One of the track’s most popular promotions, the “Live It Up Challenge” handicapping contest, begins Saturday, running through the March 7 Festival Day 46 card highlighted by the Grade III ESMARK Tampa Bay Derby and the Grade II Hillsborough Stakes on the turf. Players...
Drexel Hill and jockey Ben Curtis return to the Oldsmar winner’s circle after a masterful performance in the $125,000 Wayward Lass Stakes (photo courtesy of SV Photography)
Apprentice jockey Johanis Aranguren is initiated by her fellow riders after her first career victory in today’s first race on 38-1 shot Bourbon State. (photo courtesy of SV Photography)
Samy Camacho and his family have fun dyeing his hair different shades, but his focus is strictly on winning when he gets to the racetrack. (photo courtesy SV Photography)
Drexel Hill, who finished a determined second to Good Cheer in last year’s Longines Kentucky Oaks, heads a six-horse field for Saturday’s $125,000 Wayward Lass Stakes for fillies and mares 4-years-old-and-upward at Tampa Bay Downs. The 42nd edition of the Wayward...
Trainer Derek Ryan’s Book’em Danno has a strong case for a 2025 Eclipse Award (photo provided by Derek Ryan)
Sunday racing is set for its 2025-26 season debut with a nine-race card beginning at 12:32 p.m. Course conditions permitting, there are three turf races on tap – the fifth, seventh and ninth – all at a distance of 1 mile. Sunday racing was first conducted at Tampa Bay...
Martin’s Italian Trainer of the Month Juan Arriagada with his promising 3-year-old filly, Strike D’ Oro
A pair of promising juveniles from major training stables are set to turn 3 on New Year’s Day, the date all North American Thoroughbreds celebrate their “birthdays” for record-keeping purposes. If Tampa Bay Downs officials and fans get their way, those two Oldsmar...
Kleiner Mejias is initiated by his fellow jockeys after winning for the first time in the United States in the third race aboard 6-year-old gelding Ikigai.
