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...
Oct 6, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
In his six-plus seasons training at Tampa Bay Downs, Juan Arriagada has learned what many local trainers already knew – you can beat one of Gerald Bennett’s horses in a race, but good luck beating him over the course of a season. As Bennett extended his streak of...
Oct 6, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
I am looking for a vision. My dad, who introduced me to the joys and heartaches of racing when I was 8, died this time last year, but he hasn’t appeared to me with any ideas this week about how to bet the Kentucky Derby. Oh, well. He never had much luck picking the...
Oct 6, 2023 | News, Racing, TBD
For longtime racing official John Morrissey, four years on the sidelines is long enough. Thrust into retirement when Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts ended Thoroughbred racing in 2019, Morrissey has agreed to return to Tampa Bay Downs as an Association Steward, a...
