{"id":24837,"date":"2014-10-22T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tampa-bay-derby-set-for-early-march\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:25:00","slug":"tampa-bay-derby-set-for-early-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tampa-bay-derby-set-for-early-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Derby set for early March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oldsmar, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The 2015 running of the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby will continue to highlight Tampa Bay Downs&#8217; stakes series on the road to the Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014-15 racing season gets underway Saturday, Nov. 29 and runs through June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Won this year by 14-1 longshot Ring Weekend, the 1 1\/16-mile Tampa Bay Derby will culminate the track&#8217;s 3-year-old stakes on Saturday, March 7 and is part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series points system. The first four finishers will earn 50, 20, 10 and 5 points, repsectively, toward a starting gate berth in the Run for the Roses on the first Saturday in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Kentucky Derby victories by our 2007 Tampa Bay Derby winner, Street Sense, and our 2010 third-place finisher, Super Saver, have elevated our showcase race to national prominence and made it a significant Triple Crown prep,&#8221; said Peter Berube, Vice President and General Manager of Tampa Bay Downs.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Tampa Bay&#8217;s 3-year-old stakes series will be the $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at 1 1\/16 miles on Saturday, Jan. 31. The $100,000 Pasco Stakes, formerly run in January for 3-year-olds, has been moved to Dec, 27 for 2-year-olds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oldsmar, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The 2015 running of the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby will continue to highlight Tampa Bay Downs&#8217; stakes series on the road to the Kentucky Derby. The 2014-15 racing season gets underway Saturday, Nov. 29 and runs through June 30. Won this year by 14-1 longshot Ring Weekend, the 1 1\/16-mile Tampa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}