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Suff
01-09-2005, 08:02 PM
Nothing against Lynn... Who does know how to handle stock. But the trainer thats winning is Ray Stifano. Her Husband. I think he's barred from Training in Florida.. and A few other states as well. So she dropped the Stifano and got licensed under her Maiden name... I believe Ray is calling the shots down there.


http://racing.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=26132



Trainer Lynne Scace made three trips to the Tampa Bay Downs winners' circle on Sunday.

Scace, last year's training leader at Tampa, now has seven wins at the meet and is tied for first in the trainer standings with Anthony Pecoraro.

Scace joined an exclusive club. Only six other Tampa trainers have scored a hat trick on a single card: Greg Griffith (March 31, 2003); Richard Ciardullo, Jr. (Jan. 14, 2003); Duane Knipe (April 24, 2001); William Mitchell (April 10, 2001); Sam Cronk (Dec. 28, 1997) and Don Rice (Feb. 13, 1997).

Kathleen O'Connell is the only Tampa trainer to score four wins on a card, which she accomplished Feb. 23, 2003.

Scace's wins came in the first race (M.Y. Bridlewood, jockey Alfredo Clemente, $10.60 mutuel); second (Bella and Whistles, Winston Thompson, $13.80) and sixth (Skipping Wild, Clemente, $9.80).

Jockey Terry Houghton, who has been on a torrid streak since late December notching 16 wins in 12 racing days, also won three races on Sunday. He is second in the rider standings with 22 wins for the meet, only one behind leader Jesus Castanon, who was blanked Sunday. The pair has resumed their duel from last year when Castanon won the riding honors with 87 wins. Houghton, the two-time riding leader at Tampa, finished second with 82.

toetoe
01-09-2005, 08:46 PM
Is his name really STIF-ano? I love it.

Suff
01-09-2005, 08:59 PM
Is his name really STIF-ano? I love it.

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If history is any guideline, Scace will be getting her picture taken in the track’s new winner’s circle many more times this season: she’s averaged 24 wins over the last three Tampa meetings, good enough to rank first (2003-04 meet), fourth (2002-03), and second (2001-02) in the track’s highly competitive trainer standings. During that run, Scace clicked at impressive win rate of 16.8%; 18%; and 15.9%, respectively.
Sunday’s wins came in the seventh, a six-furlong claiming test, with Skip’s Singer, Winston Thompson up, followed by Atlantic Frost in the featured eighth, a 1 1/16-mile allowance test on the turf course, Alfredo Clemente in the irons. Scace’s other win was with her three-year-old first time starter, North Image, also with Clemente as the pilot. Scace also owns North Image and Skip’s Singer, another good start in those standings for the 54-year-old Pittsfield, Mass., native who was also last year’s leading owner.
This meet’s first three wins are a snapshot of Scace’s stable; a mix of young horses and proven veterans, ranging from bottom-claiming types to allowance runners, many of them her own Florida-breds which she raises at her Double-S-Farm in Ocala. Scace purchased the farm in 1996 with partner, trainer Ray Stifano and the team splits time between Tampa and Indiana, where Stifano has been a leading trainer at Hoosier Downs in Anderson