Two  important stakes races for newly-turned three-year-olds take place at Tampa Bay Downs on February 11, the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis Stakes and the $150,000 Suncoast Stakes for fillies. The Davis is worth $250,000 and is at 1 1/16 miles and the Suncast is at 1 mile and 40 yards.

Woodbine’s perennial leading trainer Mark Casse will saddle two fillies in the Suncoast and most eyes will be on WONDER WHEEL (Into Mischief), winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Keeneland in November and voted Champion 2-Year-Old Filly at the Eclipse Awards. Casse is also sending out the Ontario-bred filly TICKER TAPE HOME (Medaglia D’Oro) in the Suncoast and the stakes-placed dark bay is a Woodbine Oaks contender.

Casse has two colts entered in the Davis, a race he won in 2018 with John Oxley’s Ontario-bred Flameaway.

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