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The Sam F. Davis Stakes
The $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes
Fastest Time: 1:43.54 GENERAL QUARTERS (2009)
Slowest Time: 1:49.86 BUNK N TED (2002)
Longest Priced Winner: $ 56.40 WHITE BUCK (2003)
Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.40 ANY GIVEN SATURDAY (2007)
Closest Winning Margin: NOSE RANDY (1992)
AKIBA (1995)
VINCEREMOS (2014)
Largest Winning Margin: 6 ¾ Lengths SAN GENNARO (1999)
Shortest Price Loser: $ 40 WOLF BRIGADE (1992)
Track Condition: FAST All runnings
GOOD 1991 and 1998
SLOPPY 2003
Destin winning the Sam F. Davis Stakes on 2/13
Richest Purse: $ 250,000 2011-present
Other Notes: Destin became the first horse to win the Sam F. Davis and the Grade II Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby since Burning Roma
in 2001. He also provided trainer Todd Pletcher his sixth Davis victory since 2006 and was the fourth Davis winner for Hall of Fame jockey John
Velazquez. Ocean Knight’s sire is Curlin, the two-time Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame member who won the 2007 Preakness and Breeders’
Cup Classic Powered by Dodge and earned $10.5-million. Vinceremos, the 2014 Sam F. Davis winner, is named for the Vinceremos Therapeutic
Riding Center in Loxahatchee, Fla. Falling Sky was purchased less than three weeks before the 2013 Sam F. Davis Stakes at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales
Company’s winter mixed sale for $425,000 by the partnership of Maurice and Samantha Regan’s Newtown Anner Stud, James Covello and Joseph
Bulger. Six Tampa Bay Derby winners have won this race: Phantom Jet (1987), Speedy Cure (1991), Marco Bay (1993), Thundering Storm (1996),
Burning Roma (2001) and Destin. Trainer Nick Zito has won the Sam F. Davis Stakes twice: in 2005 with Andromeda’s Hero and in 2008 with Fierce
Wind. The Sam F. Davis received Grade III status for the first time in 2009, the year in which General Quarters set a stakes record. Burning Roma was
owned by Clearwater’s Harold Queen, who won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Big Drama.
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