Tampa Bay Downs

For the second time this year, Tampa Bay Downs jockey Pablo Morales has been sidelined due to a freak injury. He is currently sidelined with a fractured left wrist.

Tampa Bay Downs resumes racing Nov. 22 for a winter/spring season with a nine-race card that attracted 95 entrants, plus six also-eligibles. Wednesday is officially the second day of the meet after Tampa Bay Downs conducted one day of racing July…

Nov. 23 is Opening Day, and new outfits and new jockeys—some fresh-faced kids, others with faces displaying the gritty nature of the profession—have been lured to compete during the 2023-2024 meet.

Luhr won multiple leading rider titles in different jurisdictions and a highlight of his career was a victory in the 1982 Tampa Bay Derby on Harbor View Farm's Reinvested, who would go on to finish third in the Kentucky Derby…

An executive from Tampa Bay Downs said the Florida track largely avoided flooding and sustained no damage from the Aug. 30 arrival of Hurricane Idalia that impacted other parts of the state, including Tampa Bay.

Tampa Bay Downs will allocate $5.5 million from the state of Florida for overnight Thoroughbred purses during the 2023-2024 meet, track vice president and general manager Peter Berube announced Aug. 1.

Monmouth Park's second-leading rider, and the leading jockey at Tampa Bay Downs each of the past three years, said he will be sidelined "four to six weeks" with a right shoulder separation suffered in a spill on July 2 at…

Longtime steward Dennis Lima of Oldsmar, Fla., died May 24 after a brief illness. He was 77.

Pablo Morales, who nearly lost a finger on his right hand after a bite from an opposing horse in a starting gate accident March 19 at Tampa Bay Downs, resumed riding—and winning—May 15 on the opening day of the Presque Isle…

Raul Mena felt more tired than he'd expected after riding Antonov to a third-place finish in the April 16 Tampa Bay Downs opener, the jockey's first race since fracturing his left femur in an accident in a turf race Dec.…