Submitted by jimm on January 19, 2011 - 5:09pm
Claire Novak, Special Contributor
Bret Calhoun remembers first coming to Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots in the mid-1990s with a small string of runners.
He didn’t belong.
Submitted by jimm on January 15, 2011 - 7:28pm
Graham Ross, Staff Writer
Carl Moore’s Speedacious broke in stride to make the pace and continued willingly throughout to take Saturday’s $60,000 Happy Ticket Stakes for accredited Louisian
Submitted by jimm on January 9, 2011 - 6:16pm
Graham Ross, Staff Writer
Carl Moore Management’s Illusion of Speed broke in full stride to make all the pace and continued willingly in the stretch to win Sunday’s $43,000 allowance optional claiming sprin
Submitted by jimm on December 26, 2010 - 6:36pm
Wayne Sanders & Larry Hirsch’s Herp came from off the pace and burst through on the rail to win Sunday’s $47,000 entry-level allowance feature at six furlongs by 1 ¼ lengths ov
Submitted by jimm on December 17, 2010 - 10:18pm
Graham Ross, Staff Writer
Divine Equine’s Dajohna broke in full stride to make all the pace and held on willingly to capture the $47,000 filly and mare allowance feature Friday evening at Fair Grounds by
Submitted by jimm on December 17, 2010 - 9:53pm
Graham Ross, Staff Writer
Alphabetically, Archarcharch is at the top of the list of contestants for Saturday’s 60th anniversary edition of the $60,000 Sugar Bowl Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Submitted by jimm on December 14, 2010 - 9:00am
This Saturday’s stakes extravaganza known as Santa Super Saturday will be complemented by a full slate of free activities for all Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots visitors, fr
Submitted by jimm on December 13, 2010 - 5:37pm
Graham Ross, Staff Writer
Tied for leading rider honors through last weekend and among the leaders since the Thoroughbred Racing Season began on Thanksgiving Day is jockey Richard Eramia, off to an unusua
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 March 25, 2010 - 3:59pm
Jody Slew, undefeated in the first two legs of Fair Grounds’ sophomore filly series, will attempt to become the first horse to sweep all three races in that grouping when she goes to the pos