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Sunday Notes: Ray Salmen to Enter FG Hall of Fame Monday

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS (Sunday, March 3, 2013) – Joining Fair Grounds’ late all-time leading stakes-winning jockey E.J. Perrodin and Louisiana’s all-time leading money-winning horse Star Guitar as the latest inductees to the Fair Grounds Hall of Fame Monday evening will be...

Up With the Birds Flies Home in Black Gold, Gator Zone Wins LaCombe

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS (Saturday, March 02, 2013) – Richard, Bertram and Elaine Klein’s Gator Zone pressed the pace of Ice Wine Stable’s To My Valentine in Saturday’s $75,000 Allen LaCombe Memorial Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, gained the advantage over...

Flow Tribe Added to Infield Festival Music Lineup!

NEW ORLEANS (Monday, March 4, 2013) – Funk-rock party-starters Flow Tribe have been tabbed as the opening act on the Jägermeister Stage at the first-ever Louisiana Derby Infield Festival set for March 30. Native New Orleansrockers Cowboy Mouth will headline. Infield Festival General...

Majestic Harbor Lights Up FG’s Starlight Card

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer

NEW ORLEANS (Friday, March 01, 2013) – Gallant Stable’s Majestic Harbor took command from Brereton Jones’s Mr. Bowling leaving the backstretch and held that rival safe the rest of the way to light up the tote board with mutuels of $11.80, $5.80 and $4.20 during Friday’s $51,000 allowance and $62,...

Friday Notes: Lisa Perrodin to Attend Monday's Fair Grounds Hall of Fame Ceremony

NEW ORLEANS (Friday, March 01, 2013) – What honor will jockey E. J. Perrodin, owner Ray Salmen and Louisiana's all-time money-winning Thoroughbred Star Guitar share shortly? All three prominent Louisianans will be inducted into the Fair Grounds Hall of Fame...

Doc Almon Wins Sprint Feature

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS (Thursday, February 28, 2013) – Cheyenne Stable’s Doc Almon, away alertly and never far back, commenced a rally on the outside after being set down for the drive, took command at the furlong grounds and increased the margin the rest of the way in...

Magical Moon Heads LaCombe Memorial, Up With the Birds Favored in Black Gold

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS (Thursday, February 28, 2013) – Columbine Stable’s Magical Moon, third in Keeneland’s Grade I Alcibiades last October, has been installed as the slight 3-1 morning line favorite for Saturday’s $75,000 Allen LaCombe Memorial at Fair Grounds Race Course...

Wednesday Notes: Smitten Using Saturday's LaCombe as FG Oaks Prep

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS (Wednesday, February 27, 2013) – Last season it was Brereton Jones’s Believe You Can who parlayed a win in the Grade II Fair Grounds Oaks to another in the Grade I Kentucky Oaks a few weeks later for trainer Larry Jones. Four years ago it was that...

Triumph and Song Wins Sunday Feature

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS (Sunday, February 24, 2013) – Victoria Ashford’s Triumph and Song, away alertly and quickly in command, made the pace throughout in Sunday’s $49,000 allowance and $40,000 optional claiming six-furlong sprint at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots and...

Sunday Notes: Desormeaux Having Derby Dreams

By Graham Ross, Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS (Sunday, February 24, 2013) – One day after Big Chief Racing’s Ive Struck a Nerve rewarded a few of racing’s eternally-grinning optimists with a $272.40 return on a $2 win wager in the Grade II Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots...