{"id":158828,"date":"2026-02-17T20:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:28:29","slug":"marin-on-pace-to-set-tampa-bay-downs-wins-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158828\/","title":{"rendered":"Marin on Pace to Set Tampa Bay Downs Wins Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/little-thunder-horse-to-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida-bred Little Thunder Horse to Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BY TAMPA BAY DOWNS PRESS OFFICE (Edited)<\/p>\n<p>OLDSMAR, FL\u2014Just past the halfway point of the meet, jockey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=J&amp;eID=171282&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Samuel Marin<\/a> is on pace to eclipse the track\u2019s single-season victory record of 147 set 11 years ago by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=J&amp;eID=133402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Antonio Gallardo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marin, a 24-year-old from Trujillo, Venezuela, rode five winners Friday for the second time this season. He followed up that performance Saturday with three winners and two seconds from five mounts, capping the card in exciting fashion with a victory aboard My Boy Prince in the $100,000 Turf Dash Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>With 81 winners through Sunday\u2019s action, Marin is on pace to ride 153 winners assuming he competes through the May 3 finale. He has a 28-victory advantage from five-time Tampa Bay Downs champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=J&amp;eID=148476&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Samy Camacho<\/a> in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Marin added three more winners to his ledger Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Marin\u2019s 26.6% winning rate is the best of any jockey at the meet with at least 40 mounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Return to the February 17 issue of\u00a0Wire to Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida-bred Little Thunder Horse to Watch BY TAMPA BAY DOWNS PRESS OFFICE (Edited) OLDSMAR, FL\u2014Just past the halfway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4974,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-158828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-racing","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}