Tampabay downs media guide 16-0273-JK2

The Sandpiper
The $100,000 Sandpiper Stakes
Fastest Time: 1:10.02 COR COR (2012)
Slowest Time: 1:14.4 EXPENSIVE LUNCH (1995)
Longest Priced Winner: $28.20 MERCEDES SONG (1996)
Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.60 SHANANIE’S BEAT (1994)
Closest Winning Margin: NOSE STAR PERFORMER (1997)
SPECIAL CHEERS (2007)
Largest Winning Margin: 9 Lengths SHANANIE’S BEAT (1994)
Shortest Price Loser: $ .60 ENQUETE (2013)
Track Condition: FAST All except
SLOPPY 1995
Richest Purse: $ 100,000 2013-present
Hidden Treat winning the Sandpiper Stakes on 12/19
Other Notes: Hidden Treat is a homebred racing for the Lael Stables of Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who campaigned 2006 Kentucky Derby
Presented by Yum! Brands winner Barbaro. Four months after her 2014 Sandpiper triumph, R Sassy Lass won the Florida Cup Stonehedge Farm
South Sophomore Fillies Stakes. My Sweet Dove’s broodmare sire, Dove Hunt, won five Grade III stakes in his career. In addition to her recordsetting
2012 Sandpiper triumph, Cor Cor won the Battle of New Orleans Stakes at Fair Grounds and the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Filly Division Sprint at
Ocala Training Center. Jockey William Henry won the Sandpiper Stakes five times in seven years: with Shutrina’s Sand (1999), Star Performer (1997),
Expensive Lunch (1995), Shananie’s Beat (1994), and Lindsey Lane (1993). Two of those wins (in 1993 and 1994) were with owner Stonehedge Farm
and trainer Kathleen O’Connell. In 1986, the Sandpiper was run at 5 ½ furlongs; the 1982 and 1983 races were run in two divisions. In the 2004-2005
racing season, the Sandpiper was run in January; the 2005-2006 edition was carded in December, as were all subsequent editions. The late George
Steinbrenner’s Kinsman Stable has won this race twice: in 2003 with Ebony Breeze (trained by William Mott and ridden by Pedro Rodriguez) and in
2008 with Unfolding Wish (trained by Dale Bennett and booted home by Carlos Montalvo). The 2008 winner, Dr. Zic, trained by Joan Scott, won the
Grade I Vinery Madison at Keeneland in 2010.
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