Tampa Bay Downs has 3 large carryover pools for Friday card

A string of long-shot winners, including back-to-back first-time starters in the seventh (Hoku, $39.20) and eighth (Froshado, $35) races, combined to create large carryover pools into Friday’s nine-race card at Tampa Bay Downs.

The carryover for the 50-cent Pick 5, which will begin with the fifth race, is $84,143, with no bettors correctly selecting all five winners of the fifth through ninth races.

A carryover of $30,265 will greet 20-cent Ultimate 6 players Friday who tackle the challenge of picking races 4 through 9. There is also a carryover of $22,511 and change into the first Super High-5 race, requiring bettors to pick the first five finishers of the race in order.

The track’s next stakes day is Jan. 14, Skyway Festival Day, with three stakes on the card: the $125,000 Pasco Stakes for 3-year-olds: the $125,000 Gasparilla Stakes for 3-year-old fillies and the $50,000 Wayward Lass Stakes for fillies and mares 4 years old and up.

The Pasco Stakes is a prep race for the Sam F. Davis Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds, and the Gasparilla is a prep for the Suncoast Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, both on Feb. 11. The Sam F. Davis and the Suncoast award qualifying points on the roads to the Kentucky Derby the Kentucky Oaks (G1), respectively.