Sunday, March 25 2012

GOLD BREW, ANOTHER SMOKEY CAPTURE TAMPA TURF TESTS

Wayne Scanlan’s 8-year-old gelding Gold Brew, last of the 10 runners for the first mile, charged past the leaders in the stretch and rolled to a 1 ¾-length victory under jockey Dean Butler in Saturday’s $27,000 Tampa Turf Test Male Division, his fourth consecutive victory at the current Tampa Bay Downs meeting.

In the $27,000 Filly and Mare Division of the Tampa Turf Test, 5-year-old gray mare Another Smokey rallied from mid-pack under Daniel Centeno to score an emotional victory for owner-trainer Joyce Kielty, whose late husband Donald picked out the Florida-bred at an Ocala yearling sale in 2008. The couple paid $2,500 for her.