Tampabay downs media guide 16-0273-JK2

Tampa Bay Stakes Grade III
The Grade III $150,000 Tampa Bay Stakes
Fastest Time: 1:39.65 LEGS GALORE (1999)
Slowest Time: 1:51.1 LORD JOHN (1992)
Longest Priced Winner: $ 59.40 ROMAN TIGER (2012)
Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.00 DELAY OF GAME (2000)
Closest Winning Margin: NOSE KARELIAN (2010)
ROMAN TIGER (2012)
Largest Winning Margin: 5 ¾ Lengths DELAY OF GAME (2000)
Shortest Price Loser: $ .20 GIO PONTI (2010)
Track Condition: FIRM All except
SOFT 2008
GOOD 2013 and 2015
YIELDING 2014
Reload winning the Tampa Bay Stakes on 2/13
Richest Purse: 2007-present $150,000
Other Notes: The conditioner of 2016 Tampa Bay Stakes winner Reload, Claude “Shug” McGaughey, III, is the third Hall of Fame trainer to win
the Tampa Bay Stakes, joining William Mott (Boastful, 2002) and Woody Stephens (Homebuilder, 1988). As a 4-year-old, 2015 winner Lochte won
the Grade I Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap in 2014 and placed in two other Grade I stakes. Guys Reward, the 2014 winner, is no stranger to graded
turf stakes success; in 2012, he won the Grade II Firecracker Handicap at Churchill Downs. Swift Warrior, who finished third in the 2012 Tampa Bay
Stakes, won the 2013 renewal three weeks after capturing the Grade III John B. Connally Turf Cup at Sam Houston. The race was run at 1 1/8-mile
until 1993, when it was run at 1 1/16. It was moved to the turf in 1999. John Callaway won twice as owner/trainer with Lord John in 1992 and 1993.
Jockeys William Henry and Ricardo Lopez each won the race three times. The 1995 winner, Not Surprising, went on to be voted an Eclipse Award as
Outstanding Sprinter based on eight stakes victories, including four graded New York events. Previously known as the Tampa Bay Breeders’ Cup, the
race enjoyed its most exciting renewal in 2010, when Karelian and jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr., edged Eclipse champion Gio Ponti and Ramon
Dominguez by a nose. Trainer Dennis Manning won in 2009 with Victory Alleged and in 2012 with Roman Tiger.
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