The first two graded stakes of the 2022-23 Tampa Bay Downs meet are good ones. The Grade 3 Endeavour and Grade 3 Tampa Bay will anchor a 10-race Saturday program at the Oldsmar, Fla., track, with each of them having drawn large and competitive fields. Both 1 1/16-mile turf races carry base purses of $150,000, with an additional $25,000 in Florida-bred bonuses available in each spot. They’ll be run out of the infield turf chute an hour apart on a card that starts at 12:32 p.m. Eastern, with the 24th Endeavour for fillies and mares going as race 7 (3:55) and its male counterpart, the 37th Tampa Bay, as race 9 (4:55). Sunshine and a high of 73 degrees are in the Saturday forecast following a 70 percent chance of Friday rain. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match and FREE Formulator PPs! Join DRF Bets. The following Saturday at Tampa brings the Festival Preview Day card featuring the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis and Suncoast for 3-year-olds. Endeavour Chad Brown will send over Marketsegmentation from his Payson Park base near the Atlantic Coast, looking to extend the record for most wins by a trainer in the Endeavour. Brown has won the last two runnings and a record four of the last 11. Marketsegmentation, a 4-year-old filly owned by the Klaravich Stable, has won 2 of 3 starts, the latest a 3 1/4-length jaunt in a first-level turf allowance Dec. 31 at Gulfstream Park. Samy Camacho, the leading jockey at a five-month-plus meet that began Nov. 23, gets the call from Brown. Marketsegmentation has earned Beyer Speed Figures of 91 and 90 in her last two starts. Her numbers compare favorably with the other likely favorites, those being Scotish Star and Oliviaofthedesert. Scotish Star (post 11, Javier Castellano) most recently faded to sixth as the favorite in the Grade 3 Suwannee River over the Gulfstream turf on Dec. 31. Trainer Todd Pletcher, himself a three-time winner of the Endeavour, said that effort from the 6-year-old mare “was a little disappointing. We’d actually considered the Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf” – run last Saturday at Gulfstream – “for her but felt like this was the better option. Hopefully, she’ll appreciate the move over to Tampa.” Scotish Star, a Group 1 winner in her native Argentina, also has registered 91 and 90 Beyers as career highs. Probably her best race came last summer at Saratoga, when she rallied for a clear-cut score in a Saratoga turf allowance. Oliviaofthedesert (post 4, Pablo Morales) ships over from Fair Grounds, where she was a last-gasp winner of the Blushing K. D. Stakes on Dec. 26. Owned by Susan Moulton, the wife of retired jockey Shane Sellers, Oliviaofthedesert was making her first start in the care of trainer Wayne Catalano while upping her overall record to 6 for 22. Other considerations in a field of 11 include Spirit And Glory, whose victory last summer in the Grade 3 Virginia Oaks made her a career 2 for 2 on Lasix; Surprisingly, a stretch-runner shipping over from Payson for Shug McGaughey; and Panama Red, an Irish-bred filly making her first North American start for the Lael Stables of Barbaro fame. Tampa Bay Pletcher and Castellano also will team together here with Emmanuel, a mercurial talent who has been regrouped since being virtually eased in the Grade 1 Saratoga Derby last August. He has had six timed works since mid-December at Pletcher’s winter base at Palm Beach Downs on the Atlantic Coast preceding his return to action. :: DRF Bets players have exclusive access to FREE DRF Past Performances - Classic or Formulator! Join today.  “He’s trained well and we’ve just been looking for the right spot to come back in,” Pletcher said. “It seemed like the timing was good for this.” Emmanuel was given every opportunity to make the Kentucky Derby but was found lacking, after which Pletcher retooled his thinking in looking to leverage the colt’s turf-slanted pedigree. Emmanuel is by the noted turf sire More Than Ready, out of a Hard Spun mare. In his turf debut, Emmanuel won the Grade 2 Pennine Ridge at Belmont Park with an 88 Beyer, with the Saratoga Derby dud being his lone subsequent start. Emmanuel was assigned post 6 in an oversubscribed lineup. In all, 14 are entered but only as many as 12 can start. Brown counters with Verbal (post 8, Hector Diaz Jr.), a first-time gelding also returning from a lengthy layoff. After winning his first two starts, including the Grade 3 Cecil B. DeMille at Del Mar in November 2021, Verbal was fifth of sixth as the favorite in his only interim race, the Grade 3 Transylvania last April at Keeneland. The Juddmonte Farms homebred shows 10 official works at Payson since late November. Other major players in an interesting cast include Mighty Heart, the 2020 Queen’s Plate winner who has amassed more than $1.1 million in career earnings, and Winfromwithin, whose last three Beyers were 95, 94, 95. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.