The stakes portion of the Tampa Bay Downs meet comes to a close Sunday with the 21st annual Florida Cup Day program, a card highlighted by six stakes for registered Florida-breds each worth $110,000. The forecast for Sunday calls for dry and sunny conditions, but it did rain Thursday and there was some rain in the forecast Saturday, so it remains to be seen how it may impact the three turf stakes scheduled on the card. The stakes are run consecutively starting in race 6. Here’s a look at the sequence: Sophomore Fillies Mystic Lake won the Gasparilla Stakes at Tampa two starts back before finishing fifth in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride Stakes on turf at Gulfstream Park. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said he wasn’t initially planning to run Mystic Lake in this spot, but did so when told the seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies was coming up light numbers-wise. The race drew a field of six and goes as the sixth race on a 12-race card. “We didn’t intend on running, but it looks like a good chance to win another stakes with her,” Joseph said. Joseph said he was heartened to see some of the longshots who finished behind Mystic Lake in the Gasparilla come back to run improved figures in subsequent starts. The horse to fear is Hopesndreams, who has reeled off three consecutive wins at this meet for trainer Mike Dini. Miss Sayely won a first-level allowance against Florida-breds on Dec. 29 at Gulfstream before finishing third against open company last out. Sophomore Turf Crystal Quest and Ninja Star look like the protagonists if the race for 3-year-olds stays on turf at 1 1/16 miles. Crystal Quest, after a disappointing debut, has won two straight including a maiden race at Gulfstream on turf and a first-level allowance over Gulfstream’s synthetic on March 9. Both races came with blinkers and Lasix added. He cannot run with Lasix on Sunday. Trainer Michael Trombetta said in his debut Crystal Quest “walked out of the gate and was completely lost. I didn’t expect much from him first out but I did expect him to run better than he did. I regrouped, put some real good, stout works into him, and he’s since put it all together.” :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. In his last two turf starts, Ninja Star had finished behind Full Nelson, who came back to win the Columbia Stakes on March 9. Ninja Star is trained by Kevin Rice, who also has Everdoit entered as a main-track-only entrant in this field. Everdoit, who has run each of the past two weekends, also is entered in the Sophomore Stakes on dirt at seven furlongs. And Uwish, coming off a win and a second in two synthetic sprints at Gulfstream, will attempt to stretch out on turf in this spot for trainer Joe Orseno. NYRABets Sprint After coming within a neck of Sibelius in the Pelican Stakes, Mish should find restricted company even more to his liking in this six-furlong race that drew a field of seven and goes as race 8. Mish has won two of his last four starts, his two losses coming by a head and a neck, the latter to Sibelius who is headed to Dubai for next weekend’s Golden Shaheen. “He went a little off-form last year for a period, we put him back in the starter ranks, and he got some confidence back,” Joseph said of Mish. “That was a big performance the other day behind Sibelius. It looked like he had a chance to win, but Sibelius was too good for him.” Mish is drawn nicely on the outside and will be ridden by Samy Camacho. Dean Delivers won the Grade 3 Smile Sprint at Gulfstream and was third in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt last summer at Saratoga. Most recently, he finished fifth in the Gulfstream Park Sprint. Turf Classic Otago won the Sophomore Turf at 12-1 last year and then finished 12th of 13 in the Grade 2 American Turf in May at Churchill Downs. He came out of that race with a chip that needed to be removed and is now ready to return for trainer Kelsey Danner in the ninth race. “He’s fit, he’s been doing well. He’s had several long breezes, he’s coming in pretty tight, and I think he’ll like the mile and an eighth,” Danner said. Forever Souper has three wins and a nose loss in his last four turf starts. Most recently, he won the Sunshine Turf on Jan. 21 at Gulfstream. “This horse has always done very well for us, the only bad race he ran was at Keeneland when they took it off the turf. We thought we’d try it anyway, and he didn’t want anything to do with that,” Trombetta said. Me and Mr. C finished second as the favorite in this race last year. OBS Sophomore If the Sophomore Turf stays on the grass, Everdoit will run in this seven-furlong dirt race, which goes as race 10. Two weeks ago, Everdoit finished eighth in the Tampa Bay Derby. Last Sunday, he won a first-level allowance at Tampa. Trainer Kevin Rice said the horse “bounced out of the last race like it was a good workout. I like what the race looks like and I’m just going by the horse.” Rice did say he would prefer to run the horse around two turns, but sees enough speed in this field to perhaps have this one set up well for him. Sugar Boy brings a perfect record from Puerto Rico to this race. Trainer Jose D’Angelo has been impressed with the way horse has trained since coming to him at the end of last year. Squints, trained by Kelly Breen, comes off a solid victory in the Juvenile Sprint last November at Gulfstream. Pure Class won a first-level allowance for Florida-breds on Jan. 26 for trainer David Fawkes. Distaff Turf Sweet Dani Girl, trained by Christophe Clement, has won her last three starts against Florida-bred competition including a four-length victory in this race last year and the last two runnings of the Sunshine Filly and Mare Turf, held at Gulfstream. She also has two wins from four starts at the 1 1/16-mile distance of this race, which goes as race 11. Last summer, she was good enough to run second to Didia in the Grade 3 Modesty at Churchill Downs. Danner will send out Mohawk Trail, a Grade 3 winner at Woodbine last summer. Mohawk Trail is coming out of a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Honey Fox at Gulfstream where she was last of 11 early on and was only beaten 2 1/4 lengths at the wire. “I thought she ran big, kind of wasn’t expecting her to get shuffled all the way back to last, but she made a really good run,” Danner said. “She came out of that race in really good shape, so I think she’s good to go.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? 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