As Omega Ms widened her lead with every stride in Sunday’s third race, jockey Jose Ferrer heard shouts of encouragement from his biggest fans above the muffled hoofbeats on the Tampa Bay Downs turf course.
Ferrer was recently ranked the club’s No. 18 prospect at Baseball America, No. 28 at FanGraphs and got the No. 20 spot from Keith Law of The Athletic coming into the year.