The Florida Cup

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

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

Other Notes: Magical Warrior’s winning time of 1:08.96 was the fourth-fastest in race history. Owner-trainer Elizabeth Dobles had Pudding at the top of his game for the 2022 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 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.