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LA Champions Day Classic

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The shooting Star Guitar keeps ascending – higher and higher for Brittlyn Stable as the quest to become the top Louisiana-bred money winner of all time continues.   The hero of the last two $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classics made it three straight in the showcase event on Saturday’s Loui...Read More
Brittlyn Stable’s Star Guitar, who already boasts four straight stakes wins at Fair Grounds on its Louisiana Champions Day Presented by Acadian Ambulance program, has been installed as the 6-5 favorite in Saturday’s $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic as the showcase event of the one-day stakes...Read More
  • BrianZipse · No changing of the guard among Louisiana breds just yet ... Star Guitar holds off Populist Politics in the Louisiana Champions Day Classic. · 557 days ago ·
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He’s half the Champ’s age – aided by his youth when facing the credentialed “Cajun” veteran – but is he up to this challenge? Can the improving sophomore Populist Politics, owned by Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence, give the reigning Louisiana-bred champ Star Guitar, hero of state-bred racing ...Read More
Brittlyn Stable’s Star Guitar broke new ground in Louisiana Thoroughbred history at Fair Grounds on Saturday when he repeated his win of a year ago in the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic, becoming the first horse to win four Louisiana Champions Day stakes races on an afternoon that was the...Read More
The 20th anniversary edition of Louisiana Champions Day will be run this Saturday at Fair Grounds as an expanded 13-race program with a special early first race post time of 12:10 p.m., but the main attraction of the afternoon, as always, will be the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic, the ri...Read More
Nine stakes races were run at Fair Grounds on Saturday as part of the Santa Super Saturday program, and let’s get busy with the recap. Please click on the name of each stakes race to view the replay... Read More
Brittlyn Stable's Star Guitar, the overwhelming 1-5 favorite, romped to a 7 3/4-length victory in the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic Dec. 19.Read More
A 13-race program will be run on Santa Super Saturday at the Fair Grounds. Nine stakes races are on tap, including the four rescheduled Louisiana Champions Day races. The weather is expected to mostly sunny with a high temperature of 57. Pick 6 carryover of $2,732.  Read More
How wet has it been in New Orleans this December? Well, use this as a guide. The horses entered in the Louisiana Champions Day Turf were in the paddock, saddled, and ready to hit the track late on the afternoon of Dec. 12. The delay in actually running the race? Oh, about 168 hours or so.Read More
Eight-time stakes hero STAR GUITAR (Quiet American) starred in the past two editions of the Louisiana Champions Day program, but was forced to wait one week for the shot at taking his third different race at Fair Grounds when thunderstorms rolled through the New Orleans area last Saturday.Read More
A 12-race program will be run at the Fair Grounds on Saturday, and the Louisiana Champions Day card features eleven stakes races, including a trio of Quarter Horse events to kick off the festivities. There is an 80% chance of rain with highs in the upper 50’s. Read More
  • cigar · Star Guitar is going to be very tough. One of the more consistent LA-breds in quite some time. · 1285 days ago ·
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  • arazi · The rain was even tougher. The card was washed out with the last four races still to go. Dooley announced that those stakes would be run next Saturday. · 1285 days ago ·
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As we find ourselves in the dog days of Thoroughbred racing, there are only two graded stakes races in the country this weekend, both of them Grade III. The most anticipated of the two is unquestionably the Native Diver Handicap, a nine furlong race on Hollywood Park's synthetic main track. ...Read More
Jason, Evan, and Rich Nilsen preview the Louisiana Champions Day Classic and the Queens County. Plus, notes about the Native Diver.Read More
Brittlyn Stable's Star Guitar is seeking to become the third Thoroughbred in history to win three times on a Louisiana Champions Day program in New Orleans when he goes forward in the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic at Fair Grounds on Dec. 12.Read More

Race Results & Past Performances

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View Details12/08/12FG111 1/8 mD03+ MLA Champions Day ClassicHeavy On ThemisterWatch My SmokeGet In Da House1:53.00
View Details12/10/11FG111 1/8 mD03+ M (S)LA Champions Day ClassicStar GuitarPopulist PoliticsBreak Up1:53.15
View Details12/11/10FG91 1/8 mD03+ M (S)LA Champions Day ClassicStar GuitarSnugEighth At Citypark1:51.12
View DetailsView Video12/19/09FG81 1/8 mD03+ M (S)LA Champions Day ClassicStar GuitarIde Like A DoubleTakin' The Bullet1:52.15