The Florida Cup

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

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 back-to-back Grey Goose Turf Classic winner 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. 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.