Book’em Danno began his 3-year-old campaign looking like a bigger, stronger version of the very good 2-year-old he was last year. And while Book’em Danno was no faster on Beyer Speed Figures winning the Pasco Stakes on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs than he was last summer and fall, he won the seven-furlong Pasco by more than 12 lengths while racing wide and barely being asked. Book’em Danno was timed in 1:23.26, which yielded an 86 Beyer, the same figure the gelding got finishing a solid second in the one-mile Nashua Stakes on Nov. 5 at Aqueduct, his final start at age 2. The Nashua is Book’em Danno’s lone loss from five starts and came after wins at Monmouth Park in a maiden race and the Smoke Glacken Stakes, and a victory in the Futurity at Belmont Park. Book’em Danno got a 90 Beyer in the Smoke Glacken and an 84 in the Futurity. Speed figures that account for ground loss will rate the gelding’s Pasco higher, since Book’em Danno raced at least five paths off the rail the entire turn. Book’em Danno, from the second crop of the good turf sprinter Bucchero, is trained by Derek Ryan for Atlantic Six Racing, a group of six friends from northern New Jersey who never have owned a horse of this quality. Ryan on Monday said Book’em Danno had come out of the Pasco in good shape. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. “All we wanted was an easy race for him. He’s a very kind horse. He’ll do whatever you want,” Ryan said. Book’em Danno likely is bound for the $1.5 million Saudi Derby, a one-turn mile on Feb. 24. Ryan said he was flying to Saudi Arabia this week to get a clearer idea of what the long trip would entail. “He’s a gelding, and I don’t have any Derby dreams,” said Ryan, who saddled Musket Man to a third in the 2009 Derby. Locked to head Sam Davis The 3-year-old colt Tireless began his season with a hard-fought dirt route maiden win Sunday at Tampa Bay, but a far more prominent Todd Pletcher-trained 3-year-old, Locked, is headed to Tampa for his 2024 debut next month. Pletcher on Monday said Locked would start his season in the Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes on Feb. 10. Locked, a Gun Runner colt owned by Eclipse Thoroughbreds and Walmac Farm, scored a hard-fought October win in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland before capping his 2-year-old campaign Nov. 3 with a grinding third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. “We kind of like the timing of the Sam Davis for him,” said Pletcher. Locked worked back following the Breeders’ Cup on Dec. 12 at Pletcher’s Palm Beach Downs base in Florida and on Saturday had his fifth workout of the winter, going five furlongs in company with BC Juvenile winner Fierceness in 1:01.27. Pair of maidens seem tough The sixth and ninth races, a turf-sprint maiden and a dirt route maiden, respectively, are the meatiest fare on a nine-race Wednesday program at Tampa. The ninth, for older horses at one mile and 40 yards, could have Magistrate as the favorite despite the fact the gelding has yet to race on dirt. Magistrate, a 4-year-old Tapwrit gelding trained by Arnaud Delacour, debuted in a Laurel turf mile and ran well, finishing second behind Headline News, who came back to capture a first-level turf allowance Dec. 9 at Gulfstream. Magistrate, meanwhile, went to Turfway Park for two lesser performances in December, and while his dam, Eccentric Spinster, was a four-time winner over synthetic surfaces, Magistrate might not have cared for the Tapeta track at Turfway. In race 6, for 3-year-old fillies at five furlongs on grass, Destiny Star should be tough at a short price unless one of the four first-time starters among the 10 horses in the body of the field is a runner. Destiny Star was beaten more than 20 lengths last month in a Tampa dirt maiden but was a close fourth in her lone turf try, a restricted Saratoga maiden sprint. The race’s winner, Gala Brand, came back to win the With Anticipation Stakes, and the runner-up tallied in a rich Kentucky Downs contest. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.