(# 9) TAUPO - Returns from an October layoff for trainer Gerald Bennett. Good stalker should get a nice pace set up to rally into. Trainer is 19% with this length returnee. One of a pair from the trainer, and they will race uncoupled.

(# 3) Sweet Sadie Girl - The "other" Bennett runner, she has plenty of speed and might be able to clear these early. Great overall record (9-5-1-2), and she's training fast for this engagement.

(# 5) Seventeen Above - Very tough mare was claimed three back at Hawthorne by Jamie Ness and promptly won her next start. Had traffic troubles last out. Makes her Tampa debut today.

(# 7) Ashley and I - Goes for her third in a row and does so off a mid-October layoff. Mare is 11-for-37, and has raced well off of freshenings in the past.