Wayward Lass Stakes

$50,000 Fillies & Mares 4-up 1 1/16-Mile continued

1999 Little Won (1:46.45) Joseph Rocco, Sr. John Spencer, III Arnold Fink Native Gate Dancer Summit Park

1998 Topic Gallapiat (1:46.0) Gary Bain Richard Cummins Bob Peterson Hail the Queen Cindy’s Sonnet

1997 Jeffreys Mom (1:46 2/5) Jose Velez, Jr. Queen’s Land Farm R.J. Richards, Jr. Duchess Grace Effervescence

1996 Roadways (1:48) Jesse Garcia P. D. K. Racing Ltd. Kenneth Wirth Littlest Secretary Kate Howard

1995 Cavada (1:45) Ricardo Lopez Bebe Dalton Archie Smith, Jr. Jellied Madrilene Norfolk Lavender

1994 Current Gossip (1:46) Sebastian Madrid Sheila Dimare David Brownlee Miss Obsession Debby’s Honeypiat

1993 Magal (1:44 4/5) Scott Spieth Dolores Tamargo Ray Tamargo My Gallant Birdie Golden Wildcat

1992 Forli’s Lass (1:45 4/5) William Henry Star Racing Stable Art Pedregal, Jr. Sassy N Brassy Magal

1991 Leave It Be (1:46) Maureen Andrews D. Liberty Stables Norm Wismer Sassy N Brassy Victorious Trick

1990 Tia Juanita (1:44 4/5) Ricardo Lopez Mollie Boyd Ralph Boyd Belle Princesse Sassy N Brassy

1989 Stutz Goldrush (1:45) Dave Penna Sam-Son Farm James Day Foxy Alexis Tia Juanita

1988 Queen Alexandra (1:44 4/5) Don Brumfield Mrs. Morton Rosenthal George Baker Brief Fame Exangular Lady

1987 Queen Alexandra (1:44 3/5) Don Brumfield Mrs. Morton Rosenthal George Baker Bald Witch Merry Mercedes

1986 Is Rosalind (1:45) Omar Londono Mrs. M. Rosenthal George Baker Tri Bowl First Prediction

1985 Sunset Strait % (1:54 4/5) Omar Londono Mrs. Morton Rosenthal George Baker Delicate Lady Over The D

Wayward Lass Stakes

$50,000 Wayward Lass Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:43.27 TAPA TAPA TAPA (2019)

Slowest Time: 1:48.0 ROADWAYS (1996)

Longest Priced Winner: $95.00 TASHA SANGUE (2006)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.40 MAGAL NO FAULT OF MINE LUCKY STRIDE

(1993) (2017) (2021)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose INSIDE AFFAIR (2000)

Largest Winning Margin: 10 Lengths WIN’S FAIR LADY (2003)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .40 TAPA TAPA TAPA (2018)

Track Condition: Fast Good Wet Fast

All except 1991 and 1996 2003

Richest Purse: $65,000 2008

Other Notes: The 5-year-old mare Tap Dance Fever and jockey Jose Ferrer provided perennial leading trainer Gerald Bennett with his first winner of the Wayward Lass Stakes. In earning her first career stakes triumph the previous year, the 7-year-old mare Nantucket Red was the fifth of six consecutive winners to start the 2021-2022 meet for veteran trainer Michael Wright. Lucky Stride, who began her career by winning eight of 11 starts at Camarero in Puerto Rico, became a multiple-stakes winner stateside as a 5-year-old in 2021. In 2020, the 5-year-old Lael Stables mare Jehozacat ran her rivals into submission, winning by 5 1/2 lengths under jockey Daniel Centeno. Tapa Tapa Tapa finished second to a stakes-record performance in the 2018 Wayward Lass. She didn’t take any chances in 2019, setting a stakes mark of her own – 1:43.27 for the mile-and-asixteenth – to add the race to her 2017 Suncoast Stakes trophy. Not only did Daniel Centero win the Wayward Lass for the second year in a row and third time overall, in 2018 he coaxed a stakes-record performance out of 4-year-old Well Humored for the mile and sixteenth. No Fault of Mine, the 2017 winner, is a daughter of Blame, who won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs to deprive the great race mare and subsequent Horse of the Year Zenyatta of a perfect 20-for-20 career record. White Clover’s victory was one of two stakes scores during the 2015-2016 meeting for the trainer-jockey combination of George “Rusty” Arnold, II, and Victor Lebron, who also won the Suncoast Stakes with 3-year-old filly Weep No More. Awesome Flower’s 2015 Wayward Lass victory not only was achieved in stakes-record time, it was her fourth stakes triumph since June of 2014. Dress the Part, the 2014 winner, was 3-for-3 at Tampa Bay Downs during the 2013-14 season, all with Ronnie Allen, Jr., in the irons. Her sire, Malibu Moon, also sired 2013 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands winner Orb. The 2013 Wayward Lass Stakes winner, Janis R. Whitham’s 4-year-old homebred Magic Hour, takes a backseat to few Thoroughbreds in terms of pedigree. Her sire, Awesome Again, won the 1998 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Magic Hour’s dam Affluent won four Grade I stakes for Whitham and trainer Ron McAnally; Affluent’s sire, the great Affirmed, won the 1978 Triple Crown. Arena Elvira’s thrilling Wayward Lass victory in 2012 was her fifth consecutive stakes triumph for local owner Carolyn Wilson. Previously, Arena Elvira won a pair of stakes at Saratoga in the summer of 2011, the Grade III Turnback the Alarm at Aqueduct and the Grade II Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs. Arena Elvira’s Wayward Lass jockey, Leandro Goncalves, won the 2011 edition on Choragus. Don’t Forget Gil, the 2010 winner, loved Tampa Bay Downs; she won the Grade III Florida Oaks in 2009. Inside Affair, owned by Harold Queen of nearby Clearwater, Fla., won the Wayward Lass in 2000 and 2001. In 1985, the first running of the Wayward Lass Stakes was at 1 1/8 miles. Queen Alexandra won both the 1987 and 1988 editions of the Wayward Lass Stakes. She was trained by George Baker.