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Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby Grade III
$400,000 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile
1990 Champagneforashley(1:44 3/5) Jacinto Vasquez Baker/Kaskel/Feinbloom
1989 Storm Predictions (1:43 4/5) Steve Gaffalione Three G Stables
1988 Cefis (1:44 2/5) Eddie Maple Ryehill-Kirkham Partnership
1987 Phantom Jet (1:43 4/5) Keith Allen Aisco Stables
1986 My Prince Charming (1:46 3/5) Craig Perret Aronow Stable
1985 Regal Remark (1:46 4/5) Jeffrey Fell Sam-Son Farm
1984 Bold Southerner (1:44 3/5) Wayne Crews Rustic Woods Farm
1983 Morganmorganmorgan (1:47 1/5) Willie Rodriguez Morgan Bishop
1982 Reinvested (1:45 1/5) Rick Luhr Harborview Farm
1981 Paristo (1:45 2/5) David Ashcroft Belmont Farm
Shudanz
Howard Tesher Slew of Angels Always Running
Luis Olivares With Approval Mercedes Won
Woody Stephens Buck Forbes Twice Too Many
Phil Gleaves Homebuilder You’re No Bargain
Newcomb Green Lucky Rebeau Major Moran
James Day Verification Sport Jet
Paul Maxwell Rexson’s Hope Stickler
Arthur Monteiro Slew o’ Gold Quick Dip
Stanley M. Hough Stage Reviewer Real Twister
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
Other Notes: Trainer Todd Pletcher won his record sixth Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby when Tapit Trice rallied from last place under Luis Saez to earn the victory as the 1-2 favorite. In 2022, 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