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Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN In a sport that has been dominated by men for more than a century, Murray Smith is sitting on top of the world. Despite the great strides [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN In her first start of 2001, Corinas Poise was claimed for $4,000 at Tampa Bay Downs by owner Chris Gatis and trainer William Mitchell. The 7-year-old mare [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN Since Explodent and Mr. Prospector left Florida to stand in Kentucky more than 20 years ago, the trend has been for Florida's breeders to make a stallion [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN Nearly three decades ago, Waldemar Farms in Williston was sitting on top of the racing world. Owner Howard Sams and his son Tim had the great stallion [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN Lisa Misiewicz was one of the top jockeys at Tampa Bay Downs in the 1980s. Fans remember her as a fearless competitor who rarely let her male [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN Precisionist was as great a runner as the game has known. Campaigned by the late Fred W. Hooper, the son of Crozier and the Forli mare Excellently [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN OLDSMAR -- In the fall of 1992, Charlotte Weber and her husband had a day to remember. In a short span on a Saturday afternoon in New [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN In the arena of buying and selling thoroughbred race horses, Murray Smith has a distinctive position. She discovers outstanding horseflesh where others in her field have rarely [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN More 3-year-olds (78) have been nominated to the Tampa Bay Derby than ever, including many from the leading stables in North America. Now, it's up to racing [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN If there were any certainties in Saturday's $50,000 Manatee Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, the 7-furlong race for fillies and mares provided some of the best betting [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN When the time comes to hang up their tack, the greatest decision facing young, high-profile jockeys is what to do with the rest of their lives. The [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN When One Special Judge arrived at Tampa Bay Downs from Michigan for December's opening, the colt by Judge T C wasn't considered very special. But after two [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN The strife, apparently, is over at Tampa Bay Downs. Horsemen and management finally agreed on a contract Saturday, which ensures that purses revert to normal levels and [...]

Byline: BERNIE DICKMAN OLDSMAR -- Of all the advantages a horse might have on paper before a race, perhaps none is as significant as the one suggested by the saying [...]

April 30 on the ESPN program Sports Reporters,host Dick Schaap offered a short eulogy for what he called two 'formerly popular' sports: boxing and horse racing. Five days later, nothing [...]

The last thing a trainer wants to see 10 days before the Run for the Roses is his Derby horse work poorly at Churchill Downs. The trainer's usual response to [...]

Horses are mostly creatures of habit in their running styles, picking one early and hanging on to it until they retire from the track. But once in a while, if [...]

After digesting the results of Saturday's major 3-year-old races around the country, Tampa Bay Downs owner Stella Thayer and general manager John Grady have to be asking the age-old question, [...]

As 1999 began, Ben's Quixote, a 5-year-old Florida-bred son of Dawn Quixote, had won five career races. Fourteen months later, after capturing what is no doubt the longest name for [...]

Bare Legs showed Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs why computer horse racing has to remain on computers. No computer can predict what a horse will do once it steps on [...]

One of the most impressive performances of the Tampa Bay Downs season was turned in Saturday when Stan Wilk's Stans Dream not only romped by 5 3/4 lengths in the [...]

The Hillsborough Stakes, the prelude to the Florida Oaks and the Tampa Bay Derby, has been in existence just two years, and trainer Elliott Walden already has made it his [...]

It was 1984 and Harold and Elsie Rose's Rexson's Hope had just finished third in two important stakes at Hialeah - the Grade III Everglades and the Grade I Flamingo. [...]