A major day of racing with implications on the national 3-year-old picture, the event will run 10-12 races, including four stakes races:
- The Grade III $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes for 3-year-old horses at a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the main dirt track which will award points on ‘The Road to the Kentucky Derby’ to the first four finishers toward qualifying for a berth in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands on May 6 at Churchill Downs
- The Grade III $150,000 Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes for fillies and mares 4 years and upward at a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the turf course
- The Grade III $150,000 Tampa Bay Stakes for horses 4 years and upward at a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the turf course
- The $100,000 Suncoast Stakes – which has produced victorious 3-year-old fillies that went on to win Grade I Stakes – for 3-year-old fillies at a mile-and-40-yards on the main dirt track
And while there may always be a new cast of horses every year for their big races, fans of the festival may get the chance to see a familiar mare.
“This year we may have a returnee for the Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes, the 6-year-old mare Tepin,” track publicist Mike Henry said. “She won the race last year, as well as our Grade II $200,000 Hillsborough Stakes, which provided an impetus toward her being acclaimed as the best turf-course filly or mare in the world and winning her second consecutive Eclipse Award in the Turf Female category as a result.”
Festival Preview Day Presented by Lambholm South also marks the start of the ‘Live It Up Challenge’ handicapping contest that will run through April 2. The free online promotion offers a grand prize of $2,500 and a seat at the Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas.
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