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Tampa’s first day of its two-day “simulcasting meet, ” aka Summer Racing Festival, features a maiden allowances for three-year-olds sprinting five furlongs on turf. The
There is a race on the Tampa program with a bigger purse, but with six horses sprinting 5-1/2 furlongs and a maiden allowances on grass
In the main, Tampa Bay Downs has been blessed by great weather throughout the 2021-22 season. Unfortunately, that will not be the case when they
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
We all know how difficulty it is to defeat a Chad Brown-trained favorite on turf, especially after given a lengthy layoff for patient owner Peter
Chad Brown has an extraordinary record with first time starters on the Tampa turf. That face did not escape the linemaker as he made Brown
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
The feature to begin the new year in Oldsmar is not for horses that have won the most races but rather the event with the
The Saturday feature in Oldsmar in the eighth race, a preliminary allowances for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up going 1-1/16 miles on the Tampa
There are two sprint for Florida-bred sires going seven furlongs, one for fillies and for for males, and it’s that event, race 6, that appears
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,
Tampa Bay Downs begins in racing with with a competitive secondary allowances/optional for fillies and mares at 7 furlongs and that are potentially two short-priced
Just what we wanted to start the season at Tampa, an NW2 optional for fillies and mares going 1-1/16 miles on turf, a perfect blend
With the weather promising not to have an adverse effect on either racing surface, we’re back on our preferred turf surface, something that we and
The Saturday feature is for allowance fillies sprinting 7 furlongs and the perfect spot for Shoo Shone (2-1) to make amends. a likely single for
