Starship Jubilee headlines Hillsborough Stakes

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Starship Jubilee, the standout 7-year-old mare with 16 wins from 34 starts, heads the lineup for the Grade 2, $200,000 Hillsborough, the richest of the four supporting events on Saturday’s Tampa Bay Derby card. Javier Castellano has the mount for the 1 1/16-mile turf race, also expected to get at least two starters from the Chad Brown barn.

The other secondary features are the Grade 3, $150,000 Florida Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on turf; the Grade 3, $100,000 Challenger, for older horses at a mile and a sixteenth; and the $75,000 Columbia for 3-year-olds on turf.

King for a Day, best known for upsetting Maximum Security last June for trainer Todd Pletcher, will be making his first start in nearly eight months when he faces War Story in the Challenger.

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◗ A $21,000 second-level allowance (race 7) serves as the highlight of a nine-race Friday card that starts at 12:42 p.m. Eastern. Current, winner of the Grade 3 Bourbon at Keeneland in October 2018 for Pletcher, will make his first start in six months as the likely favorite in the one-mile turf race.