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Allison De Luca, the Racing Secretary at Tampa Bay Downs, has released the first condition book for the 2022-2023 Thoroughbred season, which begins with the Wednesday, Nov. 23 Opening Day card.

The new condition book runs from Nov. 23 through Dec. 24. As she does each season, De Luca bases her books on the makeup of the Oldsmar horse population for the upcoming meet.

“We expect to have an outstanding offering of dirt and turf races for all levels of horses, from maidens up to stakes horses,” De Luca said. “Our program keeps growing in stature and popularity due to the condition of our racing surfaces and increases in purse money, combined with the outstanding weather.”

De Luca has also put the finishing touches on the stakes schedule, which is unchanged from last season (except for the actual dates).

It kicks off Saturday, Dec. 3 with a pair of six-furlong, main-track juvenile races: the 37^th edition of the $100,000 Inaugural Stakes for 2-year-olds and the 45^th running of the $100,000 Sandpiper Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.

Tampa Bay Downs again will conduct 26 stakes races worth a total of $3.46 million in purse money. At present, there are seven graded stakes on the schedule. The biggest stakes day of the meet is the March 11 Festival Day program, featuring four graded stakes, including the Grade 2 $400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby for 3-year-old Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown candidates. Total stakes purse money that day alone is $1 million.

The Feb. 11 card, known as Festival Preview Day, includes four stakes races, highlighted by another Kentucky Derby prep race: the G3 $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes. Both the Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby and the Sam F. Davis are contested on the main track at a distance of a mile-and-a-sixteenth.

Both races are “Road to the Kentucky Derby” qualifying events, awarding points to the first four finishers toward qualifying for a berth in the Run for the Roses on May 6 at Churchill Downs.

Two $175,000 graded stakes will be run on Feb. 4 at a distance of a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the turf course: the G3 Tampa Bay Stakes for horses four and upward and the G3 Endeavour Stakes for fillies and mares four and up.

Click on the following link for the first condition book:

https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHorsemenAreaDownloadAction.cfm?sn=CB-TAM-20221123-20221224D

Click on the following link for the 2022-2023 Tampa Bay Downs stakes schedule:

https://www.tampabaydowns.com/racing/betting-handicapping/stakes-schedule

Horses will begin arriving at Tampa Bay Downs when the barn area opens on Wednesday. The main track opens for training the following Wednesday, Nov. 2.

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A racing rarity occurred in the ninth race at Keeneland on Thursday when Pure Pauline and Grand Entrance finished on even terms for a dead heat for trainer Todd Pletcher. Both 2-year-old fillies appeared in the winner's Circle for the traditional win picture.

Both fillies were bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and are closely related. Pure Pauline, who races for Stonestreet Stables, is a daughter of Curlin and the Pulpit mare Keen Pauline. Grand Entrance is by Bernardini and is out of Keen Pauline's dam, the Two Punch mare Grand Pauline.

It doesn't occur often, but it has happened before that one trainer has saddled both winning horses in a dead heat.

In 2016, Peter Miller saddled both Solid Wager and St. Joe Bay to win the Grade 3 Midnight Lute Stakes at Santa Anita. Gary Barber, a co-owner of Grand Entrance with Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Steve Rocco, was also co-owner of Solid Wager.

Two years earlier, also in a stakes, Robertino Diodoro sent out the dead-heat winners of the Shakopee Juvenile at Canterbury Park  – Grand Full Moon and Native American – for Ernie Moody's Mercedes Stable.

Thursday's race was a maiden special event for 2-year-old fillies going 1 1/16 miles. Pure Pauline, ridden by John Velazquez, was the 9-5 favorite and raced from just off the pace, gaining the advantage at the top of the stretch but was caught at the wire by her stablemate. Grand Entrance, ridden by Luis Saez, broke slowly and was last early, then rallied seven wide into the stretch to finish on even terms with Pure Pauline.

The wins gave Pletcher his eighth and ninth wins of the current meet, putting him four ahead of Brad Cox in the trainer standings. Saez (nine wins) and Velazquez (eight) are clustered at the top of the jockey race with Tyler Gaffalione (nine) and Florent Geroux (eight).

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When Run Slewpy Run goes to post for Friday night's $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf Stakes, she will be trying to win her sixth race in a row on the Remington Park turf course and her second consecutive victory in this stakes.

The 4-year-old filly from trainer Jesse Oberlander's barn will be trying to win this Oklahoma Classics race for the fourth time in a row for the Oberlander clan and the Imadancingslew family. Run Slewpy Run, by Den's Legacy (Medaglia d'Oro), out of the Evansville Slew mare Imadancingslew, will be trying to repeat and defend her championship on Oklahoma Classics night for Jesse. The two years prior to her first win last year in the Classics Distaff Turf, her half-sister Alternative Slew won the race for trainer Randy Oberlander in 2019 and 2020. Randy, who has retired from training, is Jesse's dad.

Three of Run Slewpy Run's five wins in her current streak at Remington Park came in stakes company. She has won the past two $70,000 Bob Barry Memorial Stakes in 2021 and 2022 at 7-1/2 furlongs on the grass and the other was last year's trip to the winner's circle in this race at 1-1/16^th miles. She won last year's edition by three lengths over none other than her half-sister, Alternative Slew.

Run Slewpy Run's latest victory came in this year's Bob Barry Memorial Stakes on Sept. 23 with jockey Luis Quinonez in the saddle. Quinonez, the second-leading rider in Remington Park history behind only Cliff Berry, has been aboard for all five wins in the skein.

Run Slewpy Run is owned by Mike Jones of Bristow, Okla., and has won six-of-14 starts overall in her career with four seconds and one third for earnings of $277,424. She has been made the prohibitive 3-5 favorite by morning line maker Jerry Shottenkirk. She is 5-for-5 on the Remington grass with a bankroll of $205,095. Jones also bred and owned Alternative Slew who enjoyed success with six wins, five second and five thirds from 20 career attempts and lifetime earnings of $364,523.

The steely gray Run Slewpy Run started her local turf win streak on Sept. 2, 2021, when she won a first-level allowance race on the grass in Oklahoma City. She won so easily that night (1-1/4 lengths) that Oberlander moved her up in class her next grass outing and she won the Bob Barry for the first time. Like the lawnmower she has turned into she kept proving it, winning the next turf race, the $130,000 Oklahoma Distaff Classics Turf on Oct. 15 last year easily. Her fourth win in a row greensward came this meet when she won an open allowance by a neck. The fifth win was her second Bob Barry.

Oberlander has a secret to getting wins out of this filly.

“She's easy to train; I just stay out of her way,” he said. “She's great to have in the barn. I send her out in the morning and she just bucks and plays.”

When it comes to race night, she's all business. Quinonez concurred with her effort in the Bob Barry last month when she fended off Morning Twilight for the score.

“She knows how to win,” he said. “She wanted to go to the lead but I just sat there (off the pace in fourth) and kept my eye on (Morning Twilight).”

Quinonez has won the Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf five times. He won the past two with Run Slewpy Run and also aboard Bringinginthelute for trainer-owner-breeder C.R. Trout in 2014, on Soonerette for trainer Donnie Von Hemel and owner Dr. Robert Zoellner of Tulsa, Okla., in 2012, and on In the Band for trainer Brent Charlton and his ownership of Red Head Racing in 2011.

The field for the Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf, by post position and program order, with trainer, jockey and morning-line odds:

1. Plenty of Vision: Scott Young, Alfredo Triana, Jr., 9-2
2. Morning Twilight: Steve Asmussen, Stewart Elliott, 7-2
3. Ima Skywalker: Jesse Oberlander, Jose Alvarez, 10-1
4. Run Slewpy Run: Jesse Oberlander, Luis Quinonez, 3-5 (morning-line favorite)
5. Fightingtemptation: Alan Williams, T.L. Collier, 15-1
6. Special Treasure: Michael Whitelaw, David Cabrera, 20-1
7. Gospel Charity: Steve Williams, Freddy Manrrique, 20-1

Live racing at Remington Park continues this week with racing Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 20-22. There are 10 races on Friday night, Oklahoma Classics Night. All first post times the rest of the week are 7:07 p.m.-Central.

Tracked by more than 171,000 fans on Facebook and 10,600 Twitter followers, Remington Park has provided more than $304 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District, Remington Park features the top Oklahoma-breds in racing on Oklahoma Classics Night, a million-dollar evening of stakes events on Friday, October 21. Thoroughbred racing continues through December 17 with simulcast racing daily, and a casino that is always open! Visit remingtonpark.com for more information.

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