Born: July 20, 1950
Birthplace: Pittsfield, MA
Residence: Ocala, FL
Family: Son, David; granddaughters Katherine and Rebecca; grandson William
Started training: Pocono Downs, late 1960s
First Win: Falls Church, Narragansett Park
Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Delaware Park
|
Year
|
Starts
|
1st
|
2nd
|
3rd
|
Earnings
|
W rank
|
W %
|
ITM %
|
|
2008-2009 meet
|
153
|
22
|
18
|
15
|
$364,392
|
7th
|
14.4
|
35.9
|
|
2007-2008 meet
|
117
|
20
|
12
|
13
|
$263,618
|
5th (Tie)
|
17.1
|
38.5
|
|
2006-2007 meet
|
158
|
35
|
27
|
17
|
$536,161
|
2nd
|
22.2
|
50.0
|
|
2005-2006
|
139
|
27
|
20
|
15
|
$402,535
|
2nd
|
21.0
|
45.7
|
|
2004-2005 meet
|
156
|
29
|
16
|
21
|
$358,571
|
2nd
|
18.5
|
42.3
|
|
2003-04 meet
|
149
|
25
|
25
|
22
|
$1,207,348
|
1st
|
16.8
|
48.3
|
|
2002-2003 meet
|
150
|
27
|
22
|
13
|
$227,048
|
4th
|
180.0
|
41.3
|
Trainer Lynne M. Scace is no stranger to Tampa Bay Downs or its winners circle, having conditioned horses here for eleven years. Scace didn’t always know she was going to be a top Thoroughbred trainer: before she started her life at the track, Scace worked as a hair dresser. It was a twist of fate that a needy friend brought her to the backside. Her friend, who worked as a hot-walker at GreenMountain in Pownal, Vermont, needed a ride to work after her car had broken down. Scace agreed and made the 30-mile trip with her friend only to be told to “sit in the car and wait.” When her friend needed another ride a few days later, Scace, who owned saddle horses and competed in gymkhanas while growing up, agreed but arrived at the track with a different attitude.
“I saw there was no sense in just sitting there,” the 59-year-old trainer said. “So, I started walking hots and mucking out stalls. I never liked being inside all day as a hairdresser anyway.”
Scace applied for and received her trainer’s license while still a teenager and saddled her first winner in the late 1960s at NarragansettPark. As her career took off, she expanded her interests to include the sixty acre Double-S Farm in Ocala, which she operates with Ray Stifano. While Scace is hesitant to pick a favorite horse in her barn, she names her most memorable event at Tampa Bay Downs as a tie between her win with homebred Roman Candles in the 2007 rendition of the Pelican Stakes, and her win in the 2006 Minaret Stakes with Platinum Perfect, a horse she had sold. In the 2008-2009 meeting, Scace enjoyed two stakes victories on Florida Cup Day with Snow Lass in the Sophomore Fillies and On the Vineyard in the Sprint. Scace ended the 2008-2009 Tampa race meeting as seventh leading conditioner overall with 22 wins to her credit.