Derby Hopeful Nash Aims to Score in Gun Runner
Godolphin's homebred Nash leads Risk It, Track Phantom, and five other juveniles in the $100,000 Gun Runner Stakes Dec. 23 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
Godolphin's homebred Nash leads Risk It, Track Phantom, and five other juveniles in the $100,000 Gun Runner Stakes Dec. 23 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
Coming off convincing stakes victories, including one against open company, Touchuponastar did exactly as expected back in against fellow Louisiana-breds, dominating the Dec. 9 Louisiana Champions Day Classic at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
Jockey James Graham reached the 3,000 career-win milestone Dec. 3, piloting Big Chief Racing and Rocker O Ranch's Vortex to victory for trainer Keith Desormeaux in the second race at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
Many trainers and owners running horses in the eight Claiming Crown races Dec. 2 already won a critical competition before the starting gate even opens at the Fair Grounds: They got the horse at the claim box.
A total of 90 horses spread over eight races were entered for the 25th Claiming Crown, to be held for the first time since 2011 at New Orleans' Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Dec. 2.
St. Armands Key became the first winner of Hill 'n' Dale Farms' first-crop stallion Lost Treasure in scoring a front-running victory in a $52,000 maiden special weight race Nov. 25 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
On Louisiana Champions Day, Dec. 9, The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association will award four scholarships and Fair Grounds will award two scholarships, each valued at $1,000, to college students for a total of $6,000.
Miles Ahead, who hasn't won a race in 2023 despite finishing second or third in all of his starts, tries to get the "W" Nov. 23 in the Thanksgiving Classic Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
Brittlyn Stables' homebred Clearly a Test became the first black-type stakes winner for Louisiana stallion Clearly Now in capturing the $75,000 Donovan L. Ferguson Memorial Stakes at Fair Grounds on the track's opening day, Nov. 17.
The deadline to make a horse eligible for the Claiming Crown on Dec. 2 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots in New Orleans has been extended to Tuesday, Nov. 21.