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The Inaugural Stakes
The $100,000 Inaugural Stakes
Fastest Time: 1:09.32 CATALINA RED (2014)
Slowest Time: 1:14.0 LINDSEY LANE (1993)
Longest Priced Winner: $ 89.20 NO MECOURTNEY (1991)
Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.00 COOL COWBOY (2013)
Closest Winning Margin: NOSE HONEY HONEY HONEY (2008)
Largest Winning Margin: 7 1/4 Lengths CATALINA RED (2014)
Shortest Price Loser: $ 1.10 KING DIABLO (1996)
Track Condition: FAST All except
GOOD 1999
Richest Purse: $100,000 2013-present
Richies Sweetheart winning the Lightning City on 12/19
Other Notes: The 2014 Inaugural Stakes winner, Catalina Red, shattered the stakes record while rewarding trainer Chad Stewart and five-time
leading jockey Daniel Centeno with their first Inaugural victories. In May of 2016, Catalina Red won the Grade II, $500,000 Churchill Downs Stakes
while trained by Jorge Navarro and ridden by Javier Castellano. The 2013 Inaugural Stakes winner, Cool Cowboy, is a son of 2009 Eclipse Awardwinning
Outstanding Sprinter, Kodiak Kowboy. The 2012 winner, Purple Egg, was the first Inaugural Stakes winner to finish in under 1:10 since the
race was shortened from seven furlongs in 1996. The fourth-place finisher in that race, Falling Sky, won the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at
Tampa Bay Downs and finished third in the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby. The purse was $25,000 from 1986 through 1998; in 1999 it was run
for $40,000 and in 2000 the race was valued at $50,000. In December of 2007, the Inaugural began running for $65,000 and was raised again for the
2011 edition. The 2011 Tampa Bay Derby winner, Watch Me Go, finished fifth in the 2010 Inaugural. The 1988 Inaugural winner, Storm Predictions,
won the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby in 1989 and also won the Challenger at Tampa Bay Downs and the Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream and the
Americana Handicap at Calder.
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