Tampa Bay Downs will begin the biggest week of its racing season on Wednesday, with nine races and first post of 12:40 p.m
The only carryover is on the Pick 6--at $2,336. The 20-cents per combination only bet will be on races four to nine with the sequenee scheduled to start at 2:15 p.m.
Conditions are listed as Fast and Firm.
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Later on Wednesday afternoon, Tampa Bay will announce the fields and post positions for Saturday's annual Festival Day.
That race card will have five stakes races--four of them graded.
The feature is the $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (Grade 2). The 1 1/16 mile dirt stakes is for three years-olds and is a points qualifying race for the 1 1/4 mile Kentucky Derby (Grade 2), which will be run May 2 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
The other four stakes races at Tampa Bay on Saturday are:
*$250.000 Hillsborough (Grade 2)--1 1/8 miles on turf, fillies and mares, 4-YO and up
*$200,000 Florida Oaks (Grade 3) --one mile, turf, 3-YO fillies
*$100,000 Challenger (Grade 3) -- 1 1/16 miles dirt, 4-YO and up
*$100,000 Columbia -- one mile, turf, 3-YOs
W\e will have previews beginning later today.
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