World Approval will prep for Dubai Turf in Tampa Stakes
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – First a short trip, followed by a much longer one.
World Approval will trek across the Florida peninsula to Tampa Bay Downs to run in the Grade 3 Tampa Stakes on Feb. 10 ahead of an overseas trip to Dubai, trainer Mark Casse confirmed. World Approval, a 2017 Eclipse Award finalist for Horse of the Year and older turf male, will run in the $6 million Dubai Turf on March 31 at Meydan.
Bred and owned by the Live Oak Plantation of Charlotte Weber, the gray 6-year-old gelding won the Breeders’ Cup Mile in his most recent start to lift his career bankroll to $2,937,363.
After getting a couple months off at Live Oak in Ocala, Fla., World Approval was sent this week to the Palm Meadows training center in Boynton Beach, Fla., where Casse’s son and assistant, Norman, oversees many of the stable’s top horses. Other notable Palm Meadows arrivals for Casse this week included Holding Gold, Salty, La Coronel, and Dream Dancing.
The $175,000 Tampa Stakes, set for 1 1/16 miles on turf, joins a Kentucky Derby points race, the Sam F. Davis, among four stakes on Feb. 10, the first major date of the 2017-18 Tampa meet.
