Tensas Cat

The $60,000 Mr. Sulu was moved to a high-profile spot on Opening Day because it traditionally attracts a large and competitive field of quality turf runners. That form held true again this year, as 11 older Louisiana-breds entered, six of which are Fair Grounds stakes winners.   Three-year-old ...Read More

Saturday’s $750,000 Louisiana Derby as the richest race in Fair Grounds history, the 85th running of the tradition-rich Grade II New Orleans Handicap for older horses and the 17th renewal of the Grade II Mervin Muniz Memorial Handicap for older horses on the Stall-Wilson turf course serve as the to...Read More

If the wide way around Fair Grounds’ Stall-Wilson turf course listed as “good” worked once, why not try it again?   That’s what red-hot jockey John Jacinto thought as he guided Steve Garber’s Tensas Cat to a mostly front-running score by two lengths in the 25th renewal of the $60,000 Gentilly ...Read More