Submitted by jimm on December 6, 2010 - 4:55pm
Graham Ross, Staff Writer
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 mai
Submitted by jimm on December 4, 2010 - 1:23pm
Fair Grounds trainers Al Stall Jr and Bret Calhoun, who both own homes in Orleans Parish, were honored by the City of New Orleans on Saturday for their wins in the Breeders' Cup World
Submitted by jimm on November 27, 2010 - 4:29pm
Graham Ross, Staff Writer
Three years ago, Louisiana-born jockey Jamie Theriot rode most of the races on a cold, overcast November day at Churchill Downs, got into his car at the end of the day and drove all night to
Submitted by jimm on November 9, 2010 - 4:07pm
Trainer Al Stall Jr was back at his Fair Grounds barn Monday morning, two days after his star horse Blame upset the previously unbeaten mare Zenyatta in North America’s richest race, the $5 million
Submitted by jimm on October 27, 2010 - 12:00pm
Nineteen horses that have raced at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots are among the 184 pre-entries announced today for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, the 14-race, $26 million extravaganz
Submitted by jimm on January 20, 2010 - 3:59pm
Jim Mulvihill and Graham Ross
Tom McCarthy, the 76-year-old owner and trainer of the one-horse stable that consists of last spring’s Grade I Blue Grass Stakes winner General Quarters, watched his horse gallop arou
Submitted by jimm on January 4, 2010 - 6:01pm
After pressing the pace throughout Monday’s $28,000 Fair Grounds feature over a Stall-Wilson turf course rated good, Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm’s Evade lunged in front a stride fr
Submitted by jimm on December 8, 2009 - 6:35pm
Jim Mulvihill and Graham Ross
Brittlyn Stable’s Star Guitar appears poised to become the third Thoroughbred in history to win three times on a Louisiana Champions Day program in New Orleans, assuming he lives up to his s
Submitted by jimm on December 6, 2009 - 4:06pm
Brittlyn Stable’s Star Guitar, easily the “star” attraction for Saturday’s 19th running of the Louisiana Champions Day program at Fair Grounds, was given a routine maintenance breeze Sunday
Submitted by Anonymous on April 8, 2009 - 11:14am
It's now T-minus three weeks to Kentucky Derby Day.