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‘CHAMPAGNE’ CALLS WILKES

Edited Tampa Staff Release – Ian Wilkes was confident in Champagne Calling’s ability to win Saturday’s second race, a 7-furlong maiden special weight contest against

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – DEC 28

Depending on whether you prefer to follow horses, or their trainers, will determine which way you will lean in today’s turf finale in Oldsmar. Hot

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – NOV 26

The Saturday feature in Oldsmar is a good one, a preliminary allowances for fillies and mares 3 & up going 1-1/16 miles on the Tampa

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – MAR 2

Wednesday’s fifth race to begin the Tampa Bay Today race week is a five furlong turf sprint in which it appears that Skippy’s Strike (5-2)

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – FEB 19

There may be classier horses, and faster horses filling the gate for the Tampa Bay Turf Dash, but none that hits harder than Kerri Raven’s

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – FEB 2

Tampa opens its week with split divisions of an optional/NX1 sprinting five furlongs on the Tampa turf. We’ve always been convinced that there can be

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – JAN 5

Interesting feature to start the Tampa racing week, the eighth event with sprinters going six furlongs at the NX1-Optional level and while the field is

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – JAN 2

The Sunday feature in Oldsmar is an NX3 optional going nine furlongs on the turf that offers an opportunity for a minor upset. Carom (7-5)

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – DEC 17

There may be safer risks in Friday’s seventh from Oldsmar but none quite as compelling as Princess Javoncia (10-1). That early line quote is picked

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – DEC 8

Today’s feature race in Oldsmar to begin the racing week looks like to two-horse race between two juvenile turf fillies racing in excellent form; favorite

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TAMPA BAY TODAY – SAT

If pace makes the race, which it surely does, then this variable will come into play in Saturday’s starter handicap marathon at 11 furlongs on

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TAMPA BAY TODAY-JAN 17

In today’s maiden allowances, the sixth from Oldsmar, Rag Tag (5-2) finally gets back on the turf–first time sprinting on grass for Eoin Harty–and that

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TAMPA BAY TODAY-DEC 27

Sunday’s seventh race on the Oldsmar lawn is your typically competitive open claimer for 3YOs and Up going one mile at the $16,000 claiming level.

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