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HBPA, Simulcast Revenue Fuel Purse Increases At Tampa Bay Downs

Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla. will increase purses for all races except stakes by approximately 10-percent beginning on Wednesday, Dec. 16, track Vice President-General Manager Peter Berube announced Wednesday.

The increase will be $1,500 for maiden special weight and allowance races and $1,000 for claiming and starter races.

“Thanks to the efforts of former (Tampa Bay Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association) President Bob Jeffries and the approval of their board, we were able to build a substantial cushion in the purse account before the current meeting,” Berube said.

“Our export (simulcast) business has been strong since racing returned on Nov. 25 and is up 29 percent to date,” Berube said.

“We were projecting a 30-35-percent decrease in on-track wagering on live and simulcast racing to start the meeting and those projections have been correct, but the actions of the Tampa Bay HBPA and the popularity of our signal across the country enable us to feel comfortable raising purses starting next week,” Berube said.

Through the first six cards since the 2020-2021 meeting resumed, Tampa Bay Downs has averaged $3,719,055 in daily interstate wagering. The total wagering handle on Saturday's 10-race card was a Cotillion Festival Day record $6,128,282, of which $5,702,369 was through interstate wagering.

Around the oval: Tampa Bay Downs currently races on a Wednesday-Friday-Saturday schedule, with Sundays added to the mix on Dec. 20. Additionally, the track will conduct a Thursday card on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, and be closed Christmas, Dec. 25.

Otherwise, Tampa Bay Downs is open every day for simulcast wagering, no-limits action and tournament play in The Silks Poker Room and golf fun and instruction at The Downs Golf Practice Facility.

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Nyquist Colt Blitzes Rivals in Tampa Unveiling

6th-Tampa Bay Downs, $20,000, Msw, 12-9, 2yo, 6f, 1:10.24, ft, 13 1/4 lengths.
WITSEL (c, 2, Nyquist–Bailzee {SP, $152,580}, by Grand Slam), sent off at 5-1 to become the 16th career winner for his GI Kentucky Derby-winning sire (by Uncle Mo), showed good early foot to settle just behind pace setter Thrown For A Loupe (Gemologist), who showed the way through a :22.62 quarter. Scraping the paint while 8-5 choice Equuleus (Maclean’s Music) loomed three wide as the leading charged for the quarter-mile pole, Witzel gained the advantage turning for home, drew off with ease, scoring by 13 1/4-widening lengths over Thrown For A Loupe with Equuleus third. The winner’s stakes-placed dam, Bailzee, produced a Practical Joke colt last season followed by a colt by Cairo Prince this term. Sales history: $72,000 RNA Ylg ’19 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $12,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-CM Thoroughbreds; B-Elm Tree Farm (KY); T-Carlos Munoz.

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Purse Increase at Tampa Bay Downs

Tampa Bay Downs will increase purses for all non-stakes purses by approximately 10% beginning Dec. 16. The increase will be $1,500 for maiden special weight and allowance races and $1,000 for claiming and starter races.

“Thanks to the efforts of former [Tampa Bay Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association] President Bob Jeffries and the approval of their board, we were able to build a substantial cushion in the purse account before the current meeting,” Tampa Vice President and General Manager Peter Berube said. “Our export [simulcast] business has been strong since racing returned on Nov. 25 and is up 29% to date. We were projecting a 30-35% decrease in on-track wagering on live and simulcast racing to start the meeting and those projections have been correct, but the actions of the Tampa Bay HBPA and the popularity of our signal across the country enable us to feel comfortable raising purses starting next week.”

Through the first six cards since the 2020-2021 meeting resumed, Tampa Bay Downs has averaged $3,719,055 in daily interstate wagering. The total wagering handle on Saturday’s 10-race card was a Cotillion Festival Day record $6,128,282, of which $5,702,369 was through interstate wagering.

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Antonio Gallardo Rides Five Winners On Tampa Bay Downs Program

Five-time leading Tampa Bay Downs jockey Antonio Gallardo rode five winners at the Oldsmar, Fla., track for a record sixth time on Saturday, including four consecutive winners beginning with the fifth race.

Gallardo's outstanding afternoon began in the fifth race on Melancholy Blues, a filly owned by Charles D. Nielsen and trained by Jon Arnett. Melancholy Blues was claimed from the race for $16,000 by trainer Tony Wilson for new owner Happy Tenth Stable.

Gallardo next won the sixth on the turf on Domain Expertise, a filly owned by Klaravich Stables and trained by Chad Brown. He added the seventh race aboard Mi Cleopatra and I for owner David Gruskos and trainer Jose H. Delgado.

Twice more, with feeling: Gallardo won the eighth race, the Lambholm South Race of the Week on the turf, with the colt Night Things, owned by Mt. Brilliant Farm and trained by Michael Stidham. He added the 10th and final race on the Godolphin homebred filly Frost Point, trained by Bill Mott.

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