Tampabay downs media guide 16-0273-JK2

The Minaret Stakes
The $50,000 Minaret Stakes
Fastest Time: 1:09.68 IT’S ME MOM (2011)
Slowest Time: 1:12.3 SLEW KNEW (1994)
Longest Priced Winner: $ 72.00 PYXEN (1996)
Shortest Priced Winner: $ 3.60 IT’S ME MOM (2011)
Closest Winning Margin: NOSE WHATS IT GONNA BE (1998)
LITTLE WON (2000)
STORMY PUBLISHER (2011)
Largest Winning Margin: 8 1/4 Lengths IT’S ME MOM (2011)
Shortest Price Loser: $ .80 MAKE ME CONQUER (1997)
Track Condition: FAST All except
WETFAST 2012
You Bought Her winning the Minaret on 2/20
Richest Purse: $ 65,000 2008
Other Notes: You Bought Her became the third horse to win back-to-back editions of the Minaret, joining Forli’s Lass (1992-1993) and Whats It
Gonna Be (1997-1998). You Bought Her’s 2015 victory was the first career stakes triumph for jockey Brian Pedroza. It came four weeks after a runnerup
effort in the Lightning City Stakes on the turf. Owner Sanford Bacon of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., bred 2014 winner Risky Rachel from his champion
mare Dancin Renee, who died less than 24 hours earlier at Old Friends Equine Thoroughbred Retirement Center in Kentucky. Appealing Stella’s
2013 victory was the first for owner Cindy Nassal, who bred the winner with her husband Bill at their Stonecliff Farm in Ocala. It’s Me Mom and her
connections celebrated New Year’s Eve in grand style in 2011, winning the Minaret in stakes-record time by the largest margin in race history. Jockey
William Henry won this race three times.
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