{"id":428915,"date":"2026-10-15T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:18:07","slug":"tampa-bay-downs-moves-two-stakes-to-sam-f-davis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428915\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Downs Moves Two Stakes to Sam F. Davis Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/racetracks\/95\/tampa-bay-downs\" title=\"Tampa Bay Downs | BloodHorse.com Track Profile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Downs<\/a> has announced revisions to its 2026-27 stakes schedule, highlighted by the addition of the Tampa Bay Stakes (G3T)\u00a0and the\u00a0Endeavour Stakes (G3T)\u00a0to Festival Preview day Feb. 6. They had been scheduled for Jan. 30 when the stakes schedule was announced in early September.<\/p>\n<p>Moving the two graded stakes races to Festival Preview day strengthens the\u00a0lineup, which already features the Suncoast Stakes, the Sam F. Davis Stakes, the Pelican Stakes, and the Minaret Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After closer examination of the national stakes calendar, we saw an opportunity to enhance the prestige of Festival Preview day with the addition of the Endeavour Stakes and the Tampa Bay Stakes,&#8221; Tampa Bay Downs general manager\u00a0Peter Berube said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Stakes, for 4-year-olds and upward on the turf, and the Endeavour Stakes, for fillies and mares 4-years-old and upward on the turf, each carry a guaranteed purse of $175,000.<\/p>\n<p>The revised stakes schedule continues to feature a strong lineup of racing throughout the 2026-27 meet, including Festival day\u00a0March 6, highlighted by the $500,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G3), and Florida Cup day March 28.<\/p>\n<p>This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Downs has announced revisions to its 2026-27 stakes schedule, highlighted by the addition of the Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[168544,168539,76775,168542,168541,168540,70874,45703,70875,135,79249,18970,156315,137,136,45702,168543],"class_list":["post-428915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-2027-stakes-schedule","tag-endeavour-stakes","tag-industry-press-releases","tag-minaret-stakes","tag-pelican-stakes","tag-peter-berube","tag-sam-f-davis-stakes","tag-southeast-region","tag-suncoast-stakes","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-derby","tag-tampa-bay-downs","tag-tampa-bay-stakes","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-thoroughbred-racing","tag-turf-stakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428915","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=428915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}