The Florida Cup

$110,000 Pleasant Acres Stallions Distaff Turf Fillies & Mares 3-Year-Olds-And-Up 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

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 SWEET DANI GIRL (2023)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .50 SCOLARA (2009)

Track Condition: Firm Good All except 2013

Richest Purse: $115,000 2019

Other Notes: Sweet Dani Girl’s time of 1:40.87 was the second-fastest in race history, 45 seconds off Speed Seeker’s 2016 stakes record. Five months before the 2022 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.