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: $78.00 DREAMING OF SNOW (2023)

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

Other Notes: The home-town crowd celebrated after leading trainer Gerald Bennett and top jockey Samy Camacho combined to win the Suncoast with 38-1 shot Dreaming of Snow. 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. Jockey Cornelio Velasquez won back-to-back editions of the Suncoast in 2005 and 2006 with Toll Taker and Crystal Current.