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Owner(s):
Jim Tafel LLC
Trainer:
Greg Geier
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What the Nation is saying about Country Flavor...

Chances are, when the subject of Indiana racing is broached, you're most likely talking about the four wheeled races at the “Yard Of Bricks,” and not the ones contested by our equine athletes on the dirt and turf surfaces of Indiana Downs and Hoosier Park. Yes, my friends, there is more then corn, I...Read More
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  • ScottDick · Indiana Derby would be a great event to attend! Yes, I told Brian I was pretty sure we were in the same group! And writing about the same thing! I enjoyed your piece · 315 days ago ·
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  • RaTalk_Girl · I may just do that. I think last years Derby was amazing, of course I only watched on tv. But I have to say that the performance given by Lucky was so remarkable that I picked him to be the one to beat Z in the Classic that day. Lucky for me I changed my mind on the way to the betting window. LOL · 315 days ago ·
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Multiple stakes winner Workin for Hops, who races for Amy Bondon’s Estrorace LLC, heads a competitive group of nine, including defending champion Jim Tafel LLC’s Country Flavor, entered for Saturday’s Grade III Hanshin Cup.  The one-mile race over Polytrack is the first event on Arlington’s $4...Read More
The “Impazible” dream came true for Twin Creeks Racing Stable, trainer Todd Pletcher and his assistant Michael Dilger when Mission Impazible proved clearly best by a length and a half in Saturday’s Grade II $400,000 New Orleans Handicap.   A year ago Mission Impazible won the 2010 Louisiana Der...Read More
Virginia Tarra Trust’s Giant Oak, who captured Gulfstream’s Grade I Donn Handicap Feb. 5, has been installed as the slight 5-2 morning line choice for Saturday’s 85th renewal of the Grade II New Orleans Handicap – Fair Grounds’ season highlight for older horses run as part of the Louisiana Derby Da...Read More
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  • zatt · The Donn was HUGE ... if this horse has finally put it all together, the rest of the handicap division best beware. · 431 days ago ·
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  • trenchtownrock · I think is head finally is screwed on correctly..no Blame or Zenyatta....watch out. · 430 days ago ·
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Louie Roussel III and Ronnie Lamarque’s Recapturetheglory returned to the form he showed winning the Grade II Illinois Derby three years ago when he proved clearly best by a length and a quarter in Saturday’s $60,000 Louisiana Handicap.   After winning the sixth race of his career and increasi...Read More
Jim Tafel’s Country Flavor won Fair Grounds’ $60,000 Tenacious Handicap last month at 11-1 odds, last spring’s Grade III Hanshin Cup at Arlington Park at 21-1, and is the only horse in Saturday’s $60,000 Louisiana Handicap that has won a race over this track this season at Saturday’s distance.  ...Read More
Adele Dilschneider’s Apart, hero of the Grade II Super Derby at Louisiana Downs in September and the Grade III Ack Ack Handicap at Churchill in November, looms a strong 8-5 choice in the morning line for Saturday’s $60,000 Louisiana Handicap, first leg of Fair Grounds three-race series for older ho...Read More
Trainer Greg Geier was all smiles Sunday morning on the backstretch at Fair Grounds, and with good reason after the way Jim Tafel’s Country Flavor closed strongly to win Saturday’s $60,000 Tenacious Handicap by a neck.   “The horse was sick when we got here from Chicago,” said Geier, “but he’s...Read More
Richard, Bertram and Elaine Klein’s Due Date had one of his best days on Santa Super Saturday at Fair Grounds when he won the $60,000 Bonapaw Stakes, but the Klein family and trainer Steve Margolis had an even better one when entrymate Early Return bested Gold Mark Farm’s Backtalk by a neck for the ...Read More
With his half-length victory in the Grade III $120,000 Washington Park Handicap Saturday at Arlington Park, Feel The Thunder Stable’s Gran Estreno earned an automatic starting berth in the Grade I $5,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Classic to be held Saturday, Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs.    Ridden b...Read More
Feel the Thunder Stable’s Gran Estreno, who posted a mild upset when winning the 2009 edition of the Grade III Washington Park Handicap, returns in search of a repeat bid in Saturday’s $150,000 race that offers its winner an automatic berth into the Grade I $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churc...Read More
Through the first half of 2010, horses that raced or trained at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots last season have gone on to win 15 graded stakes races at other tracks. Two of those races were among the sport’s most prestigious events—the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park and the Stephen Foster Ha...Read More
County Flavor scored a significant upset in the $100,000 Hanshin Cup Handicap (G3) on Saturday at Arlington Park, rolling to three-quarter-length win at 21.20-to-1 odds. A four-year-old Empire Maker gelding making his stakes debut, Country Flavor pushed the pace before seizing the lead near the quar...Read More
The racing world participates in its own barbecue over Memorial Day weekend and the featured item are stakes.  The weekend kicks off today with six graded stakes races from across the country (NY, 2 in KY, 2 in IL, CA).  I’ll be back Monday to preview some graded stakes from around the cou...Read More
The second of three Starlight Racing programs during Fair Grounds’ 2009-2010 Thoroughbred Racing Season Presented by Miller Lite was deemed an “unqualified success” by Fair Grounds president Austin Miller.   “After such a long few weeks of parties for the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras, I was reall...Read More
A 13-race program will be run on Saturday at the Fair Grounds. Pick six carryover of $517. Mostly sunny skies are expected with a high temperature of 65. Six stakes races on tap including the Grade 2 Risen Star for 3yo’s traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the main track. Lecomte winner Ron The Gree...Read More
The first of three Starlight Racing programs at Fair Grounds this season on Friday night had track management describing the event as successful beyond expectations – and that was despite increasingly rainy weather and a temporary late afternoon local power outage that caused a one-hour delay befor...Read More
A 10-race program will be run on Saturday at the Fair Grounds. Unfortunately, more rain is in the forecast with a high temperature of 57. Pick six carryover of $4,172. Two stakes races are on tap, beginning with the John E. Jackson Memorial for Louisiana bred 4yo’s and up traveling five and one-half...Read More

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Country Flavor - Race Results & Past Performances

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View Details07/06/112ndL GoncalvesInD91 1/16 mDGolden Bear Stakes03+ MJardimCountry FlavorGautier1:41.19
View Details05/21/114thJ SantanaArl81 mileSHanshin Cup-G303+ MWorkin For HopsPacific OceanHavelock1:34.55
View DetailsView Video03/26/118thS SellersFG61 1/8 mDNew Orleans Hcp.-G204+ MMission ImpazibleApartGiant Oak1:49.02
View Details01/22/113rdS SellersFG61 1/16 mDLouisiana Hcp04+ MRecapturethegloryApartCountry Flavor1:43.41
View Details12/18/101stS SellersFG81 1/16 mDTenacious Handicap03+ MCountry FlavorZ HumorDubious Miss1:44.74
View Details09/04/105thI KarlssonArl81 3/16 mTWashington Park Hcp-G303+ MGran EstrenoGiant OakMad Flatter1:56.88
View Details05/29/101stI KarlssonArl91 mileSHanshin Cup-G303+ MCountry FlavorTybaltGran Estreno1:38.16
View Details05/09/106thI KarlssonArl81 mileTAlwOC03+ MTizdejavuRecapturethegloryMr Maccool1:36.41
View DetailsView Video03/13/104thS SellersFG61 1/16 mDAlwOC04+ MSecret GetawayFundyKing Dan1:43.47
View DetailsView Video02/19/103rdS SellersFG51 1/16 mTAlwOC04+ MMad FlatterFundyCountry Flavor1:44.25
View DetailsView Video01/15/101stS SellersFG81 1/16 mDAlwOC04+ MCountry FlavorMarquee EventUnbridled Vicar1:17.15
View DetailsView Video12/20/092ndS SellersFG101 mileDAlwOC03+ MFundyCountry FlavorFlying Pegasus1:40.96
View Details09/19/093rdD SanchezArl81 1/16 mDAllow03+ MZionStar PlayerCountry Flavor1:46.40
View Details08/30/091stD SanchezArl41 mileDMSW03+ MCountry FlavorCorredor Dela IslaJilly From Philly1:38.73
View DetailsView Video02/27/097thC LanerieFG71 40yDMSW03 MFinal JudgementPrince TetonPrecious Beans1:41.05
View DetailsView Video02/05/096thC LanerieFG101 40yDMSW03 MOmniscientTotal GentlemanZosogood1:42.10

 

 

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