Big Commerce will look to keep trainer Jose Francisco D’Angelo’s strong Tampa Bay Downs meet going Wednesday when he starts as part of an eight-horse field in a one-mile maiden special weight race on turf. On Feb. 14, Big Commerce finished fourth, five lengths behind the Chad Brown-trained debut winner Going Concern, who was a neck better than the Tim Hamm-trained debut runner-up Legitimize. Though the turf was labeled firm for that race, D’Angelo felt it still had some give in it from rains that fell in the period leading up to that card. “The turf was a little soft before. He didn’t handle it good. Hopefully we’re going to have normal turf on Wednesday,” D’Angelo said. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. This race is a turnback to a mile from 1 1/16 miles and D’Angelo is hoping that will be better for his gelded son of Justify. D’Angelo is second in the trainer standings with 28 wins from 98 starters. Antonio Gallardo, second in the jockey standings with 60 wins, rides Big Commerce on Wednesday. The team of Gallardo and D’Angelo are 10 for 23 at the meet. Magistrate finished 2 3/4 lengths in front of Big Commerce in that Feb. 14 race. That was a return to turf after one dirt and two synthetic starts for the son of Tapwrit. Last October, Magistrate debuted on turf, where he finished second to the next-out winner Headline News. Au Paradis, fifth in that same Feb. 14 race, did break outward from his outside draw, hitting the side of the gate, and appeared to be trying to get out around the first turn and raced wide throughout. Trainer Shug McGaughey is adding blinkers to Au Paradis, though over the last 18 months, McGaughey is just 2 for 22 with a $0.75 return-on-investment when equipping a horse with blinkers for the first time. Typhoon Lagoon will try something new in his quest to win his first race. Typhoon Lagoon, out of the Grade 1-winning turf mare My Typhoon, has gone winless in his first seven tries, five of those efforts at 1 3/8 miles or farther. He did finish third, beaten just 1 1/2 lengths, when he ran 1 1/16 miles at Tampa in January 2023. Trainer Mark Casse said he is running here because this is option in the book. “I’d prefer to run him farther,” Casse said. Sugar Boy makes U.S. debut The stakes portion of the Tampa Bay schedule concludes Sunday with six stakes restricted to Florida-breds, each worth $110,000. While fields will be drawn for those races on Wednesday, one interesting prospect expected to start is Sugar Boy in the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore, a seven-furlong dirt race for 3-year-olds. Sugar Boy, a son of Khozan, went 4 for 4 at Camarero Race Track in Puerto Rico, winning those races including a pair of graded stakes, by a combined 23 1/4 lengths. He has since been transferred to D’Angelo, who has worked him six times at Palm Meadows leading to his United Stakes debut. “He’s going to be very tough in the race. I really like him. He’s a runner,” D’Angelo said. D’Angelo said he hasn’t pushed Sugar Boy too much in the morning but he did have Jose Ortiz work him one day. “Jose was asking me about the horse, I said, ‘The horse is really good, you’re going to see’,” D’Angelo said. “He worked him and said, ‘You’re right, Jose, the horse has talent’.” Ortiz has other commitments Sunday, so Samy Camacho is booked to ride, D’Angelo said. Everdoit wheels back and wins Everdoit, who finished eighth in the Tampa Bay Derby on March 9, came back Sunday to win a first-level allowance race by two lengths. Trainer Kevin Rice said the horse emerged from the Tampa Bay Derby like he hadn’t even run so he thought the horse could come back on short rest against easier company and perform. “He hasn’t gotten to run his full race in his last three starts,” said Rice, noting that one of those races was the Sam F. Davis, where Everdoit unseated his rider soon after the start. “He’s always been a nice horse. He keeps getting better. We finally got to see something from him [Sunday]. He sat off horses and he dug in.” Everdoit, a Florida-bred son of Gary D, ran a mile and 40 yards in 1:40.99 and earned a 74 Beyer Speed Figure. Rice said he may look for another allowance race for Everdoit, or potentially a stakes such as the Lexington at Keeneland on April 13. Laurel Park hosts the $125,000 Federico Tesio Stakes on April 20. The Tesio offers a fees-paid berth into the Preakness on May 18. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.