Stakes Races At Tampa Bay Downs
Grade 2:
- Tampa Bay Derby
Grade 3:
- Endeavour Breeders' Cup Stakes
- Hillsborough Stakes
- Sam F. Davis Stakes
- Tampa Bay Stakes
Ungraded
- Florida Oaks
- Pasco Stakes
The track also runs numerous non-graded stakes and the purses have set records in the past several years. The grade III Sam F. Davis Stakes is now an official prep race for the Kentucky Derby.
Read more about this topic: Tampa Bay Downs
Famous quotes containing the words stakes, races, bay and/or downs:
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate,—and meantime it is only puss and her tail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)