Nov 28, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
OLDSMAR, FL. – For the second consecutive season, Tampa Bay Downs jockey Pablo Morales has been sidelined as a result of a freak injury. But after fearing he could miss as many as eight weeks of action with a broken left wrist, the 35-year-old rider received good news...
Nov 25, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
OLDSMAR, FL. – It hasn’t taken very long for jockey Mychel Sanchez to fall for Tampa Bay Downs. Sanchez – whose first career victory in 2012 at age 16 in his homeland of Venezuela came aboard a horse named Sunshine Park, which was also the name of the Oldsmar oval...
Nov 24, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
OLDSMAR, FL. – Entering today’s eighth race, owner-trainer Juan Arriagada found himself on the verge of making track history. Arriagada won with his first three starters today, and with horses in the eighth and ninth races, he had a chance to eclipse the Tampa Bay...
Nov 22, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
OLDSMAR, FL. – Several thoughts flashed through Kevin Gomez’s mind as his mount in today’s first race, 2-year-old Florida-bred gelding Lord Knows, powered to a 6 ½-length victory on the renowned Tampa Bay Downs turf course. Once the result was made official, the...
Nov 20, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
OLDSMAR, FL. – Mid-Atlantic journeywoman Carol Cedeno had mixed feelings when trainer Kerri Raven encouraged her to join the Tampa Bay Downs jockey colony this season. “She’s always been telling me to come to Tampa, that I would do well,” said Cedeno, a six-time...
Nov 16, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
OLDSMAR, FL. – You can feel it on the backside at the break of dawn as the first horses hit the track for workouts, and during simulcast action in the Grandstand in the afternoon. For all the advances the track has made in recent years, it’s a palpable sense that a...
