PROCTOR STREET KEEPS THE DREAM ALIVE IN THE HILLSBOROUGH At TAMPA

PROCTOR STREET KEEPS THE DREAM ALIVE IN THE HILLSBOROUGH

By Lynne Snierson
March 6, 2026

OLDMARS, FL—Like mother, like daughter? Patricia Moseley certainly hopes so when it comes to her fifth-generation homebred Proctor Street.
Proctor Street, a 5-year-old daughter of champion Street Sense and Proctor’s Ledge by Hall of Famer Ghostzapper, contests the Grade 2, $225,000 Hillsborough Stakes for older fillies and mares traveling 1 1/8 miles on the Tampa Bay Downs turf on Saturday as part of Festival 46 Day. The Hillsborough is one of five stakes races on the card highlighted by the Grade 3, $400,000 ESMARK Tampa Bay Derby.
For Moseley, the Hillsborough will be a family affair.
Proctor’s Lodge was the runner-up by a head to Fourstar Crook in the 2018 edition of the race for trainer Brendan Walsh. When Proctor Street lines up in the starting gate against seven others for Walsh on Saturday, Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez will be in the irons for the first time. Velazquez has history here as well, as he was the regular rider for the multiple graded stakes-winning Proctor’s Lodge in the latter years of her career, and he was aboard when she captured the Grade 2 Longines Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile in 2018 for her final stakes score.
“This filly (Proctor Street) is very special to me. She’s extra special,” Moseley said by phone from her home in Hamilton, Massachusetts. “She is the last one in this line. Last year, and the year before, I lost both her mother, who was in foal to Medaglia d’Oro, and her aunt, Choate Bridge, who was her mother’s sister. It was very sad. I lost them both in a very short amount of time so the family was also decimated. I’ve had this family for generations, going all the way back to Drumtop.”
Drumtop was the first racehorse bought by Moseley and her late husband Jim Moseley, who is enshrined in the New England Turf Writers Hall of Fame in the contributors category and is the former chairman of the now-shuttered Suffolk Downs. Drumtop, a daughter of Hall of Famer Round Table, won 10 stakes in 1969-71 and set three course records while beating the boys in many of her races.
While Proctor Street, the winner of the Cardinal Stakes at Churchill Downs November 27, has yet to capture a graded stakes, Moseley sees similarities with her foundation mare.
“This filly is not unlike Drumtop. She’s small and she likes to make that big run that Drumtop used to make. Let’s hope she’ll run as well as Drumtop did,” said Moseley. “I totally believe in her and in this family. Hopefully, it will bloom again with Proctor Street. It will mean a lot for her to do well. But even if she doesn’t do well, she still means a great deal to me.”
The Kentucky-bred Proctor Street, who was installed as the third choice at 9-2 in the morning line, faces formidable competition in the Hillsborough. The race will be a rematch with Whiskey Decision, Destino d’Oro, and And One More Time, who all last faced off at 1 1/8 miles in the Grade 2 Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf Invitational at Gulfstream Park January 24. Proctor Street faded in the stretch and finished eighth that day.
“Brendan felt that being on the rail was a hard place to be that day,” said Moseley, who has been honored as the TOBA top breeder for the New England region and keeps her broodmares in Kentucky and New York now. “We’re hoping for a better outcome this time. She’s got a lot of responsibility on her shoulders to carry things on.”
Destino d’Oro, the winner of the Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf by one-half length under returning rider Junior Alvarado, is going for her third consecutive stakes win and second straight Grade 2 victory for trainer Brad Cox. Whiskey Decision, who is trained by Chad Brown and will be ridden by Flavien Prat, finished fourth in that race, which was her first effort coming back from a four month break. Mark Casse sends out Grade 1 winner And One More Time, who ran seventh that day and Javier Castellano is back aboard.
Dreaming of Abba (Antonio Gallardo) , Aunt Mo (Israel Rodriguez), Child of the Moon (Irad Ortiz, Jr.), and Scythian (Joel Rosario) round out the field for the Hillsborough.

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Walsh will also be represented in the 1 1/16 miles Tampa Bay Derby, which is an important prep for the Kentucky Derby as it offers qualifying points (50-25-15-10), by Thunder Buck.
The son of Gun Runner out of the Oxbow mare Oxy Lady is a Calumet Farm homebred making his first start for Walsh. He ran 10th on January 17 in the Grade 3 LeCombe at the Fair Grounds for previous trainer Brad Cox after graduating from the maiden ranks in New Orleans at second asking on December 20.
Thunder Buck was supplemented to the field of nine for $5,000.
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The other stakes on Saturday’s card are the Grade 3, $200,000 Florida Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the grass; the Grade 3, $125,000 Michelob Ultra Challenger Stakes for horses 4-and-upward at a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the main track; and the $125,000 Columbia Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on the turf.
Post time for Festival 46 Day is 12:15 pm and probable post for the Tampa Bay Derby is 5:35 pm. The entire card may be viewed on FanDuel TV and Fox Sports2 as part of “America’s Day at the Races” from 2pm to 7 pm.
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