Kathleen O’Connell won five races on Sunday’s nine-race card at Tampa Bay Downs, not only a personal best, but believed to be a one-day record by a trainer at the Oldsmar, Fla., track, which this year is celebrating its 100th anniversary.  Jockey Samuel Marin also rode five winners on Sunday’s card, three of them for O’Connell. Marin now has 134 wins at the meet and is chasing Antonio Gallardo’s single-meet record of 147 set at the 2014-15 stand. There are two weeks, or eight racing days, remaining in Tampa’s meet, which ends May 3.  O’Connell won four races at Tampa on Feb. 23, 2003 and did it again on Jan. 2 of this year. Gerald Bennet (three times), Jamie Ness (twice) and Chad Brown also have won four races on a single Tampa card, according to Tampa publicity records.  O’Connell, who ran eight horses in five races Sunday, won the first two races on the card with Surprise Package ($15) in the opener and The Beaster Bunny ($11) in race 2, a race in which she also sent out the last-place finisher Princess Fortress.  :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. In race 5, O’Connell sent out the first- and third-place finishers in Princess Britni ($3.40) and True Spun. O’Connell came back to win race 6 with Wicked Legacy ($5.80) before capping her day by sending out Fast Town ($4) to win race 8, an allowance/optional claiming race, by 6 3/4 lengths, while earning a 90 Beyer Speed Figure. O’Connell also finished third in that race with King Gerald.  “It’s been a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful day,” O’Connell said. “It looked like I had a lot of good shots, but I thought I had a lot of good shots Friday and we only won one race. I shouldn’t say we only won one race because winning one race on a day is great.”  Fast Town was making his first start for O’Connell. He is owned by Woodford Thoroughbreds, the racing operation of John Sykes.  “I trained for Mr. Sykes a few years back, he’s got horses with quite a few people,” O’Connell said. “He lives in Tampa, he decided to keep a few here and I was lucky get a call back. [Fast Town] is a wonderful horse to be around. He’s got issues, that’s why he’s been lightly-raced, but everything’s there.”  Following the Tampa meet, O’Connell is planning to base at Monmouth Park.    Given how the first month of the meet went for O’Connell, it’s hard to believe she’s in contention to win a third straight trainer’s title at Tampa. O’Connell started the meet 0 for 28 and couldn’t participate for almost three weeks due to a quarantine of her barn due to a case of equine herpesvirus.  “It was horrible, I’d never been through anything that before and I hope I never have to go through anything like that again,” O’Connell said.  O’Connell, who has won the last two trainer titles, has won 13 races from 35 starters since April 1 to move within six of meet leader Juan Avila. O’Connell said her chances of winning the title would depend on which races fill over the last two weeks of the meet. She has just one horse entered on Wednesday.  “We focus on running where we belong and doing the right thing for the horses,” O’Connell said. “It would be wonderful to come from behind, so to speak. I’m happy with the horses, and happy with the owners and happy with the help and that’s all I can hope for.”  :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.