The Sam F. Davis Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid February at Tampa Bay Downs racetrack in Tampa, Florida. It is open to three-year olds and is used as a prep race for the Tampa Bay Derby. In recent years it has begun being used as an early prep for the Kentucky Derby. Four winners of the race have gone on to win the Tampa Bay Derby: Phantom Jet (1987), Speedy Cure (1991), Marco Bay (1993) and Thundering Storm (1996).

The ungraded stakes race race is run at a distance of 1 1/16th miles (8.5 furlongs) on dirt and currently offers a purse of $200,000.

The race was run in two divisions in 1984

Records

Speed record:

• 1:44.13 - Fierce Wind (2008)

Largest Winning Margin:

• 6 ¾ lengths - San Gennaro (1999)

Winners of the Sam F. Davis Stakes since 1991

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2008	Fierce Wind	Cornelio Velasquez	Nick Zito	Four Roses Thoroughbreds	1:44.13
2007	Any Given Saturday	Garrett Gomez	Todd A. Pletcher	Winstar & Padua	1:44.27
2006	Bluegrass Cat	John R. Velazquez	Todd A. Pletcher	WinStar Farm	1:44.17
2005	Andromeda's Hero	Rafael Bejarano	Nick Zito	Robert V. LaPenta	1:46.63
2004	Kaufy Mate	Ramsey Zimmerman	Kirk Ziadie	Gregory Kaufman	1:44.60
2003	White Buck	Roger Velez	Jerry Paradise	Olga Paradise	1:45.47
2002	Bunk N Ted	Derek Bell	Kenny Wirth	Real Deal Racing	1:49.86
2001	Burning Roma	Juan Umana	Heather A. Giglio	Harold L. Queen	1:45.20
2000	Go Lib Go	Robert C. Landry	Kenneth McPeek	Raymond Cottrell	1:44.84
1999	San Gennaro	Pedro Rodriguez	Richard J. Ciardullo, Jr.	Richard J. Ciardullo, Sr.	1:45.54
1998	Dabney Carr	Kevin Whitley	E. Zemp-Everard	My Jolee Stable/Everard	1:46.20
1997	Wilt the Tilt	Luis Gonzalez	Cyndi Smith	Michael Smith	1:46.00
1996	Thundering Storm	Jorge Guerra	Don R. Rice	Deborrah Artz	1:47.60
1995	Akiba	Santos Chavez	Hubert Hine	Scott Savin	1:47.40
1994	Parental Pressure	Jack M. Lauzon	Fred H. Loschke	Hammer Kopf Farm et al	1:47.40
1993	Marco Bay	Ronnie Allen, Jr.	Sarah A. Lundy	Jay Shaw	1:45.60
1992	Randy	Herson Sanchez	Angel Rosado	Martin Haft	1:46.40
1991	Speedy Cure	Ricardo Lopez	Harvey Culp	Susan Fisher	1:47.80

Earlier winners

References

• Sam F. Davis Stakes at Peduigree Query