-to rider for numerous trainers. He scored career victory No. 2,500 in 2019 at Tampa Bay Downs on Tearless for trainer Derek Ryan. Two months later, Castanon rode Higgins to victory for trainer David Flores, the first career conditioning victory for the former riding great. Castanon and Flores have been friends for close to 40 years. A two-time Oldsmar riding champion, Castanon is best-known for his masterful winning ride on the Dale Romans-trained Shackleford in the 2011 Preakness. The victory came about six months after his father, Jesus Castanon, Sr., succumbed to kidney disease. The elder Castanon, a former trainer, had given the green light to Jesus and his brothers, retired jockeys Antonio and Jose, to ride races. Castanon also rode Shackleford to victories in the Grade I Clark Handicap and the Grade II Churchill Downs Stakes. In 2021, he won the Grade III Houston Ladies Classic Stakes aboard the outstanding mare Letruska. Castanon is married to retired jockey Rolanda Simpson.

Jockey Profiles

Daniel Centeno

Born: December 18, 1971 | Birthplace: Caracas, Venezuela | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: Big Jack, Venezuela, 1990 | Started Riding: 1990, Venezuela

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Laurel Park, Pimlico, Monmouth Park, Delaware Park

Centeno, who tied for fourth in last year’s Oldsmar standings with 42 winners, begins the 2022-2023 meet as the Oldsmar oval’s all-time wins leader with 1,471 and is also first all-time with 54 stakes victories. Two of his 11 career graded-stakes scores came in the track’s signature race, the Grade III Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby: in 2014 on Ring Weekend (when it was a Grade II event) and in 2009 on Musket Man. His other graded-stakes victories at Tampa Bay Downs came in the Grade III Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes in 2020 on Jehozacat and the Grade III Michelob Ultra Challenger in 2021 on Last Judgment. Centeno added to his career graded-stakes total in 2022, winning the Grade III Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park on 36-1 shot Key Biscayne. From a personal standpoint, Centeno cherishes few victories more than No. 3,000 at Tampa Bay Downs on Jan. 2, 2021 on Lucy’s Town, with his daughter Jazmyn and girlfriend and future wife Brooke Sillaman in attendance. Centeno achieved a goal of most jockeys by earning a mount in the second leg of the 2019 Triple Crown, the Preakness at Pimlico, on Alwaysmining, a horse who had won five consecutive stakes under his guidance. By earning his sixth Tampa Bay Downs title in 2016-2017 with 102 winners, Centeno tied Mike Manganello for the most riding titles in track history. From 2006-2010, Centeno strung together four consecutive Oldsmar riding crowns while averaging 1.48 winners per performance during that span. He booted home a record-setting 144 winners in 2007-2008 (bettered seven years later by Antonio Gallardo), including six stakes victories, and rode 742 winners from 2008-2010. Centeno finished seventh at Delaware in 2022 with 38 winners.

Jockey Profiles

Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr.

Born: July 24, 1989 | Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: Honorable Jonas, Aqueduct, 2017 | Started Riding: 2016, Aqueduct

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Belmont Park, Monmouth Park, Mid-Atlantic

Talk about making the most of a golden opportunity. When Diaz got a chance to ride a promising, turf-loving 3-year-old filly for top trainer Chad Brown in the summer of 2021, he grasped the chance like a kid sticking his hand in a candy jar. Flash forward to last season’s Tampa Bay Downs meet, where Diaz and the now 4-year-old Bleecker Street extended her winning streak to five races for Brown, Diaz and owner Peter M. Brant, vaulting to national prominence with victories in the Grade III Endeavour Stakes and the Grade II Hillsborough Stakes. Those were Diaz’s first career gradedstakes victories. Diaz has finished fourth in his first two seasons at the Oldsmar oval, tying Daniel Centeno with 42 winners last season. Diaz followed that up by finishing fifth at Monmouth Park with 33 victories. Diaz draws inspiration from his younger brother, Hector Miguel (“Migue”), a former jockey who was paralyzed from the waist down from a riding accident at Hipodromo Camarero in Puerto Rico in 2015. Their father, Hector Rafael Diaz, Sr., was a jockey; he retired in his mid-30s after incurring numerous injuries. Although the elder Diaz and Norma Sanchez, their mother, were not sold on the idea of their sons being jockeys, years of going to Camarero to watch their father compete stoked their passion. The brothers talk on a daily basis, with Migue often giving Hector, Jr., his thoughts on upcoming races. Hector, Jr., and Migue are cousins of brothers Irad Ortiz, Jr., and Jose Ortiz, two of the best in the business. Hector, Jr.’s first victory came in 2017 at Aqueduct on Honorable Jonas, launching a year in which he rode 74 winners and was a finalist for an Eclipse Award as Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. Diaz relishes the strategy involved in riding races on the turf, and his skill and timing on the grass already have made him a “go-to” jockey for many top Oldsmar trainers and a fan favorite.

Jockey Profiles

Jose C. Ferrer

Born: March 31, 1964 | Birthplace: Santurce, Puerto Rico | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: Steps Fancy, Meadowlands, 1983 | Started Riding: 1982, Monmouth Park | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park

Ferrer entered the 2022-2023 Oldsmar meet nearing 4,700 victories and eager to improve on last season’s 22-victory total. Numerous top trainers are eager to call upon his services in a big race, and he often delivers. In July, he guided Epic Bromance – at 72-1, the longest shot in the race – to a second-place finish to Adhamo in the Grade I United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park. Ferrer won 28 races at Monmouth, good for a seventh-place finish. The 2021 campaign was one to remember for Ferrer, who rode 15-1 shot Helium to victory for Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse in the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby. The upset gave Ferrer his first graded-stakes triumph in 10 years. Three months later, Ferrer won the Grade III Salvator Mile Stakes at Monmouth on a 79-1 shot, Informative, for his 28th career graded-stakes triumph. Ferrer is a physical marvel. After winning three races in 2021 on his 57th birthday, Ferrer performed 20 push-ups in the Tampa Bay Downs winner’s circle. His career is laden with sterling achievements, but none as meaningful as receiving the 2018 George Woolf Memorial Jockey award in voting by his fellow riders. The award is given to a jockey whose career and personal character reflect positively on racing. Ferrer won the 2018 riding title at Monmouth Park with 95 winners, including a personal-best six on a single card that July. Feb. 14, 2016 at Tampa Bay Downs was memorable for Ferrer, who scored career victory No. 4,000 on Rocket Bottle for owner-trainer Robert G. Smith. Ferrer credits faith and his family – wife Steffi and their sons, Derek and Joseph – for mental and spiritual support and guidance.

Jockey Profiles

Antonio A. Gallardo

Born: July 18, 1987 | Birthplace: Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain | Residence: Tampa, FL First Win: Teifani, Costa del Sol | Started Riding: Costa del Sol, Malaga, Spain | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Presque Isle Downs, Woodbine Gallardo captured his 11th career graded-stakes victory in October at Woodbine aboard Kate’s Kingdom in the Grade III Ontario Matron for trainer Armando De La Cerda. That makes seven straight years for Gallardo with at least one graded triumph. Gallardo has won five riding titles at Tampa Bay Downs, including three in a row from 2013-2014 through 2015-2016. He set the track’s single-season record in 2014-2015, posting 147 victories. Career victory No. 2,000 came on Feb. 3, 2021 aboard Do What It Takes for trainer Jose H. Delgado. That same season, Gallardo won the Grade III Florida Oaks on the Chad Brown-trained Domain Expertise in stakes-record time, one of a track-best six stakes victories that season for the rider. In May of 2018 in the United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park, Gallardo captured his first Grade I victory aboard 23-1 shot Funtastic, a Brown trainee. Gallardo’s North American career took off in 2015 when he posted 320 victories to finish second in North America to Eclipse Award winner Javier Castellano. Gallardo was runner-up again in 2016, with 332 victories, to Jose Ortiz. Gallardo has won four riding titles at Presque Isle Downs in Erie, Pa. He has won five races on a single card at Oldsmar a record six times. Gallardo emerged as a force to be reckoned with in Florida in 2013 at Calder Race Course by winning four consecutive stakes on a single card, three for trainer Kathleen O’Connell. He rode 35 winners last season to tie for seventh in the Oldsmar standings, followed by a second-place effort at Presque Isle Downs with 76. Stakes victories at Tampa Bay Downs last season came on Strategic Bird in the Sandpiper Stakes for trainer Mark Casse and Drop a Hint in the Minaret Stakes for conditioner Herman Wilensky.

Jockey Profiles

Raul Mena

Born: June 16, 1992 | Birthplace: Santiago, Chile | Residence: Oldsmar, FL

First Win: Hyde House, 2010, Valparaiso Sporting, Chile | Started Riding: 2010, Valparaiso Sporting

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Delaware Park, mid-Atlantic, New York

Mena was optimistic about returning toward the end of the current meet after suffering a fractured left femur when he was unseated from his mount in a turf race on Dec. 7. Following the 2020-2021 Tampa Bay Downs meet and his customary venture to Delaware Park, Mena opted to swim in deeper waters last winter, moving his tack to Aqueduct in New York. While he didn’t set the Big Apple on fire, Mena won six times, proving to himself he could survive in a more competitive environment. He returns to Oldsmar eager to improve on his performance here from two seasons ago, when he rode 28 winners. Mena had a solid 2022 meet at Delaware, finishing sixth with 39 winners. He missed three weeks in October after having his appendix removed, then finished strong with three two-victory performances. Mena’s determination to be a jockey was tested less than two years into his career when his mount threw him to the ground in a race at Valparaiso Sporting in Chile. He incurred a broken collarbone, broken vertebrae and busted ribs, and seven months went by before he was cleared to return to riding. Mena was mentored early in his career by Chilean countryman Jose Santos, a Hall of Fame jockey who won the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness on Funny Cide. Mena stays on an even keel with support from his wife, exercise rider Jaqueline Cabral, and his agent, Yamil Mayo. In September of 2020, he scored a Grade I Arabian-bred victory aboard Dance With Me BW in the Buzz Brauninger Arabian Distaff at Delaware.

Jockey Profiles

Pablo Morales

Born: September 5, 1988 | Birthplace: Lima, Peru | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: Alena’s Boy, Gulfstream Park, 2005 | Started Riding: 2004, Monterrico, Peru

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Presque Isle Downs

In recent seasons, Morales has made the most of his opportunities while winning new converts among owners, trainers and fans who rely on his intelligence, experience and strong finishing kick. As he approaches 2,500 career victories, he appears well-positioned to capture his first Oldsmar riding title after a second-place finish in 2021-2022 with 71 victories. Following that performance, Morales again dominated his competition at Presque Isle Downs, where he won his eighth title (and third in a row) with 134 winners. He found time in July to head north of the border, capturing his third career graded-stakes victory with an impeccable ride on trainer Wesley Ward’s 8-year-old Bound for Nowhere in the Grade II Highlander Stakes at Woodbine. Morales thrilled his family and friends on June 24, 2020 at Tampa Bay Downs, riding career winner No. 2,000 aboard Sanguine.

On May 4, 2019 (Kentucky Derby Day), Morales had an afternoon Tampa Bay Downs fans will be talking about for years to come. He was a perfect 5-for-5, including victories in the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Silver Charm Florida Sire Stakes on Jackson and the FTBOA Ivanavinalot Stakes on Wildwood’s Beauty. Earlier in that meeting, he won the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes for Triple Crown hopefuls on Well Defined for trainer Kathleen O’Connell. Morales rode 200 or more winners in three successive years from 2017-2019. He entered the current meet with 193 winners in 2022. Morales earned his first North American victory at Gulfstream Park in 2005 before his 17th birthday; that same year, just after turning 17, he captured the Grade II, $750,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs aboard The Daddy. One of several jockeys from Peru to ride at Oldsmar in recent years, Morales attended the same jockey school as Hall of Fame member Edgar Prado, Rafael Bejarano and Fernando De La Cruz.

Jockey Profiles

Alonso Quinonez

Born: November 13, 1983 | Birthplace: Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico | Residence: Ocala, FL

First Win: Life’s Crown, Churchill Downs, 2006 | Started Riding: 2006, Louisiana Downs

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Canterbury Park, Hawthorne, Prairie Meadows

Quinonez reached the coveted 1,000-victory mark on June 25 at Canterbury Park aboard 4-year-old gelding Magic Castle for trainer Joel Berndt. Quinonez comes from a race-riding family. Luis Quinonez, the oldest of three brothers, has ridden more than 3,900 winners and still competes at Oaklawn Park, Lone Star and Remington. Middle brother Belen Quinonez retired in 2017 with 838 victories. Alonso rode in California from 20072019, forging a reputation as a big-money performer. He found his “dream horse” in 2008, winning three Grade I stakes at Santa Anita, Churchill Downs and Saratoga on a 4-year-old filly named Intangaroo for trainer Gary Sherlock. Additional Grade I triumphs for the rider came in 2010 on Richard’s Kid in the Goodwood Stakes and Tell a Kelly in the Darley Debutante Stakes. Another big victory came on 3-year-old Premier Pegasus in the Grade II San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita in 2011. Among Quinonez’s 25 victories at Tampa Bay Downs last season was a thrilling neck triumph aboard 5-year-old gelding Drama Chorus in the Florida Cup Grey Goose Turf Classic. Quinonez tied for fourth in the Canterbury Park standings with 45 winners, including a pair of stakes victories on 4-year-old gelding Thealligatorhunter for trainer, co-breeder and co-owner Tim Padilla. Quinonez rode in Saudi Arabia in 2015 and 2016 on various weekends.

Jockey Profiles

Madeline Rowland

Born: November 6, 2003 | Birthplace: Elkton, Maryland | Residence: Landenberg, Pennsylvania

First Win: Sancocho, Tampa Bay Downs, 2021 | Started Riding: 2021, Delaware Park

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Delaware Park, Monmouth Park, Meadowlands, New York

By the time Rowland rode four winners on the May 7 Kentucky Derby Day card at Tampa Bay Downs, she had captivated a wide audience of fans eager to follow the exploits of the (then)-18-year-old apprentice. Despite experiencing a few dry spells, Rowland showed enough talent, verve and grit to finish ninth in the standings with 34 victories. “Maddie” resumed her winning ways in the mid-Atlantic, securing 50 career victories by early October and reducing her apprentice weight allowance to 5 pounds entering the 2022-2023 Oldsmar meeting. Rowland impressed trainers and fellow jockeys with her dedication, seeking out advice from some of the track’s more accomplished riders. While working toward her high school degree by taking online classes, Rowland kept a journal noting her accomplishments and detailing her plans to improve. Rowland dedicated her first victory on Dec. 10, 2021 at Tampa Bay Downs aboard 4-year-old gelding Sancocho to her father Paul Rowland, a steeplechase racing trainer who died of cancer when she was 8. Rowland was introduced to horses long before then. Friends gave her a Miniature Horse, Rascal, when she was 2, and her mother Jodi recalls her raising both arms and exclaiming “Up!” to signal her readiness to ride. At 15, she approached family friend Elizabeth Merryman, a breeder, owner and former trainer with horses at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland, about pursuing her racetrack dreams. Merryman laid the challenges of the profession on the line, and Rowland never blinked. Rowland’s passion shines through every time she goes onto the track. “Even when she doesn’t win, you can watch her pull her horse up and come back and tell how much she loves them,” said former jockey Paula Bacon, the agent for Pablo Morales and Antonio Gallardo. “She is full of smiles and joy, and you know they love her right back.”

Jockey Profiles

Ademar Santos

Born: August 27, 1975 | Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Residence: Oldsmar, FL

First Win: The Cure, Hipodromo de Gavea, Brazil, 1993 | Started Riding: 1993, Hipodromo de Gavea, Brazil

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park, Colonial Downs, Delaware Park

Santos managed a 10th-place finish in last season’s Oldsmar standings with 33 winners despite being stuck in Toronto from Dec. 6-Jan. 27 after Woodbine’s racing season ended because of Canada’s Omicron COVID-19 restrictions. During his enforced “vacation,” he stayed busy galloping horses at Toronto-area farms during the day and calling his wife and agent, Rose, and their three teenage sons at their Florida home at night. Entering his 13th season in Oldsmar, Santos has developed into one of the track’s most reliable journeyman riders. He keeps himself fit by working out a half-dozen or more horses during morning training and riding an Equicizer mechanical horse at home. On July 1, Santos won his fourth $5,000 Jockeys’ Challenge at Tampa Bay Downs, more than any other rider – despite having to miss the final race to catch a flight to Toronto to ride Ironstone in the next day’s Grade III Marine Stakes at Woodbine. They finished third. Santos won the Grade II Kennedy Road Stakes in 2018 at Woodbine on Ikerrin Road.

Jockey Profiles

Skyler Spanabel

Born: October 6, 1999 | Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana | Residence: Farmington Hills, MI

First Win: Two Nephews, Hazel Park, 2017 | Started Riding: 2017, Hazel Park

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Delaware Park

After losing her apprentice allowance late in the 2021 Delaware Park meet, Spanabel was unsure how she would fit in during her first season at Tampa Bay Downs. Healthy levels of determination, skill and an eagerness to work helped her exceed most expectations, as she rode 23 winners to finish 14th in the standings. Spanabel is the daughter of Kelly Spanabel, a former jockey who rode 216 winners and is now a trainer. Skyler rode her first winner at 17 at Hazel Park in Michigan on a horse trained by her father, George Iacovacci, Sr. She has climbed the ranks the old-fashioned way – first working as a hotwalker, then learning to pony horses before becoming an exercise rider and a jockey. She credits her mother and the late Ronnie Houghton, a jockey, trainer and long-time outrider, with teaching her the ropes on the track and helping her build the mental toughness she needs to succeed. Watching her mother win races was a major inspiration. “I’d get into the winner’s circle pictures with her, and it was so exciting,” Skyler said. “I wanted to be more than the person in the photo; I wanted to be the reason they were taking the photo.” Skyler was on pace to return to action at the outset of the 2022-2023 Oldsmar meet after a training accident in July at Delaware in which a horse kicked her, breaking her right elbow in three places. After proving to herself she could keep winning races without the apprentice allowance, she is out to prove even more to horsemen, her fellow riders and fans.

Jockey Profiles

Scott Spieth

Born: October 25, 1966 | Birthplace: Litchfield, Michigan | Residence: Oldsmar, FL

First Win: Glendale Downs, 1981 (Quarter Horse) | Started Riding: 1981, Glendale Downs

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Belterra Park, Presque Isle Downs

Spieth, who had ridden 4,967 career winners through the end of the Presque Isle Downs meeting, has his sights squarely focused on the 5,000-victory club, which has 37 members. He rode 36 winners at Presque Isle during the summer to finish seventh in the standings. In 2017, Spieth won the riding title at Delaware Park with 51 victories, his first meet title in a decade. In April of 2016, Spieth made his 4,500th trip to a winner’s circle aboard Awesome Indeed at Tampa Bay Downs. Making the occasion doubly meaningful was that the horse was trained by Spieth’s fiancée (now his wife), Aldana Gonzalez Spieth. Spieth rode War Story in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita, and although they finished off the board, the experience provided a wealth of memories. From 2000-2008, Spieth often rode two cards a day, competing at Thistledown outside Cleveland during the day and at Mountaineer in West Virginia at night. Spieth rode 307 winners in 2005 and averaged 269 victories a year from 2005-2007. In 2009, he recorded one of his most memorable triumphs aboard 3-year-old filly My Sister Margaret in the $500,000 West Virginia Jefferson Security Cup Cavada Breeders’ Classic at Charles Town. He credits his parents, Lavern and Gearldine, as well as his brothers, former Quarter Horse trainer Tony and equine dentist and blacksmith Jason, for their lifelong support. Spieth’s daughter Kirsten Swan is a jockey who won the 2014 Darley Award for her exploits aboard Arabian-bred horses.

Jockey Profiles

Angel Suarez

Born: April 9, 1993 | Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico | Residence: Odessa, FL

First Win: Grady Times, Camarero, 2012 | Started Riding: 2012, Camarero

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Delaware Park, Monmouth Park, Laurel Park, Pimlico, Colonial Suarez experienced the exhilarating highs and devastating lows of his profession in a half-hour span on Dec. 26, 2020 at Fair Grounds in New Orleans. After piloting Pixelate to a stirring come-from-behind victory in the Woodchopper Stakes, Suarez was injured in the next race when the horse directly in front of him broke down, causing his mount to fall. Suarez suffered a broken left femur, sending him to the sidelines a month after beginning what he hoped would be a fruitful collaboration with top Fair Grounds trainer Michael Stidham. Although he found it difficult to watch races in the ensuing weeks, Suarez committed to an extensive regimen of physical therapy, and he was getting back on horses in four months, about three months sooner than originally predicted. Suarez managed to ride 51 winners over the final seven months of 2021 and had added 77 this year at press time. Suarez, who is engaged to fellow jockey Aubrie Green, finished fourth in the Delaware Park standings in 2022 with 47 winners. This is the second season at Tampa Bay Downs for Suarez, who finished fifth in 2019-2020 with 58 winners. He joined the ranks of graded stakes-winning jockeys in 2019, capturing the Grade III Monmouth Oaks aboard Horologist. Suarez, who won his first-ever race in 2012 on Grady Times at Camarero in Puerto Rico, was a finalist for an Eclipse Award that year as Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. He says he knew he was going to be a jockey when he was 14 and went to the racetrack with his mother and a friend. “You know how a kid sees a superhero movie and wants to be like that person? After that day, I wanted to put on the silks, wear the boots and go fast on horses,” Suarez said.

Trainer Profiles

Leading Trainers

YEAR JOCKEY WIN

2021-2022 Gerald Bennett 36 2020-2021 Gerald Bennett 56 2019-2020 Gerald Bennett 61 2018-2019 Gerald Bennett 69 2017-2018 Gerald Bennett 53 2016-2017 Gerald Bennett 50 2015-2016 Gerald Bennett 51 2014-2015 Jamie Ness 46 2013-2014 Jamie Ness 53 2012-2013 Jamie Ness 46 2011-2012 Jamie Ness 79* 2010-2011 Jamie Ness/Gerald Bennett 61 2009-2010 J. Ness/Kathleen O’Connell 51 2008-2009 Jamie Ness 62 2007-2008 Jamie Ness 68 2006-2007 Jamie Ness 38 2005-2006 Kirk Ziadie 34 2004-2005 Don Rice 35 2003-2004 Lynne Scace 25 2002-2003 Don Rice 43 2001-2002 Don Rice 44 2000-2001 Don Rice 37

YEAR JOCKEY WIN

1999-2000 Don Rice 33 1998-1999 Kathleen O’Connell 26 1997-1998 Joe Cesarini 33 1996-1997 Don Rice 28 1995-1996 Don Rice 33 1994-1995 Don Rice 28 1993-1994 Jason Stodghill 30 1992-1993 John Reading 28 1991-1992 John Reading 37 1990-1991 J. Carroll Barnhill 30 1989-1990 Joe Waunsch 33 1988-1989 Art Pedregal/Don Jordan 36 1987-1988 Art Pedregal 28 1986-1987 Norm Wismer/J.D. Braddy 27 1985-1986 Don Jordan 25 1984-1985 Mary Hodge 23 1983-1984 J.D. Braddy 29 1982-1983 Fred Warren 40 1981-1982 Jacqueline Branham 34 1980-1981 Robert Guciardo 23

Trainer Profiles

Jon Arnett

Born: March 30, 1961 | Birthplace: Tucson, AZ | Residence: Safety Harbor, FL

First Win: Scatta Buck, Ruidoso Downs, 1979 | Started Training: 1979, Albuquerque

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Prairie Meadows, Hawthorne

Arnett captured his first Prairie Meadows training title in stunning fashion in 2022, sending out 61 winners from 204 starters for a 21-victory margin from runner-up Lynn Chleborad. His haul included three stakes triumphs and a second-place performance by 4-year-old gelding Fleetridge, a 31-1 shot, in the Grade III Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap. Arnett carries on a legacy passed down by his grandfather, Claude Arnett, and his late father, Bob Arnett, who won 2,431 races while capturing 11 consecutive training titles at Sunland Park in New Mexico. Young Jon, who was cleaning stalls and rolling bandages by the time he was 5 or 6, witnessed firsthand how his father took horses other trainers had given up on and won with them through patience and unspoken communication. “One of the main things he taught me was checking their legs first thing every morning, making sure there was no heat or filling before taking them to the track for training,” Arnett reflected a couple of years ago. “He also told me to make sure they ate real well the night before and not to cut corners.” Jon started galloping horses at Sunland Park when he was 14, and he soon realized he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his dad and granddad. That epiphany had resulted in almost 2,200 victories entering this season, as well as a combined 16 meet titles at Sunland, Albuquerque and SunRay Park in New Mexico and Arapahoe Park in Colorado. A fixture at Prairie Meadows, where he saddled 51 winners in 2021 to finish second in the standings, Jon proved good horsemanship knows no boundaries in his first Oldsmar season two years ago, sending out 25 winners to finish fourth in the standings. He finished sixth last season with 19 winners. Jon’s wife Susan, also a trainer, has 163 career victories.

Trainer Profiles

Juan Arriagada

Born: January 16, 1978 | Birthplace: Lima, Peru | Residence: Oldsmar, FL

First Win: Moonshine Promise, Tampa Bay Downs, 2017 | Started Training: 2017, Tampa Bay Downs

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Delaware Park

Arriagada enjoyed another outstanding meet last season, finishing fourth in the trainer standings with 23 winners. He also challenged for the Leading Owner crown, winning 21 races to finish second, three behind Endsley Oaks Farm. Arriagada emerged on the national scene as a conditioner in 2021 with 4-year-old filly Estilo Talentoso, whom he had purchased as a 2-year-old for $15,000. After starting 2021 with a third-place finish in the Wayward Lass Stakes at the Oldsmar oval, Estilo Talentoso competed in seven consecutive graded stakes. She won the Grade III Bed o’Roses at Belmont after Arriagada sold her to a syndicate, but he continued to train her. Estilo Talentoso finished second in the Grade I Madison, the Grade II Princess Rooney and the Grade III Runhappy Barbara Fritchie and third in the Grade I Derby City Distaff presented by Kendall-Jackson Winery and Grade II Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes. She was scratched from the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint before being retired, concluding her career with $532,538 in earnings. A former jockey who won about 300 races in Peru and Chile before coming to the United States in 2004, Arriagada struggled to keep his emotions under control on April 16, 2021 after his 21-year-old son, apprentice jockey Nicolas Arriagada, earned the first victory of his career at Tampa Bay Downs aboard Native Hawk, a 9-year-old gelding owned and trained by his father. On Mother’s Day of 2017, Arriagada married trainer Alison Hassig; their daughter Tezza was born in August of 2018. Before going out on his own, Arriagada worked under Joe Orseno, Rusty Arnold, Anthony Dutrow and Anthony Pecoraro.

Trainer Profiles

Gerald Bennett

Born: March 12, 1944 | Birthplace: Springhill, Nova Scotia | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: Greenwood, Canada | Started Training: 1974 | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park, Presque Isle Downs, Delaware Park

On Dec. 8, 2021, Bennett became the 14th trainer in North American history to win 4,000 races when he sent out Averill Racing’s 8-year-old D’craziness to win a claiming race at the Oldsmar oval (Tom Amoss made it 15 with No. 4,000 in August at Saratoga). Bennett enters the 2022-2023 meet seeking his eighth consecutive Tampa Bay Downs training title and ninth overall. If he gets it done, he would tie Jamie Ness for most Oldsmar titles (Ness won nine in a row, from 2006-2007 through 2014-2015; Bennett and Ness tied for the top spot in 2010-2011). The late Don Rice won eight overall Tampa Bay Downs titles. Bennett won 36 races last season, six more than runner-up Kathleen O’Connell. Bennett unveiled a potential star last season in Carpenters Call, who broke his maiden in December at the Oldsmar oval, followed up with a pair of allowance victories and traveled south to Gulfstream Park for a third-place finish in the Grade III Kitten’s Joy Appleton Stakes. The 4-year-old colt became a stakes winner at Presque Isle Downs in August, winning the Peach Street Stakes. The good times continued for Bennett at Monmouth Park, where he tied for fourth in the standings with 21 winners. That included a victory by Feast, campaigned by Bennett’s own Winning Stables, Inc., in the Rumson Stakes. On April 23, 2021, Bennett passed the late Frank H. Merrill, Jr., as the all-time leading Canadian-born trainer with a victory by 4-year-old gelding Baby Boomer at Gulfstream Park, giving him 3,975 for his career. Bennett, the father of trainer Dale Bennett, tied a Tampa Bay Downs record on Dec. 7, 2016 by saddling four winners from four starters. Bennett enjoys turning around horses that have gone off-form, and few conditioners can match his feats with Beau Genius. He acquired the minor stakes winner after his 3-year-old season and trained him to victory in 13 stakes, including the 1990 Grade I Philip H. Iselin and the 1990 Grade II Michigan Mile and One-Eighth Handicap. Beau Genius also won the 1990 Hallandale Handicap at Gulfstream, memorable as the final victory for Hall of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker. Other notable Bennett trainees include stakes winners Secret Romeo, Banker’s Jet, Fast Flying Rumor and R Angel Katelyn. Bennett previously trained Standardbreds in Canada.

Trainer Profiles

Arnaud Delacour

Born: April 7, 1975 | Birthplace: Lisieux, France | Residence: Elkton, MD

First Win: Country Lyric, Pimlico | Started Training: 2013, Pimlico

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Keeneland, Laurel, Delaware Park, Kentucky Downs, Pimlico

Teamwork is essential to Delacour’s ongoing success. He and his wife Leigh, a trainer from 2007-2013, employ four exercise riders, including assistant trainer Moises Nava, and Delacour takes care in fitting each rider to the horses they best fit. In addition to binoculars and his stopwatch, Delacour employs a two-way radio to communicate with his riders during workouts, using it to apprise them of fractional times during a work. That level of preparation has helped Delacour emerge as a consistent winner at numerous racetracks. In 2016, Delacour won four graded stakes with Green Lantern Stables homebred A. P. Indian, including a pair of Grade I races at Saratoga. A. P. Indian was an Eclipse Award finalist for Outstanding Sprinter. Delacour won his third career Grade I in the 2020 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes with Magic Attitude, owned by major client Lael Stables. Delacour and Lael Stables, owned and operated by Roy and Gretchen Jackson, have teamed to win a variety of major races in recent years, including back-toback editions of the Grade III Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs with Hawksmoor in 2019 and Jehozacat in 2020. In 2018 at Churchill Downs, Delacour came within an eyelash of capturing his first Breeders’ Cup victory when 4-year-old filly Chalon was caught by Shamrock Rose in the final jumps of the Filly and Mare Sprint. The Delacour-trained Divining Rod, owned by Lael Stables, finished second in the 2015 Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs and third in the Grade II Tampa Bay Derby, then was third in the Xpressbet.com Preakness behind Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. The Delacours train their horses at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland during the summer, enabling them to ship to a variety of mid-Atlantic and Northeast tracks. During the Tampa Bay Downs meeting, they keep a string of horses at Classic Mile Park Training Complex in Ocala.

Trainer Profiles

Jorge Delgado

Born: April 27, 1990 | Birthplace: Maracaibo, Venezuela | Residence: Fort Lauderdale, FL

First Win: Saturado, Gulfstream Park, 2017 | Started Training: 2017, Gulfstream Park | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Gulfstream Park, Mid-Atlantic

From the time he began hanging around his father’s barn in Venezuela as a youngster, Delgado knew he wanted to be a trainer. “I’ve been in love with horses for as long as I can remember,” the younger Delgado said. “It’s basically been in my blood forever.” Delgado came to south Florida in 2012 to pursue his dream, and the results have been astounding. Before going out on his own, Delgado worked as an assistant under Juan Rodriguez, then continued his apprenticeship under his uncle Gustavo Delgado, a multiple Grade I-winning trainer. By 2017, Delgado had gained the know-how and experience to start winning races on his own. The 2022 campaign was a banner year, as he won Grade III stakes with Lightening Larry and Willy Boi, both Florida-breds owned by the Lea Farms, LLC stable of Bill Cosgrove. After winning the Grade III Smile Sprint Invitational at Gulfstream and finishing third in the Grade I Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga, Willy Boi went on to compete in the Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland. Delgado also enjoyed outstanding success with 2-year-old Florida-bred colt Awesome Strong (4-for-4 after sweeping Gulfstream’s threerace Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes series) and 2-year-old colt Super Chow, who finished third in the Grade III Saratoga Special and first in the $200,000 Bowman Mill Stakes at Keeneland. Delgado will split his 49-horse stable between Tampa Bay Downs and Gulfstream, keeping about 15 in Oldsmar. Delgado prides himself on keeping the lines of communication with his owners open. “I thank each and every one of them for supporting me and trusting me with their investment. That is a key to my success,” he said. No one was more excited than his father last season when Delgado won seven races from 11 starts, with four seconds, during an Oldsmar hot streak that earned him the Trainer of the Month Award.

Trainer Profiles

Jose H. Delgado

Born: December 22, 1978 | Birthplace: Panama City, Panama | Residence: Oceanport, NJ

First Win: 2017, I’m Thirsty, Monmouth Park | Started Training: 2017, Gulfstream Park | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park

On Feb. 24, 2021, Delgado sent out his 7-year-old gelding The Critical Way to win the 5-furlong Turf Dash Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. As the year progressed, the Pennsylvania-bred emerged as one of the top male turf sprinters in the country, winning the Wolf Hill Stakes on July 17 at Monmouth Park and the Grade III Parx Dash on Aug. 31 at Parx Racing. The Critical Way’s accomplishments helped his conditioner gain deserved attention on Thoroughbred racing’s national radar. The Critical Way was still going strong as an 8-year-old, winning the Get Serious Stakes in May at Monmouth Park to boost his career earnings above $600,000. Delgado finished second in the 2020-2021 Tampa Bay Downs trainer standings to perennial champion Gerald Bennett with 34 victories and added 12 winners here last season. He has posted back-to-back fourth-place finishes at Monmouth. About 20 years ago, when he was a jockey, Delgado moved his tack to Saudi Arabia, where he rode for four months. Before retiring from race-riding in 2014, he rode more than 300 winners, One of his top mounts was Wicapi, who won the 1996 Thanksgiving Day Handicap and 1996 Flying Pidgeon Handicap at Calder. Delgado also rode in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Delaware.

Trainer Profiles

Mike Dini

Born: November 1, 1960 | Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois | Residence: Oldsmar, FL

First Win: Glen Savoye, Thistledown, 1995 | Started Training: 1995, Thistledown

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, New York, Presque Isle Downs, Mid-Atlantic

Dini has forged a successful decade-long relationship with Ballybrit Stable, owned by Dr. Alan Lustig of Seminole, Fla. Their mare Dynatail won four stakes over a five-year racing career while compiling earnings of $546,475. Other quality performers for the Dini/Ballybrit pairing include such stakes winners as Bramble Queen and Bramble Bay and graded-stakes placed Bird’s Eye View, a gelding who earned almost $400,000. Bramble Bay, a Ballybrit Stable homebred, won the Jersey Girl Handicap in July at Monmouth Park for the second time in three years. Bramble Queen, also a homebred, is a two-time winner of the Illini Princess Handicap at Hawthorne who also won a stakes at Arlington. Dini joined the club of graded stakes-winning trainers in 2007 via a victory by Connections in the Grade III Kennedy Road Stakes at Woodbine. The conditioner achieved a career milestone on Oct. 15, 2021 at Meadowlands, notching career victory No. 500 with 2-year-old Florida-bred colt Merokee, still another Ballybrit performer. As a teenager in the Chicago area, Dini became interested in horses by caring for equines owned by his uncle, a member of the Medinah Black Horse Troop, which raises money to benefit Shriners Hospitals for children. Before taking out his trainer’s license, Dini worked as a groom for Noel Hickey, known as the trainer of 1998 Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Buck’s Boy.

Trainer Profiles

M. Anthony Ferraro

Born: October 31, 1961 | Birthplace: Olean, NY | Residence: Victor, NY

First Win: Finger Lakes, 1984 | Started Training: 1985, Tampa Bay Downs

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Finger Lakes, Presque Isle Downs

As a teenager, Ferraro had aspirations of playing major college football. A detached retina ended those hopes, but the youngster didn’t need to look far to pursue another avenue in sports. Ferraro is the son of trainer Michael S. Ferraro, whose barn he joined in 1982. The elder Ferraro had been a competitive body-builder, winning the AAU Teen Mr. America contest in 1957 and the AAU Mr. USA title in 1964 before deciding to direct his full energy to the horses. M. Anthony, known as Mike, teamed up with his father a year after his dad won the 1981 Grade I Whitney Handicap at Saratoga with Fio Rito. While his father remains active at Finger Lakes, having trained more than 3,400 career winners, Mike has trained many outstanding runners of his own at the upstate New York track. Mike, who is approaching 2,200 career victories, trained multiple-stakes winner Try N Sue, who finished third in the Grade III Florida Oaks in 1998 at Tampa Bay Downs and ran in that year’s Kentucky Oaks. Three years later, he conditioned Sheastonecoldfox to three consecutive stakes victories and a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Belmont. The younger Ferraro says his best horse was Swamp King, with whom he won twice at Saratoga in 1993 before taking the Monroe County Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Finger Lakes. Ferraro credits the Tampa Bay Downs track surfaces and environment, in part, for his ongoing success. “There is no better place for the horses in the winter than Tampa,” he said. “When they leave, they’ll go anywhere and do well.”

Trainer Profiles

Anthony Granitz

Born: October 25, 1963 | Birthplace: Chicago, IL | Residence: Safety Harbor, FL; Lemont, IL

First Win: Balmoral Park, 1984 | Started Training: 1983, Illinois | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Horseshoe Indianapolis, Belterra Park

After posting a fifth-place finish in the Oldsmar standings last season with 21 winners, Granitz kept up his winning ways at Horseshoe Indianapolis by saddling 25 winners, good for seventh place. The Chicago native, who was nearing 1,400 career victories at the start of the current meet, is a regular visitor to the winner’s circle everywhere he competes. Granitz achieved a career milestone in January of 2015 at Tampa Bay Downs, notching victory No. 1,000 with the gelding Wedding Savior. He dedicated the victory to his father Chris Granitz, who introduced him to Thoroughbred racing by taking him to Arlington Park in Chicago when he was 13. The elder Granitz helped Anthony get a job at Arlington that summer, and he has been involved in the sport since. He was an assistant to his brother, Chris Granitz, Jr., before Chris took a job with the railroad and Anthony took over the stable. One of Anthony’s best horses was Indiana-bred Lady Fog Horn, who won 14 of 26 career starts and earned $824,273. Her seven stakes victories included the Grade II Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs in 2016. Granitz sends many of his young horses to Ocala to be broken by Chad Stewart before they head to the track. Some of Granitz’s other top horses include Grade III winners False Promises and Lord Joe; multiple-stakes winner Darley Dancer; and Coni Bug, an Illinois-bred champion and winner of the 1992 Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs. Other stakes winners trained by Granitz include Mr. Mischief and Wiggins, with whom he won three consecutive stakes in 2003.

Trainer Profiles

Tim Hamm

Born: February 3, 1966 | Birthplace: Warren, Ohio | Residence: Morriston, FL; North Jackson, OH

First Win: Rose Colored Lady, River Downs, 1996 | Started Training: 1996, Turfway Park

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, MahoningValley Race Course, Presque Isle Downs, Thistledown, Belterra Park, Turfway Park

While Hamm has won his share of big races at Tampa Bay Downs, the Ohio native is usually at his best in the Buckeye State. He finished fifth at Belterra Park in 2022 with 17 winners and was sixth at Thistledown with 30 winners. Hamm rose to national prominence in 2020 for his work with 2-year-old filly Dayoutoftheoffice, owned by his Blazing Meadows Farm in partnership with her breeder, Siena Farms. The journey took flight with a July victory in the historic Grade III Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga, followed by a triumph in the Grade I Frizette in October at Belmont. That stamped her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland, where she finished second to Vequist. In partnership with WinStar Farm, Blazing Meadows (located in North Jackson, Ohio) bred the filly Alexandria, a four-time stakes winner in Ohio with career earnings exceeding $260,000. Alexandria finished third in the Grade III Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs in 2020. Another top Blazing Meadows homebred is the multiple stakes-winning Ohio-bred filly Esplanande, who finished second in the Grade I Spinaway in 2020 as a 2-year-old and captured the Best of Ohio Diana Stakes at Belterra Park the following year. Hamm also bred, owned and trained the hard-knocking, multiple stakes-winning mare Leona’s Reward, who won 19 of 55 starts while amassing more than $1-million in earnings. In Oldsmar, Hamm is remembered for winning the 2019 Wayward Lass Stakes with the graded stakes-placed Tapa Tapa Tapa in stakes-record time for a mile-and-a-sixteenth, a year after she finished second in the race. Hamm is a past president of the Ohio Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners and the Ohio Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association and was instrumental in securing the addition of video slot machines at Ohio racetracks.

Trainer Profiles

Eoin Harty

Born: November 23, 1962 | Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland | Residence: Arcadia, CA

Started Training: 2000, West Coast | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, southern California, Gulfstream Park

With 33 graded-stakes winners to his credit, including Grade I scores in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, Santa Anita Derby and Travers, Harty has forged a tremendous record of success since moving to the United States at age 17 following one year at the Irish National Stud. His most recent Grade I triumph came in 2020 with Fair Maiden in the La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita. Harty spent 14 years as an assistant trainer in southern California, first with John Russell and then with Bob Baffert. Harty was part of the Baffert team when Silver Charm and Real Quiet won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 1997 and 1998. Once on his own, Harty burst onto the national scene in 2001, sending out Tempera to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies as well as saddling the runner-up, Imperial Gesture. Tempera received an Eclipse Award as Champion 2-Year-Old-Filly. Harty earned the richest victory of his career in 2009 when Well Armed won the $6-million Dubai World Cup by a record 14 lengths. That followed an outstanding 2008 campaign in which the trainer won seven graded stakes, including the Goodwood with Well Armed and the Santa Anita Derby and Travers with Colonel John. Harty’s great-grandfather began his racing career in Ireland in 1880, working as both a jockey and a trainer. Eoin’s grandfather Cyril trained Knight’s Crest, winner of the 1944 Irish Grand National. His father, Eddie, was an accomplished equestrian who competed in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and later won the Grand National Steeplechase as a jockey.

Trainer Profiles

H. Graham Motion

Born: May 22, 1964 | Birthplace: Cambridge, England | Residence: Fair Hill, Maryland

Started Training: 1993, Laurel | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Kentucky, New York, Mid-Atlantic, Southern California

Motion often has his best days on the sport’s biggest stages. He has sent out 190 graded-stakes winners since taking out his trainer’s license in 1993 following the death of his employer, Maryland-based trainer Bernard P. Bond. He has had at least one graded-stakes winner for 27 consecutive years and 10 in 2022, including a pair of Grade I winners, Spendarella in the Grade I Del Mar Oaks and Highland Chief in the Man o’ War Stakes. At press time, he had surpassed $6.8-million in 2022 purse earnings, his best year since 2017. Motion is best known as the trainer of Animal Kingdom, who won the 2011 Kentucky Derby and the 2013 Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airlines. He collected his fourth Breeders’ Cup victory in 2019 at Santa Anita with Sharing in the Juvenile Fillies Turf. Other Grade I winners include the likes of Better Talk Now, Main Sequence, Film Maker, Shared Account, Miss Temple City and Ring Weekend, who won the 2014 Tampa Bay Derby, a Grade II event. His other Tampa Bay Derby victory came in 2002 with Equality. Motion paid his dues early in his career, working for Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard after graduating from Kent School in Connecticut. After six years, Motion joined trainer Jonathan Pease in Chantilly, France, where he met his wife Anita, who was then working for trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre. In 2014, Motion’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Main Sequence was named Champion Male Turf Horse and Champion Older Male. That same year, Motion won both the Grade III Endeavour Stakes and the Grade III Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs with Pin Oak Stud’s Cloud Scapes.

Trainer Profiles

Douglas Nunn

Born: April 10, 1969 | Birthplace: Newark, NY | Residence: Howell, NJ

First Win: Garaja, Garden State, 1993 | Started Training: 1992, Meadowlands

Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park, Mid-Atlantic

The newcomer to the Tampa Bay Downs training ranks kept the claims clerk busy last season, claiming 31 horses through the course of the meet while losing 27. When the dust settled, Nunn, then training primarily for Winner Circle Stables, had sent out 15 winners, good for a 10th-place finish. Nunn’s ability to spot a horse with potential came through again last summer, when he claimed New Jersey-bred Smithwick’s Spice for $15,000 at Monmouth Park for the gelding’s breeder, New Spice Stable. After Nunn moved him to the turf, Smithwick’s Spice ran off three victories in a row, capped by the 5-furlong Joey P. Handicap at Monmouth. Nunn also trained the mare Karmageddon, winning three stakes with her from 2009-2011. Nunn is a former jockey whose twin brother, David, was a successful trainer, conditioning the mare Withgreatpleasure to victory in the Grade II Ruffian Handicap in 2013 at Aqueduct. The twins’ late sister, Michele Harris, was a jockey who rode at Tampa Bay Downs (then Florida Downs) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Douglas Nunn rode his last race in 2013 at Penn National, winning an Amateur Riders Club of America-sponsored race for amateur riders aboard a 28-1 shot, Red Jack. Before becoming a jockey, he worked for Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie “Mack” Miller as an exercise rider in Aiken, S.C. In 2018, Nunn worked for New Beginnings Thoroughbreds in New Jersey, a nonprofit organization devoted to re-training off-the-track racehorses for second careers. Nunn believes in the spirit and desire inherent in all Thoroughbreds and is willing to ship horses to different tracks in pursuit of victory. “I always say there is a place for a horse to race. You just have to find that spot. It’s not always at home, but there is a spot if you keep that condition book open,” he says.

Trainer Profiles

Kathleen O’Connell

Birthplace: Detroit, MI | Residence: Davie, FL | First Win: Kim’s Lucky Spot, Detroit Race Course

Started Training: Early 1980s, Detroit Race Course | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, Colonial Downs, Meadowlands

O’Connell gave perennial Oldsmar wins leader Gerald Bennett a run for his money last season before settling for a second-place finish with 30 winners, six behind her friendly rival. She tied for eighth at Monmouth Park with 15 winners. O’Connell won the 1998-1999 Tampa Bay Downs training title with 26 victories and tied Jamie Ness for the top spot with 51 apiece in 2009-2010. O’Connell also won the 2009-2010 Calder Casino & Race Course Tropical Meet, becoming the first woman to win the training title in the track’s 39-year history. She clinched the title with a victory by Fly by Phil in the Grade III Tropical Park Derby on the turf. In recent months, O’Connell has been gaining ground on Kim Hammond in the race to be No. 1 in lifetime victories among women trainers in North America (O’Connell, with 2,365 winners through Nov. 22, trails Hammond by about 18). The conditioner known as “K.O.” captured one of the biggest races on the 2018-2019 Tampa Bay Downs calendar with 3-year-old Floridabred gelding Well Defined, who won the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes for owner Stonehedge LLC. Now owned by O’Connell under her Kathleen O’Connell Racing Stable banner, Well Defined has earned almost $800,000 in his career. Also in 2019, O’Connell won the Grade II Princess Rooney Stakes at Gulfstream with 5-year-old Florida-bred mare Stormy Embrace for the second year in a row. In September of 2018 at Delaware Park, O’Connell scored career victory No. 2,000 with 2-year-old first-time starter Wishful Quality. O’Connell’s national profile skyrocketed in 2015 via the accomplishments of 3-year-old filly Lady Shipman. She finished second by a neck to Mongolian Saturday in the TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland.after a sensational season in which she won six stakes and set a pair of course records. In 2011, O’Connell saddled 43-1 shot Watch Me Go to win the Grade II Tampa Bay Derby for long-time client Gilbert Campbell. Among O’Connell’s top trainees are Blazing Sword, a three-time graded-stakes winner; Scandalous Act; Shananie’s Beat; Lindsey Lane; and Ivanavinalot, also known as the dam of the great filly Songbird.

Trainer Profiles

Darien Rodriguez

Born: September 24, 1979 | Birthplace: Santa Clara, Cuba | Residence: Tampa, FL First Win: 2010, Down in Front, Suffolk Downs | Started Training: Suffolk Downs, 2010 Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park, Parx Racing, Mid-Atlantic

Rodriguez derives satisfaction in working with a mid-size stable of 12-15 horses, believing it gives him a better opportunity to give each the individual attention they need to reach their potential. With a strike rate of about 25 percent winners since joining the training ranks in 2010, his plan seems to be working. Before going out on his own, Rodriguez worked as an exercise rider for successful conditioners Leigh Delacour, Miguel Feliciano and Mike Zwiesler. He continues to gallop his charges, believing it gives him a “leg up” against the competition. “I have it in my mind how a horse is going to gallop, and if he doesn’t feel the way I want him to, it forces me to change my mind and find out what’s going on,” Rodriguez said. “I also like to ride them for their final breeze before a race. It lets me see how they’re feeling, and if I’m not happy about how they work, we’ll skip the race and find something else.” As a result, bettors know they can expect Rodriguez to bring over a fit horse, and over the last two seasons his methods helped him win 30 races from 120 starts. Rodriguez performed a masterful training job during the 2018-2019 meeting with 4-year-old Florida-bred filly Crown and Sugar, who capped a five-race winning streak by capturing the Florida Cup Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf Stakes. Rodriguez enjoyed an unforgettable day on April 2, 2017, two days after the birth of his son Tihago. His 4-year-old colt Tiger Blood won the Florida Cup Hilton Garden Inn Sprint under jockey Pablo Morales in 1:08.92, .25 seconds off the 6-furlong stakes and track record. Tiger Blood had won the Pelican Stakes in his previous start. Rodriguez came to the United States from Cuba at 16.

Trainer Profiles

Tony Wilson

Born: July 2,1960 | Birthplace: Camden, NJ | Residence: Oldsmar, FL

First Win: Hostile Jet, Monmouth Park, 2001 | Started Training: 2001, Atlantic City | Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park, Delaware Park

Wilson saddled 12 winners from only 61 starters last season to finish in a tie for 12th place in the Oldsmar standings. He is known as the conditioner of Pure Disco, a New Jersey homebred for Patricia Generazio whom Wilson saddled to five stakes victories, including three in a row in the fall of 2007. Wilson has been around racehorses his entire life, learning the ropes under his father Earl Wilson, who trained at Atlantic City and Garden State. At age 11, Wilson began work as a hotwalker at Garden State during the summers. Wilson’s son, Tyree Wilson, is his assistant, and two other sons, Paul and Jimmy, also work in the barn. Wilson has been training for the Happy Tenth Stable of owner Tom Lamont for more than 20 years. Their Florida-bred filly, Expect to Be Ready, entered the 2022-2023 Oldsmar meet on a four-race winning streak. Wilson trained 12 winners over the spring and summer at Monmouth Park, and considers the Tampa Bay Downs-Monmouth circuit “the best of both worlds” because it gives him time to freshen his horses before competing in Oldsmar.

Owner Profiles

Owner Profiles

Juan Arriagada

Owner: Juan Arriagada | Born: January 16, 1978 | Birthplace: Lima, Peru | Residence: Oldsmar, FL

First Win: Jour de Chance, Charles Town, 2005 | Tampa Trainer: Juan Arriagada

Arriagada remained in the running for a Leading Owner title last season until the final days of the meet, settling for a second-place finish with 21 winners, three behind Endsley Oaks Farm. His 27.8-percent win rate (21-for-76) was tops among all owners with 25 or more starts. Also a trainer, Arriagada was fourth last season with 23 victories, capturing 25.3 percent of his starts as a conditioner. Arriagada finished fifth in the previous season’s Owner standings with 10 winners, and his runners posted a sterling 62-percent in-the-money figure. After selling his top horse in 2021, 4-year-old filly Estilo Talentoso, to a partnership, he continued to train the Grade III stakes winner until her retirement. Both Arriagada’s father and grandfather were trainers, paving the road for Juan to make a name for himself in the sport. In Peru, his late father Raul trained Al Khali, a ridgling who upon coming to the United States won two graded stakes and achieved millionaire status. Arriagada hoped to be a jockey when he was a boy (he rode two years in Peru and two in Chile before he was 18), but when he grew too big, he turned his sights to training. His son Nicolas, who competed as a jockey and now works for his father, earned the first victory of his career in 2021 at Tampa Bay Downs at age 21 aboard Native Hawk, a 9-year-old gelding owned and trained by the elder Arriagada. After coming to the United States in 2004, Arriagada worked as a hotwalker for trainer Joe Orseno at Delaware Park and galloped horses at Sharp Farm before going to work for trainer George “Rusty” Arnold at Churchill Downs. Continuing his on-track education, Arriagada worked for trainers Anthony Dutrow and Anthony Pecoraro before buying his first horse. At the 2017 Ocala Breeders’ Sales April auction, Arriagada purchased a 2-year-old filly, Estilo Femenino, for $9,500. She won two of her first three starts before finishing second as a 3-yearold to multiple graded-stakes winning mare Curlin’s Approval in the Sugarloaf Key Handicap at Gulfstream. Soon afterward, Arriagada reached an agreement to sell Estilo Femenino privately for $350,000.

Owner Profiles

Averill Racing LLC

Owner: Rich Averill | Born: October 24, 1975 | Birthplace: Bradenton, FL | Residence: Bradenton, FL

First Win: Fun n’ Gun, Tampa Bay Downs, 2002 | Tampa Trainers: Gerald Bennett, Georgina Baxter

Averill, who owns Rich Averill Masonry in Bradenton, about 52 miles south of Oldsmar, has won four Leading Owner titles at Tampa Bay Downs. Last season, he won the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association City of Ocala Florida Sire Stakes with 3-year-old filly R Adios Jersey (owned in partnership with ATM Racing), who won by 11 lengths while speeding the 7-furlong distance in 1:22.60. The previous season, R Adios Jersey won the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies Stakes. Another top Averill-owned Florida-bred, Lady’s Island (owned jointly with Matties Racing Stable), was a two-time Grade III winner who earned more than $665,000. She won the Minaret Stakes here in 2020. The Tampa Bay Downs winner’s circle was filled to overflowing in December of 2017 when Averill and Matties Racing Stable’s then-7-year-old gelding Pay Any Price won the $100,000 Turf Dash Stakes. Averill unveiled another stable star at the outset of the 2016-2017 Oldsmar meeting in Floridabred filly R Angel Katelyn, who won the Sandpiper Stakes in her local debut. Owned in partnership with CCF Racing Stable and K Lauren Racing, R Angel Katelyn added the Gasparilla and the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies after turning 3. Averill became a major player on the national scene in 2005 with his 3-year-old filly R Lady Joy. After winning the Florida Oaks on the main Tampa Bay Downs dirt surface, R Lady Joy strung together four consecutive in-the-money efforts in graded stakes, highlighted by a victory in the Grade II Delaware Oaks. She capped her run by finishing third in the Grade I Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. Averill enjoyed another huge thrill at the Spa in July of 2014 when his mare R Free Roll, owned in partnership with Silver Oaks, won the Grade II Honorable Miss Handicap, one of three consecutive stakes victories. R Free Roll is a homebred daughter of Jewels N Gems, who won a pair of stakes for Averill, including the 2006 Lightning City at Tampa Bay Downs.

Owner Profiles

Peter M. Brant

Owner: Peter M. Brant | Born: March 1, 1947 | Birthplace: Queens, N.Y. | Residence: New York City

First Win: Fifty Five, Belmont Park, 2017 | Tampa Trainer: Chad Brown

Brant joined an exclusive group last season when his 4-year-old filly Bleecker Street, trained by Chad Brown and ridden by Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr., won the Grade III Endeavour Stakes and the Grade II Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. She is the seventh horse to win both stakes, joining Hall of Fame member Tepin (2016), Cloud Scapes (2014), Old Tune (2013), Zagora (2012), Dreaming of Anna (2008) and Cassydora (2007). Brown also trained Zagora, who later won the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Brant was a member of the partnership that owned Swale, who died in 1984 shortly after winning the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. He bred Thunder Gulch, who won the 1995 Kentucky Derby. The owner – an American industrialist, magazine publisher, film producer and art collector – has had a huge impact on Thoroughbred racing in recent years. In addition to Bleecker Streert, who won the Grade I New York Stakes in late spring, he has campaigned such Grade I winners as In Italian, Gina Romantica, Regal Glory, Blowout and Raging Bull, who won the 2018 Hollywood Derby, the 2020 Shoemaker Mile and the 2021 Maker’s Mark Mile, all Grade I stakes. Brant is the chairman of White Birch Paper and the owner and chairman of Brant Publications, Inc., which publishes Interview magazine, Antiques and Modern. Brant, an accomplished polo player, is married to supermodel Stephanie Seymour.

Carole Star Stables

Owner: Bob Apicelli | Born: October 4, 1948 | Birthplace: Long Branch, N.J. | Residence: Oceanport, N.J.

First Win: Precious Franca, Monmouth Park, 2016 | Tampa Trainer: Jose H. Delgado

Retired schoolteacher Bob Apicelli operates a blue-collar stable, and the results are providing him with plenty of excitement on the competitive Tampa Bay Downs and Monmouth Park circuits. In Oldsmar last season, Carole Star posted six victories, a season after its 16 were good for a runner-up finish to Winning Stables’s 27. Carole Star then finished in a tie for fourth at Monmouth with seven winners. Carole Star Stables is run by trainer Jose H. Delgado, who is married to Apicelli’s daughter Robyn. Apicelli enjoys watching the races with his 10-year-old grandson, Sebastian. Carole Star Stables is named for Apicelli’s late wife Carole, and the stable silks have three stars, representing Sebastian and his sisters, 6-year-old twins Carole and Isabella (Apicelli has three other grandchildren from another daughter). Primarily a claiming stable, Carole Star finished fourth in the 2019-2020 Tampa Bay Downs standings with 12 victories. Among Carole Star’s top horses since its formation in 2015 is Spring Up, a Florida-bred gelding who earned more than $450,000 while winning 16 races.

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Owner Profiles

Endsley Oaks Farm

Owner: Bob and Jill Jones | Residence: Brooksville, FL

Farm Location: Brooksville, FL | Tampa Trainers: Kathleen O’Connell, Aldana Spieth

Located about 50 miles north of the Oldsmar oval, Endsley Oaks Farm enjoyed a dream season, posting 24 victories to capture the Tampa Bay Downs Owners title. Bob and Jill Jones, who have raced at Tampa Bay Downs for about 13 years, own about 90 horses spread between the racetrack, an 80acre broodmare farm and a nearby 150-acre training facility. They also raise about 500 cattle on their 1,200-acre property. They are well known in Brooksville, where Bob owns Composite Motors, Inc., an electronics manufacturing company, and Jill is a corporate and patent attorney. Endsley Oaks stands homebred sire Pharaoh Bob, an 11-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile who raced under their colors. Hailing from Massachusetts, the Joneses share a passion for horses and racing that grew through their friendship with Ocala residents Kim and Bonnie Heath III, whose namesake raised and campaigned 1956 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Needles. Besides raising their own horses, the Joneses have been active at both the Ocala and Kentucky sales. Horses at Endsley Oaks are kept fit with a Eurociser, an equine swimming pool and gallops on the farm’s 3/8-mile track and mile-and-a-quarter, European-style dirt gallop. Among Endsley Oaks’s top horses are homebreds No Mercy Percy, a mare who earned more than $120,000; homebred gelding Betting On Red; Florida-bred mare Take to the Skies; homebred gelding Jack Rabbit Quick; and Florida-bred mare Luna Queen. In past summers, the Joneses have raced at Gulfstream Park, Colonial Downs, Presque Isle Downs, Monmouth Park, Prairie Meadows and Louisiana Downs. The stable’s trainers at Tampa Bay Downs are Kathleen O’Connell, a two-time track champion, and Aldana Spieth, the wife of veteran jockey Scott Spieth. The Joneses plan to take time away from their Thoroughbred ventures to travel to Antarctica in January, completing their journey to all seven continents.

Owner Profiles

Godolphin Racing

Owner: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Residence: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Farm Location: Dubai, England, Australia, United States, Ireland, Japan | Tampa Trainer: Eoin Harty

Godolphin had another banner year in 2022, capped by four victories in the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland. The most dramatic came in the Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, in which Cody’s Wish – named after 16-year-old Cody Dorman, who was born with a rare genetic disorder that has forced him to undergo dozens of surgeries and rendered him nonverbal – rolled to victory. Other Breeders’ Cup winners owned by Godolphin included Rebel’s Romance in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf, Modern Games in the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile Presented by PDJF and Mischief Magic in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. Additional Godolphin Grade I winners in 2022 included Santin, Nations Pride, Matareya, Mysterious Night and Speaker’s Corner. Needless to say, but worth mentioning, Godolphin is a virtual lock to receive its third consecutive Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner. As a 3-year-old in 2021, the Godolphin-owned Essential Quality won a pair of Grade I races: the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets and the Runhappy Travers Stakes. Godolphin is the Maktoum family’s private Thoroughbred horse racing stable. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, is the driving force behind Godolphin, which is named after the Godolphin Arabian, one of the three founding stallions of the modern Thoroughbred. The family’s breeding operation, Darley, is named in honor of another of the modern sport’s original stallions. The list of the outfit’s other top runners over the years includes Yibir, Space Blues, Maxfield, Daylami, Fantastic Light, Street Cry, Sulamani, Electrocutionist, Dubai Millennium, Discreet Cat, Vineyard Haven and Girolamo.

Owner Profiles

Happy Tenth Stable

Owner: Tom Lamont | Born: January 13, 1947 | Birthplace: New York, NY | Residence: Clearwater, FL

First Win: Little Hero, Garden State Park, 1985 | Tampa Trainer: Tony Wilson

Before becoming a racehorse owner, Tom Lamont considered investing in a professional baseball team or being part of a syndicate managing prize fighters. But pleasant memories of going to Monmouth Park as a youngster with his parents led him to join a harness-racing partnership in 1976. About 8 years later, he switched to Thoroughbreds, teaming with successful trainer John J. Tammaro, III. One of Tammaro’s assistants was an upand-coming conditioner named Tony Wilson, who has now trained for Happy Tenth Stable for more than 20 years. Happy Tenth finished fourth in last year’s Oldsmar standings with 10 victories. Lamont has about eight horses at Tampa Bay Downs this season with Wilson. Leslielyn Hardesty trains a couple of horses for Happy Tenth, and the owner also keeps seven or so at Parx Racing in Pennsylvania with the father-and-son duo of Alfredo Velazquez and Daniel Velazquez. Lamont, who worked for almost 40 years as a financial journalist and editor of the newsletter division for the publication Institutional Investor, has a relatively simple philosophy when it comes to running a stable: “Find people you trust and let them do their job.” Lamont’s best horse may have been the Tammaro-trained Cactus Charlie, who in 2017 at Tampa Bay Downs wrapped up a career in which he earned more than $300,000 and placed in seven stakes. Lamont’s only stakes winner was Deliburnsky, trained by Wilson to back-to-back stakes victories in 2011 as a 2-year-old. Lamont and his wife Kathy have been married 41 years, and he named his stable Happy Tenth because he met Kathy on the 10th of April in 1979.

Profiles

Owner Profiles

Lael Stables

Owner: Roy and Gretchen Jackson | Residence: West Grove, Pa. | Farm Location:

Grove, Pa. |

Lael Stables added another graded-stakes victory to its collection in 2022 when 4-year-old colt Arrest Me Red won the Grade II Twin Spires Turf Sprint presented by Sysco in May at Churchill Downs. On May 1, 2021 – Kentucky Derby Day – the 4-year-old filly Magic Attitude engendered some magical memories for Lael Stables owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson. Her upset victory in the Grade II Sheepshead Bay Stakes came 15 years after the couple’s Barbaro won the Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs. The victory was one of two graded-stakes triumphs for Lael Stables in 2021, with Arrest Me Red winning the Grade III Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational on Oct. 2. As a 3-year-old, Magic Attitude won the Grade I Belmont Oaks Invitational. Tampa Bay Downs trainer Arnaud Delacour, who trained Magic Attitude for the Jacksons, has conditioned many of their graded-stakes winners, including Hawksmoor and Jehozacat, who won back-to-back runnings of the Grade III Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in 2019 and 2020. In 2015, Delacour used the Tampa Bay Downs dirt surface to develop a promising Lael Stables homebred, Divining Rod. The colt finished second in the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes and third in the Grade II Tampa Bay Derby before winning the Grade III Coolmore Lexington Stakes at Keeneland. Divining Rod would finish third in the Xpressbet.com Preakness, won by Triple Crown champion American Pharoah. The Jacksons’ stable name, Lael, comes from the Gaelic word for loyalty. Gretchen Jackson, who has a Master’s degree in pastoral counseling, worked for more than a decade counseling children of alcoholics and drug abusers.

West

Tampa Trainer: Arnaud Delacour

Owner Profiles

Lambholm Stable

Owner: Roy S. Lerman | Born: September 6, 1943 | Birthplace: New York City | Farm Location: Ocala, FL | Tampa Trainer: Roy S. Lerman Lambholm Stable has been a major player on the Florida Thoroughbred racing scene since owner Roy Lerman purchased the late Allen Paulson’s Ocala-based Brookside Farms South in the spring of 2000, renaming the operation Lambholm South. Five years later, Lerman purchased historic 1,800-acre Hobeau Farm, expanding Lambholm’s holdings. Trainer/General Manager Junior Serna, who moved to Ocala in 1977, managed a training program that has produced such national champions as Slew o’ Gold, Personal Ensign, Epitome, Flawlessly, Azeri and Speightstown. The Lambholm South name is also familiar to Tampa Bay Downs fans because of its sponsorship each March of the Grade II, $400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby for 3-year-old Triple Crown hopefuls. The 2016 version was won by subsequent Belmont Stakes runner-up Destin, while the 2017 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby went to Tapwrit, who bettered Destin’s performance by winning the Belmont. Subsequent Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby winners include Quip (2018), Tacitus (2019), 49-1 shot King Guillermo (2020), Helium (2021) and Classic Causeway (2022), who later won the Grade I Caesars Belmont Derby Invitational. Lambholm South is also the presenting sponsor of the track’s Festival Preview Day in February. Lerman is a successful on-track trainer. His 240-plus career victories include the Grade III Long Island Handicap in 2016 at Aqueduct with 5-year-old mare Evidently, who had won the 2015 Florida Cup Distaff Turf at Tampa Bay Downs in stakes-record time. Lerman, who has been involved in the sport as an owner, breeder and trainer for more than 40 years, also owned and trained the graded stakes-placed mare Lentil and stakes winner Miss Matzoball.

Owner Profiles

Volar Corp.

Born: March 2, 1947 | Owner: Jerry Campbell | Born: April 20,1940 | Birthplace: Allegan, MI Residence: Tampa, FL | Tampa Trainer: Kathleen O’Connell

Racing under his own name during the 2020-2021 meet, Campbell enjoyed great success at Tampa Bay Downs, winning 13 races from 47 starts to finish third in the Owner standings. He followed up last season with five victories under his Volar Corp. banner. Two seasons ago, Campbell won the Florida Cup Equistaff Sophomore Turf Stakes when 3-year-old gelding Indy Lyon rallied late under jockey Ronnie Allen, Jr., to triumph by a nose. Campbell has been in the banking business for 60 years and is the majority owner and CEO of CapTec USA, a Tampa-based lending institution. He was formerly the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HomeBancorp in Tampa. He owned Pinnacle Race Course near Detroit before its closing in 2010 and was President and CEO of Magna International Entertainment Corp. from 1999-2009. In years past, Campbell’s stable had as many as 60 horses, few as accomplished as the filly Post It, who won the 1994 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland as a 2-year-old. She went on to compete in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and Kentucky Oaks and was third in the Grade I Ashland Stakes. He also campaigned Sea Legs, a winner of four stakes in Michigan in 1999 and 2000. Campbell’s father and grandfather ran the Allegan (Mich.) County Fair for years and were involved in racing as Standardbred owners, but Jerry always found the Thoroughbreds more exciting.

Owner Profiles

Wasabi Ventures Stables

Owner: TK Kuegler | Born: March 21,1971 | Birthplace: Baltimore, MD | Residence: Tampa, FL

First Win: Slick William, Laurel Park, 2017 | Tampa Trainer: Jesus “Jesse” Cruz

TK Kuegler, who has campaigned under the stable name Wasabi Ventures Stables since 2017, defines success in the sport as “taking care of the horses and the people who take care of the horses. Wins and losses come and go, but taking care of the people and horses themselves is more important.” Wasabi Ventures Stables, which finished fifth in last season’s Oldsmar Owners standings with nine victories, will keep about 10 horses at Tampa Bay Downs under trainer Jesus “Jesse” Cruz, with another string at Oaklawn Park under Jason Barkley and another group at Penn National under Mark Salvaggio. All told, Wasabi Ventures has about 25 Thoroughbreds in training, 25 broodmares and a combined 50 weanlings and yearlings, with the broodmares and unraced horses residing at St. Omer’s Farm in Maryland. The stable also owns shares in about 30 stallion syndicates. Kuegler is a venture capitalist by trade, investing in early-stage companies and helping them to expand. He gained the desire to enter racing when he was a young child after listening to stories from his great-grandfather, Pierre Lacoste, about the racetrack. One of Wasabi Ventures’ top horses is stakes winner Benevengo, claimed at Tampa Bay Downs last February from his first start, a victory, for $25,000. Why Not Tonight, now a member of the outfit’s broodmare band, won the All Brandy Stakes at Laurel Park last June as a 4-year-old in her final career start. Kuegler’s wife Michele directs the couple’s nonprofit aftercare program for retired racehorses through The Horse Fund, which focuses on supporting safe and secure Thoroughbred retirements for all the horses that have been touched by Wasabi Ventures. “It is her full-time job,” said TK, who says his wife tracks about 400 horses they have owned at one time or another. “Even if we claim a horse and it runs one race and goes to someone else, she makes sure it ends up in a safe place” (after its racing career).

Owner Profiles

Winner Circle Stables, LLC

Owner: Bobby Sands | Born: April 4,1963 | Birthplace: New York | Residence: Danbury, CT Tampa Trainers: Douglas Nunn, Gregory Sacco

Bobby Sands approaches the claiming game in a similar manner to his automobile business, Nations Auto. Whether he is purchasing a car for resale or claiming a horse he believes is on the verge of immediate success, he trusts in his eye – and, at the track, the acumen of his trainers – to make a higher percentage of profitable buys. In only three years, Winner Circle Stables has posted 53 victories (at press time), winning races at about a 16.9-percent clip. Winner Circle made a strong impression in its first Oldsmar season, winning 15 races to finish third in the Owner standings. In 2021, Winner Circle finished second in the Monmouth Park Leading Owner race with nine victories, trailing only Colts Neck Stables. Sands, with Douglas Nunn as his trainer, claimed 31 horses during the 2021-2022 Oldsmar meet and had 27 claimed away, constantly seeking horses they felt were primed to win while not being reluctant to drop them in class in search of victory. “If we claim a horse for $35,000 and then we don’t think it can win for $20,000, we’ll drop it in for $16,000 or $10,000, and if someone else claims it, that is part of the game,” Sands said. “I’m not a bettor. I like winning races and I like all the win pictures.” Sands, who owns about 40 horses at any given time, will keep horses at Oldsmar this season with both Nunn and Grade I-winning trainer Gregory Sacco. Sands plays an active role in re-homing his horses with retirement organizations and groups that prepare racehorses for second careers after they leave the racetrack.

Owner Profiles

Winning Stables

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After capturing back-to-back leading Tampa Bay Downs Owners titles, Winning Stables fell off the pace, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying. In addition to six victories, the stable’s runners finished second or third in 31 of 67 starts, a staggering 46-percent “close-call” rate. Winning Stables’s 2020-2021 victory total of 27 winners was 11 more than runner-up Carole Star Stables. Owner Gerald Bennett has also won seven consecutive training titles at the Oldsmar oval, and at 78 he shows no signs of slowing. Throughout the 1980s, Bennett was a mainstay on the Michigan racing scene, dominating the trainer standings at Hazel Park and Detroit Race Course. Bennett conditioned the filly Down From Heaven to nine victories in a row at Detroit Race Course from 1988 through 1989 after claiming her for $5,000. He was leading trainer in 2005 at Great Lakes Downs with 86 wins. Among his many accomplishments, Bennett has won five races in one day. Bennett’s Crimson Knight finished second in the 2011 Grade II Tampa Bay Derby at odds of 86-1. Winning Stables owned Crimson Knight in partnership with Raymond Rech.

Owner: Gerald Bennett | Born: March 12, 1944

Birthplace: Springhill, Nova Scotia | Residence: Tampa, FL | Tampa Trainer: Gerald Bennett

Records

Jockey Riding Records

TRAINER WINS DATE

Richard DePass 7 15-Mar-80

Edwin Gonzalez 6 10-Mar-17

Rick Luhr 5 10-Dec-83

Jorge Guerra 5 30-Dec-96

Herson Sanchez 5 2-Jan-96

Jesse Garcia 5 4-May-96

Joe Judice 5 21-Apr-03

Daniel Centeno 5 212-Feb-09

John Velazquez 5 9-Mar-13

Antonio Gallardo 5 6-Dec-14

Antonio Gallardo 5 31-Dec-14

Antonio Gallardo 5 24-Feb-14

Javier Castellano 5 25-Mar-18

Samy Camacho 5 7-Apr-18

Antonio Gallardo 5 2-Feb-18

Samy Camacho 5 26-Jan-19

Pablo Morales 5 4-May-19

Antonio Gallardo 5 19-Jan-20

Antonio Gallardo 5 5-Dec-20

Pablo Morales 5 1-Jan-22

Pablo Morales 5 8-Jan-22

Irad Ortiz, Jr. 5 12-Feb-22

Trainer Records

TRAINER WINS DATE

Kathleen O’Connell 4 23-Feb-03

Jamie Ness 4 3-Mar-09

Jamie Ness 4 19-Jan-12

Gerald Bennett 4 17-Feb-19

Gerald Bennett 4 5-Mar-16

Gerald Bennett 4 7-Dec-16

Gerald Bennett 4 17-Feb-19

Don Rice 3 13-Feb-97

Sam Cronk 3 28-Dec-97

William Mitchell 3 10-Apr-01

Duane Knipe 3 24-Apr-01

Richard Ciardullo, Jr. 3 14-Jan-03

Greg Griffith 3 31-Mar-03

Rick Slomkowski 3 25-Jan-07

Kirk Ziadie 3 23-Mar-07

Charles Fontana 3 2-Apr-07

Peter Wasiluk, Jr. 3 26-Jan-08

Rick Slomkowski 3 28-Mar-08

Jamie Ness 3 1-Mar-09

Anthony Pecoraro 3 12-Dec-09

Ian Wilkes 3 23-Jan-13

Rory Barron 3 15-Mar-13

Kathleen O’Connell 3 17-Dec-14

Gerald Bennett 3 7-Mar-15

Kathleen O’Connell 3 18-Jan-17

Tom Proctor 3 21-Jan-17

Gerald Bennett 3 28-Jan-18

Gerald Bennett 3 29-Nov-19

Victor Carrasco, Jr. 3 6-Mar-20

Kent Sweezey 3 3-Apr-20

Gerald Bennett 3 24-Apr-20

Claude McGaughey, III 3 29-Apr-20

Dale Bennett 3 15-May-20

Gerald Bennett 3 12-Dec-20

Jose H. Delgado 3 23-Dec-20

Antonio Machado 3 23-Apr-21

Chad Brown 3 12-Mar-22

Owner, Trainer, & Jockey Combinations

OWNER, TRAINER & JOCKEY WINS

DATE

Christos Gatis 3 10-Apr-01

William Mitchell Manoel Cruz

Midwest Thoroughbreds 3 1-Mar-09 Jamie Ness Ronnie Allen, Jr.

Trainer & Jockey Combinations

TRAINER & JOCKEY WINS DATE

Sam Cronk

Sean Jones 3 28-Dec-97

Kirk Ziadie

Sally Mitchellhill 3 23-Mar-07

Kathleen O’Connell

Antonio Gallardo 3 17-Dec-14

Claude McGaughey, III Antonio Gallardo 3 29-Apr-20

Mutuel Records

Wager PAYOFF DATE

$2.00 Win $249.00 23-Mar-88

$2.00 Daily Double $6,638.60 6-Mar-09

$2.00 Exacta $4,288.00 13-Feb-19

$1.00 Trifecta $54,155.60 3-Feb-10

$2.00 Perfecta $9,754.00 8-Feb-73

$2.00 Quinella $5,067.60 21-Feb-95

$2.00 Pick 3 $41,555.80 19-Mar-08

$2.00 Pick 4 $248,045.20 27-Feb-10

$1.00 Superfecta $154,377.50 6-Dec-13

$.10 Superfecta $38,169.08 21-Mar-08

$1.00 Super High Five $60,388.00 15-Feb-15

$1.00 Pick 5 $435,029.40 8-Feb-20

$.20 Ultimate 6 $256,712.78 23-May-20

Main Track

DISTANCE HORSE AGE WEIGHT TIME DATE

2 furlongs Silver Dollar Boy 2 120 21.80 Jan. 18, 1990

3 furlongs Hot Star 2 117 33.40 Feb. 14, 1980 Wynn Dot Comma 2 118 33.40 April 21, 2003

4 furlongs Camp Izard 2 122 46.80 May 1, 1993

4 ½ furlongs Geronimo J. 2 120 52.80 March 16, 1984

5 furlongs Jr’s Exchange 5 119 56.57 April 2, 2011

5 ½ furlongs Lady of Greatness 6 118 1:02.79 March 14, 2012

6 furlongs It’s Me Mom 4 117 1:08.67 April 7, 2012

6 ½ furlongs Action Andy 5 121 1:15.47 March 10, 2012

7 furlongs Win Win Win 3 120 1:20.89 Jan. 19, 2019

Abt. 1 mile Prosico 4 115 1:37.47 March 24, 2007

1m-40 yards Downtowner 7 119 1:38.68 Feb. 27, 2021

Abt. 1m40y Ravencliff 5 118 1:40.47 Jan. 29, 2008

1 1/16-mile Stanford 5 122 1:41.75 March 11, 2017

1 1/8-mile Position Leader 4 122 1:50.60 April 9, 1989

1 3/16-mile Warning Flag 8 126 1:59.60 Jan. 25, 1986

1 ¼-mile Saffron Hall 6 116 2:05.10 March 23, 2013

1 3/8-mile Banshee Brad 7 118 2:20.30 March 26, 2005

1 ½-mile Royal Jacopo 6 118 2:33 March 12, 1955

1 5/8-mile Most Valiant 11 110 2:48.2 March 29, 1997

1 ¾-mile Our Day 4 119 3:00.2 March 20, 1957

1 7/8-mile Best Hearted 5 118 3:18.3 March 22, 1986

2 miles Boss Man Jarett 10 118 3:30.3 April 24, 1999

2m-70 yards Turkey Foot Road 6 119 3:39.8 March 22, 1969

2 1/16-miles Mystic Fox 5 116 3:37.6 March 27, 1988

Steeplechase

Distance Horse Age Weight Time Date

Abt. 2 1/16-miles Red Classic 6 154 3:43.82 March 4, 2000

Turf

DISTANCE HORSE AGE WEIGHT TIME DATE

5 furlongs Faction Cat 7 122 53.97 Feb. 22, 2020

Abt. 5 furlongs Cee ‘n O 3 118 55.66 Dec. 20, 2014

1 mile Winfromwithin 3 117 1:33.23 March 6, 2021 Abt. 1 mile Alley Oop Oop 5 120 1:34.37 Jan. 19, 2013

1 1/16-mile Legs Galore 4 122 1:39.65 Feb. 20, 1999 Abt. 1 1/16-mile Lentenor 5 118 1:40.95 Dec.23,2011

1 1/8-mile Tepin 5 122 1:46.26 March 12, 2016 Abt. 1 1/8-mile Zagora 5 122 1:46.97 March 10, 2012

1 3/8-mile Kitten’s Spa 5 116 2:15.67 March 27, 2021 Abt. 1 3/8-mile Hertzalot 3 117 2:16.35 April 6, 2014 Abt. 1 ½-mile Top Senor 6 118 2:31.30 Feb. 26, 2002

Arabians

DISTANCE HORSE AGE WEIGHT TIME DATE

5 furlongs Keen Edge 3 117 1:05.1 March 12, 1989

5 ½ furlongs Mr Full Service 10 118 1:12.25 Jan. 20, 2002

6 furlongs FMR Country Doc 4 116 1:18.2 April 23, 1995

7 furlongs Mucho Caliente 4 122 1:32.59 March 11, 2000 Abt. 1 mile (turf) Smoke N Kisses 5 122 1:48.96 April 1, 1999

1 m-70yards Sams Bey 4 116 1:54.1 Feb. 12, 1989

1 1/16-mile Patriot Missle 6 122 1:56 March 16,1997

1 1/8-mile Redames Ben Rabi 7 122 2:00.1 Jan. 28, 1986

1 ¼-mile Oh By Gosh 5 126 2:19.4 Feb. 9, 1992

1 ½-mile Tikisflaming Jet 6 126 2:52.3 Jan. 20, 1990

Season Records

SEASON LARGEST HANDLE LARGEST ATTENDANCE

2021-2022 $20,778,222 (March 12, 2022) 7,756 (May 7, 2022)

2020-2021 $15,229,366 (March 6, 2021) 4,872 (May 1, 2021)

2019-2020 $13,155,349 (March 7, 2020) 10,021 (March 7, 2020)

2018-2019 $13,956,020.00 (March 9, 2019) 11,924 (May 4, 2019)

2017-2018 $14,859,632.00 (March 10, 2018) 11,055 (May 5, 2018)

2016-2017 $12,123,021.00 (March 11, 2017) 11,006 (May 6, 2017)

2015-2016 $12,250,446.88 (March 12, 2016) 10,443 (May 7, 2016)

2014-2015 $10,587,183 (March 7, 2015) 10,379 (May 2, 2015)

2013-2014 $10,249,574 (March 8, 2014) 10,359 (March 8, 2014)

2012-2013 $10,291,827.76 (March 9, 2013) 10,476 (March 9, 2013)

2011-2012 $ 9,183,788 (March 10, 2012) 9,247 (March 10, 2012)

2010-2011 $10,949,948 (March 12, 2011) 10,755 (March 12, 2011)

2009-2010 $10,807,264.71 (March 13, 2010) 11,025 (March 13, 2010)

2008-2009 $ 9,165,514 (March 14, 2009) 10,420 (March 14, 2009)

2007-2008 $10,282,952 (March 15, 2008) 12,746 (March 15, 2008)

2006-2007 $10,916,634 (March 17, 2007) 11,014 (May 5, 2007)

2005-2006 $10,529,973 (March 18, 2006) 10,451 (March 18, 2006)

2004-2005 $ 6,889,834 (March 19, 2005) 10,246 (March 19, 2005)

2003-2004 $ 5,353,782 (March 14, 2004) 8,131 (March 14, 2004)

2002-2003 $ 3,880,693 (March 8, 2003) 8,340 (May 3, 2003)

2001-2002 $ 3,396,237 (March 17, 2002) 8,332 (May 4, 2002)

2000-2001 $ 3,877,477 (March 18, 2001) 8,133 (May 5, 2001)

Attendance Records

ATTENDANCE DATE EVENT

12,746 March 15, 2008 Tampa Bay Derby Day 11,924 May 4, 2019 Kentucky Derby Day 11,055 May 5, 2018 Kentucky Derby Day 11,025 March 14, 2010 Tampa Bay Derby Day

11,014 May 5, 2007 Kentucky Derby Day (Street Sense) 11,006 May 6, 2017 Kentucky Derby Day (Always Dreaming) 10,755 March 12, 2011 Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,690 May 3, 2008 Kentucky Derby Day 10,593 March 17, 2007 Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,476 March 9, 2013 Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,451 March 19, 2006 Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,443 May 7, 2016 Kentucky Derby Day 10,420 March 14, 2009 Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,311 May 4, 2013 Kentucky Derby Day 10,275 March 9, 2019 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,246 March 19, 2005 Tampa Bay Derby Day

10,232 March 10, 2018 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,206 March 12, 2016 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,144 May 2, 2009 Kentucky Derby Day 10,079 March 11, 2017 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Day 10,021 March 7, 2020 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Day 9,803 May 7, 2005 Kentucky Derby Day

9,765 April 8, 1990 Closing Day (Pick-6)

9,308 May 6, 2000 Kentucky Derby Day

9,247 March 10, 2012 Tampa Bay Derby Day

9,199 May 1, 1999 Kentucky Derby Day

9,028 May 5, 2012 Kentucky Derby Day

8,669 May 2, 1998 Kentucky Derby Day/Turf Course Unveiling 8,533 March 20, 1998 Tampa Bay Derby Day

Stakes Histories

Stakes Histories

How Does Tampa Bay Downs Name Its Stakes?

The Naming of Tampa Bay Downs Stakes

The names of some stakes races at Tampa Bay Downs have obvious origins: the (Lambholm South) Tampa Bay Derby, the Florida Cup Races, and so forth. The Florida Oaks is named as such simply because races for 3-year-old fillies run at classic distances are all referred to as “Oaks;” the male divisions run under the much more widely recognized “Derby” headings. The Florida Cup is comprised of six races restricted to Florida-breds. The Turf Dash earned its name from the fact that it is a short race run on the lawn. However, some of the stakes races run at Tampa Bay Downs leave patrons scratching their heads and wondering, “Now, where did that name come from?” The explanations are quite simple…

Local Color

The Pelican Stakes and Sandpiper Stakes are both named after birds common to the Tampa Bay area; the Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas Stakes are named for the counties surrounding Tampa Bay Downs. The Lightning City Stakes is named after the widespread, albeit unproven, idea that Tampa Bay is the lightning capital of the world. The Suncoast Stakes is named for the region of Florida in which Tampa Bay Downs is located; with year-round sunny weather, horsemen are happy to return to Tampa each winter for Thoroughbred racing. The Minaret Stakes gets its name from the spires found at the University of Tampa.

Space Race

The Challenger, Columbia and Endeavour Stakes are named after space shuttles that have launched in previous years.

Friends from the Past

The Chris Thomas Turf Classic, which was discontinued after the 2009 running, and returned in 2017 with its original name, the Columbia Stakes, was named for the late sports-talk radio host and Thoroughbred owner who used to frequent the Oldsmar oval. The Sam F. Davis Stakes was named after the former Tampa Bay Downs President who helped the track regain financial stability and brought in a period of growth for the track.

Florida Fun

The Gasparilla Stakes is named for Tampa’s annual Gasparilla Fest, which celebrates the spirit of legendary pirate Jose Gaspar. It is rumored that Gaspar defected from the Spanish Navy in 1873. Gaspar took the pirate name “Gasparilla” and set up his den off of Florida’s west coast, allegedly plundering vessels in the Gulf of Mexico for 38 years.*

Lovely Lass

The Wayward Lass Stakes is the only stakes race at Tampa Bay Downs named after a horse. Wayward Lass, who was the 1981 Eclipse Award-winning 3-yearold filly, was bred in Florida by Hall of Fame trainer Horatio Luro, but she never raced at Tampa Bay Downs.

* THE LEGEND OF GASPARILLA: MYTH AND HISTORY ON FLORIDA’S WEST COAST by André-Marcel d’Ans Translated by Marie-Joèle Ingalls

The Michelob Ultra Challenger Stakes Grade III

$100,000 4-Year-Olds & Up 1 1/16-Mile

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Scalding (1:43.53) Javier Castellano Grandview Equine, Cheyenne Stable, LLC and LNJ Foxwoods Claude McGaughey, III Cody’s Wish Dynamic One

2021 Last Judgment (1:41.98) Daniel Centeno Michael Dubb, Steve Hornstock, Bethlehem Stables LLC and Nice Guys Stables

Michael Maker Modernist War Stopper

2020 Trophy Chaser (1:42.28)@ Paco Lopez JCA Racing Stable Juan Carlos Avila King for a Day Prompt

2019 Flameaway (1:41.89) Jose Ortiz John C. Oxley Mark Casse Killybegs Captain Bourbon Resolution

2018 War Story (1:43.43) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Imaginary Stables & Glenn Ellis Jorge Navarro Rafting You're to Blame

2017 Stanford (1:41.75)* John Velazquez Stonestreet, Magnier, et al Todd Pletcher Ami's Flatter Hereditary

2016 Adirondack King (1:44.15)$ Javier Castellano MarchFore Thoro’breds John Servis Neck ‘n Neck Breaking Lucky

2015 General a Rod (1:42.89) John Velazquez Skychai Racing/Starlight Todd Pletcher Old Time Hockey Neck ‘n Neck

2014 Tulira Castle (1:43.68) Angel Serpa Curtis C. Green James DiVito Nicklaus Way Managed Account

2013 Flatter This (1:44.90) Antonio Gallardo Blackacre Farms, Inc. Kathleen O’Connell Nicklaus Way (DH) Argentine Tango (DH)

2012 Fort Larned (1:42.93) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Janis Whitham Ian Wilkes Wiki Imperial Czar

2011 Colizeo (1:42.94) Willie Martinez Wertheimer and Frere Todd Pletcher Jardim Yummy with Butter

2010 Bold Start (1:42.83) Willie Martinez Lawrence E. Carroll Kenneth McPeek J’s Sundance Halo Birdrun

2009 Fierce Wind (1:45.01) Daniel Centeno Minor Stables William Phipps Fearless Vision Paradise Dancer

2008 Wayzata Bay (1:44.82) Luis Gonzalez World Thoroughbred Judi Hicklin Riversrunrylee Imawildandcrazyguy

2007 Istan (1:43.64) Jose Ferrer Darpat S.L. Stables Bill Mott Anglers Reef Cherokee Princ

2006 Cherokee Prince (1:43.13) Mike Allen Volar Corporation Ron Allen, Sr. Seek Gold Nightmare Affair

2005 Tap Day (1:44.58) Jose Velez Edward Evans Mark Hennig Above the Wind Attack the Books

2004 Attack the Books (1:44)^ Derek Bell Michael Crowe David Hinsley Native Hawk Burning Roma

2003 Admiral Lance (1:38.58) Pedro Rodriguez James Little James Little Askforaraise North Broad

2002 Classic Case (1:36.16) T.D. Houghton Stonerside Stable Mark Casse Red Masque AWOL Soldier

@ -- Achieved Grade III status

* Stakes, track record, main **- Stakes record, turf $- Purse increased to $100,000 ^- 4-and-up, 1 1/16-mile, dirt

The Michelob Ultra Challenger Stakes Grade III

$100,000 4-Year-Olds & Up 1 1/16-Mile continued

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2001 First Spear (1:36.56) Chris DeCarlo Peachtree Stable Todd Pletcher Creek’s Shore A.P. Topper 2000 Lucky J J (1:33.79) ** Pedro Rodriguez Richard Ciardullo, Sr. Richard Ciardullo, Jr. Cool N Crafty Exclusive Dawn

1999 Marquette (1:35.16)^^ Jean-Luc Samyn J.R. Cavanaugh Richard Violette Belfast Appeal Whatkindadealisthis

1998 Sejm Run (1:25 1/5) Luis Gonzalez Harvey Tenenbaum Julian Canet Rock and Roll Roguish Prince 1997 FavorableRegard (1:24.2)& Kevin Whitley Suzanne Gladden Marshall Novak Chin Up Wilt the Tilt

1991 Lee N Otto (1:49 4/5) % Willie Martinez Tedford M. Randolf Glenn Wismer Randy Striding Ruler

1990 Darian’s Reason (1:47) Eduardo Nunez Schweiger Stable, Inc. R.J. Richards, Jr. Gold Peak Stutz Blackkat

1989 Slew of Angels (1:46) Ricardo Lopez Sam-Son Farm James E. Day Saratoga Spender Mitigated Bid

1988 Storm Predictions (1:46 3/5) Steve Gaffalione Three G Stable Luis Olivares Ruler's Guard What A Little Guy

1987 Strike the Knight (1:45 2/5) Herson Sanchez J.M. Cutrona John F. Reading Cannon Dancer Blair Cove

%- Final 2-year-old running ^^- First turf running, 1 mile &- Reinstated, 3-year-olds

The Michelob Ultra Challenger Stakes Grade III

THE $100,000 MICHELOB ULTRA CHALLENGER STAKES

Fastest Time: 1:33.79 1:41.75 (turf) (dirt) LUCKY J J STANFORD (2000) (2017)

Slowest Time: 1:38.58 1:49.40 (turf) (dirt) ADMIRAL LANCE LEE N OTTO (2003) (1991)

Longest Priced Winner: $61.60 (dirt) CHEROKEE PRINCE (2006)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.00 STANFORD (2017)

Closest Winning Margin: Neck Neck STANFORD SCALDING (2017) (2022)

Largest Winning Margin: 7 ½ Lengths DARIAN’S REASON (1990)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 LEE N OTTO WIKI (1991) (2012)

Track Condition: Firm Fast Good

All turf runnings All dirt runnings except (2022)

Richest Purse: $100,000 (dirt) 2016-present

Scalding, inside, holds off Cody’s Wish for the 4-year-old’s third consecutive victory in his stakes debut.

Other Notes: Hall of Fame trainer Claude “Shug” McGaughey’s 4-year-old colt Scalding rewarded jockey Javier Castellano with his second victory in the Michelob Ultra Challenger, having won the event 2016 on Adirondack King. Last Judgment’s gate-to-wire victory in 2021 gave jockey Daniel Centeno his second Challenger triumph; he had won on Fierce Wind in 2009. In 2020, the 4-year-old colt Trophy Chaser made his first stakes victory a graded prize with his gutsy neck victory. It was also the first graded-stakes triumph for owner-trainer Juan Carlos Avila, who later that day saddled 49-1 shot King Guillermo for a Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby victory. The 2019 winner, Flameaway channeled his version of “déjà vu” to win the Challenger by a half-length in a determined effort reminiscent of his Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes victory the previous season. It was the 4-year-old colt’s first victory in eight tries since the Davis. After trying Grade I competition in his four previous starts, classy 6-year-old veteran War Story rolled to a five-and-three-quarter length Challenger victory under jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. In 2017, the 5-year-old Stanford became the first horse in track history to race the 1 1/16-mile distance in under 1:42, giving trainer Todd Pletcher a record fourth Challenger victory. The conditioner of 2016 Challenger Stakes winner Adirondack King, John Servis, trained 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones. Servis returned to Churchill Downs in 2016 to saddle Cathryn Sophia for a Longines Kentucky Oaks victory. The 2015 Challenger winner, General a Rod, competed in all three legs of the 2014 Triple Crown, finishing fourth in the Preakness. Fort Larned used his 2012 Challenger victory as a springboard to a remarkable campaign, culminating in a Breeders’ Cup Classic victory at Santa Anita. Fort Larned also won the Grade III Skip Away at Gulfstream (in track-record time); the Grade III Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap; and the Grade I Whitney Invitational Handicap at Saratoga. The Challenger started out at 1 1/16 miles on the dirt for 2-year-olds from 1987 – 1991. The 1988 Challenger winner, Storm Predictions, returned the following year to win the Tampa Bay Derby. The Challenger was contested at a mile on the turf for 3-year-olds from 1999-2003. The 2004 race was put back on the dirt for older horses. The 2006 renewal marked a track and stakes record for Cherokee Prince with Mike Allen aboard for his father, trainer Ron Allen, Sr. Another member of the Allen family, Ronnie Jr., was aboard Fort Larned in 2012. Willie Martinez has ridden three winners of the Challenger: Lee N Otto in 1991, Bold Start in 2010 and Colizeo in 2011. The 2010 Belmont Stakes winner, Drosselmeyer, finished fourth in the 2011 Challenger; he went on to win the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The Columbia Stakes

(FORMERLY THE CHRIS THOMAS TURF CLASSIC)

$75,000 3-YEAR-OLDS 1 MILE (TURF)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Heaven Street (1:37.78) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Siena Farms, LLC and Christophe Clement Bens Malice Fort Washington Asmussenequine.com

2021 Winfromwithin (1:33.23)* Luis Saez Jim Bakke Todd Pletcher Crew Dragon Boreas 2020 Doc Boy (1:34.67) Joe Bravo Stallionaire Enterprises Michael Stidham Mr. Kringle Summer Assault

2019 Digital Age (IRE) (1:36.58) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Klaravich Stables Chad Brown Forever Mo Global Access

2018 Gidu (IRE)(1:34.52) John Velazquez Zayat Stables Todd Pletcher Captivating Moon Smart Remark

2017 SonicBoom^^(1:34.73) Julien Leparoux Lothenbach Stables Ian Wilkes Profiteer Holiday Stone 2009 Dinner in Odem (1:46.68) Phil Teator Peter & Sharyn Wasiluk Peter Wasiluk, Jr. Sir Dave Sporting Art

2008 Revved Up (1:48.48) Daniel Centeno Live Oak Plantation Christophe Clement Victory Alleged I’m Only Laughing

2007 Therecomesatiger (1:49.53) Luis Gonzalez Charles Patton Thomas Proctor Revved Up Puppeteer (GB) 2006 Revved Up (1:48.25) Eddie Castro Live Oak Plantation Christophe Clement Ballonenostrikes Big Tex

2005 Hear No Evil (1:49.40) Melvin Toro Jacks or Better Farm Kenneth Decker Revved Up Headline

2004 Restage (1:48.03) Jesus Castanon Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Coahoma Milky Way Guy 2003 Guardianofthegate (1:50.16) Tommy Pompell Brett Rice Don Rice Total Anilation Dell Place

2002 Guardianofthegate (1:48.12) Dodie Duys Brett Rice Don Rice Fun n’ Gun Viva Pentelicus 2001 Guardianofthegate (1:47.9) Paula Bacon Brett Rice Don Rice Trooper Red Special Coach 2000 Lilys Cousin (1:46.34) ** Derek Bell Lois Allen Vincent W. Reedy Atiba Ben’s Quixote

^^ Renamed Columbia Stakes * Stakes, course record, mile ** Stakes Record, mile and an eighth

The $75,000 Columbia Stakes The Columbia Stakes

Fastest Time: 11/8 1 Mile 1:46.34 1:33.23 LILYS COUSIN WINFROMWITHIN (2000) (2021)

Slowest Time: 1 1/8 1 Mile 1:50.16 1:37.78 GUARDIANOFTHEGATE HEAVEN STREET (2003) (2022)

Longest Priced Winner: $34.40 GUARDIANOFTHEGATE (2001)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.20 GIDU (IRE) (2018)

Closest Winning Margin: Head DIGITAL AGE (2019)

Largest Winning Margin: 4 Lengths GUARDIANOFTHEGATE WINFROMWITHIN (2002) (2021)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ 1.00 TV SPORTS DIRECTOR (2002)

Track Condition: Firm Good All except (2022)

Richest Purse: $75,000 2005, 2017-present

Other Notes: Conditioner Christophe Clement became the second three-time winner of the Columbia (formerly known as the Chris Thomas Turf Classic) with Heaven Street’s determined victory. Trainer Todd Pletcher won his second Columbia Stakes in four years in 2021, sending out Winfromwithin for a course-record effort. In 2020 Doc Boy missed the stakes record by .15 seconds, staging an impressive stretch rally under top jockey Joe Bravo. A lack of seasoning didn’t hurt the Ireland-bed 3-year-old colt Digital Age, who rallied from far back in the 2019 Columbia to post a head victory under jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. Gidu lived up to his 3-5 odds by setting a stakes record in the Columbia's second running at a mile. In 2017, Sonic Boom established a stakes record of 1:34.73 for the 1-mile turf event for 3-year-olds, which from 2000-2009 had been contested as the Chris Thomas Turf Classic for horses 3-years-old-andupward. The race had been renamed in 2004 for Thomas, the late popular radio talk-show host who was also a Thoroughbred owner. Owner Brett Rice and trainer Don Rice won three times with Guardianofthegate in 2001, 2002, and 2003, with three different jockeys: Paula Bacon, Dodie Duys and Tommy Pompell. Restage, with jockey Jesus Castanon and trainer Thomas Proctor, was the first winner of the Chris Thomas Turf Classic when it was renamed in 2004. Proctor subsequently won the race again with Therecomesatiger in 2007 for owner Charles Patton and jockey Luis Gonzalez. Revved Up won the race twice for owner Live Oak Plantation and trainer Christophe Clement: in 2006 under Eddie Castro and in 2008 with Daniel Centeno in the irons. The winner of the 2009 Chris Thomas Turf Classic, Dinner in Odem, earned almost $450,000 in his 112-race career.

Heaven Street and superstar jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., reach for the stars while defeating eight 3-year-old rivals.

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association City of Ocala Florida Sire Stakes

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2021 R Adios Jersey (1:22.60) Paco Lopez Averill Racing, LLC and ATM Racing Georgina Baxter Starship Nala Bramble Berry

2020 Heiressall (1:23.35) Antonio Gallardo My Purple Haze Stables Teresa Pompay Independent Miss The Goddess Lyssa

2019 J P's Delight (1:23.65) Jairo Rendon Brent Fernung & Eugene Cahalan Kathleen O'Connell Wildwood's Beauty R Prerogative

2018 Silver Bay (1:25.74) Samy Camacho Richlyn Farms William Hickey Broadway Run Catoria

2017 Surprise Wedding (1:22.40)* Jesus Rios William A.T. Rainbow David Fawkes Stormy Embrace R Angel Katelyn

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association City of Ocala Florida Sire Stakes

$100,000 Fillies & Mares 3-Year-Olds-And-Up 7 Furlongs

Fastest Time: 1:22.40 SURPRISE WEDDING (2017)

Slowest Time: 1:25.74 SILVER BAY (2018)

Longest Priced Winner: $20.20 SILVER BAY (2018)

Shortest Priced Winner: $2.40 R ADIOS JERSEY (2021)

Closest Winning Margin: Neck SILVER BAY (2018)

Largest Winning Margin: 11 lengths R ADIOS JERSEY (2021)

Shortest Priced Loser: $1.00 R ANGEL KATELYN (2017)

Track Condition: FAST SLOPPY All runnings except 2018

Richest Purse: $125,000 2017-2019

The speedy Florida-bred R Adios Jersey is all by herself – well, except for jockey Paco Lopez – at the finish of the FTBOA City of Ocala Florida Sire Stakes.

Other Notes: The Ocala Stud and J. Michael O’Farrell, Jr.-bred R Adios Jersey missed the stakes record by .20 seconds in her runaway 11-length FTBOA City of Ocala triumph. In 2019, Florida-bred filly J P's Delight rewarded breeders Brent and Crystal Fernung and Eugene P. Cahalan with her third consecutive victory to begin her career. In the second running of the event, Florida-bred sophomore filly Silver Bay pulled off a 9-1 upset for trainer Bill Hickey and jockey Samy Camacho. Surprise Wedding’s time in the inaugural Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association contest for sophomore fillies was only a second off the Tampa Bay Downs track record for seven furlongs. Her sire, High Cotton, was a Grade III winner, while her unraced dam Happy Honeymoon also produced multiple-stakes winner Starship Bonita.

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Marion County Florida Sire Stakes

$100,000 Colts & Geldings 3-Year-Olds-And-Up 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2021 Shivaree (1:22.58) Samy Camacho Jacks or Better Farm Ralph Nicks R Mercedes Boy Well Defined

2020 Shivaree (1:21.68) * Roberto Alvarado, Jr. Jacks or Better Farm Ralph Nicks Jackson Noble Drama

2019 Jackson (1:23.80) Pablo Morales Tracy Pinchin Jose Pinchin Cajun Firecracker Well Defined

2018 World of Trouble (1:22.50) Antonio Gallardo Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables Jason Servis Noble Drama Weisser

2017 Mo Cash (1:22.84) Antonio Gallardo Marco Thoroughbred Corp. Ronald Spatz Three Rules Zipping

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Marion County Florida Sire Stakes

$100,000 Colts & Geldings 3-Year-Olds-And-Up 7 Furlongs

Fastest Time: 1:21.68 SHIVAREE (2020)

Slowest Time: 1:23.80 JACKSON (2019)

Longest Priced Winner: $4.80 MO CASH (2017)

Shortest Priced Winner: $2.40 WORLD OF TROUBLE (2018)

Closest Winning Margin: HEAD SHIVAREE (2021)

Largest Winning Margin: 13 3/4 Lengths

Shortest Priced Loser: $.70 THREE RULES (2017)

Track Condition: FAST SLOPPY All runnings except 2018

Richest Purse: $125,000 2017-2019

Other Notes: Shivaree, who finished second in the 2020 Grade I Curlin Florida Derby, received rave reviews for his second consecutive victory in the 7-furlong FTBOA Marion County. Shivaree was much the best in 2020 under jockey Roberto Alvarado, Jr., setting a stakes record while missing Win Win Win’s 7-furlong track record by .79 seconds. Jackson captured his third 2019 Tampa Bay Downs stakes victory, having won the Ocala Breeders' Sales Sophomore and the FTBOA Silver Charm Florida Sire Stakes the previous spring. The Florida-bred World of Trouble turned in a spectacular performance in the final start of his 3-year-old season, winning on a sloppy track by 13 ¾ lengths under jockey Antonio Gallardo while earning the highest Beyer Speed Figure, 109, in track history. By winning the inaugural Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association event, Mo Cash improved to 2-for-2 in Oldsmar stakes competition, having captured the Florida Cup Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore Stakes eight months earlier. His conditioner, Ron Spatz, is perhaps best known as the trainer of Carterista, a multiple-Grade III winner in the early 1990s.

Jockey Samy Camacho knows: Shivaree just pipped R Mercedes Boy at the wire for his second consecutive FTBOA Marion County Florida Sire Stakes victory.

The Endeavour Stakes Grade III

$175,000 Fillies

& Mares

4-Year-Olds-and-Up 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Bleecker Street (1:41.91) Hector R. Diaz, Jr. Peter M. Brant Chad Brown Lady Speightspeare Stunning Princess

2021 Counterparty Risk (IRE) (1:43.20) John Velazquez Klaravich Stables Chad Brown New York Girl (IRE) Margaret’s Joy

2020 Jehozacat (1:42.44) Daniel Centeno Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour Altea (FR) Andina Del Sur

2019 Hawksmoor (IRE) (1:40.83) Javier Castellano Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour Viva Vegas Conquest Hardcandy

2018 Dona Bruja (ARG) (1:40.92) $$ Jose Ortiz Dom Felipe LLC Ignacio Correas, IV La Coronel Truly Together

2017 Isabella Sings (1:41.07) John Velazquez Siena Farm Todd Pletcher Light in Paris (IRE) Evidently

2016 Tepin (1:42.91) Julien Leparoux Robert E. Masterson Mark Casse Lady Lara (IRE) Lovely Loyree

2015 Testa Rossi (FR) (1:42.04) # Irad Ortiz, Jr. Covello, Coleman & Doheny Chad Brown Hard Not to Like Lots o’ Lex

2014 Cloud Scapes (1:42.75) Erick Rodriguez Pin Oak Stud H. Graham Motion Wholelottashakin Floral Romance

2013 Old Tune (BRZ) 1:41.48 Joel Rosario Stud TNT Todd Pletcher Appealing Cat Last Full Measure

2012 Zagora (FR) (1:43.98) Javier Castellano Martin S. Schwartz Chad Brown Exclusive Love Keertana

2011 Silver Reunion (1:43.98) Ramon Dominguez Gov. Brereton C. Jones H. Graham Motion C.S. Silk Denomination

2010 Lomaki (1:46.39) Chris DeCarlo Chiefswood Stable Eric Coatrieux Cure for Sale (ARG) Coulee

2009 Ballymore Lady (1:42.37) Jose Lezcano R. McCauley and C. Purcell Eddie Kenneally Elusive Lady Sousaphone

2008 Dreaming of Anna (1:42.38) ^ Cornelio Velasquez Frank C. Calabrese Wayne Catalano Lear’s Princess Meribel

2007 Cassydora (GB) (1:43.05 John Velazquez Green Hills Farm Todd Pletcher Bright Abundance Warrior Girl

2006 My Lordship (1:40.26) * Cornelio Velasquez Live Oak Plantation Bill Mott Laurafina Amorama (FR)

*- Stakes record #- Hard Not to Like DQ’d from 1st $$- Purse increased to $175,000 ^- Race achieved Grade III status

The Endeavour Stakes Grade III

$175,000 Fillies & Mares 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2005 Delta Princess (1:43.54) Heberto Castillo, Jr. Saud bin Khaled Bill Mott Fast Cookie Lentil

2004 Madeira Mist (IRE) (1:44.97)% Edgar Prado Skymarc Farm, Inc. Christophe Clement Something Ventured Coney Kitty (IRE)

2003 Wander Mon (1:50.89) Manoel Cruz Jaime Carrion Edward Plesa, Jr. Strait From Texas Kimster

2002 Chausson Poire (1:50.40) Tommy Pompell Pia M. Kirkham Duane Knipe Kelly Bag Golden Antigua

2001 Cybil (1:48.48) Felix Ortiz Carol F. Dooner J.J. Graci Megans Bluff Golden Saint

2000 Office Miss (1:48.93) Joe Bravo Sam Morell Gary Sciacca Seducer Diablo’s First Lady

The Endeavour Stakes Grade III

$175,000 The Endeavour Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:40.26 MY LORDSHIP (2006)

Slowest Time: 1:51.56 CLOUD SCAPES (2014)

Longest Priced Winner: $ 35.60 JEHOZACAT (2020)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.60 TEPIN (2016)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose OFFICE MISS DREAMING OF ANNA (2000) (2008)

Largest Winning Margin: 4 Lengths DONA BRUJA (2018)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .20 MEGANS BLUFF (2001)

Track Condition: Firm Good Yielding

All except 2005 and 2011 2010

Richest Purse: $175,000 2018-present

The talented 4-year-old filly Bleecker Street proves she can handle the step up to graded-stakes company, rallying from near the back of the pack to win under jockey Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr.

Other Notes: Bleecker Street provided trainer Chad Brown with a record fourth Endeavour Stakes triumph, while carrying jockey Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr., to his first graded-stakes victory. Counterparty Risk’s 2021 victory was the third Lambholm South Endeavour triumph for jockey John Velazquez and trainer Chad Brown, and their first together. Owner Lael Stables and trainer Arnaud Delacour captured their second consecutive Lambholm South Endeavour victory in 2020 with Jehozacat, who had won the Wayward Lass Stakes on the dirt three weeks earlier. The 6-year-old Ireland-bred Hawksmoor earned her first victory since 2017 in the 2019 Lambholm South Endeavour. In the interim, she had finished second in five stakes races, including two Grade I events. The previous year, Dona Bruja and jockey Jose Ortiz shocked the competition by going to the lead at the outset and rolling to a 4-length victory for trainer Ignacio Correas, IV. The connections of 2017 Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes winner Isabella Sings – owner Siena Farm, trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez – reached the pinnacle of the sport 12 weeks after the Lambholm South Endeavour with a Kentucky Derby victory by Always Dreaming. In 2016, Tepin flashed her Eclipse Award-winning form before an appreciative Tampa Bay Downs crowd, cruising to victory against five overmatched rivals. She had won the Breeders’ Cup Mile on the turf the previous fall against males at Keeneland en route to being voted 2015 Champion Grass Female, an honor she again received in 2016. Tepin later became the fourth Endeavour winner in five years to add the Hillsborough Stakes to her victory ledger and extended her winning streak to eight with victories in the Grade I Coolmore Jenny Wiley at Keeneland, the Grade II Churchill Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs, the Group I Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Ricoh Woodbine Mile. The 2015 Lambholm South Endeavour winner, Testa Rossi, became the first Grade III Florida Oaks winner to return to Oldsmar to win the Endeavour while providing trainer Chad Brown with his second victory in the turf test for older fillies and mares. The disqualification of runner-up Hard Not to Like from first place was the first in the history of the race. Breeder-owner Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak Stud and trainer H. Graham Motion, who won with Cloud Scapes in 2014, combined in 2002 to win the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby with Equality.

The Endeavour Stakes Grade III

$175,000 The Endeavour Stakes

Continued: Cloud Scapes was the 100th lifetime stakes winner for her sire, Smart Strike. The 2013 winner, Old Tune, became the first Brazilian-bred distaffer to win the Endeavour. Old Tune’s trainer Todd Pletcher also won both races in 2007 with Cassydora. The 2012 Endeavour winner, Zagora, cemented her reputation as the nation’s top turf mare with subsequent victories in the Grade III Hillsborough and Gallorette, the Grade II Ballston Spa and the prestigious Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita. She won the year-end Eclipse Award as the best in her category. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott won the Endeavour in back-to-back years: in 2005 with Delta Princess and 2006 with My Lordship. Dreaming of Anna, the 2006 Eclipse Award Juvenile Filly champion, edged Lear’s Princess by a nose under jockey Cornelio Velasquez in 2008, the first year the Endeavour was a graded stakes.

Other Notes

The Florida Cup

Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies $110,000

3-Year-Olds 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Midnight Stroll  (1:23.12) Pablo Morales Gatsas Stables, R. A. Hill Stable and Steven Schoenfeld John Terranova, II Rapturous  Outfoxed

2021 R Adios Jersey (1:23.35) Paco Lopez Averill Racing and ATM Racing Georgina Baxter Psychic Ability Ray Arewethereyet

2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2019 Wildwood’s Beauty (1:24) Chris Landeros William Stiritz Scott Becker Eyeinthesky Here Comes Jackie

2018 Florida Fuego (1:25.10) Javier Castellano e Five Racing Thoroughbreds David Fawkes Mermaid of Honor Starship Bonita

2017 R Angel Katelyn (1:23.22) Edwin Gonzalez Averill/CCF/K Lauren Gerald Bennett Sadie Be Good Yes I'll Go

2016 April Gaze (1:24.29) Elvis Trujillo Karl and Cathi Glassman Edward Plesa, Jr. Valueable Charmer Chief Attraction

2015 R Sassy Lass (1:23.31) Antonio Gallardo Averill/Silver Oak/Kaufman Kirk Ziadie Coco’s Wildcat Royal Jewely

2014 Holiday Magic (1:23.20) Juan Leyva Pinnacle, Hendricks, Justice William Kaplan Quick as a Bunny Legal Laura

2013 Putitinmypocket (1:25.39) Juan Leyva Pinnacle/Wm. Kaplan William Kaplan Cindys Casino Cotton Pickin

2012 Xunlei (1:23.17) Leandro Goncalves Gold Mark Farm Dale Romans Citizen Advocate Backstage Magic

2011 My Sunshine Gal (1:22.75) * Ronnie Allen, Jr. Wisteria Lane Stable Derek Ryan Devilish Lady White Merlot

2010 Dances With Ashley (1:23.17) Elvis Trujillo Denholtz Stables Martin Wolfson Island Time Joanie’s Catch

2009 Snow Lass (1:23.78) R. Homeister, Jr. Bridlewood Farm Lynne M. Scace Sweet Yulianna Brinca

2008 Moonshine Alice (1:24.29) Andrew Ramgeet Kenneth McFarland Gerald Bennett Dee’s Rose Tight Precision

2007 Trainee (1:25.71) Jose Lezcano Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Suaveness Saint Barbara

2006 Quelle Surprise (1:24.03) T.D. Houghton Haras Santa Maria deAraras Richard Ciardullo, Sr. Love Boot Running Lass

2005 Running Bobcats (1:24.87) Julio Garcia Gatrou Farm Rodolfo Garcia Forever Brilliant British Event

2004 Chenia (1:26.73) Russell Woolsey Novak and Richard Marshall Novak Bird Chatter Runaway Rizzi

2003 Just Bill Me (1:24.45) R. Homeister, Jr. J. Reynolds & D. Dwyer Enrique Alonso Ozilda’s Nancy Lee Sara’s Yankee Girl

$110,000

The Florida Cup

Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies

Fastest Time: 1:22.75 MY SUNSHINE GAL (2011)

Slowest Time: 1:26.73 CHENIA (2004)

Longest Priced Winner: $61.00 QUELLE SURPRISE (2006)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.20 APRIL GAZE (2016)

Closest Winning Margin: Neck CHENIA (2004)

Largest Winning Margin: 7 ¾ Lengths JUST BILL ME (2003)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 FOREVER BRILLIANT (2005)

Track Condition: Fast All runnings

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

Jockey Pablo Morales, atop Midnight Stroll, gets set to celebrate an impressive gate-to-wire score in the Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies.

Other Notes: Midnight Stroll’s victory was the second in Florida Cup competition for jockey Pablo Morales, who won the 2017 Sprint aboard Tiger Blood. In 2021, the Averill Racing concern of Bradenton, Fla., resident Rich Averill scored its third Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies victory with R Adios Jersey, each in different partnerships. A 3-year-old daughter of emerging sire Kantharos, 2019 winner Wildwood’s Beauty drew off under jockey Chris Landeros for an easy triumph in her stakes debut. The 2018 winner, Florida Fuego, was bred by Ocala Stud and owned by the e Five Racing Thoroughbreds outfit of Bob and Kristine Edwards and their three children: Cassidy, Riley and Delaney. Relative newcomers to racing, they won back-to-back renewals of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf with Rushing Fall in 2017 and New Money Honey in 2016. Florida Fuego was ridden in the Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies by Javier Castellano, who won a record four Florida Cup races on the card and five overall. The 2017 winner, R Angel Katelyn, won the Sandpiper and Gasparilla Stakes that season and finished third in the Suncoast Stakes. Trainer William Kaplan and jockey Juan Leyva teamed to win consecutive editions of the Sophomore Fillies, scoring with Putitinmypocket in 2013 and Holiday Magic in 2014. Since-retired jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr., captured the inaugural running of the race with Just Bill Me in 2003 and won again on Snow Lass in 2009. Elvis Trujillo has also ridden two winners: Dances With Ashley in 2010 and April Gaze in 2016. Before taking the race in 2017 with R Angel Katelyn, trainer Gerald Bennett had won with Moonshine Alice in 2008.

The Florida Cup

$110,000 Equistaff Sophomore Turf 3-YEAR-OLDS 1 1/16-MILE (TURF)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Treasure King (1:42.19) Javier Castellano Mathis Stable LLC Todd Pletcher  Tapthespeedofsound Merlin

2021 Indy Lyon (1:42.64) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Jerry Campbell Maria Bowersock Officiating Chess’s Dream

2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2019 Global Access (1:41.35) Antonio Gallardo Live Oak Plantation Michael Trombetta Swamp Rat Jais’s Solitude

2018 He's Bankable (1:41.29) Julien Leparoux Live Oak Plantation Mark Casse March to the Arch The X

2017 Muggsamatic (1:42.23) Ronnie Allen Jr. Stonehedge Kathleen O'Connell General McGooby Prize Fight

2016 Life Imitates Art (1:42.41) Manoel Cruz Klaravich & Wm. Lawrence Chad Brown Our Way Second Mate

2015 World Approval (1:42.21) Rafael Hernandez Live Oak Plantation Mark Casse Jakob’s Way Prince Vincenzo

2014 Ex Pirate (1:43.42) Daniel Centeno Averill Racing, Clark Freeman Ralph Ziadie I’m the Lucky One Best Plan Yet

2013 Boy of Summer (1:43.67) Daniel Centeno Lone Star LLC Rodolfo Garcia China Holiday Balino

2012 Star Channel (1:41.20) * Pedro Cotto, Jr. GDS Racing Stable Todd Pletcher Didn’t Take It Crafty Unicorn

2011 Extensive (1:43.81) Leandro Goncalves Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Master Dunker Dan’s My Man

2010 Thunder Brew (1:42.39) Victor Lebron Roman Hill Farm, LLC Anthony Pecoraro Gator Tiger Saint Judge

2009 Tamborim (1:43.05) Daniel Centeno Haras Santa Maria deAraras Bill Mott Duke of Mischief Cheeks Malone

2008 El Sultry Sun (1:43.45) Jose Velez, Jr. Live Oak Plantation John C. Kimmel Gibbler’s Gold Waywardwillie

2007 Soldier’s Dancer (1:42.71) Sebastian Madrid Herman Heinlein David Vivian A Bit of Madness Fair Weather Stan

2006 Mr. Silver (1:42.61) Abel Castellano, Jr. Thorobeam Farms Edward Plesa, Jr. Go Between World Battle

2005 Nicandro (1:41.73) Jesse Garcia Mary Beth Thomas Myra Mora Rich In Spirit Shoot Out

2004 Keystone Point (1:42.58) Joseph Rocco, Jr. Mouttet & Hoo Kirk Ziadie Indigo Flyer Soldier of Faine

2003 Hear No Evil (1:42.85) Eduardo Nunez Jacks or Better Farm Kenneth Decker Amon Regal Bear

The Florida Cup

$110,000 Equistaff Sophomore Turf

Fastest Time: 1:41.20 STAR CHANNEL (2012)

Slowest Time: 1:43.81 EXTENSIVE (2011)

Longest Priced Winner: $77.00 NICANDRO (2005)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.20 SOLDIER’S DANCER (2007

Closest Winning Margin: Nose HE'S BANKABLE INDY LYON (2018) (2021)

Largest Winning Margin: 2 3/4 Lengths STAR CHANNEL EX PIRATE (2012 (2014)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .30 GO BETWEEN (2006)

Track Condition: Firm Good All except 2013

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

Treasure King

Other Notes: Treasure King showed a distinct affinity for the Oldsmar turf course, rallying for a ¾-length victory in a solid time of 1:42.19. Indy Lyon’s 2021 victory was his third in a row and fourth at the meeting and came only eight days after he won a starter/optional claiming race. In 2019, Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation made it back-to-back victories in this race, and four overall, with the victory by the Michael Trombetta-trained Global Access. In the closest finish imaginable, 2018 winner He’s Bankable and jockey Julien Leparoux nipped March to the Arch by a nose. What made the result fairly remarkable was that the top two finishers were both bred by Weber’s Live Oak Stud, raced by her Live Oak Plantation and trained by Mark Casse. Live Oak Plantation also won the race for 3-year-old males in 2008 with El Sultry Sun and in 2015 with World Approval, who went on to win Grade III stakes that summer at Arlington and Saratoga for Weber and Casse. Jockey Daniel Centeno has won the race three times: with Tamborim in 2009, Boy of Summer in 2013 and Ex Pirate in 2014. Popular jockey Ronnie Allen, Jr., won the 2017 edition with 23-1 shot Muggsamatic, who rallied from last place in the early going to earn the victory. The 2007 winner, Soldier’s Dancer, did the Florida breeding and racing game proud, earning in excess of $1.5-million and winning three Grade III stakes, including that year’s Calder Derby.

discovers stakes gold in only his second lifetime start, with Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano in the irons.

Ocala

The Florida Cup

Breeders’ Sales Soph. $110,000 3-Year-Olds 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 King Cab (1:22.25)  Emisael Jaramillo  David Melin, Leon Ellman and Laurie Plesa Edward Plesa, Jr. Lightening Larry Cattin

2021 Foreman (1:23.38) Daniel Centeno Winning Stables, Inc Gerald Bennett Willy Boi Shoo Shine

2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2019 Jackson (1:23.05) Samy Camacho Tracy Pinchin Jose Pinchin Great Success Gran Paraiso

2018 Noble Commander (1:25.26) Julien Leparoux John C. Oxley Mark Casse Silent Tiger Lord Barna

2017 Mo Cash (1:22.40) Tyler Gaffalione Marco Thoroughbred Corp. Ronald Spatz Salute With Honor Reason To Soar

2016 Imperial Hint (1:22.15) Antonio Gallardo Raymond Mamone Luis Carvajal, Jr. Epic Journey Extravagant Kid

2015 Charlie’s Brother (1:23.49) Harry Vega Stanley Moles/Starr Stables Lynne Scace Fast Flying Rumor Fancy Man

2014 Prudhoe Bay (1:22.58) Angel Serpa Rustlewood Farm, Inc. Edward Plesa, Jr. Brothersofthetime C. Zee

2013 City of Weston (1:23.52) Paco Lopez Cloud Nine Lumoni Antonio Sano Ruler of Love Risk Factor

2012 Tarpy’s Goal (1:23.52) Leandro Goncalves Mike Tarp Dale Romans Midnight Serenade Indirectly A.P.

2011 Manicero (1:22.13)* Paco Lopez Leo Azpurua, Sr. Leo Azpurua, Jr. Turbo Compressor Jaggermonster

2010 Thank U Philippe (1:22.37) Elvis Trujillo Kramer Stables, et al Martin Wolfson My Charming Clyde Good Lord

2009 Bee Cee Cee (1:22.80) Daniel Centeno J. Robert Harris, Jr. Edward Plesa, Jr. Biblionico Golf Pal

2008 Repenting (1:22.79) Daniel Centeno Balkrisna Sukharan Jamie Ness Brother Joey Mr. Flatter

2007 Whiskey Lit (1:25.07) Rajiv Maragh Rookie Stables Jane Cibelli Steelix Chief Thief

2006 Electrify (1:23.25) Abel Castellano, Jr. Padua Stables Edward Plesa, Jr. Vanilla Scoop R Smoken Star

2005 Bernie Blue (1:24.20) Roberto Perez Pyrite Stables Miguel Feliciano Lite Brigade Roman Candles

2004 Weigelia (1:24.45) Aurelio Toribio Joseph Balsamo Manuel Azpurua Avid Skier Spirit of Montreal

2003 Mychampion (1:24.09) J.J. Delgado Robert DuBois Douglas Potter Who’s Crying Now Paris Adventure

The Florida Cup

$110,000 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore

Fastest Time: 1:22.13 MANICERO (2011)

Slowest Time: 1:25.26 NOBLE COMMANDER (2018)

Longest Priced Winner: $126.40 MYCHAMPION (2003)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.40 IMPERIAL HINT (2016)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose CITY OF WESTON (2013)

Largest Winning Margin: 10 1/2 Lengths REPENTING (2008)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 ANYTHINGYOUWANT (2009)

Track Condition: Fast All runnings

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

King Cab and jockey Emisael Jaramillo put the finishing touches on a gate-to-wire tour de force in the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore.

Other Notes: King Cab’s impressive victory was the fourth in the race for trainer Edward Plesa, Jr., the most of any conditioner. His wife Laurie Plesa  is a coowner. Foreman followed his third-place finish in the Pasco Stakes with a determined Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore triumph, also at the 7-furlong distance. A homebred competing for owner Tracy Pinchin and trained by her husband, Jose Pinchin, 2019 winner Jackson survived a tough stretch battle to win under jockey Samy Camacho. As good as Noble Commander looked in the paddock in 2018, it was no surprise to see the son of Forestry roll to a 3-length victory for owner John C. Oxley and trainer Mark Casse, who also teamed to win the 2018 Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes for 3-year-olds with Flameaway. The 2017 OBS Sophomore winner, Mo Cash, returned to Tampa Bay Downs late in his 3-year-old season to win the inaugural Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Marion County Florida Sire Stakes. Imperial Hint, who won the 2016 OBS Sophomore in his second career start, won four consecutive stakes as a 4-year-old before finishing second in the TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Del Mar to Roy H. Electrify, the 2006 winner, was ridden by Abel Castellano, Jr., the younger brother of Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano. Manicero, who won the 2011 renewal in stakes-record time of 1:22.13, captured three stakes that spring and summer at Calder in Miami.

The Florida Cup

Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf $110,000

Fillies &

Mares

3-Year-Olds-And-Up 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Shifty She (1:41.43) Edwin Gonzalez Pedigree Partners LLC Saffie Joseph, Jr. Our Flash Drive Mona Stella

2021 Summering (1:41.50) Jesus Castanon Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Classy Woman Lovely Luvy 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2019 Crown and Sugar (1:41.32) Antonio Gallardo Sabal Racing Stable Darien Rodriguez Bitacora Supercommittee

2018 Madame Uno (1:41.57) Javier Castellano Siskin, Jeff, Levy, Arnold A. and Fuchs, William David Fawkes Surprise Wedding Bonita

2017 Family Meeting (1:43.27) Jose Ortiz Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Somethingelse My Girl Corey

2016 Speed Seeker (1:40.42) * Erick Rodriguez Johnson, Coniglio, et al Joan Scott Josdesanimaux Promotional

2015 Evidently (1:40.93) Rafael Hernandez Lambholm Stable Roy Lerman E B Ryder Cuppy Cake

2014 Cuppy Cake (1:41.47) ^ Ricardo Feliciano Roman Hill Farm, LLC Anthony Pecoraro E B Ryder Lori’s Store

2013 Hooh Why (1:42.56) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Hoffman, M. & Trostrud, E. Rick Slomkowski Inaugurate Sweet Little Lion

2012 Hooh Why (1:41.46) R. Homeister, Jr. Estate of Gail Gee, Hoffman Shirley Girten-Drake Unbridled Humor Another Smokey

2011 Trip for A.J. (1:44.04) Paco Lopez Peter D. Fuller Milton Wolfson Wild Mia Ruling Class

2010 Closeout (1:41.91) Jesus Castanon Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Scolara Many Kisses

2009 Quiet Meadow (1:42.30) Elvis Trujillo Hidden Brook Chad Brown Scolara Azura

2008 Bayou’s Lassie (1:43.05) Daniel Centeno Jacks or Better Farm Christophe Clement Inhonorofjohnnie A Different Tune/JauntyGaleDH

2007 Quite a Bride (1:42.30) Carlos Montalvo Haras Santa Maria deAraras Bill Mott Prop Me Up A Different Tune

2006 Thetactics Ofdance (1:42.70) Eddie Castro Preferred Pals,Wachtel Stbl. Bill Mott Pattiano Changing World

2005 Joyful Ballad (1:42.05) Jose Lezcano Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Marwood Vidlocity

2004 Skip to Savannah (1:42.12) Joe Judice Pinky Mendoza William Houle Formal Miss Mrs. M

2003 Chef’s Choice (1:42.65) Tommy Pompell Alan Amato Don Rice Cellar’s Shiraz Laurica

$110,000 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf The Florida Cup

Fastest Time: 1:40.42 SPEED SEEKER (2016)

Slowest Time: 1:44.04 TRIP FOR A. J. (2011)

Longest Priced Winner: $51.00 SPEED SEEKER (2016)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 TRIP FOR A.J. (2011)

Closest Winning Margin: Head HOOH WHY CUPPY CAKE FAMILY MEETING SUMMERING

(2012 AND 2013) (2014) (2017) (2021)

Largest Winning Margin: 4 Lengths SHIFTY SHE (2022)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .50 SCOLARA (2009)

Track Condition: Firm Good All except 2013

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

The 6-year-old mare Shifty She, with Edwin Gonzalez aboard, romps to her fourth stakes victory.

Other Notes: Five months before the Florida Cup, Shifty She proved she can win outside the Sunshine State, capturing the Grade III Noble Damsel Stakes on the turf at Belmont under jockey Edwin Gonzalez. The lightly raced 5-year-old mare Summering, a homebred racing for Glen Hill Farm, gave the owner and trainer Thomas Proctor their fourth victory together in the race. In 2019, the Florida-bred 4-year-old filly Crown and Sugar passed the class test with flying colors, capturing the Florida Cup event in her stakes debut under a strong ride by Antonio Gallardo. It was the fifth consecutive victory for the Darien Rodriguez-trained lass. The victory by 4-year-old filly Madame Uno was the fourth Florida Cup triumph on the 2018 card for jockey Javier Castellano, a new record, and the second for trainer David Fawkes. Speed Seeker, who won the race in 2016 in stakes-record time of 1:40.42 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth, displayed her class as a 3-year-old in 2014, winning the Grade III Ontario Colleen Stakes on the turf at Woodbine. Speed Seeker eclipsed the stakes mark set the previous year by Lambholm Stable’s Evidently, an 18-1 shot that day who developed into a Grade III winner. Few Distaff Turf winners were as popular as Hooh Why, who took back-to-back editions of the race in 2012 and 2013. The winner of the Grade I Ashland Stakes at Keeneland as a 3-year-old, Hooh Why finished her career with earnings in excess of $1.2-million. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott went back-to-back in 2006 and 2007, first winning with Thetactics Ofdance and returning with Quite a Bride.

The Florida Cup

Grey Goose Turf Classic $110,000 4-Year-Olds-And-Up 1 1/8-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Drama Chorus (1:48.58) Alonso Quinonez Peter D. Mattson Tim Padilla Max K. O. Lure Him In

2021 Me and Mr. C (1:48.55) Daniel Centeno David Staudacher Michael Maker Shamrocket Over the Channel

2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2019 March to the Arch (1:47.66) Tyler Gaffalione Live Oak Plantation Mark Casse Swagger Jagger Big Changes

2018 Swagger Jagger (1:48.08) Javier Castellano Freddy Lewis, III Michael Maker Galleon Mast Second Mate

2017 World Approval (1:48.02) Julien Leparoux Live Oak Plantation Mark Casse Go Around Favorite Heir

2016 Go Around (1:47.11) Antonio Gallardo Peter Vegso Bill Mott Fundamental Cement Clement

2015 Old Time Hockey (1:47.72) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor I’m the Lucky One Allie’s Event

2014 Old Time Hockey (1:48.87) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Aptitude Bad Debt

2013 Hobbs (1:49.22) Daniel Centeno Peter D. Kelly Kathy Mongeon Star Channel Bad Debt

2012 Roman Tiger (1:48.10) Angel Serpa Dennis Manning Dennis Manning Vanquisher Slew’s Answer

2011 Slew’s Answer (1:50.16) Leandro Goncalves Live Oak Plantation H. Graham Motion Blazen Vanquisher

2010 Picou (1:47.00)* Elvis Trujillo John Eaton & Steve Laymon Chad Brown Allie’s Event Vanquisher

2009 Fearless Eagle (1:48.09) Elvis Trujillo Isaac Muhtar Edward Plesa, Jr. Marquet Cat Ruff and Ready

2008 Soldier’s Dancer (1:49.95) Daniel Centeno Herbert Heinlein David Vivian Silver Tree Fearless Eagle

2007 Go Between (1:48.06) Carlos Montalvo Peter Vegso Bill Mott Therecomesatiger Art of Diplomacy

2006 Silver Tree (1:48.45) Eddie Castro Peter Vegso Bill Mott Icy Atlantic Ballonenostrikes

2005 Revved Up (1:49.62) Eddie Castro Live Oak Plantation Christophe Clement Admiral Lance Attack the Books

2004 Restage (1:49.24) Jesus Castanon Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Final Prophecy Drink a Toast

2003 Guardianofthegate (1:48.33) Tommy Pompell Brett Rice Don Rice Sir Brian’s Sword Love the Game

The Florida Cup

$110,000 Grey Goose Turf Classic

Fastest Time: 1:47.00 PICOU (2010)

Slowest Time: 1:50.16 SLEW’S ANSWER (2011)

Longest Priced Winner: $25.00  DRAMA CHORUS (2022)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 SILVER TREE WORLD APPROVAL (2006) (2017)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose SWAGGER JAGGER (2018)

Largest Winning Margin: 3¼ Lengths REVVED UP MARCH TO THE ARCH (2005) (2019)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .60 SHAMROCKET  (2022)

Track Condition: Firm Good All except 2013

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

Other Notes: In the case of Drama Chorus, good things are worth waiting for: he didn’t break his maiden until his 12th start, as a 4-year-old at Canterbury in Minnesota. The Grey Goose Turf Classic was his first victory in his home state. Me and Mr. C earned his first stakes victory in 2021, wearing down his rivals in the 9-furlong Grey Goose Turf Classic under Daniel Centeno, the first jockey to win the race three times. In 2019, Owner Live Oak Plantation captured its fourth victory in the race, with 4-year-old gelding March to the Arch turning back all challengers under jockey Tyler Gaffalione. The connections of 5-year-old Swagger Jagger got plenty of satisfaction in 2018 when the Michael Maker-trainee held on for a nose victory from Galleon Mast. No mere beast of burden, Swagger Jagger is a son of multiple-Grade II winner Crown of Thorns, who finished second in the 2009 Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Sprint. The 2017 winner, World Approval, began laying the foundation for a championship season at Oldsmar. He won four of his next five starts following the EG Vodka Turf Classic, culminated by his victory in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar, to earn an Eclipse Award as Champion Turf Male. The first winner of the race, 2003 victor Guardianofthegate, was trained by the late Don Rice, who won eight Oldsmar training titles from 1995-2005. Owner Glen Hill Farm and trainer Tom Proctor have won the race three times: in 2004 with Restage and in 2014 and 2015 with Old Time Hockey, the latter ridden both times by Ronnie Allen, Jr. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott scored his third victory in the race in 2016 with Go Around. The Chad Brown-trained Picou set the stakes record of 1:47 for the mile-and-an-eighth in 2010.

The 5-year-old gelding Drama Chorus and jockey Alonso Quinonez, inside, hold on to defeat Max K. O. in one of the most exciting editions of the Grey Goose Turf Classic.

The Florida Cup NYRABets

Sprint

$110,000 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 6 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Pudding (1:09.01)  Javier Castellano Elizabeth L. Dobles and Imaginary Stables Elizabeth Dobles Tap It to Win Cajun Casanova

2021 Tap It to Win (1:09.43) Antonio Gallardo Live Oak Plantation Mark Casse R Mercedes Boy Hauntedbythemusic

2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2019 Extravagant Kid (1:09.77) Tyler Gaffalione DARRS, Inc. Brendan Walsh Ray’swarrior Firenze Fire

2018 Imperial Hint (1:10.78) Javier Castellano Raymond Mamone Luis Carvajal, Jr. Deland Delta Bluesman

2017 Tiger Blood (1:08.92) Pablo Morales MK Stables Darien Rodriguez Palace Barista Delta Bluesman

2016 Catalina Red (1:09.22) Fernando De La Cruz Anthony A. Lenci Chad Stewart Fast Flying Rumor Alfredo Romana

2015 Lake Drive South (1:10.44) Luis Garcia Dierdre T. Marsh Kathleen O’Connell Star Harbour Prudhoe Bay

2014 Sneaking Uponyou (1:09.08) Huber Villa-Gomez Jagger, Inc. Jamie Ness City of Weston Evolution Rocks

2013 Wild About Chrome (1:10.91) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Jim & Nannette McCullough James McCullough Sneaking Uponyou Soaring Stocks

2012 It’s Me Mom (1:08.67)* Jorge Vargas Thomas and Jean Bosch Lynne M. Scace My Charming Clyde Jackfrost Ofcourse

2011 Sneaking Uponyou (1:08.69) Huber Villa-Gomez Jagger, Inc. Jamie Ness Tommy’s Memory On the Vineyard

2010 Tommy’s Memory (1:09.56) David Amiss Thomas J. Ryan Anthony Ryan Blind River Fox For All Who Conga

2009 On the Vineyard (1:09.59) Willie Martinez Lynne M. Scace Lynne M. Scace How’s Your Halo Ruby’s Red Socks

2008 Blue Pepsi Lodge (1:10.65) Wesley Henry, Sr Chester Bishop Kirk Ziadie Lookinforthesecret BL’s a Runner

2007 Roman Candles (1:10.61) Jose Martinez, Jr. C. Robert Valeri Lynne M. Scace Lookinforthesecret Weigelia

2006 Nightmare Affair (1:10.21) Eddie Castro Timber Side Stables Manuel Azpurua Vazandar Above the Wind

2005 Nightmare Affair (1:10.15) Eddie Castro Timber Side Stables Manuel Azpurua Scrubs Hi Time Scott

2004 Scrubs (1:10.70) Winston Thompson Jacks or Better Farm Kenneth Decker Rock Country Built Up

2003 Built Up (1:10.72) Eibar Coa Raymond Susi Enrique Alonso Straight A Hana Highway

The Florida Cup

$110,000 NYRABets Sprint

Fastest Time: 1:08.67 ^ IT’S ME MOM (2012)

Slowest Time: 1:10.91 WILD ABOUT CHROME (2013

Longest Priced Winner: $63.00 ON THE VINEYARD (2009)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.40 IMPERIAL HINT (2018)

Closest Winning Margin: Head EXTRAVAGANT KID (2019)

Largest Winning Margin: 7 Lengths SNEAKING UPONYOU (2011)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 LOOKINFORTHESECRET (2008)

Track Condition: Fast All runnings

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

The 7-year-old gelding Pudding holds off last year’s NYRABETS Sprint winner, Tap It to Win, by a neck in 1:09.01, .34 seconds off the stakes and track record for the 6-furlong distance.

Other Notes: Owner-trainer Elizabeth Dobles had Pudding at the top of his game for the NYRABETS Sprint, rallying in deep stretch for a neck victory from Tap It to Win. The 4-year-old ridgling Tap It to Win gave breeder-owner Live Oak its first Florida Cup NYRABETS Sprint victory in 2021 and was also the first in the race for trainer Mark Casse and jockey Antonio Gallardo. In 2019, Extravagant Kid proved there are few substitutes for experience, winning the Sprint in his 32nd career start for trainer Brendan Walsh and jockey Tyler Gaffalione. It was his fourth career stakes victory. Multiple Grade I winner Imperial Hint lived up to the pre-race hyperbole in 2018, winning by five lengths under his regular pilot, Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano. It was the second Florida Cup victory for the 5-year-old, who won the Florida Cup Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore Stakes in 2016 in his second career start. The gelding Sneaking Uponyou won the race as a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old for owner Jagger, Inc., trainer Jamie Ness and jockey Huber Villa-Gomez. He also finished second in the 2013 renewal as a 7-year-old. Sneaking Uponyou set a track record in 2011 that was eclipsed in the following year’s Sprint by the 4-year-old filly It’s Me Mom, whose 1:08.67 for the 6-furlong distance remains the Oldsmar standard. The 2016 winner, Catalina Red, set a 7-furlong track record (equaled by El Grande Rojo) of 1:21.40 in winning the Pasco Stakes in December of 2014 as a 2-year-old. Following his Florida Cup Sprint victory, he won the Grade II, $500,000 Churchill Downs Stakes in a sizzling 1:20.79 for 7 furlongs. Nightmare Affair won the race in 2005 and 2006 for owner Timber Side Stables, trainer Manuel Azpurua and jockey Eddie Castro; he went on to become a Grade II winner, earning more than $1.1-million in his career.

The Florida Oaks Grade III

$200,000 Fillies 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Dolce Zel (FR) (1:44.18) Irad Ortiz, Jr.  Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables LLC and Robert V. LaPenta Chad Brown Spicer On Alert

2021 Domain Expertise(1:41.12)* Antonio Gallardo Klaravich Stables Chad Brown Jouster Oyster Box

2020 Outburst (GB) (1:42.0) Javier Castellano Marc Detampel, TSF Thoroughbred Racing and Rebecca Hillen Eddie Kenneally Walk In Marrakesh (IRE) Secret Stash (IRE)

2019 Concrete Rose (1:43.02) Julien Leparoux Ashbrook Farm and BBN Racing George“Rusty”Arnold,II Blowout (GB) Winter Sunset

2018 Andina Del Sur (1:42.37) Julien Leparoux Don Alberto Corp Thomas Albertrani Goodthingstaketime Altea (FR)

2017 Fifty Five (1:41.60) Jose Ortiz Empire Equines Thomas Bush La Coronel Compelled

2016 Baciami Piccola (GB) (1:42.2) Julien Leparoux Amerman Racing Brian Lynch Enjoy Yourself (GB) Family Meeting

2015 Quality Rocks (1:43.39) Jose Lezcano Flavor/Brous/Wachtel/Destiny Bill Mott Consumer Credit Lismore

2014 Testa Rossi (FR) (1:43.51) $$ Jose Lezcano Covello,J.,Coleman,T.,Doheny Chad Brown Istanford Interrupted

2013 Tapicat (1:41.89) Joel Rosario Besilu Stables Bill Mott Kitten’s Dumplings Wave Theory

2012 Dixie Strike (1:43.30) Jose Lezcano John Oxley Mark Casse More Than Love Regalo Mia

2011 Dynamic Holiday (1:45.56) ^ Ramon Dominguez Augustin Stable H. Graham Motion Holidaysatthefarm Niji’s Grand Girl

2010 Diva Delite (1:46.10) R. Homeister, Jr. B. Vivian & D. Vittese David Vivian C C’s Pal Mallory Square

2009 Don’t Forget Gil (1:43.65) ** Rajiv Maragh Alan Brodsky Mark Hennig Ameribelle Rock Candy

2008 Awesome Chic (1:44.38) Irwin J. Rosendo Aurora Springs Stable Rafael Ramos Elusive Lady My Baby Baby

2007 Cotton Blossom (1:45.06) John Velazquez Dogwood Stable Todd Pletcher Suaveness Maria’s Kitty

2006 Bushfire (1:46.25) John Velazquez Ron and Ricki Rashinski Eddie Kenneally Saratoga Drive Crystal Current

2005 R Lady Joy (1:44.58) Jose Lezcano Richard Averill Kirk Ziadie Toll Taker Gotta Rush

2004 Ender’s Sister (1:45.66) Pat Day Green Lantern Stables George Arnold, II Menifeeque America Americ

2003 Ebony Breeze (1:45.20) Mark Guidry Kinsman Stable Bill Mott Dakota Light Crimson and Roses

2002 French Satin (1:45.49) Ramon Dominguez Sabine Stables Steven Standridge Romancin Dixie Ciudad De Carson

2001 Quick Tip (1:45.36) Richard Migliore W.S. Farish Neil J. Howard Southern Fiction Emery Board

2000 Secret Status (1:45.05) !! Pat Day Farish/Elkins/Webber Neil J. Howard March Magic Musical

*Turf stakes record **Dirt stakes record $$Purse increased to $200,000 ^First turf running !!Won Kentucky Oaks

The Florida Oaks Grade III

$200,000 Fillies 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile (Turf) (continued)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

1999 Crown Jewel (1:46.69) Luis Martinez Donald Murray Evelio Garcia Madison’s Charm Here I Go

1998 Pantufla (1:45 2/5) Pat Day Helen Alexander David Carroll Puddlejump Try N Sue

1997 Anklet (1:45) Shane Sellers Loeb/Ray/Sullivan Elliott Walden Global Star Screamer

1996 Mindy Gayle (1:45 4/5) Jorge Guerra Tanenbaum Racing Stable Julian Canet Plum Country Weekend In Seattle

1995 Sneaky Quiet (1:45 2/5) Mike Smith W.S. Farish/Webber Neil J. Howard Commando Dance Smooth Quest

1994 Cavada (1:46 2/5) Kevin Whitley Bebe Dalton A. Archie Smith, Jr. Come On Joy Strategic Maneuver

1993 Star Jolie (1:45 3/5) Eduardo Nunez Five Star Stables Ron McKenzie Hollywood Wildcat Jacody

1992 Luv Me Luv Me Not (1:45 3/5)!! Willie Martinez Philip and Judy Maas Glenn Wismer Now Dance Foxy Persuasion

1991 Designated Dancer (1:45 2/5) Willie Martinez David Melin O.S. Edwards Car Gal Fantastic Morning

1990 Dance Colony (1:45 1/5) Herb McCauley Buckland Farms Ross Pearce Premier Question Sun Luck

1989 She’s Scrumptious (1:46) Rick Adkins Philip and Judy Maas Glenn Wismer Iron and Silver Georgies Doctor

1988 Colonial Waters (1:44 4/5) Victor Molina Buckland Farms John P. Campo Tomorrow’s Child Tilt My Halo

1987 Single Blade (1:45 3/5) Julio Pezua Greentree Stable R. Reinacher Without Feathers Merry Mercedes

1986 Noranc (1:44 3/5) Herb McCauley GallopingAcres/HiddenPoint J. Provost Man A Stan An Affirmation

1985 Erstwhile (1:48) Charles Hussey Hunter Farm Cam Gambolati Erin’s Double Flickering Match

1984 Sure Too Explode (1:25 2/5)^^ Rick Luhr F. Lehmann S. Ingram April Sonnet Northern Jazz

!!Won Kentucky Oaks ^^Run at 7 furlongs

The Florida Oaks Grade III

$200,000 Florida Oaks

Fastest Time: 1:43.65 (MAIN TRACK) 1:41.12 (TURF)

DON’T FORGET GIL DOMAIN EXPERTISE (2009) (2021)

Slowest Time: 1:48.00 (MAIN TRACK) 1:45.56 (TURF) ERSTWHILE DYNAMIC HOLIDAY (1985) (2011)

Longest Priced Winner: $169.20 SHE’S SCRUMPTIOUS (1989)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.60 EBONY BREEZE (2003)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose MINDY GAYLE DIXIE STRIKE DOMAIN EXPERTISE

(1996) (2012) (2021)

Largest Winning Margin: 9 Lengths R LADY JOY (2005)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .30 PLUM COUNTRY STRATEGIC MANEUVER (1996) (1994)

Track Condition: Firm Good All turf runnings except 2011 and 2022

Richest Purse: $200,000 $200,000 (2014-Present)

Dolce Zel and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., get up in the final strides to defeat Spicer, providing trainer Chad Brown with a 1-2 finish and his third Florida Oaks victory.

Other Notes: For the second time, trainer Chad Brown won the Florida Oaks with a French-bred filly, Dolce Zel. He accomplished the feat in 2014 with Testa Rossi. Domain Expertise, a daughter of the outstanding turf sire Kitten’s Joy and out of a mare by 2004 Tampa Bay Derby winner Limehouse, set a stakes record in the 2021 Florida Oaks in only her fifth lifetime start. Outburst lived up to her favorite's status in 2020, posting a gate-to-wire victory under Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano. Trainer George R. “Rusty” Arnold, II, captured his second Florida Oaks victory with Concrete Rose, 15 years after winning the race with Ender’s Sister. Jockey Julien Leparoux won the race for the second year in a row and third time in the last four years. Concrete Rose subsequently became a Grade I winner. Andina Del Sur prevailed in a three-horse photo finish in 2018, giving jockey Julien Leparoux his second Florida Oaks victory in three years. Fifty Five’s winning time of 1:41.60 in 2017 was the fastest since the 1 1/16-mile Florida Oaks was moved to the turf course in 2011. Both the 2016 Florida Oaks winner and the runner-up, Baciami Piccola and Enjoy Yourself, were bred in Great Britain. Jockey Jose Lezcano won three of four editions of the Florida Oaks from 2012-2015 and has won four overall, the most of any jockey. The triumph by Quality Rocks in 2015 was the third in the race for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, tied with Chad Brown and Neil J. Howard for the most by any conditioner. Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day won the race three times. In 1996, the Florida Oaks attained Grade III status; it lost graded status twice in ensuing years but was graded for the 2013 edition. It was contested on the turf for the first time in 2011. Jockey Jorge Guerra won the Tampa Bay Derby and the Florida Oaks on the same day in 1996, a first-time accomplishment for any rider. Pat Day won both races in 1998; Richard Migliore won both in 2001; and Ramon Dominguez won both in 2002. Fifteen years later, Jose Oritz accomplished the feat with Fifty Five and Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby winner Tapwrit. Trainer Glenn Wismer has won the race twice, in 1989 and 1992. Secret Status, the 2000 winner, went on to win the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. The 2003 Florida Oaks winner, Ebony Breeze, developed into a multiple-graded stakes winner and millionaire for George Steinbrenner’s Kinsman Stable.

The Gasparilla Stakes

$125,000 3-Year-Old Fillies 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Outfoxed (1:23.37) Samy Camacho LNJ Foxwoods Bill Mott Goddess of Fire Strategic Bird

2021 Adios Trippi DH (1:24.89) Antonio Gallardo Paradise Farms Corp., Brian Hanley, Greg Boyer, Scott Estes and Walder Racing

Peter Walder Feeling Mischief

Special Princess DH (1:24.89) Ademar Santos J D Farms Walter Woodard Feeling Mischief

2020 Two Sixty (1:22.80) Edgard Zayas Gary Barber Mark Casse Mo City We the Clouds

2019 Molto Bella (1:22.20) * Luca Panici Six Column Stables, Randall Bloch, Robert Manfuso, Ian Wilkes Into Trouble Another Time

2018 Almond Roca (1:22.76) $$ Pablo Morales Chadds Ford Stable H. Graham Motion R True Talent Barrier Island

2017 R Angel Katelyn (1:23.94) Edwin Gonzalez Averill/CCF/K Lauren Gerald Bennett Jumby Bay Lirica

2016 R Girls a Charmer (1:25.61) Antonio Gallardo Gary Barber Mark Casse Cosmic Girl Missalaney

2015 Irish Jasper (1:22.41) Victor Lebron Metro Thoroughbreds LLC Derek Ryan Huasca Coco’s Wildcat

2014 Nesso (1:24.93) Abdiel Jaen Amaty Racing Stables Herman Wilensky Ice for the Lady Runway Giant

2013 Vitameta (1:23.86) Jose Cruz Arindel Farm David Fawkes Cindys Casino Martha’s Moon

2012 Salad Girl (1:24.14) Angel Serpa Joel Kligman Edward Plesa, Jr. Delightful Magic Ciguaraya

2011 Devilish Lady (1:25.28) Daniel Centeno Cairoli Racing Stable Antonio Sano My Pal Chrisy Fashionable Elsa

2010 Diva Delite (1:25) R. Homeister, Jr. B. Vivian & D. Vittese David Vivian Dattt Echo Miss Aristocrat

2009 Rock Candy (1:25.63) Carlos Montalvo W. Farish, Mrs. W. Kilroy Mike Zwiesler Vicki’sprideandjoy Market Vendor

2008 Awesome Chic (1:25.98) Irwin J. Rosendo Aurora Spring Stables Rafael Ramos Formal Arrangement Unfolding Wish

2007 Suaveness (1:24.03) Charles Forrest Robert Arango Robert Arango Foret Pretoria Light

2006 Sweet Fervor (1:23.78) T.D. Houghton Kinsman Stable Bill Mott Sparkling Pink Taylor Madison

2005 Cool Spell (1:24.36) Daniel Centeno Burris, Mr. and Mrs. W.D. John Hennig Sherrie Belle Gallant Secret

2004 Crafty Tears (1:26.81) Federico Mata Equest Racing Stable Ronald Allen, Sr. Wild Speed Ladyinareddress

2003 Ebony Breeze (1:25.01) Joe Judice Kinsman Stable

Bill Mott Crimson and Roses Splasha

2002 Afnan (1:24.91) Jesus Castanon Bayard Sharp, Rich Nielson Mike Zwiesler Expected Roll Rebecca’s Charm

The Gasparilla Stakes

$125,000 3-Year-Old Fillies 7 Furlongs (continued)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2001 Frozen Dinner (1:28.69) Felix Ortiz Pyrite Stables Miguel Feliciano Bigcuz Hidden Creek

2000 Silver Stockings (1:25.23) Juan Umana Savas, Chait, Inwood Farm L.L. Palmer Castlebrook Bea D J

1999 Crown Jewel (1:26.54) Luis Martinez Donald Murray Evelio Garcia A Par Tea Shutrina Sand

1998 Tasso’s Magic Roo (1:25 3/5) Marland Suckie Eileen Bathen Richard Ciardullo,Jr. Beaties for Real Catherine's Girl

1997 Zesty Zoe (1:24 4/5) Danny Scocca Stonehedge Farm Kathleen O’Connell Bracey Poopsie

1996 Suggestion (1:26 4/5) Chin Yang Kenny Davis Ray Tamargo Pariente Barbara Believe It Shesdue

1995 Calming Sea (1:28 2/5) Robert Messina Dakar Stable Anthony Ferraro Smooth Quest Simply Blue

1994 Cavada (1:25 2/5) Kevin Whitley Bebe Dalton Kathleen Kelley Shananie’s Beat Deaf Power

1993 Lindsey Lane (1:26 3/5) # % William Henry Stonehedge Farm Kathleen O’Connell Sezyou Queen Thou Shalt Not Lie

1992 My Gallant Birdie (1:47) Herson Sanchez Alan Haft/Martin Haft Angel Rosado Aggie Gene Foxy Persuasion

1990 Learn By Heart (1:24 2/5) Heriberto Rivera, Jr. Harold Queen Andrea Cunningham Trail Topsider Beau Genius

1989 Tajawa (1:24 1/5) Bobby Woodhouse Charles Dike Keith York Bellbrook Road Distinct Stop

1988 Bold Midway (1:24 1/5) Ronnie Allen, Jr. James Green/Cleo Porter James Green Twice Too Many Pleasure Court

1987 Smart Honors (1:25) Sheila McKenna J.L.Foran & William Shea, Jr. Frances Gogas Color Me Smart Tyrantson

1986 Never Company (1:11 3/5) Rick Adkins Myakka Stable Chester Thrasher Harry N' Bill Northern Smartee

1985 Never Company (1:10 4/5) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Myakka Stable Chester Thrasher Northern Trader Ridan Clarion 1984 Never Company & (1:11 4/5) Wayne Crews Myakka Stable Chester Thrasher Silverian Strike a Coin # - First time 3-year-olds only % - Shortened from 1 1/16-mile to 7 furlongs & -Run at 6 furlongs

The Gasparilla Stakes

$125,000 Gasparilla Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:22.20 MOLTO BELLA (2019)

Slowest Time: 1:28.69 FROZEN DINNER (2001)

Longest Priced Winner: $141.40 SUAVENESS (2007)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 DEVILISH LADY (2011)

Closest Winning Margin: Dead-heat ADIOS TRIPPI SPECIAL PRINCESS (2021) (2021)

Largest Winning Margin: 8 ½ Lengths ZESTY ZOE (1997)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .50 HIDDEN CREEK (2001)

Track Condition: Fast Sloppy Good

All except 2001 1996 and 2016

Richest Purse: $125,000 2018-present

Jockey Samy Camacho is prepared to celebrate after favorite Outfoxed rallies through the stretch for a Gasparilla score.

Other Notes: Trainer Bill Mott earned his third Gasparilla victory with Outfoxed, a Florida-bred daughter of Valiant Minister. Fans were treated to the first dead-heat in the history of the race in 2021, with 13-1 shot Special Princess getting up in the final jump to deadlock Adios Trippi. Both winners are Florida-breds. In 2020, Florida-bred Two Sixty's neck victory in a thrilling five-horse photo finish capped a 4-for-4 day for jockey Edgard Zayas, including two stakes triumphs. Given her pedigree, Molto Bella’s Gasparilla victory shouldn’t have come as a huge surprise. Her dam is Dr. Zic, who won the 2008 Sandpiper Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs and captured the Grade I Vinery Madison Stakes at Keeneland as a 4-year-old. Almond Roca is owned by the Chadds Ford Stable of Phyllis Wyeth, who bred and owned 2012 Belmont Stakes winner Union Rags. R Angel Katelyn enjoyed a banner 2016-2017 season at Tampa Bay Downs, winning the Gasparilla, the Sandpiper Stakes and the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies and finishing third in the Suncoast. South Africa native Gary Barber, the owner of 2016 Gasparilla winner R Girls a Charmer, is the Chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and cofounder of Spyglass Entertainment. Irish Jasper, the 2015 winner, showed her Gasparilla victory was not a flash in the pan, winning the Belle Harbor Stakes at Aqueduct and the Grade III Adena Springs Miss Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. As a 2-year-old, 2014 winner Nesso finished second in stakes at Del Mar and Santa Anita before competing in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. The 2013 Gasparilla winner, Vitameta, is a daughter of Street Sense, winner of the 2007 Tampa Bay Derby (then-Grade III) and Kentucky Derby; her broodmare sire, Grindstone, won the 1996 Kentucky Derby. Salad Girl’s 2012 victory was the first triumph in a stakes worth at least $100,000 for jockey Angel Serpa, who was a finalist for a 2010 Eclipse Award as Outstanding Apprentice Jockey.

$125,000 Gasparilla Stakes The Gasparilla Stakes

Other Notes Continued: The Gasparilla was open to older fillies and mares prior to 1993. Never Company won three times in a row in 1984, 1985, and 1986. In 1984, the race was run at 6 furlongs. Stonehedge Farm and trainer Kathleen O’Connell won the Gasparilla twice: in 1993 with Lindsey Lane and again in 1997 with Zesty Zoe. The Gasparilla was run at 1 1/16 miles in 1992 and was won by My Gallant Birdie in 1:47. In 2010, Diva Delite and jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr., used a Gasparilla victory as a springboard to Florida Oaks glory. In 1994, Cavada also won the Suncoast Stakes and the Florida Oaks. springboard to Florida Oaks glory. In 1994, Cavada also won the Suncoast Stakes and the Florida Oaks.

The Hillsborough Stakes Grade II

$225,000 Fillies & Mares 4-Up 1 1/8-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Bleecker Street (1:48.21)  Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr.  Peter M. Brant Chad Brown Rocky Sky (IRE) Gladys

2021 Micheline (1:47.19) Luis Saez Godolphin, LLC Michael Stidham Morning Molly New York Girl

2020 Starship Jubilee (1:47.83) Javier Castellano Blue Heaven Farm Kevin Attard Beautiful Lover Kelsey's Cross

2019 Rymska (FR) (1:49.18) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Madaket Stables, Tom Coleman Team Hanley & Elayne Stables Chad Brown Hawksmoor (IRE) Onthemoonagain (FR)

2018 Fourstar Crook (1:48.43) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables Chad Brown Proctor's Ledge La Coronel

2017 Dickinson (1:46.75) Paco Lopez Godolphin Racing Kiaran McLaughlin Elysea's World (IRE) Isabella Sings

2016 Tepin (1:46.26) * ^ $$ Julien Leparoux Robert E. Masterson Mark Casse Isabella Sings Lovely Loyree

2015 Stephanie’s Kitten (1:49.05) John Velazquez Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey Chad Brown Ball Dancing Speed Seeker

2014 Cloud Scapes (1:51.56) Erick Rodriguez Pin Oak Stud H. Graham Motion Waterway Run Riposte (GB)

2013 Old Tune (BRZ) (1:48.92) Joel Rosario Stud TNT Todd Pletcher ForcesofDarkness (IRE) Mystical Star

2012 Zagora (FR) (1:48.69) Javier Castellano Martin S. Schwartz Chad Brown Federation (GB) Unbridled Humor

2011 Denomination (1:48.69) Frederic Lenclud Ghislaine Head Christophe Clement Zagora (FR) Keertana

2010 Phola (1:52.51) Ramon Dominguez J.J. Pletcher, et al Todd Pletcher Cure For Sale (ARG) Liberally (IRE)

2009 Backseat Rhythm (1:51.43) Eibar Coa Paul Pompa, Jr. Patrick Reynolds Elusive Lady Ballymore Lady

2008 Dreaming of Anna (1:52.18) Cornelio Velasquez Frank C. Calabrese Wayne Catalano Lady Digby Mary Louhana (GB)

2007 Cassydora (GB) (1:48.90) John Velazquez Green Hills Farm Todd Pletcher My Typhoon (IRE) Masseuse

2006 Ready’s Girl (1:50.50) John Velazquez James Scatuorchio Todd Pletcher Amorama (FR) Marchonin

2005 Rizzi Girl (1:52.59) Oliver Castillo Joshua and MarnieWhitney William Downing Sister Star Noisette

2004 Coney Kitty (IRE) (1:48.83)^^## Jose Santos Betz, Humphrey, Seelbinder James Toner Madeira Mist (IRE) Alternate

2003 Strait From Texas (1:41.14) Jesus Castanon J & J Investments James Michael Dedication (FR) Stylish

2002 Platinum Tiara (1:41.34) Manoel Cruz M375 Thoroughbreds Joe Waunsch Step With Style Loya Two

2001 Song for Annie (1:41.23) Larry Melancon Live Oak Plantation Henry Cochran Megans Bluff Inside Affair

2000 St Clair Ridge (IRE) (1:41.17) Pat Day Van Meter II, et al Elliott Walden Office Miss Royal Bloomer

1999 Pleasant Temper (1:42.62) Pat Day Mark Stanley Elliott Walden Sandy Gator Scatter Buy

*- Stakes, course record ^ - Race achieved Grade II status $$ - Purse increased to $200,000 ^^ - Race achieved Grade III status ## - Distance changed to 1 1/8-mile

The Hillsborough Stakes Grade II

$225,000 Hillsborough Stakes

Fastest Time: 1 1/16th 1:41.14 STRAIT FROM TEXAS (2003)

Fastest Time: 1 1/8th 1:46.26 TEPIN (2016)

Slowest Time: 1 1/16th 1:42.62 PLEASANT TEMPER (1999)

Slowest Time: 1 1/8th 1:52.59 RIZZI GIRL (2005)

Longest Priced Winner: $29.20 PLATINUM TIARA (2002)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 TEPIN

Closest Winning Margin: Nose BACKSEAT RHYTHM CLOUD SCAPES (2009) (2014)

Largest Winning Margin: 6 ¾ Lengths DREAMING OF ANNA (2008)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 SNOWDROPS (2005)

Track Condition: Firm Good Yielding

All except 1999 and 2005 and 2022

Richest Purse: $225,000 2018-present

Bleecker Street improves her career record to 5-for-5 with a breathtaking rally under jockey Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr., rewarding trainer Chad Brown with a 1-2 finish with runner-up Rocky Sky.

Other Notes: Bleecker Street provided jockey Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr., with his first Grade II victory and trainer Chad Brown with his record fifth Hillsborough triumph. Micheline, the 2021 Hillsborough winner, is a daughter of Bernardini, the 2006 Preakness winner and Eclipse Champion 3-Year-Old Colt. Micheline’s trainer, Michael Stidham, conditions Mystic Guide, who won the $12-million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline three weeks after the Hillsborough. In 2020, Florida-bred mare Starship Jubilee improved her lifetime mark to 17-for-35 while recording her fourth graded-stakes triumph in less than six months. In previous years, Chad Brown has had a strangehold on the Hillsborough Stakes. In 2019, he won it for the second year in a row and fourth time since 2012 with Rymska, a 5-year-old France-bred mare. The New York-bred Fourstar Crook won eight consecutive races from the fall of 2015 through her first graded victory in the 2017 Grade III Dr. James Penny Memorial at Parx. The 5-year-old mare Dickinson was poetry in motion in achieving her Hillsborough victory in 2017 in the second-fastest edition since the race was extended to nine furlongs in 2004. One start later, she captured the Grade I Coolmore Jenny Wiley at Keeneland, The Hillsborough achieved Grade II status and a purse increase in 2016, but the performance by the reigning Eclipse Award Champion Grass Female, Tepin, was priceless. She set a course record of 1:46.26 after trailing by at least 19 lengths on the backstretch. Tepin was the fourth mare in five years to win both the Hillsborough and the Grade III Lambholm South Endeavour. Stephanie’s Kitten’s 2015 victory paved the way for her triumph in that year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. She finished her career with $4.29-million in career earnings. Her jockey, Hall of Fame member John Velazquez, has won the Hillsborough three times, the most of any rider. Old Tune’s 2013 Hillsborough victory was her sixth consecutive stakes score. She won Brazil’s Filly Triple Crown in 2012.

$225,000 Hillsborough Stakes The Hillsborough Stakes Grade II

Other Notes Continued: Her trainer, Todd Pletcher, won three previous editions of the Hillsborough: in 2006 with Ready’s Girl, in 2007 with Cassydora and in 2010 with Phola. After winning both the Grade III Endeavour and the Hillsborough in 2012, Zagora won the Grade III Gallorette at Pimlico, the Grade II Ballston Spa at Saratoga and the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita. She also won the Eclipse Award as Champion Grass Female. She was also a Grade I winner in 2011. In 2008, Dreaming of Anna swept both the Endeavour Breeders’ Cup on Festival Preview Day and the Hillsborough on Festival Day. The 2002 winner, Platinum Tiara, was owned by M375 Thoroughbreds, a partnership that included former major league pitcher Rob Murphy.

The Inaugural Stakes

$100,000 2-Year-Olds 6 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2021 Cattin (1:10.90) Samy Camacho Corinne Heiligbrodt, L. William Heiligbrodt and Spendthrift Farm LLC

Ralph Nicks Lightening Larry Grand Valley

2020 Poppy’s Pride (1:10.05) Samy Camacho Stonehedge LLC Michael Yates Al Heybay Thealligatorhunter

2019 Zaino Boyz (1:09.95) Daniel Centeno Zaino Ventures, Inc. Bobby Raymond No Getting Over Me Cajun Casanova

2018 Gladiator King (1:11.49) Daniel Centeno Jaime Mejia Jaime Mejia Mercutio Regally Irish

2017 Tricks to Doo (1:09.58) Daniel Centeno Lael Stable Arnaud Delacour Arazi Like Move Twin Farms

2016 Chance of Luck (1:10.84) Erick Rodriguez JJ Brevan Stable Gerald Bennett Dont Come Knockin Triumphant Joy

2015 Ishaq (1:11.04) Pedro Cotto, Jr. St. George Stable Efren Loza, Jr. Formal Summation Jay’s Way

2014 Catalina Red (1:09.32) * Daniel Centeno Anthony A. Lenci Chad Stewart Charlie’s Brother Duke of Luke

2013 Cool Cowboy (1:11.13) $$ Eduardo Perez Savoy Stable Dale Bennett Early Entry Trisha’s Trove

2012 Purple Egg (1:09.93) Roberto Alvarado, Jr. Goodwood Racing II Jane Cibelli Brave Dave Capital City

2011 Angelofdistinction (1:11.49) Pablo Morales T’braue,Brenda/Andrea’sFrm Daniel Pita Wildcat Creek Dangerous Trick

2010 Manicero (1:11.57) Luis Saez Leo Azpurua, Sr. Leo Azpurua, Jr. Bert B Don Uno Caliente

2009 Gesu (1:11.58) Paco Lopez James W. Steil Joe Calascibetta Hellen’s Choice Mr. Green

2008 Top Speed (1:10.91) Eibar Coa Harry and Tom Meyerhoff Michael Trombetta General Quarters Miles and Miles

2007 Honey Honey Honey (1:11.15)^ Jose Lopez Jacks or Better Farm Stanley Gold Run Sully Run Surrealdeal

2006 Dream of Angels (1:10.89) Richard Eramia Pamela Halter Steven Standridge Captain Cameron El Bandito Rojo

2005 R Loyal Man (1:11.91) Rajiv Maragh Alfred Kowalewski Timothy Ritvo Forestry Prince Neverbeendancin’

2004 Hostile Witness (1:12.23) Cecilio Penalba Thomas Willmott

Larry Bates Sounds Impossible Captain Lindsay

2003 Tricks of Glory (1:12.21) Federico Mata Equest Racing Stable Ronald Allen, Sr. Aloha Mya Misguided Left

2002 Awesome of Course (1:11.99) Jesus Castanon Jacks or Better Farm

Kenneth Decker Run For You Penthouse Prom2001 Bog Hunter (1:11.43) Bobby J. Walker, Jr. Nelson Jones Debbie Thacker Showmeitall How About My 2000 One Special Judge (1:11.16) Sidney LeJeune, Jr. Peppertree Farms Ron Moquett Diablo’s Choice Run Kush Run

The Inaugural Stakes

$100,000 2-Year-Olds 6 Furlongs (continued)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

1999 B L’s Appeal (1:11.87) Kevin Whitley Monarch Stables, Inc. Larry Pilotti Rich Celebration Bearcat Ruckus 1998 San Gennaro (1:10.98) Pedro Rodriguez Richard Ciardullo, Sr. Richard Ciardullo, Jr. Do It My Way Cut For Luv

1997 Sejm Run (1:11 3/5) Luis Gonzalez Harvey Tenenbaum Julian Canet Glow Over Pyrite Rock and Roll

1996 Darling Jeb (1:13) ## Enrique Jurado Joel W. Sainer David Braddy Threshhold Triple Great 1995 Betweenhereorthere (1:24 1/5) Ender Jimenez Dominick Vittese David Vivian Cashier Coyote Dirtman

1994 Soldier On (1:25 2/5) Eddie Algarin Frederick Kirby Frederick Kirby Brunette Crusader Valid Coup 1993 Roglee (1:25 2/5) William Henry Roger Kumar Glenn Wismer Exclusive Praline Loadofhope

1992 Virgil Cain (1:24) Eduardo Nunez S.W. Ballou Daniel Hurtak Numerically Aarons Classi Boy

1991 No Mecourtney (1:26 3/5) Eric Valles Oliver S. Edwards Valerie Sciaretta Critical Quad Oh My Blue Boy

1990 Darian’s Reason (1:24 4/5) Eduardo Nunez Schweiger Stable, Inc. Robert Richards, Jr. Speedy Cure Gold Peak 1989 Ignition Switch (1:27 2/5) Heriberto Rivera, Jr. Judy & Carroll Barnhill J. Carroll Barnhill Mitigated Bid Thames

1988 Storm Predictions (1:25 4/5) Steve Gaffalione Three G Stable Luis Olivares Play Pal Ruler's Guard

1987 Cook’s Brown Rice (1:25 3/5) Alfredo Smith, Jr. Rupert Brown Joseph Fabrizio Strike the Knight Katie Come Lately 1986 Tough Castin’ (1:12 2/5) Rick Luhr Triple O Stable Robert Richards, Jr. Just A Prospector Pleasure Court

$100,000 Inaugural Stakes The Inaugural Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:09.32 CATALINA RED (2014)

Slowest Time: 1:14.0 LINDSEY LANE (1993)

Longest Priced Winner: $89.20 NO MECOURTNEY (1991)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 TRICKS TO DOO (2017)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose HONEY HONEY HONEY (2008)

Largest Winning Margin: 7 1/4 Lengths TRICKS TO DOO (2017)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 OBVIOUS ONE ANOTHER MIRACLE (2017) (2019)

Track Condition: Fast Good Sloppy

All except 1999 2018

Richest Purse: $100,000 2013-present

$100,000 Inaugural Stakes The Inaugural Stakes

Other Notes: Cattin concluded his 2-year-old campaign with a flourish, rewarding jockey Samy Camacho with his second consecutive Inaugural Stakes victory. In 2020, homebred gelding Poppy’s Pride added to the wealth of outstanding Florida-bred juvenile stakes winners produced over the years by the Stonehedge LLC concern of Gilbert G. Campbell. In 2019, Daniel Centeno won his third consecutive Inaugural, guiding Arkansasbred long shot Zaino Boyz to a front-running victory. The decision to supplement Gladiator King to the Inaugural in 2018 paid off for the connections of the Florida-bred 2-year-old colt, who drew off on a sloppy track. Tricks to Doo was a $600,000 purchase by Lael Stable out of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March 2017 2-year-olds in training sale. Trainer Gerald Bennett saddled 2016 Inaugural winner Chance of Luck, joining his son Dale Bennett, who sent out Cool Cowboy to win the 2013 edition. The 2014 Inaugural Stakes winner, Catalina Red, shattered the stakes record while rewarding trainer Chad Stewart and five-time leading jockey Daniel Centeno with their first Inaugural victories. In May of 2016, Catalina Red won the Grade II, $500,000 Churchill Downs Stakes while trained by Jorge Navarro and ridden by Javier Castellano. The 2013 Inaugural Stakes winner, Cool Cowboy, is a son of 2009 Eclipse Award-winning Outstanding Sprinter, Kodiak Kowboy. The 2012 winner, Purple Egg, was the first Inaugural Stakes winner to finish in under 1:10 since the race was shortened from seven furlongs in 1996. The fourth-place finisher in that race, Falling Sky, won the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs and finished third in the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby. The purse was $25,000 from 1986 through 1998; in 1999 it was run for $40,000 and in 2000 the race was valued at $50,000. In December of 2007, the Inaugural began running for $65,000 and was raised again for the 2011 edition. The 2011 Tampa Bay Derby winner, Watch Me Go, finished fifth in the 2010 Inaugural. The 1988 Inaugural winner, Storm Predictions, won the (then)Grade III Tampa Bay Derby in 1989 and also won the Challenger at Tampa Bay Downs and the Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream and the Americana Handicap at Calder.

Florida-bred colt Cattin rolls through the stretch under jockey Samy Camacho to capture the 36th edition of the Inaugural Stakes.

The Lightning City Stakes

$100,000 Fillies & Mares 4-Up 5 Furlongs (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd

3rd

2022 Payntdembluesaway (56.04) Pablo Morales All My Hart Racing, Inc. Jane Cibelli Poseidon’s Passion Senora Roma

2021   Miss Auramet (55.30) Roberto Alvarado, Jr. David Melin, Leon Ellman and Laurie Plesa Edward Plesa, Jr. Ode to Joy Sethamee Street

2020 Jean Elizabeth (55.09)* ^^ Albin Jimenez Richard Ravin, Patricia's Hope LLC and Larry Rivelli Larry Rivelli Miss Deplorable R Happy Ending

2018 Miz Mayhem (55.37) Edgard Zayas Laurie Plesa Edward Plesa, Jr. Smiling Causeway Broadway Run

2017 Smiling Causeway (55.82) Daniel Centeno Audley Farm Stable Arnaud Delacour Wealthy Shipman Cousin Claire

2016 Triple Chelsea (55.60) Wilmer Garcia Calvin Johnston & Carlos Tonda Anthony Granitz Nite Delite Everything Lovely

2015 Richies Sweetheart (56.18) Dean Butler Ravin, Patricia’s Hope, Rivelli Larry Rivelli Katie’s Kiss Iroquois Girl

2015 Double Secret (56.64) ^ Augusto Marin Adolfo J. Exposito Adolfo Exposito You Bought Her Love Train

2014 Shrinking Violet (55.54) $$ Quincy Hamilton Wesley A. Ward Wesley A. Ward Allwewantforxmas Ageless

2013 Smartys Emperoress Angel Serpa Jerry Jamgotchian James Spicknall Trippin’ Along Christina d’Oro

2011 Jenny’s So Great (56.02) R. Homeister, Jr. Vicki and Bill Poston Jason Servis Supreme Bounding Bi/Suzzona (DH)

2010 Suzzona (56.83) Hector Ramos Sandy Valley Farms Benny Feliciano Trippi’s Sailor Tremendamente Loca

2009 Taletobetold (58.19) Tony Farina Robert DeWitt Eddie Kenneally Easy Ashley Kosmo’s Buddy

2008 Game N Laughin’ (57.21) Dean Butler Diamond G Ranch, Inc. Bernell B. Rhone Jazzy (ARG) Charlie Papa

2007 Royal Regan (56.61) Pedro Cotto, Jr. J. Pesci, S. Sharma, W. Ward Cathy Rountree Bucky’s Prayer Message of a Myth

2007 Bucky’s Prayer (55.50) ^ Luis Gonzalez Winning Stables, Inc. Gerald Bennett Zooming By Mohegan Sky

2006 Jewels N Gems (57.14) ^ Eddie Castro Richard Averill Kirk Ziadie Jabalski Princess Yes It’s Gold

2005 Whenthedoveflies (56.54) ^ Jose Lezcano Kalacan Racing Stable Kirk Ziadie Inhonorofjohnnie Impressive Star * -- Stakes record holder $$ - Purse increased to $100,000 ^ -Race run in January DH- Dead heat ^^ -- Race run in February

The Lightning City Stakes

The $100,000 Lightning City Stakes

Fastest Time: 55.09 JEAN ELIZABETH (2020)

Slowest Time: 58.19 TALETOBETOLD (2009)

Longest Priced Winner: $63.40 DOUBLE SECRET (2015)

Shortest Priced Winner: $3.80 WHENTHEDOVEFLIES (2005)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose SMARTYS EMPERORESS (2013)

Largest Winning Margin: 5 Lengths WHENTHEDOVEFLIES (2005)

Shortest Priced Loser: $.70 MADAME GIRY (2013)

Track Condition: Firm Good All except 2009 and 2015

Richest Purse: $ 100,000 2014-present

Other Notes: Trainer Jane Cibelli’s classy Kentucky-bred mare Payntdembluesaway improved her career record to 9-for-15 with her second career stakes triumph. In 2021, Edward Plesa, Jr., the trainer of Miss Auramet, and his wife, co-owner Laurie Plesa, won the Lightning City for the second time in three seasons. In 2020, the 5-year-old mare Jean Elizabeth scored her seventh consecutive victory, all stakes, while setting a stakes record of 55.09 seconds for 5 furlongs. Miz Mayhem left Tampa Bay Downs in possession of her fourth stakes victory as a 3-year-old, winning the annual turf test for breeder-owner Laurie Plesa and trainer Edward Plesa, Jr. Her time of 55.37 seconds for the 5 furlongs on the grass was a stakes record. Although Daniel Centeno has won the Turf Dash six times, his victory on Smiling Causeway was his first in the Lightning City. Triple Chelsea, the 2016 winner, is the only 3-year-old to win the Lightning City Stakes. Richies Sweetheart’s 2015-2016 upset victory marked the third consecutive year the Lightning City winner was owned and trained by the same individual. Trainer Larry Rivelli owns the Illinois-bred mare in partnership with Richard Ravin and Patricia’s Hope, LLC (Vince Foglia). Double Secret, the 2015 winner, was owned and trained by Adolfo Exposito, who manages an eight-horse stable in the Ocala, Fla., area. Shrinking Violet (owned and trained by Wesley Ward), the 2014 winner, was a girl for all seasons and all racetracks. Her successful venture to Tampa Bay Downs for the Lightning City Stakes marked the 10th different track at which she had competed. Ward was an Eclipse Award winner as an apprentice jockey and is the son of Tampa Bay Downs trainer Dennis Ward. The 2013 winner, Smartys Emperoress, tied the stakes record in her Lightning City victory; in her only previous start at Tampa Bay Downs, she won a five-furlong allowance/optional claiming turf race in 55.42 seconds. The 2011 winner, Jenny’s So Great, was bred by pop singing star David Cassidy, perhaps best known for playing Keith Partridge on “The Partridge Family.” Jenny’s So Great was the first betting favorite to win the race since Bucky’s Prayer at the end of the 2006-07 season. Suzzona, the 2010 winner, also captured stakes at Pimlico, Monmouth and Parx. Trainer Kirk Ziadie has won two editions of the Lightning City Stakes: in 2005 with Whenthedoveflies and in 2006 with Jewels N Gems, while jockey Dean Butler has won the race twice: on Richies Sweetheart in 2015 and on Game N Laughin’ in 2008. The purse for the Lightning City was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 for the 2014 renewal.

The 6-year-old mare Payntdembluesaway and jockey Pablo Morales dominate 11 rivals to win the Lightning City.

The Minaret Stakes

$50,000 Fillies & Mares 4-up 6 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Drop a Hint (1:10.48) Antonio Gallardo Sam Wilensky Herman Wilensky My Destiny Feeling Mischief

2021 The Goddess Lyssa (1:10.02) Daniel Centeno Team Equistaff, Inc. Gerald Bennett Bronx Beauty Poseidon’s Passion

2020 Lady's Island (1:09.97) Emisael Jaramillo Matties Racing Stable Gerald Bennett Into Chocolate Caught Up in You

2019 Heavenly Score (1:10.63) Pablo Morales Curragh Racing John Terranova, II Silly Factor Souper Echo

2018 Just Be Kind (1:10.59) Emisael Jaramillo Reade Baker Reade Baker Grand Prix Stormy Embrace

2017 Spanish Concert (1:09.63)* Ronnie Allen, Jr. James M. Chicklo Kathleen O'Connell My Mertie Southern Ring

2016 You Bought Her (1:10.02) Brian Pedroza Richard Perkins/Hinsley Racing David Hinsley No Fault of Mine R Sassy Lass

2015 You Bought Her (1:09.92) Brian Pedroza Richard Perkins/Hinsley Racing David Hinsley R Free Roll Puddifoot

2014 Risky Rachel (1:10.95) Daniel Centeno Sanford Bacon Juan Coronel Cor Cor Ambusher

2012 Appealing Stella (1:12.57) % Angel Serpa Cindy Nassal Jane Cibelli Becausei’mworthit Nakano

2011 Its Me Mom (1:09.68) % Willie Martinez Thomas and Jean Bosch Lynne Scace Moon Buzz Yournotthebossofme

2011 Stormy Publisher (1:10.71) Frederic Lenclud Waratah Thoroughbreds Christophe Clement My Irish Girl Choragus

2010 Perf (1:10.78) Luis Gonzalez Harold L. Queen Mary Bennett Rate of Exchange Nicks

2009 Dream Rush (1:10.73) Daniel Centeno Minor Stables William Phipps Rising Fever (BRZ) Star Operator

2008 Taylor Madison (1:10.65) Carlos Montalvo Dini Racing Stable, et al Michael Dini Twiceasbeautiful Rockaway Beach

2007 Summer Cruise (1:11.06) Carlos Montalvo Will Farish/Gasparilla Michael Zwiesler Rgirldoesn’tbluff Taylor Madison

2006 Platinum Perfect (1:10.68) Jose Lezcano Robert Valeri Lynne Scace Beautiful Bets Louve Sauvage

2005 Slew’s Final Answer (1:10.54) Jose Ferrer Live Oak Plantation Bill Mott Diablosangeleyes Beautiful Honor

2004 Sea Span (1:10.42) Jesus Castanon James R. Lewis Emanuel Tortora Mooji Moo Diablosangeleyes

2003 Smoke Chaser (1:12.18) Joseph Judice Savoy Stables/Goldish Kathleen O’Connell Little Won Roman Romance

2002 Away (1:11.47) Chris DeCarlo John Kimmel, et al John Kimmel Flashing Lil Little Won

The Minaret Stakes

$50,000 Fillies & Mares 4-up 6 Furlongs continued

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2000 Shutrina Sand (1:11.41) % Luis Gonzalez Chris Powell Deborrah Artz Little Won Lady Cherise

1999 Lolabell (1:11.41) William Henry Mrs. James B. Mal- John Hennig Make Me Conquer Kipper Quila

1998 Whats It Gonna Be (1:12) Jesse Garcia Bob Peterson Bob Peterson Mydaddysthemann Fortunate Smile

1997 Whats It Gonna Be (1:12 1/5) Jesse Garcia Bob Peterson Bob Peterson Bushy’s Pride Blueshirts’ Dream

1996 Pyxen (1:12 2/5) Chin Yang Jean Schunmann Paul Cimini Free Quest Portent/Double Dan (DH)

1995 Shananie’s Beat (1:11 4/5) Jorge Guerra Stonehedge Farm Kathleen O’Connell Wild Lady A Hooded Dancer

1994 Slew Knew (1:12 3/5) Ron Buchanan Mar Vic Stable Diana Cesarini Debby’s Honeypie Primetimeexclusive

1993 Forli’s Lass (1:10 2/5) William Henry Star Racing Stable Art Pedregal Summerhill Girl Magal

1992 Forli’s Lass (1:11 3/5) William Henry Star Racing Stable Art Pedregal Magal Summerhill Girl

1991 Majesty’s Missy (1:11.70)--## Chris Morales James B. Tafel Luis Olivares Winds of Forli Victorious Trick

1990 Sunny Stunner (1:11) Steve Gaffalione Three G Stable Luis Olivares Avie Jane Search for Tammy

1989 Diamond Sunjet (1:13)--# Ricardo Lopez Bea Oxenburg & Alter's Racing Stable Happy Alter Medieval Decoy Foxy Alexis

1988 Millie Prospect (1:12 1/5) Frank Pennisi Robert Infeld William R. Smith Mericana Tri Bowl

1987 Gentle Screen (1: 12 2/5) Benjamin Green James Winkler Al Hinson Merry Mercedes Shameless Sherry

1986 Medieval Decoy (1:12) Rick Adkins Myakka Stable Glenn Wismer Baldski's Holiday Tri Bowl

1985 Isayso (1:13 2/5) Willie Rodriguez Judy Nichols and Mike Chamblee Judy Nichols Furash Folly Delicate Lady

1984 FleurdePrintemps

ParisRoulette

1983 Sugar’s Appeal

DH --

Heriberto Rivera, Jr. Terry Warner Equites Stable Verna Lehmann

Angel Penna Jr. Sherman Ingram Patajet The Joy Of It All Miss Edith Answering Echo

Sean Jones Benjamin Green

Berkowitz, King Jr., & Joe Sipala W. Nazarenko Walter Nazarenko

Happy Alter John Reading

Hustle On Prospects Blossom Dead heat

Iron Flare Nabbo

$50,000 Minaret Stakes The Minaret Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:09.63 SPANISH CONCERT (2017)

Slowest Time: 1:12.3 SLEW KNEW (1994)

Longest Priced Winner: $72.00 PYXEN (1996)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.60 IT’S ME MOM (2011)

Closest Winning Margin: NOSE WHATS IT GONNA BE LITTLE WON STORMY PUBLISHER

(1998) (2000) (2011)

Largest Winning Margin: 8 1/4 Lengths IT’S ME MOM (2011)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .80 MAKE ME CONQUER (1997)

Track Condition: Fast Wet Fast Good

All except 2012 2021

Richest Purse: $65,000 2008

Drop a Hint and jockey Antonio Gallardo, outside, get up just in time to win the Minaret Stakes.

Other Notes: Drop a Hint, who finished second two months earlier in the Claiming Crown Distaff Dash Starter Stakes at Gulfstream at odds of 19-1, grabbed her elusive first stakes victory in the 5-year-old mare’s first-ever race at the Oldsmar oval. The 2021 winner, The Goddess Lyssa was a heck of a bargain for owner Mary K. Thomas’s Team Equistaff as a 2-year-old, selling for $10,000 at the 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June Two-YearOlds & Horses of Racing Age Sale. In 2020, 10 years after his wife Mary Bennett sent out Perf to win the Minaret Stakes, Gerald Bennett claimed the trophy with the speedy Lady's Island. The 5-year-old mare Heavenly Score grabbed her first career stakes victory with a determined rally for jockey Pablo Morales and trainer John P. Terranova, II. Just Be Kind was bred by John C. Oxley, who won the 2001 Kentucky Derby with Monarchos and captured the 2018 Grade III Sam F. Davis with Flameaway. Not only did Spanish Concert win the 2017 Minaret in her stakes debut, she established a stakes record of 1:09.63. It was the third Minaret victory for Kathleen O’Connell, the most of any trainer. In 2016, You Bought Her became the third horse to win back-to-back editions of the Minaret, joining Forli’s Lass (1992-1993) and Whats It Gonna Be (1997-1998). You Bought Her’s 2015 victory was the first career stakes triumph for jockey Brian Pedroza. It came four weeks after a runner-up effort in the Lightning City Stakes on the turf. Owner Sanford Bacon of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., bred 2014 winner Risky Rachel from his champion mare Dancin Renee, who died less than 24 hours earlier at Old Friends Equine Thoroughbred Retirement Center in Kentucky. Appealing Stella’s 2013 victory was the first for owner Cindy Nassal, who bred the winner with her husband Bill at their Stonecliff Farm in Ocala. It’s Me Mom and her connections celebrated New Year’s Eve in grand style in 2011, winning the Minaret by 8 ¼ lengths, the largest margin in race history. Jockeys Daniel Centeno and William Henry have each won this race three times.

The Pasco Stakes

$125,000 3-Year-Olds 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Markhamian (1:23.23)  Marcos Meneses Santa Rosa Racing Stables  Juan Carlos Avila  Provocateur   Cattin

2021 Nova Rags (1:24.55) Samy Camacho Michael P. Shanley Bill Mott Newyearsblockparty Foreman

2020 Liam's Lucky Charm (1:21.75) Edgard Zayas Stonehedge LLC Ralph Nicks Albert Park No Getting Over Me

2019 Win Win Win (1:20.89) *^ Julian Pimentel Live Oak Plantation Michael Trombetta Overdeliver Cave Run

2018 World of Trouble (1:21.52)** Antonio Gallardo Michael Dubb Jason Servis He Hate Me Mind Trappe

2017 The Money Monster (1:24.04) Edgard Zayas Crichton & Baker Rohan Crichton Chance of Luck Arrecife

2016 Morning Fire (1:24.76) Daniel Centeno Mercedes Stables Keith Nations Epic Journey Awesome Slate

2014 Catalina Red (1:21.40)% Daniel Centeno Anthony A. Lenci Chad Stewart X Y Jet Charlie’s Brother

2014 Mighty Brown (1:24.17) Dean Butler Tri-StarRacing& Tim Ice Cool Cowboy Giancarlo

2013 Dynamic Sky (1:22.79) Luis Contreras John C. Oxley Mark Casse Sky Commander Divine Ambition

2012 Prospective (1:23.88) Luis Contreras John C. Oxley Mark Casse Wildcat Creek Adirondack King

2011 Manicero (1:24.58) Luis Saez Leo Azpurua, Sr. Leo Azpurua, Jr. Bert B Don Depeche Chat

2010 Uptowncharlybrown (1:24.28) Daniel Centeno Fantasy Lane Stables Alan Seewald Big Looie Black Diamond Cat

2009 Musket Man (1:25.63) Luis Gonzalez Eric Fein, Vic Carlson Derek Ryan General Quarters Miles and Miles

2008 Honey Honey Honey (1:24.75) Jose Lopez Jacks or Better Farm Stanley Gold Gentleman James Surrealdeal

2007 Barkley Sound (1:24.31) Enrique Jurado Pinebloom Stables Joan Scott Steelix Dippi Trippi

2006 R Loyal Man (1:22.55) *** Manoel Cruz Alfred Kowalewski Timothy Ritvo Electrify Doc Cheney

2005 Electric Light (1:23.67) Winston Thompson Live Oak Plantation Nick Zito Captain Lindsay Dazzling Dr. Cevin

2004 Misguided Left (1:25.94) Jesus Castanon Joel W. Sainer J. David Braddy Wire Bound Bourbon N Blues

2003 Super Fuse (1:25.07) Carlos Gonzalez C. T. Stable, LLC Richard Ciardullo, Jr. Hear No Evil Kipper Chemo

2002 Major Focus (1:24.53) Earlie Fires Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Expected Hour Ran South

2001 One Special Judge (1:25.31) Sidney LeJeune, Jr. Peppertree Farm Ronald Moquett Simply Sir Mute Gingrich

2000 Bearcat Ruckus (1:24.87) Derek Bell Teaberry Acres Javier Contreras Tour the Hive Sweeping Analysis

1999 Slew the Message (1:24.1) T.D. Houghton Chris Powell Jason Stodghill Do It My Way Skootin Skooter ^ -- stakes, track record ** -- purse increased to $125,000 *** -- purse increased to $75,000 % -- run in December 2014

The Pasco Stakes

The

$125,000

Pasco Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:20:89* WIN WIN WIN (2019)

Slowest Time: 1:25.94 MISGUIDED LEFT (2004)

Longest Priced Winner: $36.80 BEARCAT RUCKUS (2000)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.00 ONE SPECIAL JUDGE (2001)

Closest Winning Margin: Neck SUPER FUSE CATALINA RED (2003) (2014)

Largest Winning Margin: 133/4 Lengths WORLD OF TROUBLE (2018)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ 1.10 RUN SULLY RUN (2008)

Track Condition: Fast Good All except 2016

Richest Purse: $125,000 2018-Present

Markhamian and jockey Marcos Meneses are in full control at the finish of the 24th Pasco Stakes.

Other Notes: The Florida-bred colt Markhamian is trained by Juan Carlos Avila, the conditioner of 2020 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby winner King Guillermo. The 2021 victory by Nova Rags marked the first Pasco Stakes triumph for both Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and jockey Samy Camacho. In 2020, jockey Edgard Zayas won the Pasco for the second time in four years with a strong ride on Liam's Lucky Charm, a Stonehedge LLC homebred son of Khozan. The aptly named homebred Win Win Win turned in one of the most dominant efforts ever seen at the Oldsmar oval in his 3-year-old debut, setting a 7-furlong track record of 1:20.89 while winning by seven-and-a-quarter lengths. A year earlier, World of Trouble, drew away to a 133/4- length victory despite being eased up in the final yards, missing the track record by .12 seconds. World of Trouble went on to finish third in the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby and second in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. In the 2016 edition, jockey Daniel Centeno captured a record third Pasco Stakes victory aboard Morning Fire, who later finished third in the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes before traveling to Gulfstream to win the Spectacular Bid, again with Centeno in the saddle. The Pasco Stakes was contested by 2-year-olds during the 2014-2015 meeting. Catalina Red demolished the stakes and track record for trainer Chad Stewart and jockey Centeno. The 2014 Pasco winner, Mighty Brown, is a son of 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness champion Big Brown. Dynamic Sky’s victory in 2013 represented back-to-back Pasco scores for his connections: owner John Oxley, trainer Mark Casse and jockey Luis Contreras. Their Prospective found Tampa Bay Downs much to his liking in 2012. After his Pasco Stakes victory, he finished second in the Sam F. Davis Stakes before winning the Grade II Tampa Bay Derby. The 2009 Pasco winner, Musket Man, won the Tampa Bay Derby and Grade II Illinois Derby and finished third in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, while 2009 runner-up General Quarters scored victories in the Sam F. Davis and the Grade I Blue Grass at Keeneland. Jockey Earlie Fires, who won the 2002 Pasco on Major Focus at age 54, is a member of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

*Track Record

The Pelican Stakes

$100,000 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 6 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Bank On Shea (1:09.61) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Shea D Boy’s Stable Carlos David Baby Yoda Pudding

2021 Zenden (1:09.85) Samy Camacho LLP Performance Horse, LLC Carlos David Souper Stonehenge Edgemont Road

2020 Killybegs Captain (1:09.24) Samy Camacho Curragh Stables John Terranova, II He Hate Me Wind of Change

2019 Killybegs Captain (1:09.66) Samy Camacho Curragh Racing II John Terranova, II Sweetontheladies Imperial Hint

2018 X Y Jet (1:09.17) Emisael Jaramillo Rockingham Ranch & Jorge Navarro Jaguar Poz Divine Ambition

2017 Tiger Blood (1:09.42) Pablo Morales Miguel Barraza Darien Rodriguez Springmeier Sonoma Crush

2016 Barbados (1:09.96) Victor Lebron Suzanne Stables Michael Tomlinson Normandy Crossing Street Spice

2015 Star Harbour (1:10.78) $$ Geovany Garcia Billy, Donna & Justin Hays Joe Woodard Helooksthepart Risk Factor

2014 Palace Barista (1:09.94) Harry Vega Lynne M. Scace Lynne M. Scace W.B. Smudge One Buck Roma

2013 Action Andy (1:09.14) * Danny Coa Robert Gerczak Carlos Garcia Indiano Black Belt

2012 Action Andy (1:09.58) % Jesse Garcia Robert Gerczak Carlos Garcia Good Lord Why Pretend

2011 See I A (1:10.18) Huber Villa-Gomez Midwest Thoroughbreds Jamie Ness Gary D Good Lord

2010 Sneaking Uponyou (1:11.21) Daniel Centeno Jagger, Inc. Jamie Ness Conchacer War Fighter

2009 Blind River Fox (1:10.09) Willie Martinez Winning Stables, et al Gerald Bennett Ruby’s Red Socks Duke’s Flying Tiger

2008 Lookinforthesecret (1:09.30) Daniel Centeno Balkrisna Sukharan Jamie Ness He’s So Chic It’s His Time

2007 Roman Candles (1:09.88) Jose Martinez, Jr. C. Robert Valeri Lynne M. Scace Wonone D’artagnans’spirit

2006 Above the Wind (1:10.83) Federico Mata Hamco Group Ronald Allen, Sr. Morine’s Victory Pirate King

2005 Above the Wind (1:10.04) Federico Mata Hamco Group Ronald Allen, Sr. Ranger Chance Sing Me Back Home

2003 Above the Wind (1:10.89) % Federico Mata Hamco Group Ronald Allen, Sr. Secret Romeo Wackey For Love

2002 Secret Romeo (1:10.87)% Federico Mata A A C Stables Gerald Bennett Tour the Hive Winnie’s Pooh Bear

2001 Winnie’s Pooh Bear (1:11) % T.D. Houghton A A C Stables Gerald Bennett Distinctive Mr. B Mountain Top

2000 Mountain Top (1:10.69) % Juan Umana John D. Murphy

Michael Gorman Diamond Studs Distinctive Mr. B

1999 San Gennaro ( 1:10.66) % Pedro Rodriguez Richard Ciardullo, Sr. Richard Ciardullo, Jr. Salty Glance Mann the Shipp * -- Stakes record $$ -- Purse increased to $100,000 % -- Run in December

The Pelican Stakes

$100,000 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 6 Furlongs continued

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

1999 Brisco Jack (1:10.48) William Henry Martin L. Cherry Raymond Tamargo Blues Away Mann the Shipp

1997 Brisco Jack (1:12 1/5)% Ricardo Lopez Donald Murray Evelio Garcia Ray of Gold Triple Great

1996 Little Don (1:11 2/5) % Bubba G. Wilson Duane Knipe Duane Knipe Prince of Gallapiat Journeys Express

1995 Fort Edward (1:10 4/5) % Jorge Guerra Dennis Brida Dennis Brida Here Come Da BankersForbes

1995 Not Surprising (1:10 4/5) William Henry Robert Van Worp Judson Van Worp Honor Colony Reigning Glory

1994 Not Surprising (1:10 2/5) William Henry Robert Van Worp Judson Van Worp Oh So Striking Bob the Hat

1993 Lord Try On (1:10 3/5) Eddie Algarin River Bend Farm E.P. Cantlon, Sr. Intown for the Day Junk Bond King

1992 Hidden Tomahawk (1:11 3/5) Ismael Gonzalez J.R. Solomon R.J. Richards, Jr. Aim High Daniel Franklin Me

1991 Mr. Hot Shot (1:10 4/5) Jose A. Rivera, II James Stewart William Stewart Jilsie’s Gigalo Position Leader

1990 Cook’s Brown Rice (1:11) Victor H. Molina Rupert Brown Joseph Fabrizio Strike the Knight Katie Come Lately

1989 Intown for the Day (1:09 1/5)# Rick Adkins T.D. Shank Robin Shank Sunny Go North Private Express

1988 Bobbin's Key (1:11 3/5) Dickie Myres, Jr. Carolsteve Stable Charles Elderkin Gallant High Noon Hidden Discovery

1986 Tyrantson (1:111/5) Manuel Cedeno Jack Lucchesi Marco Salazar Hunch Mindful Partner

1985 Rupert’s Wing (1:11 3/5) ^^ Benjamin Green R. Rupert Brown A.P. Stuckey Rivo Billy The Best

1983 Big Mav (1:12 3) Rick Luhr Yvonne Winstead Robert Winstead Cross His Heart Admiral Whiskers

The Pelican Stakes

$100,000 Pelican Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:09.14 ACTION ANDY (2013)

Slowest Time: 1:12.1 BRISCO JACK (1997)

Longest Priced Winner: $132.40 ABOVE THE WIND (2003)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 X Y JET (2018)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose LORD TRY ON STAR HARBOUR (1993) (2015)

Largest Winning Margin: 11 ½ Lengths NOT SURPRISING (1995)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .20 IMPERIAL HINT (2019)

Track Condition: Fast Good Sloppy

All except 1995 1997

Richest Purse: $100,000 2015-present

Bank On Shea (inside), ridden by Irad Ortiz, Jr., defeats Baby Yoda and the rider’s brother Jose Ortiz by a neck in the Pelican Stakes.

Other Notes: Trainer Carlos David joined John Terranova, II, Carlos Garcia, Jamie Ness, Ronnie Allen, Sr., Gerald Bennett and Jud Van Worp as trainers to win back-to-back runnings of the Pelican (Allen won three in a row with Above the Wind from 2003-2006). In the final race of his career, six weeks after the 2021 Pelican, Zenden won the $1.5-million Dubai Golden Shaheen in the United Arab Emirates, but suffered a fatal injury just past the wire. In 2020, the 6-year-old gray horse Killybegs Captain became the fifth repeat winner of the Pelican, joining Not Surprising (1994-95), Brisco Jack (1997 and 1999), Above the Wind (three in a row, 2003, 2005 and 2006) and Action Andy (2012-13). The upset 2019 victory by 5-year-old horse Killybegs Captain in his career stakes debut was one of two stakes triumphs on the card for owner Curragh Stables and trainer John P. Terranova, II. The 6-year-old Florida- bred gelding X Y Jet tuned up for his second consecutive runner-up effort in the Dubai Golden Shaheen, missing the stakes record by .03 seconds. In addition to his 2017 Pelican Stakes victory, the 4-year-old Tiger Blood – a grandson of 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones – won the Florida Cup Hilton Garden Inn Sprint in 1:08.92, a quarter-second off the six-furlong track record. The 2016 Pelican winner, Barbados, won the Grade III Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park as a 3-year-old. Star Harbour’s sire is the late Indian Charlie, who won the 1998 Santa Anita Derby and finished third in the Kentucky Derby. Palace Barista won the 2014 Pelican in only his third lifetime start. Before setting the stakes record in 2013, Action Andy enjoyed a stellar 2012 campaign. He won the Super Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, the Da Hoss at Colonial, the Maryland Million Sprint Handicap and the $350,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash, the latter two at Laurel. Jockey Federico Mata won four consecutive editions of the Pelican: on Secret Romeo in 2002, followed by three in a row on Above the Wind. William Henry won this race three times, twice (1994 and 1995) with the combination of Not Surprising, owner Robert Van Worp and trainer Judson Van Worp. Not Surprising’s 1995 Pelican victory kicked off a year in which he won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top sprinter with eight victories, including four graded stakes in New York. Above the Wind was not the favorite in any of his Pelican triumphs; he paid $132.40 to win in 2003 as the longest shot in a 12-horse field. Trainer Gerald Bennett has won the Pelican three times. Jockey Daniel Centeno and trainer Jamie Ness have won the Pelican twice together: in 2008 with Lookinforthesecret and 2010 with Sneaking Uponyou. Ness won the Pelican a third time in 2011 with See I A.

The Sam F. Davis Stakes Grade III

$250,000 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Classic Causeway (1:42.80) Irad Ortiz, Jr.  Kentucky West Racing LLC and Clarke M. Cooper Brian Lynch Shipsational  Volcanic

2021 Candy Man Rocket (1:44.30) Junior Alvarado Frank Fletcher Racing Operations Bill Mott Nova Rags Hidden Stash

2020 Sole Volante (1:42.60) Luca Panici Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, Andie Biancone and Limelight Stables Corp.

Patrick Biancone Independence Hall Ajaaweed

2019 Well Defined (1:42.70) Pablo Morales Stonehedge LLC Kathleen O’Connell Kentucky Wildcat So Alive

2018 Flameaway (1:42.44) * Jose Lezcano John C. Oxley Mark Casse Catholic Boy Vino Rosso

2017 McCraken (1:42.45) Brian Hernandez, Jr. Whitham Thoroughbreds Ian Wilkes Tapwrit State of Honor

2016 Destin (1:43.67) ## John Velazquez Twin Creeks Racing Stables Todd Pletcher Rafting Morning Fire

2015 Ocean Knight (1:43.74) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Stonestreet Stables LLC Kiaran McLaughlin Divining Rod My Johnny Be Good

2014 Vinceremos (1:47.34) Edgar Prado WinStar Farm & Twin Creeks Todd Pletcher Harpoon Cousin Stephen

2013 Falling Sky (1:44.79) Jose Espinoza N’wtownAnner, C’vello, B’lger John Terranova II Dynamic Sky My Name Is Michael

2012 Battle Hardened (1:44.58) $$ Julien Leparoux M. Tabor & Mrs. J. Magnier Eddie Kenneally Prospective ## Reveron

2011 Brethren (1:45.07) Ramon Dominguez WinStar Farm Todd Pletcher Too Experience Watch Me Go 2010 Rule (1:44.15) John Velazquez WinStar Farm Todd Pletcher Schoolyard Dreams Uptowncharlybrown

2009 General Quarters (1:43.54) James Lopez Thomas McCarthy Mark Miller Sumo Musket Man ##

2008 Fierce Wind (1:44.13) Cornelio Velasquez Four Roses Thoroughbred Nicholas Zito Big Truck ## Smooth Air

2007 Any Given Saturday (1:44.47) John Velazquez WinStar Farm

2006 Bluegrass Cat (1:44.17) John Velazquez WinStar Farm

Todd Pletcher All I Can Get James Wilfred

Todd Pletcher Deputy Glitters ## R Loyal Man

2005 Andromeda’s Hero (1:46.63) Rafael Bejarano Robert LaPenta Nicholas Zito Summer Legacy Captain Lindsay

2004 Kaufy Mate (1:44.60) Ramsey Zimmerman Gregory Kaufman

Kirk Ziadie The Cliff’s Edge Zakocity

2003 White Buck (1:45.47) Roger Velez Olga Paradise Jerry Paradise Freedom Lane Coach Jimi Lee

2002 Bunk N Ted (1:49.86) Derek Bell Danny Hunt Kenneth Wirth Tails of the Crypt Raymond Springs

2001 Burning Roma (1:45.2) ## Juan Umana Harold Queen Heather Giglio American Prince Talking Red

The Sam F. Davis Stakes Grade III

$250,000 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile continued

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2000 Go Lib Go (1:44.84) Robert Landry Ray Cottrell Kenneth McPeek Kombat Kat Cool N Crafty

1999 San Gennaro (1:45.54) Pedro Rodriguez Richard Ciardullo, Sr. Richard Ciardullo, Jr. Groomstick Stock’s Gander

1998 Dabney Carr (1:46.1) Kevin Whitley My Jolee Stable/Everard Elizabeth Zemp-Everard Rock and Roll Midnight Coyote

1997 Wilt the Tilt (1:46.0) Luis Gonzalez Michael Smith Cyndi Smith Part the Waters Favorable Regard

1996 Thundering Storm (1:47 3/5)## Jorge Guerra Deborrah Artz Don Rice Copy Cat My Game

1995 Akiba (1:47 2/5) Santos Chavez Scott Savin Hubert “Sonny” Hine Dr. Ktonborg Dontstopthejukebox

1994 Parental Pressure (1:47 2/5) Jack Lauzon Hammer Kopf Farm, et al Fred Loschke Able Buck Mr. Blueberry

1993 Marco Bay (1:45 3/5) ## Ronnie Allen, Jr. Jay Shaw Sarah Lundy Antrim Rd. Flashy Regent

1992 Randy (1:46 2/5) Herson Sanchez Martin Haft Angel Rosado Wolf Brigade Critical Quad

1991 Speedy Cure (1:47 4/5) ## Ricardo Lopez Susan Fisher Harvey Culp One No Trump Northern No Trump

1990 Fiery Best (1 :46) Manuel Santos Fred Berens and Solomon Garazi Jose Mendez Thames Slew of Angels

1989 Papa Leonard (1:46 4/5) Robert Woodhouse Joseph I. Losen Joseph I. Losen Bullish Roger K.

1988 House Account (1:46 4/5) Dean Kutz Glen Hill Farm Tom Proctor Spacewalker Tight Halo

1987 Phantom Jet (1:45 1/5) ## Keith Allen Aisco Stable Phil Gleaves Irish Tex Chief Black Hawk

1986 Fellow’s Lady (1:47 2/5) Ramon Sagardia Anthony Fernandez Charles Miranda Royal Doulton Exsable

1985 Tamao’s Gray (1:27) Ruben Hernandez A.J.W. Stable Chip Spencer Sparkling Jay Jet Cadet

1984 Morning Bob^^ (1:47) Miguel Rivera Brushwood Stable Woody Stephens Sagittarian Fourth Verse

1984 D. White Jose Velez, Jr. Frank A. Alexander and Kevin Miller Frank A. Alexander

1983 Saverton (1:47 2/5) Wirth Driscoll Thomas James McComas Two Turns Home Slew O Gold

1982 Tampa Bay Buck (1:47 4/5) Miguel Rivera I. Walling Pickett Malcom Pathline Jetabid

1981 Croziers Ace (1:45 2/5) Mills Dale Baird Dale Baird Tigirish Silver Dollar Boy

The Sam F. Davis Stakes Grade III

$250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:42.44 FLAMEAWAY (2018)

Slowest Time: 1:49.86 BUNK N TED (2002)

Longest Priced Winner: $56.40 WHITE BUCK (2003)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.40 ANY GIVEN SATURDAY (2007)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose RANDY AKIBA VINCEREMOS

(1992) (1995) (2014)

Largest Winning Margin: 6 ¾ Lengths SAN GENNARO (1999)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .40 WOLF BRIGADE (1992)

Track Condition: Fast Good Sloppy

All except 1991 and 1998 2003

Richest Purse: $250,000 2011-present

Classic Causeway turns on the jets in deep stretch, recording a sub-6 second final sixteenth of a mile to put away his competition.

Other Notes: Homebred Classic Causeway, owned by Patrick O’Keefe’s Kentucky West Racing and Clarke M. Cooper, displayed the speed and stamina needed to post a convincing victory, the second in the race for top jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. In 2021, Candy Man Rocket, a son of outstanding sire Candy Ride, won the Sam F. Davis in only his third career start. In 2020, Sole Volante unleashed an explosive move around the far turn to leave no doubt of his superiority against six rivals. Florida-bred Well Defined turned in a sterling gate-to-wire performance to place himself on the 2019 Triple Crown trail for breeder-owner Stonehedge LLC and trainer Kathleen O’Connell. Flameaway would not be denied in the Sam F. Davis, fighting back to record a half-length victory in stakes-record time. He is owned by John C. Oxley and trained by Mark Casse, who teamed to win the 2012 Tampa Bay Derby with Prospective. McCraken lived up to expectations in 2017 by setting a 1 1/16-mile track record (bettered four weeks later) of 1:42.45. The 3-year-old colt is owned by Whitham Thoroughbreds and trained by Ian Wilkes, who won the 2012 Challenger Stakes with subsequent Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Fort Larned. In 2016, Destin became the first horse to win the Sam F. Davis and the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby since Burning Roma in 2001. He also provided trainer Todd Pletcher his sixth Davis victory since 2006 and was the fourth Davis winner for Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez. Sam F. Davis 2015 winner Ocean Knight’s sire is Curlin, the two-time Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame member who won the 2007 Preakness and Breeders’ Cup Classic Powered by Dodge and earned $10.5-million. Vinceremos, the 2014 Sam F. Davis winner, was named for the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center in Loxahatchee, Fla. Falling Sky was purchased less than three weeks before the 2013 Sam F. Davis Stakes at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s winter mixed sale for $425,000 by the partnership of Maurice and Samantha Regan’s Newtown Anner Stud, James Covello and Joseph Bulger. Six Tampa Bay Derby winners have won this race in addition to Classic Causeway: Phantom Jet (1987), Speedy Cure (1991), Marco Bay (1993), Thundering Storm (1996), Burning Roma (2001) and Destin. Trainer Nick Zito has won the Sam F. Davis Stakes twice: in 2005 with Andromeda’s Hero and in 2008 with Fierce Wind. The Sam F. Davis received Grade III status for the first time in 2009, the year in which General Quarters set a stakes record. Burning Roma was owned by Clearwater’s Harold Queen, who won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Big Drama.

The Sandpiper Stakes

$100,000 Fillies 2-Year-Olds 6 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2021 Strategic Bird (1:10.05) Antonio Gallardo Gary Barber  Mark Casse Devine Charger Chasing Happiness

2020 Feeling Mischief (1:09.76)* Jesus Castanon Mellon Patch, Inc. Michael Campbell Gulf Coast Little Nesso

2019 Lucrezia (1:10.16) Daniel Centeno Edward A. Seltzer and Beverly S. Anderson Arnaud Delacour Two Sixty Bridge Dancer

2018 Fashion Faux Pas (1:11.65) Daniel Centeno Denlea Park and Arnaud Delacour Peruvian Appeal Lovesick

2017 Almond Roca (1:10.01) * Pablo Morales Chadds Ford Stable H.Graham Motion Toni Ann's Miracle R True Talent

2016 R Angel Katelyn (1:10.67) Edwin Gonzalez Averill/CCF/K Lauren Gerald Bennett Jumby Bay Rashette

2015 Hidden Treat (1:11.57) Daniel Centeno Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour A Little Attitude Kandoo

2014 R Sassy Lass (1:10.48) Antonio Gallardo Averill/Silver Oak/Kaufman Kirk Ziadie Coco’s Wildcat Innovative Idea

2013 My Sweet Dove (1:11.42) $$ Fernando DeLa Cruz Peter A. Lawson Monte Thomas Enquete Secret Kitten

2012 Cor Cor (1:10.02) Scott Spieth S. Ballou & H. Waldron Joan Scott Vitameta R Free Roll

2011 Quick Flip (1:10.96) Pedro Cotto, Jr. Klaravich/W.H. Lawrence Terri Pompay Blue Forty Live Every Day

2010 Devilish Lady (1:11.51) Daniel Centeno Cairoli Racing Stable Antonio Sano It’s Me Mom Juanita

2009 Criolla Bonita (1:12) $ Abel Lezcano Shirley Duco Hector Mackenzie Joanie’s Catch Yournotthebossofme

2008 Dr. Zic (1:10.77) Daniel Centeno Derby Lane Farm, et al Joan Scott Sunday In Malibu Hooh Why

2007 Unfolding Wish (1:11.37) Carlos Montalvo Kinsman Stable Dale Bennett Bear Lahania Awesome Chic

2006 Special Cheers (1:11.60) Luis Gonzalez Elizabeth Muirhead, et al James Little Storm Savvy Foret

2005 Misty Rosette (1:10.33) ^ Sebastian Madrid Sonia Chapman James Chapman Runaway in Love Running Lass

2005 Portsea (1:11.26) Chris DeCarlo Vinery Stables Todd Pletcher Lady In Pink Joyous Song

2004 Wild Speed (1:11.93) Derek Bell Victoria Farm Javier Contreras Crafty Tears Atti Girl Fergie

2003 Ebony Breeze (1:11.4) Pedro Rodriguez Kinsman Stable Bill Mott Ozilda’s Nancy Lee Lavander Lass

2002 Rebecca’s Charm (1:11.42) Aurelio Toribio, Jr. Rousseau Racing Robert Hale Expected Roll Forum Search * -- Stakes record $$ -- Purse increased to $100,000 ^ -- Run in January $ -- Purse increased to $75,000

The Sandpiper Stakes

$100,000 Fillies 2-Year-Olds 6 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2001 Political Wife (1:13.0) Federico Mata Emerald Pastures Farm Cathy Rountree Quite Spender Bigcuz

2000 Whitney’s Best (1:11.51) % Luis Gonzalez Carl Bowling/Robert Velotta Chris Velotta Sami’s Proud Squaw Bea D J

1999 Shutrina Sand (1:11.42) William Henry Chris Powell Jason Stodghill Bella Gatto Sweet Singing Sami

1998 Tasso’s Magic Roo (1:11 3/5) Marland Suckie Eileen Bathen Richard Ciardullo, Jr. Proud Ridge Beaties for Real 1997 Star Performer (1:14 2/5) William Henry Carl Cooper/Robert Brown Carl Cooper Dawn Pretty Prospective Rosie 1996 Mercedes Song (1:13 1/5) Paula Bacon Deborrah Artz Don Rice Flo’s Z Fury American Tango

1995 Expensive Lunch (1:14 4/5) William Henry Les Stables, Inc. Fred Warren Miss Carson Commando Dance

1994 Shananie’s Beat (1:11 3/5) William Henry Stonehedge Farm Kathleen O’Connell Tipper Too Sweet Hollyann

1993 Lindsey Lane (1:14) William Henry Stonehedge Farm Kathleen O’Connell Real Bucks Consentida

1992 Bet Your Bonnet (1:13 2/5) Pedro Rodriguez F. Berens and S. Garazi Jose Mendez Phi Phi Hi D Aggie Gene

1991 Tenacious Treasure (1:13 1/5) Ricardo Lopez Bee Bee Stable, Inc. Emanuel Tortora Dark Stage Vatican Dancer

1990 Premier Question (1:12 4/5) Richard Dos Ramos John Franks David Bell La Mama Mia Daring Koluctoo

1989 Grau Madchen (1:12 2/5) Ricardo Lopez Alyce and Joe Novogratz Glenn Wismer Family Flair Jetstar Genie

1988 Bill of Sale (1:13 4/5) Lisa Misiewicz Kenmare Farm David Prater Leave It Be

1987 Beau Love Flowers (1:12 1/5) Rick Luhr Rovan Farms Jud Van Worp Dear Dalila Lady Burn

1986 Sagadahoc (1:07 1/5)% Benjamin Green Maineway Stable Glenn Stanchfield Brief Fame Royal Tasha

1985 Flickering Match (1:14 3/5) Benjamin Green Julianne Barnhill and J. Carroll Barnhill Serenee's Design Tri Bowl

1984 Strawberry Road (1:14 2/5) Tony D’Amico Mary Simmerman James Levitch Sr. Pruner's Gal Sophia's Girl

1983 Sugar Charlotte ## (1:14 1/5) Heriberto Rivera, Jr. L.Combs & Equites Stable Raymond Lawerence Jr. Simply Striking Ruling Diplomat

1983 Best Game ## (1:13 4/5) Kevin Whitley J. Lally Kenneth Hoffman Blue Baton Tough Sis

1982 Supertam ## (1:13 4/5) Rick Luhr John Franks Roger Attfield Burned Crisp Silverdrone

1982 Exclusive Love ## (1:13 1/5) Richard DePass L. Combs II Raymond Lawerence Jr. Lady Amber Frozen Brook

1981 Cherokee Frolic (1:14 4/5) Danny Weiler Carolsteve Stable William Cole Lofty Ambition Miss Tarpon Woods

% -- Run at 5 1/2 furlongs ## -- Run in two divisions #-- -- formerly Hibiscus Stakes

The Sandpiper Stakes

$100,000 Sandpiper Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:09.76* FEELING MISCHIEF (2020)

Slowest Time: 1:14.4 EXPENSIVE LUNCH (1995)

Longest Priced Winner: $28.20 MERCEDES SONG (1996)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.60 SHANANIE’S BEAT (1994)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose STAR PERFORMER SPECIAL CHEERS (1997) (2007)

Largest Winning Margin: 9 1/4 Lengths SHANANIE’S BEAT (1994)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .60 ENQUETE (2013)

Track Condition: Fast Sloppy All except 1995 & 2018

Richest Purse: $100,000 2013-present

Strategic Bird, Antonio Gallardo up, is all out to stave off Devine Charger in the closing strides of the Sandpiper Stakes.

Other Notes: The Florida-bred Strategic Bird is owned by film producer Gary Barber, the former chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and cofounder of Spyglass Entertainment. In 2020, the 2-year-old filly Feeling Mischief turned in the fastest time in Sandpiper history under jockey Jesus Castanon. In 2019, the trainer-jockey combination of Arnaud Delacour and Daniel Centeno made it two Sandpiper scores in a row and three in five years with Lucrezia's victory. Nothing was out of place in the 2018 Sandpiper for Fashion Faux Pas, who turned in a stylish effort on a sloppy track with Daniel Centeno in the irons for his fourth Sandpiper victory. Almond Roca flashed the speed inherited from her sire, 2004 Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Speightstown, winning the Sandpiper in stakes-record time of 1:10.01 for 6 furlongs. After concluding her 2-year-old campaign by winning the 2016 Sandpiper, the best was yet to come for R Angel Katelyn, who won the Gasparilla and the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies as a 3-year-old. The 2015 Sandpiper winner, Hidden Treat, raced as a homebred for the Lael Stables of Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who campaigned 2006 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands winner Barbaro. Four months after her 2014 Sandpiper triumph, R Sassy Lass won the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies Stakes. My Sweet Dove’s broodmare sire, Dove Hunt, won five Grade III stakes in his career. In addition to her record-setting 2012 Sandpiper triumph, Cor Cor won the Battle of New Orleans Stakes at Fair Grounds and the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Filly Division Sprint at Ocala Training Center. Jockey William Henry won the Sandpiper Stakes five times in seven years: with Shutrina’s Sand (1999), Star Performer (1997), Expensive Lunch (1995), Shananie’s Beat (1994), and Lindsey Lane (1993). Two of those wins (in 1993 and 1994) were with owner Stonehedge Farm and trainer Kathleen O’Connell. In 1986, the Sandpiper was run at 5 ½ furlongs; the 1982 and 1983 races were run in two divisions. In the 2004-2005 racing season, the Sandpiper was run in January; the 2005-2006 edition was carded in December, as were all subsequent editions. The late George Steinbrenner’s Kinsman Stable has won this race twice: in 2003 with Ebony Breeze (trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Pedro Rodriguez) and in 2008 with Unfolding Wish (trained by Dale Bennett and booted home by Carlos Montalvo). The 2008 winner, Dr. Zic, trained by Joan Scott, won the Grade I Vinery Madison at Keeneland in 2010.

The Suncoast Stakes

$150,000 3-Year-Old Fillies Mile-And-40 Yards

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Nest (1:39.30)*  Irad Ortiz, Jr. Repole Stable, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Michael House

Todd Pletcher Alittleloveandluck Blamethechampagne

2021 Curlin’s Catch (1:40.89) Antonio Gallardo Breeze Easy, LLC Mark Casse Be Sneaky Il Malocchio

2020 Lucrezia (1:39.99) Daniel Centeno Edward A. Seltzer and Beverly S. Anderson Arnaud Delacour Turtle Trax Motu

2019 Point of Honor (1:39.78) Javier Castellano Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Stetson Racing George Weaver Lady Kate Sweet Diane

2018 C. S. Incharge (1:41.40) $$ Joel Rosario William Pacella, Frank L. Jones Jr. and Frank Shoop Dale Romans Daisy Mihrab

2017 Tapa Tapa Tapa (1:39.91) Jesus Castanon Beau Ravine Timothy Hamm Elate R Angel Katelyn

2016 Weep No More (1:41.69) Victor Lebron Glenn S. Bromagen George Arnold, II Valueable Charmer Smart Shopping

2015 Include Betty (1:41.49) R. Homeister, Jr. Brereton Jones,Tim Thornton Thomas Proctor Huasca Ancient Goddess

2014 Please Explain (1:44.94) Julien Leparoux Niall Racing Thomas Proctor Nesso Light Bringer

2013 Manuka Honey (1:41.75) Edgar Prado Curragh Stables John Terranova, II Wild About Irene Cindys Casino

2012 Wait Til Dawn (1:40.58) Javier Castellano Michael Tabor Todd Pletcher Ciguaraya Melrose Woods

2011 Wyomia (1:39.93) Frederic Lenclud B. Anderson and E. Seltzer Curtis Garrison Devilish Lady Her Smile

2010 Diva Delite (1:41.58) R. Homeister, Jr. B. Vivian and D. Vittese David Vivian Miss Aristocrat Imaginary Saint

2009 Rock Candy (1:41.22) Carlos Montalvo W. Farish & Mrs. W.S. Kilroy Mike Zwiesler Ameribelle Don’t Forget Gil

2008 Vaulcluse (1:39.36)% Eibar Coa Melnyk Racing Stable Thomas Albertrani My Baby Baby No Use Denying

2007 Autobahn Girl (1:38.39) ^ Daniel Centeno Live Oak Plantation Nicholas Zito Trainee Saint Barbara

2006 Crystal Current (1:45.37) Cornelio Velasquez Kinsman Stable Bill Mott Saffronista Taylor Madison

2005 Toll Taker (1:45.15) Cornelio Velasquez Sea Gull Associates Timothy Hills Gotta Rush Gallant Secret

2004 Ender’s Sister (1:47.16) Brian Peck Green Lantern Stables George Arnold, II Fall Fashion Ladyinareddress

The Suncoast Stakes

$150,000 3-Year-Old Fillies Mile-And-40 Yards continued

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2003 Just Bill Me (1:46.57) R. Homeister, Jr. J. Reynolds/D. Dwyer Enrique Alonso Crimson and Roses Dakota Light

2002 Romancin Dixie (1:50.03) Dale Lynch Dorothy Leonard Perry Johnson Ease Ahead Quick Bird

2001 Classy Place (1:48.88) Paula Bacon Blaine Davidson Don Rice Frozen Dinner Chinsegut

2000 Silver Stockings (1:45.99) Juan Umana Savas/Chait/Inwood Farm L.L. Palmer Grey Sky My Special K’s

1999 Crown Jewel 1:47.01) Luis Martinez Donald Murray Evelio Garcia Second Degree Christie Light

1998 Tasso’’s Magic Roo (1:46 3/5) Marland Suckie Eileen Bathen Richard Ciardullo, Jr. Catherine’s Girl Gemley

1997 Poopsie (1:44 4/5) William Daniels Stephen Ferguson Stephen Casey Pyrite Annie Zesty Zoe

1996 Faithful City (1:46 2/5) Jorge Guerra White Cross Stable Luke Poulos Mercedes Song Elise’s Valentine

1995 Commando Dancer (1:46 2/5) Jesse Garcia Eugene C. Cashman Frederick Kirby Street Code Smooth Quest

1994 Cavada (1:46 1/5) Kevin Whitley Bebe Dalton Kathleen Kelley Sweet Hollyann Dominating Dottiet

1993 Thou Shalt Not Lie (1:47) ## Kevin Whitley Don Campbell (lessee) Don Campbell O.P. Cat Sezyou Queen

1992 My Gallant Birdie (1:26 2/5) Herson Sanchez Alan and Martin Haft Angel Rosado Aggie Gene Pi Phi Hi D

1991 Dark Stage (1:26 4/5) Danny Scocca Verbanic and Obser John Foggiano Quiet Chaos Vatican Dancer

1990 Premier Question (1:26) Richard Dos Ramos John Franks David Bell Karamea Empery's Dream

1989 Grau Madchen # (1:25 3/5) Ricardo Lopez Alyce & Joe Novogratz Glenn Wismer Out 'Till Midnight Family Flair

1988 Leave It Be (1:25 3/5) Herson Sanchez Parlay Stable Norman Wismer Go Gaiter Dancin Dumplin

1987 An Irish Dream** (1:26 1/5) Herson Sanchez Zita Andre and Michael Nauert William White Traci's Match Beau Love Flowers

1986 Royal Tasha (1:12 2/5) Rick Luhr Don Dee Farm Myles Neff Weird One Sagadahoe

1985 Flickering Match (1:26 1/5) Benjamin Green Julianne Barnhill and J. Carroll Barnhill J. Carroll Barnhill Fantasy Lace Bim's Ward

1984 Sure Too Explode (1:26 1/5) Rick Luhr C. B. Singer Howard Tesher Supreme Queen Dessi O'Day

1983 Silvered Silk (1:47 3/5) Millcreek Court (1:48 2/5) Terry Warner Johnson Ray Bowen Wilhelmina McEwan Jacqueline Branham George Baker Happy Geture Island Roses Ariecchina Beau Round

1982 Burned Crisp (1:46 2/5) GenuineDiamond (1:46 4/5) Joe Rocco Sr. W. Rodriguez R. Bronzini Sucher Stable Mark Perry J. Moos Jr. Lady Amber Supertam She's So Cold Noble Caper

1981 Secret Kingdom (1:46 1/5) Dickie Myers Reverie Knoll Farm Lore Hill Kaylem Ho Hot Star ## -- Distance changed to 1 1/16-mile #--formerly Gardenia Stakes ** --Beau Love Flowers finished first, DQ'd to 3rd 1982-1983: Run in two divisions

The Suncoast Stakes

$150,000 Suncoast Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:39.30 1:38.39 NEST AUTOBAHN GIRL (2022) (1 MILE 40 YARDS) (2007) (ABOUT 1 MILE)

Slowest Time: 1:50.03 ROMANCIN DIXIE (2002) (1 1/16-MILE)

Longest Priced Winner: $39.80 INCLUDE BETTY (2015)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.60 NEST (2022)

Closest Winning Margin: Head WYOMIA (2011)

Largest Winning Margin: 10 ½ Lengths TASSO’S MAGIC ROO (1998)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ 0.30 ELATE (2017)

Track Condition: Fast Sloppy Good

All except 2002 1991

Richest Purse: $150,000 2018-present

Nest, a subsequent Grade I winner and runner-up in the Longines Kentucky Oaks, stamps herself as one of the most promising fillies of her generation in her Suncoast Stakes triumph.

Other Notes: Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher notched his second Suncoast Stakes victory with Nest’s record-setting tour de force. She is a daughter of the legendary Curlin, out of A.P. Indy daughter Marion Ravenwood. Nest’s Suncoast victory was the start of a campaign that included three Grade I victories and a runner-up effort in the Longines Kentucky Oaks. In 2021, Curlin’s Catch, also by Curlin, rewarded another Hall of Fame conditioner, Mark Casse, and jockey Antonio Gallardo with their first Suncoast Stakes victories. Lucrezia’s victory in 2020 was the first in the Suncoast for trainer Arnaud Delacour. Point of Honor’s victory in the “Road to the Kentucky Oaks” points race was achieved in 1:39.78, the third-fastest since the distance was set at a mile-and-40 yards in 2008. C. S. Incharge is a half-sister to trainer Dale Romans' 2016 Preakness runner-up Cherry Wine, and his 2017 Grade III Regret Stakes winner, Sweeping Paddy. Tapa Tapa Tapa’s time in 2017 was the second-fastest since the Suncoast was switched to a mile-and-40-yards in 2008. Weep No More followed her 2016 Suncoast victory by capturing the Grade I Central Bank Ashland Stakes at Keeneland. Include Betty’s 2015 victory ended a streak of three consecutive favorites winning the Suncoast. It marked back-to-back victories in the race for trainer Tom Proctor and was the third Suncoast score for jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Manuka Honey’s 2013 victory was one of three Oldsmar stakes triumphs during that season for trainer John Terranova II. From 1993 to 2006, the Suncoast was run at 1 1/16 miles. It was run at about one mile in 2007 and the following year switched to its current mile and 40 yards. In 1982 and 1983 it was run in two divisions. Jockey Kevin Whitley won twice with Thou Shalt Not Lie (1993) and Cavada (1994). Flickering Match (1985) and Tasso’s Magic Roo (1998) both swept the now-defunct Tampa Bay Challenge Series, which was comprised of all 3-year-old filly races held at Tampa Bay Downs. Flickering Match was owned and trained by Carroll Barnhill of nearby Bradenton. In 2008, Vaulcluse won the race in 1:39.36, setting a new track and stakes record for the distance. Jockey Cornelio Velasquez won back-to-back editions of the Suncoast in 2005 and 2006 with Toll Taker and Crystal Current.

Tampa Bay Stakes Grade III

$175,000 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Shirl’s Speight (1:41.20) Emma-Jayne Wilson Charles E. Fipke Roger Attfield Get Smokin Floriform

2021 Get Smokin (1:40.75) Junior Alvarado Mary Abeel Sullivan Revocable Trust Thomas Bush Eons Admisssion Office

2020 Admiralty Pier (1:41.96) Samy Camacho Hoolie Racing Stable and Bruce Lunsford Barbara Minshall Devamani March to the Arch

2019 Inspector Lynley (1:40.35) Jose Ortiz Stuart S. Janney, III and Phipps Stable Claude McGaughey, III Divisidero Qurbaan

2018 World Approval (1:40.66) $$ John Velazquez Live Oak Plantation Mark Casse Forge (GB) Fire Away

2017 Inspector Lynley (1:40.65) John Velazquez Janney, III/Phipps Stable Claude McGaughey, III Kasaqui (ARG) Irish Strait

2016 Reload (1:40.15) Javier Castellano Phipps Stable Claude McGaughey, III Take the Stand Karibu Gardens

2015 Lochte (1:41.63) Paco Lopez Crossed Sabres Farm Marcus Vitali Old Time Hockey Sky Flight

2014 Guys Reward (1:43.44) Abdiel Jaen Michael J. Bruder Dale Romans Salto Golden Sabre

2013 Swift Warrior (1:43.14) Jose Espinoza James Covello, James Dolan John Terranova II Alley Oop Oop (DH) Doubles Partner (DH)

2012 Roman Tiger (1:40.42) Angel Serpa Dennis Manning Dennis Manning El Commodore Swift Warrior

2011 Doubles Partner (1:40.67) ## Julien Leparoux WinStar Farm Todd Pletcher Rahystrada Voodoo Swinge

2010 Karelian (1:42.61) R. Homeister, Jr. Green Lantern Stables George Arnold, II Gio Ponti Rahystrada

2009 Victory Alleged (1:41.35) Carlos Marquez Mac Fehsenfeld Dennis Manning Classic Campaign Society’s Chairman

2008 Cosmonaut (1:44.14) % Edgar Prado Flying Zee Stable Philip Serpe Ballonenostrikes Soldier’s Dancer

2007 Hotstufanthensome (1:41.24) Rajiv Maragh Runnin Horse Farms Norman Pointer Classic Campaign Defer

2006 Fort Prado (1:40.76) Brice Blanc Team Block, et al Chris Block Icy Atlantic Interpatation

2005 Wire Bound (1:40.14) Eduardo Nunez Silver Diamond Thoro’breds Manuel Criollo Remind Above the Wind

2004 Burning Roma (1:41.68) Jesus Castanon Harold Queen Heather Giglio Remind Native Hawk

2003 Burning Roma (1:41.53) Jesus Castanon Harold Queen Heather Giglio Tour of the Cat First lieutenant

2002 Boastful (1:40.95) T.D. Houghton Kinsman Stable Bill Mott Dog Tags Tour of the Cat ## -- Achieved Grade III status % -- Renamed Tampa Bay Stakes $$ -- Purse increased to $175,000

Tampa Bay Stakes Grade III

$175,000 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2001 Delay of Game (1:41.91) Chris DeCarlo John Peace George Arnold, II Johnny Dollar An Oscar for Bert

2000 Delay of Game (1:39.72) Ramon Perez John Peace George Arnold, II Nasello Bogatyr

1999 Legs Galore (1:39.65) * ^ William Henry Ann and Clinton Lagrosa Reed Combest Tangazi Orleans Road

1998 Ship Liner (1:44 1/5) Punchie Goberdhan Philip Williams Don Pittman Fig Fest Pleasant Too

1997 Request A Star (1:45 2/5) Punchie Goberdhan Paul O’Toole Jason Stodghill Pleasant Too Country Coy

1996 Iron Racketeer (1:46 2/5) Danny Scocca Charles Fink Mike Falzone Jane’s Jet Letters of Truth

1995 Not Surprising (1:44 2/5) William Henry Robert Van Worp Judson Van Worp Mighty Avanti Boisterous

1994 Pride Of Burkaan (1:44 2/5) Eric Valles A. Johnson & G. Murchibon Leo Azpurua, Jr. Not Surprising Repletion

1993 Lord John (1:45 1/5) William Henry John Callaway John Callaway Island Chatter Wynsum Wayward

1992 Lord John (1:51 1/5) & Willie Martinez John Callaway John Callaway Color Me Ande Rebounding Thrill

1991 Gallant Mel (1:45 2/5) Ricardo Lopez Edwards and Mitchell Don Campbell Velcro Fly Dangerous Dawn

1990 Majesty’s Imp (1:45 1/5) Ricardo Lopez Batarasan Stable Sturges Ducoing Tour d'Or Trail Topsider

1989 Gallant Mel (1:44 2/5) Ricardo Lopez Edwards & Penhale Don Campbell Fast Forward Regal Intention

1988 Homebuilder (1:43 4/5) Larry Saumell Ryehill Farm Woody Stephens Trail Topsider Sunny Prospector

1987 My Prince Charming (1:46 3/5) Octavio Aviles Estate of Don Aronow Newcomb Green Charging Through Coaxing Mark

Tampa Bay Stakes Grade III

$175,000 Tampa Bay Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:39.65 LEGS GALORE (1999)

Slowest Time: 1:51.1 LORD JOHN (1992)

Longest Priced Winner: $ 59.40 ROMAN TIGER (2012)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.40 WORLD APPROVAL (2018)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose KARELIAN ROMAN TIGER ADMIRALTY PIER

(2010) (2012) (2020)

Largest Winning Margin: 5 ¾ Lengths DELAY OF GAME (2000)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .20 GIO PONTI (2010)

Track Condition: Firm Soft Good Yielding

All except 2008 2013 and 2015 2014

Richest Purse: $175,000 2018-Present

Shirl’s Speight, a

Fipke

Other Notes: The come-from-behind victory by Shirl’s Speight was a precursor to his triumph 10 weeks later in the Grade I Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes at Keeneland. In 2021, Get Smokin turned in a career-best performance to boost his lifetime earnings above $300,000. In 2020, the 5-year-old gelding Admiralty Pier emerged from a three-horse photo finish to give jockey Samy Camacho his first career graded-stakes victory. Hall of Fame trainer Claude “Shug” McGaughey, III knows how to get a horse ready for the Grade III Tampa Bay Stakes. He won it in 2019 for the third time in four years with Inspector Lynley, who also won the 2017 edition. McGaughey is one of six Hall of Fame trainers to win the Tampa Bay Stakes, joining Roger Attfield last season; Mark Casse (World Approval, 2018); Todd Pletcher (Doubles Partner, 2011); Bill Mott (Boastful, 2002); and Woody Stephens (Homebuilder, 1988). The winner's share of $115,000 in 2018 raised World Approval's career bankroll above $3-million. He is a product of breeder-owner Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Stud and the 2017 Eclipse Award Champion Turf Male. As a 4-year-old, 2015 winner Lochte won the Grade I Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap in 2014 and placed in two other Grade I stakes. Guys Reward, the 2014 winner, was no stranger to graded turf stakes success; in 2012, he won the Grade II Firecracker Handicap at Churchill Downs. Swift Warrior, who finished third in the 2012 Tampa Bay Stakes, won the 2013 renewal three weeks after capturing the Grade III John B. Connally Turf Cup at Sam Houston. The race was run at 1 1/8-mile until 1993, when it was run at 1 1/16. It was moved to the turf in 1999. John Callaway won twice as owner/trainer with Lord John in 1992 and 1993. Jockeys William Henry and Ricardo Lopez each won the race three times. The 1995 winner, Not Surprising, went on to be voted an Eclipse Award as Outstanding Sprinter based on eight stakes victories, including four graded New York events. Previously known as the Tampa Bay Breeders’ Cup, the race enjoyed its most exciting renewal in 2010, when Karelian and jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr., edged Eclipse champion Gio Ponti and Ramon Dominguez by a nose. Karelian’s victory was the third in the race for trainer George “Rusty” Arnold, II. Trainer Dennis Manning won in 2009 with Victory Alleged and in 2012 with Roman Tiger.

5-year-old homebred racing for breeder-owner Charles

and Hall of Fame trainer Roger Attfield, pulls off the Tampa Bay Stakes upset under jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson.

Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Grade III

$400,000 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd

2023^^^

3rd

2022 Classic Causeway (1:44.90) Irad Ortiz, Jr. Kentucky West Racing LLC and Clarke M. Cooper Brian Lynch Grantham Shipsational

2021   Helium (1:43.55) Jose Ferrer D. J. Stable LLC Mark Casse Hidden Stash Moonlite Strike

2020 King Guillermo (1:42.63) Samy Camacho Victoria's Ranch Juan Carlos Avila Sole Volante Texas Swing

2019 Tacitus (1:41.90)* Jose Ortiz Juddmonte Farms Bill Mott Outshine Win Win Win

2018 Quip (1:44.72) $$ Florent Geroux WinStar Farm, China Horse Club International, and SF Racing Rodolphe Brisset Flameaway World of Trouble

2017 Tapwrit (1:42.36) Jose Ortiz Bridlewood/Eclipse/LaPenta Todd Pletcher State of Honor Wild Shot

2016 Destin (1:42.82) Javier Castellano Twin Creeks Racing Stables Todd Pletcher Outwork Star Hill

2015 Carpe Diem (1:43.60) John Velazquez WinStar Farm & Stonestreet Todd Pletcher Ami’s Flatter Divining Rod

2014 Ring Weekend (1:43.71) Daniel Centeno St.Elias&WestPointThoro’br H. Graham Motion Vinceremos Surfing U S A

2013 Verrazano (1:43.96) John Velazquez Let’s Go Stable, Tabor et al Todd Pletcher Java’s War Falling Sky

2012 Prospective (1:43.35) Luis Contreras John C. Oxley Mark Casse Golden Ticket Cozzetti

2011 Watch Me Go (1:44.25) ^ Luis Garcia Gilbert G. Campbell Kathleen O’Connell Crimson Knight Brethren

2010 Odysseus (1:44.31) Rajiv Maragh Padua Stables Tom Albertrani Schoolyard Dreams Super Saver !!

2009 Musket Man (1:43.67) Daniel Centeno Eric Fein & Vic Carlson Derek Ryan Join in the Dance Justdontcallmejeri

2008 Big Truck (1:44.25) Eibar Coa Eric Fein Barclay Tagg Atoned Dynamic Wayne

2007 Street Sense (1:43.11) !! Calvin Borel James Tafel Carl Nafzger Any Given Saturday Delightful Kiss

2006 Deputy Glitters (1:44.26) Jose Lezcano J. Lacombe Stable Tom Albertrani Bluegrass Cat Winnies Tigger Too 2005 Sun King (1:43.98) Edgar Prado Tracy Farmer Nicholas Zito Forever Wild Global Trader

2004 Limehouse (1:43.99) Pat Day Dogwood Stables Todd Pletcher Mustanfar Swingforthefences

2003 Region of Merit (1:44.61) Eibar Coa Calumet Farm Christophe Clement Aristocat Hear No Evil

2002 Equality (1:43.66) ^^ Ramon Dominguez Pin Oak Farm H. Graham Motion Tails of the Crypt Political Attack

2001 Burning Roma (1:44.30) Richard Migliore Harold Queen Heather Giglio American Prince Paging

!!- Kentucky Derby

Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Grade III

$400,000 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2000 Wheelaway (1:43.90) Richard Migliore C. Kimmel & P. Solondz John Kimmel Impeachment Perfect Cat

1999 Pineaff (1:45.33) Jose A. Santos Roy and Joyce Monroe Kenneth McPeek Menifee Doneraile Court

1998 Parade Ground (1:44 1/5) Pat Day W. Farish and S. Hilbert Neil Howard Middlesex Drive Rock and Roll

1997 Zede (1:44 4/5) Jerry Bailey Allen Paulson Bill Mott Brisco Jack Favorable Regard

1996 Thundering Storm (1:43 4/5) Jorge Guerra Deborrah Artz Don Rice El Amante Natural Selection

1995 Gadzook (1:45 1/5) Gary Boulanger Du-Zee Stables J. Bert Sonnier Composer Bet Your Bucks

1994 Prix de Crouton (1:46 3/5) Mickey Walls Lorne and Kathleen Berg Lorne Berg Able Buck Parental Pressure

1993 Marco Bay (1:44 2/5) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Jay Shaw Sarah Lundy Thriller Chiller Tunecke Charlie

1992 Careful Gesture (1:45 4/5) Robert Lester Cecilia Dixon Elbert Dixon Chief Speaker Clipper Won

1991 Speedy Cure (1:46 1/5) Ricardo Lopez Susan B. Fisher Harvey Culp Link Shudanz

1990 Champagneforashley(1:44 3/5) Jacinto Vasquez Baker/Kaskel/Feinbloom Howard Tesher Slew of Angels Always Running

1989 Storm Predictions (1:43 4/5) Steve Gaffalione Three G Stables Luis Olivares With Approval Mercedes Won

1988 Cefis (1:44 2/5) Eddie Maple Ryehill-Kirkham Partnership Woody Stephens Buck Forbes Twice Too Many

1987 Phantom Jet (1:43 4/5) Keith Allen Aisco Stables Phil Gleaves Homebuilder You’re No Bargain

1986 My Prince Charming (1:46 3/5) Craig Perret Aronow Stable Newcomb Green Lucky Rebeau Major Moran

1985 Regal Remark (1:46 4/5) Jeffrey Fell Sam-Son Farm James Day Verification Sport Jet

1984 Bold Southerner (1:44 3/5) Wayne Crews Rusticwoods Farm Paul Maxwell Rexson’s Hope Stickler

1983 Morganmorganmorgan (1:47 Willie Rodriguez Morgan Bishop Arthur Monteiro Slew o’ Gold Quick Dip

1982 Reinvested (1:45 1/5) Rick Luhr Harborview Farm Stanley M. Hough Stage Reviewer Real Twister

1981 Paristo (1:45 2/5) David Ashcroft Belmont Farm George Handy Bravestofall Darby Gillic

Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Grade III

$400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby

Fastest Time: 1:41.90 TACITUS (2019)

Slowest Time: 1:47.1 MORGANMORGANMORGAN (1983)

Longest Priced Winner: $179.40 BOLD SOUTHERNER (1984)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.10 SUN KING (2005)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose BOLD SOUTHERNER STREET SENSE ODYSSEUS

(1984) (2007) (2010)

Largest Winning Margin: 5 Lengths THUNDERING STORM CARPE DIEM (1996) (2015)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .05 WAR PASS (2008)

Track Condition: Fast Sloppy Good

All except 1986 2022

Richest Purse: $400,000 2018-present

Classic Causeway shows no signs of fatigue after his impressive gate-to-wire Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby victory under jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., who wins the race for the first time.

Other Notes: Classic Causeway became the seventh horse to sweep the Sam F. Davis Stakes and the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby and the first since Destin, the subsequent Belmont Stakes runner-up, in 2016. Trainer Mark Casse won his second Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby with Helium, a horse that had never raced on a dirt track, never raced around two turns and was making his first start of 2021. The winner's circle after the 2020 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby sported a Venezuelan flair, with King Guillermo owner Victor Martinez (the former major league slugger), trainer Juan Carlos Avila and jockey Samy Camacho sharing the homeland. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott won the Oldsmar showcase for the second time in 2019 with Tacitus, who went on to win the Grade II Wood Memorial Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets and finish third in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, won by Mott's Country House via disqualification. The colt’s winning time of 1:41.90 in the mile-and-a-sixteenth Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby was a stakes record. Former Bill Mott assistant Rodolphe Brisset won the 38th Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby with 19-1 Quip, a product of Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm operation. Trainer Todd Pletcher notched a record fifth Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby victory in 2017 and his third in a row with Tapwrit, who lowered the stakes record set a year earlier by Destin. Three months later, Tapwrit became the first Tampa Bay Derby winner to win the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRABets, the third leg of the Triple Crown. Destin was the sixth horse to win both the Tampa Bay Derby and the Grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes. Destin finished sixth in the Run for the Roses and added a second in the Belmont Stakes to Creator. The 2015 Tampa Bay Derby winner, Carpe Diem, went on to win the Grade I Toyota Blue Grass at Keeneland. In 2014, Ring Weekend rewarded trainer H. Graham Motion and jockey Daniel Centeno with their second Tampa Bay Derby victories. Motion won in 2002 with Equality, and Centeno was aboard Musket Man in 2009. Ring Weekend won the Grade I Frank E. Kilroe Mile on turf at Santa Anita as a 4-year-old on the day of the Tampa Bay Derby. The top three finishers in the 2013 Tampa Bay Derby — Verrazano, Java’s War and Falling Sky — competed in the Kentucky Derby, marking a first for the Grade II event. In 2007, Street Sense (owned by James Tafel, trained by Carl Nafzger and ridden by Calvin Borel) became the first Tampa Bay Derby participant to win the Kentucky Derby. The colt went on to win the Grade I Travers Stakes and the Grade II Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga.

Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Grade III

$400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby

Other Notes Continued: In 2010, Super Saver became the second Tampa Bay Derby graduate to win the Kentucky Derby, for owner WinStar Farm and trainer Pletcher, after finishing third in the Tampa Bay Derby. In 2002, the Tampa Bay Derby attained Grade III status. It was elevated to Grade II for the 2011 edition. Owner Eric Fein won the race twice: in 2008 with Big Truck and in 2009 with Musket Man (also owned by Vic Carlson), who finished third in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Cefis, trained by Hall of Fame legend Woody Stephens, staged a whirlwind rally from last place to win the 1988 renewal under Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Maple.

Turf Dash

$100,000 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 5 Furlongs (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Chess Master (55.56) Jesus Castanon Kerri Raven Kerri Raven Xy Speed The Connector

2021 The Critical Way (55.30) Samy Camacho Monster Racing Stables Jose H. Delgado Imprimis The Connector

2020 Faction Cat (53.97)* Albin Jimenez Asterace Group Georgina Baxter Justaholic Mai Ty One On

2018 Vision Perfect (55.15) ^ Antonio Gallardo Mr. Amore Stable Jason Servis Tricks to Doo American Sailor

2018 Pay Any Price (55.63) Edgard Zayas Matties Racing Stable, Averill Racing Ralph Ziadie Jaguar Poz Conquest Enforcer

2017 Power Alert (AUS) (55.25)# Daniel Centeno AJ Suited/Lynch Brian Lynch Incensed Fast Flying Rumor

2016 Fast Flying Rumor (55.06) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Winning Stables& Midnight Rider Gerald Bennett Power Alert (AUS) Night Officer

2015 Bold Thunder (54.63) Daniel Centeno Andrew Sulley Patricia Farro Green Mask Stormofthecentury

2014 Ancil (54.88) $$ Daniel Centeno ScottFarmer,KathyThompson Joan Scott Pyrite Green Tell All You Know

2013 Great Attack (56.13) Angel Serpa Houyhnhnm Stable Wesley Ward Silver Cloud Hold On Smokey

2012 Great Attack (55.93) Jeffrey Sanchez Houyhnhnm Stable Wesley Ward Western Prospector Private Jet (ARG)

2011 Bridgetown (55.28) Willie Martinez Melnyk Racing Stables Todd Pletcher Great Attack Quite a Dude

2010 Sneaking Uponyou (58.11) Huber Villa-Gomez Jagger, Inc. Jamie Ness Probation Ready Twiceasbeautiful

2009 Castles in the Sky (55.75) Daniel Centeno Balkrisna Sukharan Jamie Ness Cooper County Our Friend Harvey

2008 Lookinforthesecret (57.70) Daniel Centeno Balkrisna Sukharan Jamie Ness Prosico Fort Prado

2007 Lookinforthesecret (56.61) Daniel Centeno Ness Racing Stable Jamie Ness Mr. Silver The Nth Degree

2006 Western Kind (56.55) Juan Umana Grace Harris Dewaine Glenn Whenthedoveflies Around the Cape

2005 Whenthedoveflies (57.62) Jose Lezcano Kalacan Racing Stable Kirk Ziadie Scattering Breezes Relaunch Star *-- Stakes, course

Turf Dash

$100,000 Turf Dash

Fastest Time: 53.97 FACTION CAT (2020)

Slowest Time: 58.11 SNEAKING UPONYOU (2010)

Longest Priced Winner: $24.80 FAST FLYING RUMOR (2016)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.00 PAY ANY PRICE (2017)

Closest Winning Margin: Neck WESTERN KIND CASTLES IN THE SKY BRIDGETOWN

(2006) (2009) (2011)

Largest Winning Margin: 4 3/4 Lengths FAST FLYING RUMOR (2016)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .90 CHAMBERLAIN BRIDGE (2009)

Track Condition: Firm Good Yielding

All except 2005, 2010, 2012 and 2013 2008

Richest Purse: $100,000 2014-present

Other Notes: Chess Master, who had been claimed a year earlier by owner-trainer Kerri Raven for $32,000 from a fourth-place finish at the Oldsmar oval, made the Turf Dash his 11th career victory. The Critical Way displayed speed and determination in his 2021 Turf Dash triumph, setting blazing fractions of 20.99 seconds for the first quarter-mile and 43.54 for the half. Faction Cat, a 7-year-old Florida-bred gelding, set a course record of 53.97 seconds in the 2020 Turf Dash. The 6-year-old horse Vision Perfect closed out his 2018 season with a bang, repelling all challengers under jockey Antonio Gallardo. The winner's circle was a festive place after the 2017-2018 Turf Dash, with co-owner Rich Averill and about four dozen family members and friends celebrating Pay Any Price's dramatic victory. Daniel Centeno probably wishes the Turf Dash be contested twice a season. His victory aboard 7-year-old gelding Power Alert was the perennial leading jockey’s sixth in the event’s 13 editions. In 2015, Centeno helped Bold Thunder to a stakes and courserecord performance. Fast Flying Rumor earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 108 for his 2016 victory, at the time the highest in Tampa Bay Downs history on either turf or dirt. With his record-shattering performance in the 2014 Turf Dash, 5-year-old gelding Ancil earned an invitation to Royal Ascot in England for his owners, Kathy Thompson of Brooksville, Fla., and Scott Farmer, and his trainer, Joan Scott. It was one of five stakes victories during the 2013-14 meeting for Centeno. Trainer Dennis Ward saddled two-time Turf Dash Stakes winner Great Attack in 2012 and 2013 for his son, trainer Wesley Ward. Great Attack won the Grade III Twin Spires Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs in 2012 on Kentucky Derby Day and competed in two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. He finished second in the 2011 Turf Dash. Great Attack is owned by Jeffrey Seder’s Houyhnhnm Stable. The Houyhnhnms were a race of intelligent horses in Jonathan Swift’s classic Gulliver’s Travels. Trainer Jamie Ness was unbeatable in this race from 2007-10, winning back-to-back with Lookinforthesecret, then saddling Castles in the Sky and Sneaking Uponyou. Centeno was aboard for the first three Ness triumphs and Huber Villa-Gomez rode Sneaking Uponyou. Bridgetown, the 2011 Turf Dash winner, was second in the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

Chess Master takes control early and rolls to victory under jockey Jesus Castanon for the 6-year-old gelding’s first career stakes victory.

Wayward Lass Stakes

$50,000 Fillies & Mares 4-up 1 1/16-Mile

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2022 Nantucket Red (1:44.53) Olaf Hernandez Colebrook Farms Michael Wright Allworthy Don’t Get Khozy

2021 Lucky Stride (1:44.24) Antonio Gallardo Sonata Stable Michael Trombetta On the Town Estilo Talentoso

2020 Jehozacat (1:43.94) Daniel Centeno Lael Stables Arnaud Delacour Tweeting Classic Fit

2019 Tapa Tapa Tapa (1:43.27) * Antonio Gallardo Beau Ravine LLC Tim Hamm Pure Lemon Figarella’s Queen

2018 Well Humored (1:43.86) Daniel Centeno Winstar Stablemates Racing Arnaud Delacour Tapa Tapa Tapa Sweet Legacy

2017 No Fault of Mine (1:44.63) Daniel Centeno Lothenbach Stables Chris Block Royal Jewely Alto Belle

2016 White Clover (1:45.38) Victor Lebron Calumet Farm George Arnold, II Savings Account Her Majesty’s Flag

2015 Awesome Flower 1:43.87) Fernando De La Cruz Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey Michael Maker Elusive Fate Swinger’s Party

2014 Dress the Part (1:45.13) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Ambusher Montana Native

2013 Magic Hour (1:45.48) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Janis R. Whitham Ian Wilkes Fire Assay I Like It

2012 Arena Elvira (1:44.57) Leandro Goncalves Carolyn Wilson Bill Mott R Gypsy Gold Dash Dot Dash

2011 Choragus (1:44.39) Leandro Goncalves Lothenbach Stables Anthony Reinstedler C C’s Pal Striking Dancer

2010 Don’t Forget Gil (1:44.76) Daniel Centeno Alan Brodsky Mark Hennig Choragus Miss Match (ARG)

2009 Striking Tomisue (1:45.50) J. Bridgmohan TomisueHilbert&J.R. Menard Nicholas Zito Moon Catcher Boudoir

2008 Cash’s Girl (1:44.93) Pablo Morales Cash is King LLC Tim Ritchey Lil’s Lassie Colony Queen

2007 Funny Annie (1:45.23) Cecelio Penalba Matthews Stable Michael K. McDonald Porta Clasica Gadolinium

2006 Tasha Sangue (1:45.61) Carlos Montalvo George I. Elso Walter Rosas-Canessa Preach It Pitanga

2005 Joyful Ballad (1:44.71) Jose Lezcano Glen Hill Farm Thomas Proctor Slews Final Answer Grab Bag

2004 Pampered Princess (1:45.77) Jesus Castanon Martin Cherry Martin Wolfson Crimson and Roses Dakota Light

2003 Win’s Fair Lady (1:43.94) Joseph Judice Sabine Stables Steven Standridge La Nina Dancer Four Plus Four

2002 Technical Key (1:45.20) Bobby Walker, Jr. Steve Richardson Don Rice Coolbythepool Pearly White

2001 Inside Affair (1:45.10) Juan Umana Harold Queen Heather Giglio Royal Fair Silver Stockings

2000 Inside Affair (1:45.23) William Henry Harold Queen Anthony Dutrow Misstress Kipper Quila

Wayward Lass Stakes

$50,000 Fillies & Mares 4-up 1 1/16-Mile continued

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

1999 Little Won (1:46.45) Joseph Rocco, Sr. John Spencer, III Arnold Fink Native Gate Dancer Summit Park

1998 Topic Gallapiat (1:46.0) Gary Bain Richard Cummins Bob Peterson Hail the Queen Cindy’sSonnet

1997 Jeffreys Mom (1:46 2/5) Jose Velez, Jr. Queen’s Land Farm R.J. Richards, Jr. Duchess Grace Effervescence

1996 Roadways (1:48) Jesse Garcia P. D. K. Racing Ltd. Kenneth Wirth Littlest Secretary Kate Howard

1995 Cavada (1:45) Ricardo Lopez Bebe Dalton Archie Smith, Jr. Jellied Madrilene Norfolk Lavender

1994 Current Gossip (1:46) Sebastian Madrid Sheila Dimare David Brownlee Miss Obsession Debby’s Honeypiat

1993 Magal (1:44 4/5) Scott Spieth Dolores Tamargo Ray Tamargo My Gallant Birdie Golden Wildcat

1992 Forli’s Lass (1:45 4/5) William Henry Star Racing Stable Art Pedregal, Jr. Sassy N Brassy Magal

1991 Leave It Be (1:46) Maureen Andrews D. Liberty Stables Norm Wismer Sassy N Brassy Victorious Trick

1990 Tia Juanita (1:44 4/5) Ricardo Lopez Mollie Boyd Ralph Boyd Belle Princesse Sassy n Brassy

1989 Stutz Goldrush (1:45) Dave Penna Sam-Son Farm James Day Foxy Alexis Tia Juanita

1988 Queen Alexandra (1:44 4/5) Don Brumfield Mrs. Morton Rosenthal George Baker Brief Fame Exangular Lady

1987 Queen Alexandra (1:44 3/5) Don Brumfield Mrs. Morton Rosenthal George Baker Bald Witch Merry Mercedes

1986 Is Rosalind (1:45) Omar Londono Mrs. M. Rosenthal George Baker Tri Bowl First Prediction

1985 Sunset Strait % (1:54 4/5) Omar Londono Mrs. Morton Rosenthal George Baker Delicate Lady Over The D

Wayward Lass Stakes

$50,000 Wayward Lass Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:43.27 TAPA TAPA TAPA (2019)

Slowest Time: 1:48.0 ROADWAYS (1996)

Longest Priced Winner: $95.00 TASHA SANGUE (2006)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.40 MAGAL NO FAULT OF MINE LUCKY STRIDE

(1993) (2017) (2021)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose INSIDE AFFAIR (2000)

Largest Winning Margin: 10 Lengths WIN’S FAIR LADY (2003)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .40 TAPA TAPA TAPA (2018)

Track Condition: Fast Good Wet Fast

All except 1991 and 1996 2003

Richest Purse: $65,000 2008

Veteran campaigner Nantucket Red makes a successful switch from turf to dirt to win the Wayward Lass at odds of 15-1.

Other Notes: In earning her first career stakes triumph, the 7-year-old mare Nantucket Red was the fifth of six consecutive winners to start the 2021-2022 meet for veteran trainer Michael Wright. Lucky Stride, who began her career by winning eight of 11 starts at Camarero in Puerto Rico, became a multiple-stakes winner stateside as a 5-year-old in 2021. In 2020, the 5-year-old Lael Stables mare Jehozacat ran her rivals into submission, winning by 5 1/2 lengths under jockey Daniel Centeno. Tapa Tapa Tapa finished second to a stakes-record performance in the 2018 Wayward Lass. She didn’t take any chances in 2019, setting a stakes mark of her own – 1:43.27 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth – to add the race to her 2017 Suncoast Stakes trophy. Not only did Daniel Centero win the Wayward Lass for the second year in a row and third time overall, he coaxed a stakes-record performance out of 4-year-old Well Humored for the mile and sixteenth. No Fault of Mine, the 2017 winner, is a daughter of Blame, who won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs to deprive the great race mare and subsequent Horse of the Year Zenyatta of a perfect 20-for-20 career record. White Clover’s victory was one of two stakes scores during the 2015-2016 meeting for the trainer-jockey combination of George “Rusty” Arnold, II, and Victor Lebron, who also won the Suncoast Stakes with 3-year-old filly Weep No More. Awesome Flower’s 2015 Wayward Lass victory not only was achieved in stakes-record time, it was her fourth stakes triumph since June of 2014. Dress the Part, the 2014 winner, was 3-for-3 at Tampa Bay Downs during the 2013-14 season, all with Ronnie Allen, Jr., in the irons. Her sire, Malibu Moon, also sired 2013 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands winner Orb. The 2013 Wayward Lass Stakes winner, Janis R. Whitham’s 4-year-old homebred Magic Hour, takes a backseat to few Thoroughbreds in terms of pedigree. Her sire, Awesome Again, won the 1998 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Magic Hour’s dam Affluent won four Grade I stakes for Whitham and trainer Ron McAnally; Affluent’s sire, the great Affirmed, won the 1978 Triple Crown. Arena Elvira’s thrilling Wayward Lass victory in 2012 was her fifth consecutive stakes triumph for local owner Carolyn Wilson. Previously, Arena Elvira won a pair of stakes at Saratoga in the summer of 2011, the Grade III Turnback the Alarm at Aqueduct and the Grade II Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs. Arena Elvira’s Wayward Lass jockey, Leandro Goncalves, won the 2011 edition on Choragus. Don’t Forget Gil, the 2010 winner, loved Tampa Bay Downs; she won the Grade III Florida Oaks in 2009. Inside Affair, owned by Harold Queen of nearby Clearwater, Fla., won the Wayward Lass in 2000 and 2001. In 1985, the first running of the Wayward Lass Stakes was at 1 1/8 miles. Queen Alexandra won both the 1987 and 1988 editions of the Wayward Lass Stakes. She was trained by George Baker.

The Manatee Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$50,000 Fillies & Mares 4-Years-Old Up 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2014 Risky Rachel (1:23.48) * Daniel Centeno Sanford Bacon Juan Coronel Cookie Ambusher

2013 Spectacular Sky (1:23.51) Daniel Centeno Farnsworth Stables LLC Martin Wolfson Cheechako Appealing Stella

2012 Taylors Irish (1:23.55) Pedro Cotto, Jr. Michael Newman Charles Harvatt Island Bound Much Rejoicing

2011 Hyperlink (1:23.52) Daniel Centeno Joseph Engelhart Kenneth McPeek Choragus Tripped

2010 Lady Alexander (1:23.80) Ricardo Feliciano Rosemarie Kesselring Bruce Alexander Satans Quick Chick Choragus

2009 Rising Fever (BRZ) 1:25.22) Daniel Centeno David Soifer Christophe Clement Star Operator Dee’s Rose

2008 Marina Ballerina (1:24.22) Pedro Cotto, Jr. Robert L. Pastor Steve Margolis Meredith Bee Haddie Be Good

2007 Summer Cruise (1:25.43) Carlos Montalvo Will Farish and Gasparilla Michael Zwiesler Gadolinium Zooming By

2006 Ebony Breeze (1:25.03) T.D. Houghton Kinsman Stable Edward Sexton Toll Taker Beautiful Bets

2005 Grab Bag (1:24.22) Tom Turner Henry Waring Thomas Skiffington Ebony Breeze Habiboo

2004 Mary Murphy (1:26.64) Pedro Rodriguez M375 Thoroughbreds Joseph Waunsch Really Royal Cherry Tree Hill

2003 Romancin Dixie (1:25.51) Jose Espada Dorothy Leonard Perry Johnson Four Plus Four Belle Artiste

2002 Little Won (1:24.37) Derek Bell Elisa Spencer David Hinsley Flashing Lil Alley Ball

2001 Silver Stockings (1:24.45)$$ Felix Ortiz Inwood Farm L.L. Palmer Inside Affair Little Won

2000 Misstress (1:24.56) Pedro Rodriguez D & H Stable William Downing Little Won Shutrina Sand 1999 Inside Affair (1:25.85) Luis Martinez Harold Queen Shirley Girten Kipper Quila Lolabell

1998 Hail the Queen (1:25 1/5) Ricardo Lopez Cass Stable/Foggiano Donna Foggiano Blind Trust Whats It Gonna Be 1997 Littlest Secretary (1:25 3/5) Paula Bacon Deborrah Artz Don Rice Whats It Gonna Be Effervescence

1996 Naughty Notions (1:25 1/5) Benny Feliciano M. and J. Mulholland John Hennig Portent Show No Fear 1995 Show No Fear (1:24 2/5) Eduardo Nunez Ramon Coto Hank Caballero Jellied Madrilene Wild Lady A 1994 Show No Fear (1:25 3/5) Eduardo Nunez R. Coto and C.Y. Justi Luis Olivares Slew Knew Jovial Sez

1993 Forli’s Lass (1:23 3/5) William Henry Star Racing Stables Art Pedregal, Jr. Magal Golden Wildcat 1992 Magal (1:25) Willie Martinez Dolores Tamargo Ray Tamargo Forli’s Lass Premier Question

The Manatee Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$50,000 Fillies & Mares 4-Years-Old Up 7 Furlongs continued

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

1991 Victorious Trick (1:26) Ricardo Lopez John Franks David Bell Jo Jo’s Sparkle Sassy N Brassy

1990 Leave It Be (1:25) Herson Sanchez Liberty D Stable, Inc. Norm Wismer Deanna's Knave Search for Tammy

1989 Foxy Alexis (1:26 2/5) ** Richard Dos Ramos D.J. Foster David Bell Diamond Sunjet Beau Love Flowers

1988 Brief Fame (1:25 3/5) Ronnie Allen, Jr. Elliott Fuentes and Alice Hayman Elliott Fuentes Natural Exuberance Foxy Alexis

1987 An Affirmation (1 :26) Kevin Whitley Donald R. Dizney J. David Braddy Confederate Rose/Merry Mercedes (dead heat)

1986 Is Rosalind (1:25 2/5) Omar Londono Mrs. Morton Rosenthal George Baker Queen Alexandra First Prediction

1985 Delicate Lady (1:26 1/5) Lisa Misiewicz Silver Dollar Ranch Jerry Harrison Furash Folly Over The Dam **--formerly Lassie Stakes

The Manatee Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$50,000 Manatee Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:23.48 RISKY RACHEL (2014)

Slowest Time: 1:26.00 VICTORIOUS TRICK (1991)

Longest Priced Winner: $116.40 ROMANCIN DIXIE (2003)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 RISKY RACHEL (2014)

Closest Winning Margin: Head MISSTRESS

LITTLE WON LITTLEST SECRETARY

(2000) (2002) (1997)

Largest Winning Margin: 3 ¾ Length RISKY RACHEL (2014)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 EBONY BREEZE (2005)

Track Condition: Fast Good Wet Fast

All except 1991 and 2007 2006 and 2010

Richest Purse: $ 65,000 2008

Risky Rachel winning the 2014 Manatee Stakes

Other Notes: The New York-bred 6-year-old mare Risky Rachel made the Manatee her sixth career stakes victory, following her earlier score in the Minaret. She eclipsed the stakes record set the previous year by Spectacular Sky. Risky Rachel is a daughter of Limehouse, which won the 2004 Tampa Bay Derby. Spectacular Sky followed up her stakes-record Manatee triumph with a solid second in the Grade II Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream. Daniel Centeno, a five-time leading jockey at Tampa Bay Downs, won four of the last six editions of the race. The 2012 winner, Taylors Irish, scored all six of her career victories at Tampa Bay Downs. Her jockey, Pedro Cotto, Jr., won on Marina Ballerina in 2008. Jockey Eduardo Nunez won this race twice with Show No Fear in 1994 and 1995. Show No Fear made 103 career starts, winning 13 races; her back-to-back Manatee triumphs were her only stakes scores. Jockeys Ricardo Lopez and Pedro Rodriguez won the Manatee twice.

The Super Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$100,000 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2014 Our Double Play (1:22.09) $$ Victor Lebron Rigney Racing Philip Bauer Sneaking Uponyou Action Andy 2013 Good Lord (1:22.03) * Fernando DeLa Cruz Thomas Shank/Stan Young Forrest Kaelin Action Andy Bellefire

2012 Action Andy (1:23.22) Danny Coa Robert Gerczak Carlos Garcia Watch Me Go Gold Strike Begins

2011 Capt. Candyman Can (1:23.25) Frederic Lenclud Rosemary Rauch/David Zell Ian Wilkes Legal Move A Diehl

2010 Musket Man (1:23.10) Daniel Centeno Eric Fein Derek Ryan Guam Typhoon Chief Talkeetna

2009 Hypocrite (1:22.84) Manoel Cruz J. Tortora, T. & R. Ancona Emanuel Tortora Paradise Dancer Let It Rock

2008 Lookinforthesecret (1:23.18) Daniel Centeno Balkrisna Sukharan Jamie Ness I’vegottabeme Paradise Dancer

2007 D’artagnans’spirit (1:23.62) $ Jose Lezcano Richard Averill Kirk Ziadie Weigelia Above the Wind

2006 Sir Shackleton (1:22.28) Jeremy Rose Tracy Farmer Nick Zito Purim Above the Wind

2005 Above the Wind (1:22.60) Federico Mata Hamco Group Ronald Allen, Sr. Avis Skier Attack the Books

2004 Above the Wind (1:23.78) Federico Mata Hamco Group Ronald Allen, Sr. Scrubs Attack the Books

2003 Above the Wind (1:24.57) Federico Mata Hamco Group Ronald Allen, Sr. Attack the Book Dr.Thunder/ SeaofTranquility

2002 Secret Romeo (1:22.62) T.D. Houghton A A C Stables Gerald Bennett Tour of the Cat Mountain Top 2001 Sea of Tranquility (1:24.08) Luis Gonzalez Triple M Farm Inc. Richard Paulus Fort Metfield American Dot Com 2000 Conan (1:23.99) Dodie Duys Vivian and Cleo Hall Tandi Wheeler Fort Metfield Royal Romp 1999 Man the Shipp (1:23.91) Joseph Rocco, Sr. Barry Shipp James DiVito Sea Legs Diplomatic Corps

1998 Pleasant Too (1:24 2/5) Heriberto Rivera, Jr. Harold Queen Shirley Girten Man the Shipp Axe of Courage

1997 Request A Star (1:25 2/5) Punchie Goberdhan Paul O’Toole Jason Stodghill Pleasant Too Country Coy

1996 Winous Point (1:25 1/5) Freddy Castillo Eutropia Farm Jerry Lepre Letters of Truth Boisterous

1995 Boisterous (1:23 1/5) Jesse Garcia D.J. Campbell (lessee) Donald Campbell Mr. Tooth Not Surprising 1994 Not Surprising (1:24 3/5) William Henry Robert Van Worp Judson Van Worp Premier Angel Junk Bond King 1993 King Corrie (1:23 4/5) Robert Landry Aubrey W. Minshall Sherry Noakes Lord Try On Lord John 1992 Aim High Daniel (1:25 2/5) David Neider J. Crayton Pruitt T. Wynn Jolley Hidden Tomahawk Proud Lion Club 1991 Democritus (1:26 3/5) Ricardo Lopez Fred Boyd E.P. Cantlon, Jr. Bandit Corsair Mr. Hot Shot

*-- Stakes record $$-- Purse increased to $100,000 $-- Purse increased to $75,000

The Super Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$100,000 Super Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:22.03 GOOD LORD (2013)

Slowest Time: 1:26.3 DEMOCRITUS (1991)

Longest Priced Winner: $74.60 ABOVE THE WIND (2003)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 MUSKET MAN (2010)

Closest Winning Margin: Head MAN THE SHIPP SECRET ROMEO (1999) (2002)

Largest Winning Margin: 3 3/4 Lengths OUR DOUBLE PLAY (2014)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .20 NOT SURPRISING (1995)

Track Condition: Fast Good Sloppy Wet Fast

All except 1991, 1994 And 1998 1997 2011

Richest Purse: $100,000 2014

Our Double Play winning the 2014 Super Stakes

Other Notes: Owners Richard and Tammy Rigney named the 2014 Super Stakes winner after their twin daughters, Claire and Madison. In 2013, the popular 6-year-old gelding Good Lord set a track record in his victory for trainer Forrest Kaelin, who was a jockey here in 1956 when the track was called Sunshine Park. Good Lord broke the stakes record of 2006 winner Sir Shackleton, a multiple-graded stakes winner. Above the Wind (owned by the Hamco Group, trained by Ron Allen, Sr. and ridden by Federico Mata) won this race three times, from 2003-05. The 2011 winner, Capt. Candyman Can, was trained by former Carl Nafzger assistant Ian Wilkes. The 2012 winner, Action Andy, won the $350,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel in October of 2012. Musket Man, the 2009 Tampa Bay Derby winner, returned to Oldsmar in 2010 to annex the Super Stakes.

1991 Aggie Gene (1:27.3) William Henry Star Racing Stables Art Pedregal, Jr. Blanche Be Mine Bet Your Bonnet 1990 Erica’s Dream (1:25.45) * Ricardo Lopez Shirley Howell B.E. Howell National Finalist Wekive Run

2001 The Goddess Athird (1:43.08) Danny Scocca Gilbert G. Campbell Kathleen O’Connell Chausson Poire Across the Creek 2000 Jera (1:41.46) * Derek Bell Steve Trizis Peter Klesaris Grey Sky Trouville 1999 Sangam (1:44.19) ^ James McAleney Amy Bhangoo Arthur Silvera Schmoopy Dyna Might *- Stakes record ^- Purse formerly $25,000-added

Stakes Histories - Discontinued Stakes

Vulcan Stakes

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

1999 Mr. Carter (1:12.94) Lenny Frazzitta, Jr. Gladys Moreland Zeljko Krcmar Hogans Chief Dusty Ibis 1998 Broom Rider (1:12.2) * Dodie Duys Allen Koslin Larry Bates Pretty Dee Dee PoppasBeach/ DaringLass**

The Diamond Derby - Discontinued Stakes

$75,000 Arabian 4-Year-Olds 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2003 Stellarr (1:35.13) Jesus Bracho Dianne Waldron Dianne Waldron Just Lyke Me Tops the Stars 2002 Doran Sbfar (1:34.39) Jesus Castanon Dianne Waldron Phil Saxer Bonuz On the Mufv

2001 Pardon My French (1:33.41) Federico Mata Trackside Farm Loren Nichols Raising Cano LF Fleetwood Mac 2000 Mucho Caliente (1:32.59)* Juan Umana Town and Country Farms Hilton Werneth Djolly Good Storrmy Weather 1999 Dreams of Valor (1:32.85) Tommy Zamora Margo Wallace (lessee) Lynn Ashby Seyvilla Proof Genuine Monarch 1998 Tigres Light (1:35.0) Mike Pindell Town and Country Farms Roger Werneth Paving the Way Tigger

1997 The Wiking (1:34 3/5) C.K. Murphy Town and Country Farms Roger Werneth Vanilla Shaikh Lucky Shawn 1996 Jest You Wait (1:34 2/5) Sean Jones Dunromin Arabians Lynn Ashby Noble Man Light the Night

$75,000 Diamond Derby

Fastest Time: 1:32.59 MUCHO CALIENTE (2000)

Slowest Time: 1:35.13 STELLARR (2003)

Longest Priced Winner: $ 21.40 MUCHO CALIENTE (2000)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.60 TIGRES LIGHT (1998)

Closest Winning Margin: Neck DREAMS OF VALOR (1999)

Largest Winning Margin: 12 ½ Lengths JEST YOU WAIT (1996)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .80 SEYVILLA PROOF (1999)

Track Condition: Fast All runnings

Richest Purse: $95,000 1999

Other Notes: No jockey won this race more than once. Owner Town and Country Farms won three times: twice with trainer Roger Werneth (in 1997 and 1998) and once with Hilton Werneth (in 2000).

The Sapphire Sprint - Discontinued Stakes

$75,000 Arabian 4 Year Old Fillies 7 Furlongs

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2003 More Adorable (1:37.73) Christobal Morales Kinsman/Cheryl Wright Maureen Stillwell Dream Keeper Sey Proofs Fara

2002 Tornade Du Loup (1:35.99) Jesus Castanon Dianne Waldron Phil Saxer French Braids Allez France

2001 Djezebel (1:35.12) Jesus Castanon Dianne Waldron Maureen Stillwell Djenzel Vamonos Juanita

2000 Adoraable (1:37.2) Gary Boag Kinsman/Cheryl Wright Phil Saxer Prince Tiki Mega C S

1999 Royal Atheena (1:34.79) * Tommy Zamora Genellen and H. Pike Lynn Ashby Lore Zeralda Josniere

1998 Dixie Darlene (1:36) Sean Jones Bill Waldron Bill Waldron Star of Orzell Golly What a Day

1997 Super Tiki (1:38.4) Sean Jones J. and L.E. Brauninger, Jr. Lynn Ashby Shes the Most Hidden Treasure 1996 Sweet Girl Ma (1:36.4) Roxane Losey Sharon and Bob Magness Lynn Ashby Electyra Miss Bobbie Socks

Fastest Time: 1:34.79 ROYAL ATHEENA (1999)

Slowest Time: 1:38.4 SUPER TIKI (1997)

Longest Priced Winner: $10.00 TORNADE DU LOUP (2002)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.40 DIXIE DARLENE (1998)

Closest Winning Margin: Head ADORAABLE TORNADE DU LOUP (2000) (2002)

Largest Winning Margin: 8 Lengths SWEET GIRL MA (1996)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .70 FRENCH BRAIDS A FOREIGN AFFAIR (2002) (2002)

Track Condition: Firm Sloppy All except 2003

Richest Purse: $100,000 1999

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association

Ivanavinalot Florida Sire Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$100,000, 3-Year-Old Fillies Mile-And-40 Yards

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2019 Wildwood’s Beauty (1:39.70) * Pablo Morales William Stiritz

2018 Prospective Lady (1:41.35) Jose A. Bracho James P. Georgeades, Gregge Dasher and Ronald V. Pugliese, Jr.

Scott Becker Jolie Bay Starship Nala

Gerald Bennett Starship Bonita Florida Fuego

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association

Ivanavinalot

Florida Sire Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$100,000 3-Year-Old Fillies Mile-And-40-Yards

Fastest Time: 1:39.70 WILDWOOD’S BEAUTY (2019)

Slowest Time: 1:41.35 PROSPECTIVE LADY (2018)

Longest Priced Winner: $17.40 PROSPECTIVE LADY (2018)

Shortest Priced Winner: $3.00 WILDWOOD’S BEAUTY (2019)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose HE'S BANKABLE (2018)

Largest Winning Margin: ½-length PROSPECTIVE LADY (2018)

Shortest Priced Loser: $.60 FLORIDA FUEGO (2018)

Track Condition: FAST BOTH RUNNINGS

Richest Purse: $100,000 2018-present

Wildwood’s Beauty repeats her earlier victory in the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies Stakes, this time under Pablo Morales..

Wildwood’s Beauty established a stakes record of 1:39.70 for the mile-and-40-yard distance, adding the race to her earlier 2019 victory here in the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies. Six-time leading Oldsmar trainer Gerald Bennett engineered a front-running upset with help from 20-year-old jockey Jose A. Bracho, the leading apprentice during the 2017-2018 meeting who had surrendered his apprentice weight allowance six weeks earlier. Prospective Lady is a daughter of Prospective, who won the Grade II Tampa Bay Derby in 2012. The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Ivanavinalot Florida Sire Stakes is named for the Grade II winner who produced two-time Eclipse Award winner Songbird.

Other Notes:

2019 Jackson (1:38.86)

2018 Noble Drama (1:40.34) Willie Martinez Harold L. Queen David Fawkes

** Pablo Morales Tracy Pinchin Jose Pinchin Lyrical Note Gran Greyfrost

Yeehaw Boston Breeze

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Silver Charm Florida Sire Stakes - Discontinued Stakes

$100,000 3-Year-Old Colts & Geldings Mile-And-40-Yards

Fastest Time: 1:38.86 JACKSON (2019)

Slowest Time: 1:40.34 NOBLE DRAMA (2018)

Longest Priced Winner: $9.20 NOBLE DRAMA (2018)

Shortest Priced Winner: $2.80 JACKSON (2019)

Closest Winning Margin: ½-length NOBLE DRAMA (2018)

Largest Winning Margin: 9½ Lengths JACKSON (2019)

Shortest Priced Loser: $2.10 YEEHAW (2018)

Track Condition: FAST BOTH RUNNINGS

Richest Purse: $100,000 2018-present

Jackson turns on the jets to power to victory in then)-track-record time of for the mile-and-40 yards of 1:38.86.

Other Notes: Jackson may have reminded some long-time observers of the race’s namesake, drawing off to win the 2019 renewal in track-record time of 1:38.86 for the mile-and-40-yard distance. The victory was one of five on the card for jockey Pablo Morales from five mounts. Noble Drama’s stirring rally resulted in the fourth stakes victory for trainer David Fawkes at the 2017-2018 meeting, all with Florida-breds. Breeder-owner Harold L. Queen bred Noble Drama from a daughter of Burning Roma, Queen’s 2001 Tampa Bay Derby winner. Fawkes has trained numerous stakes winners for Queen, most notably 2010 Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Big Drama. The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Silver Charm Florida Sire Stakes is named for the Hall of Fame champion whose victories included the 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and the 1998 Dubai World Cup.