{"id":9803,"date":"2013-09-25T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dates-set-for-tampa-bay-derby-and-preps\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:19:00","slug":"dates-set-for-tampa-bay-derby-and-preps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dates-set-for-tampa-bay-derby-and-preps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates set for Tampa Bay Derby and preps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oldsmar, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The 88th racing season at Tampa Bay Downs will again feature a series of stakes for 3-year-olds leading to the $2 million Kentucky Derby on May 3.<\/p>\n<p>Won in 2013 by Verrazano, the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby at 1 1\/16 miles will be held on Saturday, March 8. Part of the Kentucky Derby Championship Series, the Tampa Bay Derby awards qualifying points to the first four finishers (50-20-10-5) toward entry into the Run for the Roses.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Derby has produced two Kentucky Derby winners in the past seven years: Street Sense (2007) and Super Saver (2010). The 2013 edition saw the top three finishers &#8211; Verrazano, Java&#8217;s War and Falling Sky &#8211; start the Run for the Roses.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the year, Verrazano would win both the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park. Java&#8217;s War claimed the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.<\/p>\n<p>Leading to the Tampa Bay Derby will be the seven-furlong Pasco Stakes on Saturday, Jan. 11 and $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at 1 1\/16 miles on Saturday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sam F. Davis Stakes has produced at least one Kentucky Derby starter in nine of the last 10 years,&#8221; Tampa Bay Downs General Manager Peter Berube. noted.<\/p>\n<p>General Quarters won both the 2009 Davis and Blue Grass Stakes, while two years earlier Any Given Saturday captured the Davis and Haskell.<\/p>\n<p>Racing at Tampa Bay Downs gets back underway Dec. 4 through May 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oldsmar, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The 88th racing season at Tampa Bay Downs will again feature a series of stakes for 3-year-olds leading to the $2 million Kentucky Derby on May 3. Won in 2013 by Verrazano, the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby at 1 1\/16 miles will be held on Saturday, March 8. Part of [&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-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","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=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}