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Albarado Riding High Into Big Weekend
Journeyman Robby Albarado has had a phenomenal year already in 2017. His business is up, his stakes rides are plentiful, he earned his 5,000th victory — becoming only the 33rd rider to reach such a milestone — and he recently was informed that he has been nominated for the National Museum of Racing...
Noble Bird Tops Field of Familiar Foes in New Orleans Handicap
Mack Oxley and Broman Fostock’s Noble Bird and Gunpowder Farms and West Point Thoroughbreds’ Breaking Lucky get a bit of class relief in Saturday’s Grade II $400,000 New Orleans Handicap, topping the 1 1/8-miles event after finishing sixth and eighth, respectively, behind world champion Arrogate in...
Kasaqui the Class in Muniz Memorial; Cash Control Seeks Sixth Stakes in New Orleans Ladies
Wimborne Farm’s Ignacio Correas IV-trained Kasaqui (Arg) brings a slight class edge in a field of 11 entered in the Grade II $300,000 Muniz Memorial Handicap over 1 1/8 miles on the Stall-Wilson turf course Saturday at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. In the exacta in 14 of 23 career starts,...
Farrell Tops Twinspires.com Fair Grounds Oaks Field
Coffeepot Stables’ homebred 3-year-old filly Farrell is the class of an eight-filly 49th renewal of the Grade II $400,000 Twinspires.com Fair Grounds Oaks on Apr. 1, part of an eight-stakes – four graded – Louisiana Derby Day card at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. The Fair Grounds Oaks has...
Girvin Meets Eight in Grade II $1 Million Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby
Brad Grady’s lightly raced Girvin headlines next Saturday’s Grade II $1 million Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby in which he will face off against eight other sophomores in the 1 1/8 miles event on the main track at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. The Louisiana Derby is the final Fair Grounds...
