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By Mike Henry, Tampa Bay Downs — For many 3-year-old Thoroughbred owners and trainers, January is a month when dreams can take wings. On Skyway
If Bramble Bay’s (5-2) effort in Race 5 on DEC 8 at Tampa Bay Downs isn’t what a perfect stretch out prep looks like, then
While it may not be one of those “statement” plays, there is a favorite in Wednesday’s Tampa finale worth playing against. While it is true
Thursday’s fifth race on the Tampa turf is an optional claimer in which horses are converging from everywhere and from disparate class levels, with equal
Saturday in Oldsmar marks the unofficial road to the Tampa and Kentucky Derbies with its traditional sprint offering, the Inaugural for juveniles dashing six furlongs,
Interesting Saturday feature in Oldsmar, a preliminary allowances for fillies and mares 3 and up going one mile on turf. It’s a diverse group in
As HRI and Tampa Bay Today regulars are aware, the search for value is a daily except except when price candidates are not viable win
The featured ninth race in Hallandale Saturday offers a little of everything; recency, layups, barn changes, surface switches, etc., etc. Did anyone say “shippers?” If
Doing something a bit different with today’s ‘Going Gulfstream’ Video in that we’ll show the horse we fear most, not the one we are likely
Performance-figures handicappers know how open the featured Gulfstream sprint comes up here as the major contenders all ran the approximate same figure in their last
Two special editions of Tampa Bay Today for the next two days as the Oldsmar track complies with Florida simulcast mandates. In today’s turf sprint
In Friday’s featured fourth from Oldsmar, the temptation is to jump all over Gulfstream ship-in Reinagol (5-2) from the high percentage barn of Victor Barboza,
It’s the Battle of the Trends and fast fillies in Friday’s feature, a 7-furlong allowances for a handful of talented female sprinters. On one side
We’re locked into a Horse to Watch position in Friday’s second race which attracted an unusually small field for this level that looms a virtual
A terrific end to the racing week in Oldsmar with maiden allowances for fillies going nine furlongs on the Tampa turf as a field of
