Thursday, February 9, 2017

Thursday Racing Preview



This afternoon, Tampa Bay Downs will have the first of its three consecutive Thursdays of racing.

First post time is 12:55 p.m. for an eight-race card.  The Oldsmar track also has racing on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays

Gulfstream Park has a ten-race Thursday card, with first post of 12:35 p.m. Bay

The carryover on Gulfstream’s Rainbow 6 is $10,771, on races five through ten.

There are no stakes races on Thursday at either track.

On Saturday, Gulfstream and Tampa Bay will both have three graded stakes races.

The feature at Gulfstream will be the $500,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (Grade 1).  It is 1 1/8 miles for four-year-olds and up.

The highlight at Tampa Bay will be the $250,000 Sam F. Davis (Grade 3) at 1 1/16 miles on dirt for three-year-olds.  The first four finishers will earn qualifying points (10-4-2-1) for spots in the Kentucky Derby (Grade 1) on May 6.


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