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Fairgrounds needs to blow up and totally redo the turf course thats just crazy all the scratches and that its going off as the only race on turf today
Scratches- Unlatch, Quality Control, Hyper, Macho Bull, and Golden Yank
Calumet Farm’s Optimizer, the decisive winner of last month’s $125,0000 Col. E.R. Bradley Handicap (GIII) for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, ships back from Oaklawn Park as the 120-pound high weight and 3-1 morning line favorite for Saturday’s 26th running of the $150,000 Fair Grounds Handica...Read More
Valentine’s Day may be over, but according to the racing office, eight days from now Hall of Fame trainer Wayne Lukas will be loving the conditions of all four of the graded stakes being offered at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots on Louisiana Derby Preview Day Presented by Lamarque Ford Feb. 23. Read More
Augustin Stables’ Smart Bid earned his first win since last March’s Grade II Mervin H. Muniz Memorial Handicap here at Fair Grounds, getting up in the final stride to defeat Andrews T & S Racing’s stubborn Mr. Vegas by a head in Saturday’s Grade III Fair Grounds Handicap.Read More
  • ARBY · Graham had worked Smart Bid in company with Animal Kingdom a couple of weeks back and it obviously worked well for both · 453 days ago ·
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Augustin Stable’s Smart Bid, hero of Fair Grounds’ Grade II Mervin Muniz Memorial Handicap last year as the Crescent City oval’s showcase event for older horses over the Stall-Wilson turf course, heads a field of 10 named to Saturday’s designed prep for that test – the Grade III Fair Grounds Handica...Read More
David P. Holloway Racing’s Dubious Miss will get another shot at Andrews T & S Racing’s Mr. Vegas in Saturday’s Grade III, $125,000 Fair Grounds Handicap. Dubious Miss was slowly gaining ground on Mr. Vegas in the stretch run of last month’s Grade III Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap but checked slight...Read More
Augustin Stable’s Smart Bid, winner of last season’s Grade II Mervin Muniz Memorial Handicap as the headline attraction of Fair Grounds’ grass-racing season over the Stall-Wilson turf course, could be headed for chance to repeat in that local turf classic.Read More
Millennium Farms and Mike McCarty’s long shot Expansion ruled in the Grade III Fair Grounds Handicap with an exclamation – a win price of $66.40 for a $2 wager!   The Fair Grounds Handicap, contested over the Stall-Wilson turf course at about nine furlongs, is the designed  prep race for ...Read More
Alex and JoAnn Lieblong’s Telling, winner of Saratoga’s Grade I Sword Dancer Invitational the last two summers, was traveling Friday when Metzi Hobby, wife of trainer Steve Hobby but also groom, companion and chauffeur for the 7-year-old grass specialist, was reached somewhere around Lafayette, Lou...Read More
David Holloway’s Dubious Miss exists in an altered state and has a name with feminine connotations, but the 7-year-old gelding may have found his true identity by running over Fair Grounds’ Stall-Wilson turf course.   He’s made 23 lifetime starts, but only three over the green, and two of those...Read More
Workin for Hops faces a tall order as the 9-2 second choice coming off the layup into Saturday’s Grade III, $125,000 Fair Grounds Handicap at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, but his connections have learned to give the unassuming chestnut gelding a chance.   Standing in Barn 36 just days...Read More
Alex and JoAnn Lieblong’s Telling, winner of the last two renewals of Saratoga’s prestigious Grade I Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap, will journey to New Orleans later this week from his winter home in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to shoulder the top impost of 122 pounds in the Grade III Fair Grounds ...Read More
Feel The Thunder Stable’s Gran Estreno, the $20,000 claim that captured Saturday’s Grade III Col. E. R. Bradley Handicap over Fair Grounds’ Stall-Wilson turf course, came out of his weekend race in good order and is being targeted for a return to that surface for the Grade II Mervin Muniz Memorial ...Read More
The predicted duel between last winter’s Grade II Louisiana Derby winner and last spring’s Grade I Blue Grass Stakes winner got shot down Saturday when Richard Rudolph and Michael Vranich’s Stonehouse snuck up to steal the gold medal in the Grade III Mineshaft Handicap.   Vinery Stable and Fox ...Read More
Risen Star Recap: Another Pletcher invader steals the candy as Discreetly Mine was never headed, and the top three ran that way all the way around the track. Drosselmeyer the fav was in the photo for the place, but he settled for 4th in a disappointing effort. For the record, he was coming back in ...Read More
In the Fair Grounds Handicap there is a 10-year-old making his first start since September, Silverfoot, and a 7-year-old making his first start since May, Transduction Gold. There is a horse named after a hockey star, Gretsky, and a male horse named like a female horse, Dubious Miss. There is a hors...Read More
The Todd Pletcher-trained trio of horses who arrived Wednesday in New Orleans for three different graded races on Saturday’s Louisiana Derby Preview Day at Fair Grounds all got the feel of the local atmosphere Thursday morning with leisurely gallops around the Crescent City course.   “Discreet...Read More
Bob Zollars and Mark Wagner’s Letsgetitonmon, who closed well to finish third beaten two lengths for the win in Fair Grounds Grade III Lecomte Stakes Jan. 23, breezed a half-mile in 49.60 Monday morning at Fair Grounds in preparation for Saturday’s Grade II Risen Star Stakes – the final major design...Read More
Virginia Tarra’s Giant Oak, absent from competition since finishing fourth beaten a length-and-a-quarter for the win in Churchill’s Grade II Clark Handicap Nov. 27, breezed five furlongs Sunday morning in 1:01.60 in preparation for Saturday’s Grade III Mineshaft Handicap.   “He couldn’t have wo...Read More

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View DetailsView Video02/23/13FG71 1/8 mT04+ MFair Grounds Handicap-G3OptimizerBim BamTwo Months Rent1:56.06
View Details02/25/12FG61 1/8 mT04+ MFair Grounds Handicap-G3Smart BidMr. VegasDubious Miss1:51.91
View Details02/19/11FG91 1/8 mT04+ MFair Grounds Handicap-G3ExpansionSleepless KnightDubious Miss1:54.94
View DetailsView Video02/20/10FG91 1/8 mT04+ MFair Grounds Handicap-G3Blues StreetDubious MissBaltimore Bob1:51.71
View DetailsView Video02/07/09FG71 1/8 mT04+ MFair Grounds Handicap-G3Diamond TycoonWindward IslandsCorrupt1:52.12