Though she hasn’t won going long yet, World Traveler has run her two best speed figures since trainer Gregg Sacco stretched her out in distance last fall at Tampa Bay Downs. Wednesday, World Traveler will try and break through the second-level allowance condition when she makes her third start around two turns in Tampa’s co-featured allowance/optional-claiming scheduled for one mile on turf. A daughter of Liam’s Map out of the sprinting mare Zia Zia Zia, World Traveler won two of nine starts sprinting, one on turf, one dirt. When Sacco got World Traveler to Tampa last fall, he tried her a mile and she was beaten just a nose by Toolcat. Three weeks later, World Traveler finished second in this same condition going 1 1/16 miles and was beaten two lengths by Paper Mansion, who was winning her fourth consecutive race. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. “She made a couple of runs at that filly that won and we just couldn’t get by her,” Sacco said. “But I’m happy with her. She’s coming into the race really well; the spacing is nice. There is some speed in there, we don’t need the lead. I think we’re going go to be in a comfortable spot probably sitting second or third making a first run at the speed.” The favorite in the race will likely be Tracy Flick, a 6-year-old mare making just her seventh career start. Off for two years, Tracy Flick, trained by Shug McGaughey, won a maiden race by a neck on at Monmouth last August. After getting beat first time against winners, she overcome some traffic trouble and a bobble at the top of the lane to win a first-level allowance at Laurel Park on Nov. 19. McGaughey is 5 or 11 at the Tampa meet. Vincent Cheminaud, who is 2 for 5 for McGaughey at the meet, has the call. Change of Command to Davis Change of Command, who won two races in a three-week span at Gulfstream Park, will make his next start in the Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis on Feb. 10, trainer Shug McGaughey said. Though Change of Command’s two wins came at Gulfstream, McGaughey didn’t want the colt to make his stakes debut against 2-year-old champion Fierceness in the Holy Bull. “If Fierceness didn’t run [in the Holly Bull] I’d be in there, but I don’t see any reason to look at him right now,” McGaughey said. Though Jose Ortiz had ridden Change of Command to a pair of victories, he is committed to ride Locked, the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity winner, in the Sam Davis. McGaughey said Tyler Gaffalione will ride Change of Command. Locked is one of two horses trainer Todd Pletcher is expected to start in the Sam Davis. Tireless, a maiden winner at Tampa on Jan. 14, is the other. Locally based horses Crazy Mason and Patriot Spirit are among those expected for the race which offers 42 qualifying points (20 to the winner) toward the May 4 Kentucky Derby. Brown has trio for turf stakes Trainer Chad Brown plans to have starters in both of Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 stakes scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf. In the Tampa Bay Stakes, for males, Brown plans to send out Running Bee. In the Endeavour, for fillies and mares, Brown plans to enter Consumer Spending and Implicated. Running Bee came off a year layoff to win an allowance race at Aqueduct in November. That performance made him off the 6-5 favorite in the Grade 2 Ft. Lauderdale at Gulfstream, where he finished eighth. “He didn’t handle Gulfstream for some reason,” Brown said. “His numbers fit, I know they bet him. Maybe he bounced, too. I want to try him on a different turf course because that is not how he trained.” Consumer Spending, a five-time stakes winner, was being pointed to the Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf, but was forced to miss the race due to a quarter crack, Brown said. “In hindsight, it wasn’t a bad thing because the pace was so painfully slow that it would have been a third closer in there that would have got nothing,” Brown said. In the Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf, Fluffy Socks finished fourth and Chili Flag was sixth. Implicated won the Grade 3 Pebbles at Aqueduct in November before finishing sixth, beaten two lengths by Be My Sunshine, in the Tropical Park Oaks on Dec. 23. – additional reporting by Mike Welsch :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.