Posts Tagged ‘Sam F. Davis Stakes’

Free Selections – Saturday – 3/10/17

It’s Big Cap weekend and there are some other preps that are calling you to action ! – As always, use these as some food for thought before downloading your E-Z Win Forms and receiving the best handicapping data to make your day a winner. This is when the tempo picks up and the preps […]

Free Selections / Saturday / 3-1-2014

Saturday is an excellent opportunity to get your bankroll in order. If you think about it, can you name a time when there isn’t a good time to win? We can’t either! But with only 17 days left until spring, Derby fever is starting to hit the racing world in full effect. So let’s started, […]

Union Rags Aims for Victory in Rich Florida Derby

by Greg Melikov

posted on March 27, 2012 in Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, News, Other Events | No Comments >>

Union Rags on Saturday attempts to become the sixth Fountain of Youth winner to take the Florida Derby since Fly So Free in 1991. The colt, with the only blemish on his record of four victories a neck loss to Hansen in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, breezed four furlongs in 49 seconds at the […]

Tampa Bay Derby Lures Sam F. Davis Winner, Runner-Up

by Greg Melikov

posted on March 6, 2012 in Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, News, Other Events | No Comments >>

Saturday’s $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby has lured Sam F. Davis winner Battle Hardened and most likely four of the top five other finishers that chased him at Tampa Bay Downs on Feb. 4. Battle Hardened and Davis runner-up Prospective showed their readiness with recent solid workouts at the Palm Meadows training facility in South Florida. […]

Gotham Stakes Lures a Full Field of Sophomores

by Greg Melikov

posted on February 29, 2012 in Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, News, Other Events | No Comments >>

The 59th Gotham Stakes on Saturday has attracted a full field of 3-year-olds, including stakes winners Hansen, King and Crusader, Battle Hardened and Pretension. Hansen, the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champ, will attempt to rebound from his runner-up performance in Gulfstream Park’s Holy Bull during which he almost fell breaking from the gate. The son […]

Two Stakes in Florida, California Lure Sophomore Runners

by Greg Melikov

posted on February 1, 2012 in General Discussion, Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, News, Other Events | No Comments >>

Reveron goes for his fourth consecutive victory in the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs since breaking his maiden last fall at Calder Race Course. The son of Songandaprayer is coming off a victory in the New Year’s Day Gulfstream Park Derby at 1 1/16 miles, the same distance as Saturday’s race. Reveron […]

On the Road to the Roses: Three Stakes on Tap

by Greg Melikov

posted on February 8, 2011 in General Discussion, Other Events | No Comments >>

Tapizar is attempting to become the first winner of the $100,000 Sham to repeat in the $250,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes — one of three Saturday races on the Road to the Roses. While the Sham is only 11 years old, the Santa Catalina Stakes, renamed in 2007 for the prominent racehorse owner that passed […]