Penelope P. Miller
Tampa Bay Downs

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Don’t Forget Gil, who won last year’s edition of the Grade III Florida Oaks, will return to the Oldsmar oval to headline the field for the Wayward Lass Stakes Saturday. Don’t Forget Gil is a four-year-old Kafwain filly under the care of Mark Hennig for owner Alan Brodsky, and she will have the services of perennial Tampa Bay Downs leading rider Daniel Centeno.  Don’t Forget Gil was second by only a neck in the Grade I Coaching Club American Oaks last year, and returns to the racetrack in the Wayward Lass following a third-place finish in the Real Prize Stakes at Belmont last October.

Also scheduled to go postward in the Wayward Lass is Lady Alexander, who captured the seven furlong Manatee Stakes here on January 30. Lady Alexander recently recorded a bullet workout over the Oldsmar oval, going four furlongs in :46 on February 20. Jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr. has the return call to ride the four-year-old daughter of Exchange Rate for owner Rosemarie Kesselring and trainer Bruce Alexander.

Satans Quick Chick was a fast-closing second to Lady Alexander in the Manatee Stakes, and two races ago was second in the Grade II Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland. The Eric Reed trainee has accrued over $250,000 in her eight lifetime starts, finishing in the money in five of those efforts.

Finish Lines… Conditioner Dale Bennett escorted two of his trainees to the Winner’s Circle today; the trainer now has 21 victories to his cred in the current Tampa Bay Downs meet. Benneet saddled his first winner, Heavenly John, for owners Dyedra Kademoglou and Peter Karahalios with Pablo Morales in the irons.  Bennett scored again with Point Me Home.  The four-year-old Point Given filly carries the colors of Joseph Raffa with Edgar Perez up.

Second leading Tampa rider Rosemary Homeister, Jr. scored a hat trick today; the reinsman took home her first win on the card with Glorious Memory. The three-year-old Kitten’s Joy filly is under the care of trainer Joseph Catanese, III for owner JMJ Racing Stables.  Homeister got her next victory aboard Ice Baby Ice, an In Excess colt bred in Florida by Martin Stables, owned by Ol Memorial Stable and Dick Vitale and trained by Wesley Ward. Homeister’s third win came with Matai, a Orchard Park colt bred in Florida by owner Vesgo Racing Stable and conditioned to victory by Thomas Proctor.