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Could Pasco, Gasparilla At Tampa Bay Downs Serve As Launch Pad For Future Sophomore Stars? - Horse Racing News


Could Pasco, Gasparilla At Tampa Bay Downs Serve As Launch Pad For Future Sophomore Stars?
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Bill Mott-trained Nova Rags winning his debut at Belmont Park on Oct. 10
The winner of last year s $125,000 Gasparilla Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Tampa Bay Downs, trainer Mark Casse s Florida-bred Two Sixty, added to her laurels in July with a front-running victory in the Grade 3 Selene Stakes at Woodbine.
But it was fifth-place Gasparilla finisher Swiss Skydiver who just about set the horse racing world on fire last Jan. 18.
After missing the Tampa Bay Downs winner s circle in Oldsmar, Fla., by less than a length (her Equibase chart comment read, in part, “…was urged to challenge the winner four wide between foes leaving mid-stretch but was floated out by that foe late while losing her momentum and just missing for a share”), Swiss Skydiver put together a season that made her one of the most popular horses in training and the favorite ....

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