With 11 wins from 42 starters, Carlos David finds himself tied for fourth in the trainer standings through the first five weeks of the Gulfstream Park Championship meet. He hopes to transfer some of that success across the state this week to Tampa Bay Downs. David, who is 0 for 5 with two seconds thus far at Tampa, will seek his first victory Wednesday with Win N Your In, one of six female sprinters entered in a third-level allowance/optional $100,000 claiming race that serves as the feature on a nine-race card. Win N Your In was a seven-length winner of the Sophomore Fillies Stakes, restricted to Florida-breds, run at Tampa last March. She is 0 for 5 since then but has faced tougher company such as last month when she was fourth in the Sugar Swirl Stakes at Gulfstream. Win N Your In chased a solid pace that day and gave way late, finishing 3 1/4 lengths behind Ms. Bucchero, a repeat winner. “I think she needs to knock this condition out of the way before we can keep trying her in stakes,” David said. “It gets more difficult now, you’re not just going against 3-year-olds.” :: Celebrating 100 Years of racing at Tampa Bay Downs! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. David said Win N Your In is better when she’s involved early in the race, something that wasn’t the case two starts back when she broke last in an overnight handicap on Gulfstream’s Tapeta track. “She missed a step out of the gate, it took her a while to get back her natural speed like when she won the Sophomore Stakes at Tampa,” David said. “She likes that track too, she likes to be forwardly placed.” Additional pace figures to be supplied by Poiema, a 7-year-old mare who was a sharp front-end winner of an optional $32,000 claiming race on Dec. 3. That was her first start off a near four-month layoff. Poiema does seem to be better when able to race on Lasix, anti-bleeding medication she was not permitted to race on when she finished last in the Sheer Dream Stakes at Gulfstream in August. Poiema has the services of the meet’s leading rider, Samuel Marin. Win N Your In meets the top four finishers who ran in this same condition Dec. 24, a race won by Factorbella, who rallied from off the pace under Sonny Leon to win by 1 1/4 lengths for trainer Tony Wilson. Factorbella won the Regret Stakes at Monmouth in July. Summer’s Comin was second over the pacesetting Immortallove, the latter who also could be part of the early pace under Scott Spieth. It’s Goodtobe Jose, fourth as the favorite in that Dec. 24 race, makes her second start off a layoff for trainer Kathleen DeMasi. Avila atop trainer standings Juan Avila has gotten off to a hot start at Tampa with 16 wins from 44 starters to leap toward the top of the standings. While Avila doesn’t have any runners on Wednesday, he looks poised to add to his totals on Friday with five runners. In Friday’s third, Avila sends out Win Winnie Win in a maiden $32,000 claiming race, a condition in which the 3-year-old Upstart colt finished second last month. In race 6, La Vecchia Signora faces winners in a $16,000 claiming race coming off a win for maiden $10,000 in her last start. In race 9, No Mo Cookies makes her first start for Avila in a $25,000 claiming race. Since the start of 2025, Avila is hitting at 50 percent with $3.43 return on investment with horses making their first start for him. ◗ Kathleen O’Connell, the leading trainer at the 2024-25 meet, won four races on last Friday’s card to snap a 0-for-28 start to the meet. O’Connell won a race on Sunday and is now 5 for 40 at the meet. Jon Arnett, who has averaged 22 wins at the last four Tampa meets at which he’s been stabled, is currently mired in an 0-for-40 start to the meet. He had three runners entered Wednesday, including Action Seeker, who steps up to the $10,000 claiming level in race 3 off a solid second-place finish for $6,250 last out. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.