For the second time this month, a carryover in the late pick five ushers in a new race week Wednesday at Tampa Bay Downs. No one hit it on Sunday, resulting in a healthy $61,755 carryover on a wager that requires bettors to select the winners of the last five races on the nine-race card. No one hit the late pick five on Dec. 31, resulting in a $26,569 carryover for Jan. 3. The pool that day was $287,129 and the payoff was $12,300.50 for a 50-cent wager. Dry conditions are expected Wednesday in Oldsmar, Fla. Here’s a look at the sequence, which includes three turf events and begins in race 5 (2:30 p.m. Eastern.) :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Race 5: Grounded, a winner of three straight, could be a vulnerable favorite breaking from post 10 and with other speed signed up for this starter allowance scheduled for a mile on turf. Indy Lyon, who won four races on the Tampa turf in 2021, flattened out to finish fourth to Grounded on Dec. 15 in his first start off a near four-month layoff. Ronstadt, a two-time winner at Tampa last winter, hasn’t been out since running next-to-last against tougher at Aqueduct in September. Journeyman hasn’t run at Tampa since Feb. 9, 2020, when he won a second-level allowance. His trainer, Michael Wright, sent out a 17-1 winner (Cannon’s Roar) earlier in the meet. Race 6:: Trainer Juan Arriagada is enjoying a solid meet (11 for 45) and is 2 for 3 with horses going from routes to sprints as Chess Not Checkers does in this $8,000 claimer. Chess Not Checkers takes a slight drop after getting beat a length for $10,000 last out. Murumbi drops from the $20,000 claiming level, second off a layoff for trainer Gerald Bennett. Musical Cat, an emphatic winner for $5,000 off a three-month layoff, takes a logical step up to the next level. Race 7: Timo has run his best numbers on turf, and this is the first time he’s run on that surface at this level. Trainer Wayne Potts is having a solid meet, with five wins from 36 starters. Though he finished second in an off-the-turf race at this maiden $25,000 claiming level on Dec. 30, King Miano showed improvement with front-running tactics that could be used from post 10 on Wednesday. Soupersilverdollar is perhaps the only other one to consider. Race 8: Miss Fabiana finished second as the lone first-timer at this level Dec. 22, a race that has produced two next-out winners. Cali Cruiser gets blinkers and takes slight class drop for Jamie Ness. Annamaria represents the first-ever Tampa starter for John Ortiz. She drops in class, goes turf-to-dirt, and gets Lasix for the first time. Race 9 : Take Me to Jimmy, trained by Chad Brown, came off a 13-month layoff to win a 1 1/8-mile maiden race on Nov. 16 at Aqueduct. While they have not all won, the second- through fifth-place finishers from that race have each come back to run their career-best Beyer Speed Figures in subsequent races. Though it took Junipero Serra nine tries to win his first race, trainer Mark Casse believes the 4-year-old gelding has a couple of things in his favor when he tries winners for the first time in this first-level allowance going 1 1/8 miles on turf. “He’s training better than ever and the distance won’t be a problem,” Casse said. “They can’t write them far enough for him.” Junipero Serra is by Noble Mission out of the Brazilian-bred mare Suti, who was a marathon runner in Brazil and who has thrown two winners here including Jungle Cat who won a one-mile maiden race on Dec. 30 at Turfway Park. “His pedigree is finally kicking in,” Casse said. “His last race was very impressive, I thought.” Ready to Fly and Hendrickson, separated by 1 1/4 lengths when third and seventh, respectively, at this condition going a mile Dec. 23, are other contenders in this field. Patriot Spirit eyes Sam Davis Patriot Spirit, winner of the Inaugural Stakes sprinting in December, will most likely make his two-turn debut in the Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes on Feb. 10, trainer Michael Campbell said Sunday. Campbell did mention the Grade 3, $250,000 Holy Bull Stakes on Feb. 3 as a possibility should that field be small. Patriot Spirit is a son of Constitution out of Mistical Plan, who though she won a Grade 1 sprint stakes also won the Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks at 1 1/16 miles. Patriot Spirit has made all four of his starts in one-turn races, finishing sixth in the Grade 3 Iroquois going a one-turn mile at Churchill. Campbell has been working Patriot Spirit at longer distances recently in attempt to get him used to going long. On Jan. 13, Patriot Spirit worked a mile in 1:38.40. Two weeks earlier, he went six furlongs in 1:14.80. “I’ve been forced to put him in sprints all the time,” Campbell said. “One, I knew he’d be very live in those sprints, but the problem was when you do that you make them very speedy. They don’t practice discipline, they’re young and impressionable. By working him a mile, I’m hoping he’s much more manageable. I’ve been training him pretty hard, training him like a good horse ought to be trained. I’m looking forward to the two turns wherever that is.” Crazy Mason, whom Patriot Spirit defeated in the Inaugural, came back to win an allowance on Jan. 14 and also is pointing to the Sam Davis. Locked, the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity winner, is expected to make his 3-year-old debut in the Sam Davis, a race his trainer, Todd Pletcher, has won seven times. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.