Will the road to the Kentucky Derby go through the Grade III, $400,000 ESMARK Tampa Bay Derby, as it did for Street Sense in 2007 and Super Saver in 2010? Or has the Kentucky Derby winner already been here this winter, perhaps in the imposing presence of Renegade, the...
High Rollers top five finishers, left to right: David Brownfield, Dylan Donnelly, Brian Chenvert, Jeff Van Drie, Mark Vitaliano
Veteran jockey Alonso Quinonez, who began today with six winners from 109 mounts this season, hopes a pair of longshot victories will help turn his meet around. The 42-year-old product of Guasave in Sinaloa, Mexico won the second race on 3-year-old filly Hurricane...
Martin’s Italian Jockey of the Month Daniel Centeno
It looked for all the world as if pair of longshot winners had helped to create a huge late Pick-5 carryover pool going into Friday’s action. Instead, 9-5 second choice Midway Vow staged a dramatic rally in the ninth and final on the turf under jockey Cipriano Gil for...
Samuel Marin
With all the excitement surrounding Tampa Bay Downs’s 100th anniversary, from appearances by Hall of Fame jockeys, events to benefit the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund, the construction of an awesome sand castle in front of the Grandstand and enough bonhomie to...
Bill Boland flexed his right hand a couple of times between autograph-seekers during today’s Jockeys & Jeans “Once in a Lifetime” Meet and Greet event at Tampa Bay Downs to benefit the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF). At 92, Boland – who won the 1950...
Veteran trainer Joe Orseno is swinging for the fences in Saturday’s Turf Sprint Showcase races at Tampa Bay Downs. Orseno, whose sterling career record includes a Preakness victory in 2000 with Red Bullet and two Breeders’ Cup victories that same year, has entered...
Martin’s Italian Trainer of the Month Renaldo Richards leads 7-year-old mare Easy Come Easy Go and jockey Samy Camacho into the winner’s circle after a Jan. 7 victory (courtesy SV Photography)
