With four wins from his first 20 starters, Juan Arriagada is in a three-way tie atop the trainer standings at the fledgling Tampa Bay Downs meet. He’s not entirely happy. Arriagada explained that he had an even-money favorite get scratched in the gate and had another horse break poorly, compromising its chances to win. “I’m doing good, but I’m not too happy about it. I want to do better,” Arriagada said Monday. “I don’t want to sound greedy, but for me and my business I want to every day do better. I feel I have too many starts, and four wins is not enough for me. I hope my luck changes a little bit.” :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. Arriagada has four horses entered on Wednesday’s card at Tampa and many, if not all, go in with a big chance. In race 6, the day’s feature, a first-level allowance at seven furlongs, Arriagada sends out Osprey. In his most recent start, on the Nov. 20 opening-day program in this same condition at six furlongs, Osprey finished second, beaten a head. The horse got squeezed some at the start and jockey Jose Batista lost his irons and it took a few strides for him to recover. Osprey was 7 1/2 lengths off the pace, rallied wide, and just missed. “If he shows up the way he did last time he should be pretty tough in the race,” Arriagada said. Osprey, who is 2 for 3 at seven furlongs, faces two familiar rivals in Life Is Precious and Everdoit, who finished third and fourth in that same Nov. 20 race. Ejtimaa, coming off a second-place finish for $25,000 claiming on Nov. 29, won his previous two starts at Tampa during last year’s meet, including his lone try at seven furlongs. In race 7, a $6,250 claiming race, Arriagada runs Silver Style. Arriagada won with this horse twice at last year’s meet before losing the horse for $17,500 at Delaware in July. Recently, he reacquired the horse in a private purchase after the horse ran fourth for $10,000 at Penn National in October. “He has his issues, but I think he looks good in the race,” said Arriagada, who does have the meet’s leading jockey, Samy Camacho, to ride. In race 8, an $8,000 claimer for horses who have not won three races, Arriagada sends out Estilio Magico, a horse who won twice at Tampa’s 2023-24 meet. Estilio Magico got beat a nose here on Nov. 23 going a mile and 40 yards and now cuts back to six furlongs. Estilio Magico has recorded both of his career wins at six furlongs at Tampa. “He likes this racetrack, he can run short or long at Tampa,” Arriagada said. “The reason I’m running him short is I have another horse to run next week in the long race.” Arriagada’s first runner on Wednesday’s card comes in the fourth race with One Tough Dame, who drops in for $5,000 in her second start off being claimed for that much on July 20 at Delaware. One Tough Dame hasn’t run since August. On Nov. 27, One Tough Dame was entered for $6,250 but was scratched when she came up sick. Arriagada won that race anyway, with Murumbi. “She looks pretty good in the race and I have Camacho,” Arriagada said. “When you have Camacho on your horse you’re doing the right thing.” Lynch eyes Tampa return Trainer Brian Lynch swept the first two stakes of the meet last Saturday when Donut God won the Inaugural and Mrs. Worldwide captured the Sandpiper, sprint stakes for 2-year-olds and 2-year-old fillies, respectively. Donut God, by Into Mischief, improved his record to 2 for 2 and will be considered for a return trip to Tampa for the Pasco Stakes on Jan. 11. Lynch said that either Donut God or Owen Almighty, the Ellis Park Juvenile winner and Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes runner-up, would run in the Pasco with the other one likely for the Swale on Feb. 1 at Gulfstream Park. In the Inaugural, Donut God won by three-quarters of a length and ran six furlongs in 1:09.13, which resulted in an 82 Beyer Speed Figure. “It was a good, solid effort like we were hoping for,” Lynch said. “Looked like he did it comfortably enough. Excited about him.” Lynch said that Owen Almighty had a gastrointestinal issue that forced him to miss the fall stakes races in Kentucky, but he has worked twice at Palm Meadows and should have time to be ready by Jan. 11. “He was never really out of training. We had a gastro thing going on. We just had to calm that belly down,” Lynch said. Lynch said Donut God or Owen Almighty also could be considered for races like the Sam F. Davis and/or Tampa Bay Derby later in the meet. In the Sandpiper, Mrs Worldwide won her second straight stakes, this time by a half-length. She covered six furlongs in 1:10.07, earning a 68 Beyer. Mrs Worldwide will be considered for the Gasparilla Stakes on Jan. 11 at Tampa. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.