FAIR GROUNDS, New Orleans, LA
| 1 | War Echo | Margin: 1½ | BRIS: 99 | $90,000 |
2006 | Chestnut Filly | Tapit - Wild Vision, Wild Again
Sire: Tapit , Gray or Roan, 2001. Raced 2 years. 6 starts, 3 wins, $557,300. Lifetime: 371 yearlings sold, median $75,000.
Broodmare Sire: Wild Again, Dark Bay or Brown, 1980. In 2009: 2.26 AEI.
| 2 | Four Gifts | Margin: 7¾ | BRIS: 97 | $30,000 |
2006 | Gray or Roan Filly | Even the Score - Agiftfromservice, Service Stripe
Sire: Even the Score , Gray or Roan, 1998. Raced 4 years. 29 starts, 9 wins, $751,629. Lifetime: 147 yearlings sold, median $12,500.
Broodmare Sire: Service Stripe, Dark Bay or Brown, 1991.
Sale History:
Keeneland Association November 2012 Breeding Stock Sale, $340,000.
Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall, 2009 Mixed Sale, $310,000.
Fasig-Tipton Kentucky 2007 Select Yearling Sale, $125,000.
Keeneland Association 2006 November Breeding Stock Sale, $72,000.
| 3 | Just Jenda | Margin: 2¼ | BRIS: 88 | $16,500 |
2006 | Chestnut Filly | Menifee - Liberty School, Pine Bluff
Sire: Menifee, Bay, 1996. Raced 2 years. 11 starts, 5 wins, $1,732,000. Lifetime: 156 yearlings sold, median $30,000. In 2009: 1.56 AEI.
Broodmare Sire: Pine Bluff, Bay, 1989.
Sale History:
Keeneland Association September 2007 Yearling Sale, ($37,000).
Others: Flying Spur, $9,000; War Tigress, $4,500; Southern Yankee; More of the Best; Garter Belt.
| Finish | Horse | Jockey | Trainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | War Echo | Shaun Bridgmohan | Steven M. Asmussen |
| 2 | Four Gifts | Robby Albarado | Steven M. Asmussen |
| 3 | Just Jenda | Terry J. Thompson | J. Larry Jones |
| 4 | Flying Spur | Patrick A. Valenzuela | William I. Mott |
| 5 | War Tigress | Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. | Jeffrey D. Thornbury |
| 6 | Southern Yankee | Gabriel Saez | Olivo I. Inirio |
| 7 | More of the Best | Jesus Lopez Castanon | Bernard S. Flint |
| 8 | Garter Belt | Corey J. Lanerie | Kenneth Decker |
| Horse | Jockey | Win | Place | Show | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| War Echo | Shaun Bridgmohan | $11.20 | $5.40 | $3.40 | |||||||
| Four Gifts | Robby Albarado | $4.00 | $2.60 | ||||||||
| Just Jenda | Terry J. Thompson | $2.20 | |||||||||
| EXOTIC PAYOFFS: | |||||||||||
| $2.00 Exacta (3-1) | $39.00 | ||||||||||
| $2.00 Trifecta (3-1-7) | $80.40 | ||||||||||
| $2.00 Superfecta (3-1-7-4) | $281.00 | ||||||||||
U.S.-based Solis Bloodstock spent $1.26 million to acquire the two highest-priced horses at the first session of the Inglis Easter broodmare sale April 16.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Mushreq will continue on a path toward the $5 million Dubai Duty Free (UAE-I) next month after a convincing win Feb. 21 at Meydan in the $250,000 Al Fahidi Fort (UAE-II).
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Bluegrass Hall's Oxbow went wire-to-wire to win the $200,000 Lecomte Stakes by 11 1/2 lengths for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Jan. 19. Earlier, Touch Magic took the Silverbulletday.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Grade III winner Circle Unbroken makes his 2013 debut Jan. 19 in the $200,000 Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds, stretching out in distance and taking on eight other 3-year-olds including Canadian stakes winner Avie's Quality.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013Arrowfield Stud has withdrawn champion Australian sire Flying Spur from stallion service.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The first three finishers in the Silverbulletday Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots will square off again at the Louisiana track when they return for the Feb. 25 Rachel Alexandra Stakes (gr. III).
Monday, February 20, 2012
The $175,000 Lecomte Stakes (gr. III), Fair Grounds' first graded 3-year-old race leading up to the Louisiana Derby (gr. II), drew a field of 13, a handful of them thought to be early Triple Crown prospects.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Favored Bouquet Booth held off Daisy Devine in deep stretch to win the $98,000 Silverbulletday Stakes by a neck at Fair Grounds Jan. 22 for her third consecutive victory.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Justin Phillip leads a short field in the $100,000 Lecomte (gr. III) Jan. 22 at Fair Grounds. Owner Ahmed Zayat is hoping the $400,000 yearling can make it to the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) in May.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Just Jenda went out a winner when she overtook odds-on favorite Malibu Prayer in upper stretch and rolled to an easy 3 1/2-length victory in the $294,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes (gr. II) Aug. 29.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Grade I winner Malibu Prayer will give six pounds to five fillies and mares when she goes to post as the favorite in the $300,000 Molly Pitcher Stakes (gr. II) Aug. 29 at Monmouth Park.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
A full field of fillies and mares -- highlighted by multiple graded stakes winner Acoma -- will go postward in the Locust Grove Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs July 3.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Taptam, runner-up to Zenyatta last out, and Peruvian-bred Morena, who finished third behind runner-up Rachel Alexandra recently and second in this race a year ago, are among a field of 10 entered for the Obeah Stakes.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Zenyatta tied Citation and Cigar with her 16th consecutive win April 9 in the $500,000 Apple Blossom Invitational (gr. I), blowing past her four rivals under Mike Smith at Oaklawn Park for another easy victory.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Compared to what it was supposed to look like, the field for the April 9 Apple Blossom Invitational Handicap (gr. I) is a major disappointment. A field of only five, led by undefeated two-time champion Zenyatta, was drawn.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
In a race likely to produce a couple of contestants for the much-anticipated Apple Blossom Invitational (gr. I) April 9, front-running Freedom Star dominated the $149,750 Azeri Stakes (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park March 6.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Gone Astray will make his season debut March 6 in the $150,000 Razorback Handicap (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park and face a good field that includes 8-year-old Jonesboro, who won the 1 1/16-mile event back in 2008.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Jody Slew, who trailed the field after six furlongs, streaked down the middle of the racetrack in a determined stretch drive and caught pacesetter Quiet Temper in the final jump to pull an 8-1 upset in the Silverbulletday.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Four contenders from the Jan. 23 Tiffany Lass Stakes at Fair Grounds -- including winner Jody Slew -- are set to meet again in the Silverbulletday Stakes (gr. III) at the New Orleans, La. track Feb. 20.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Santa Super Saturday program at Fair Grounds Dec. 19, originally scheduled as a five-stakes package, will have four more stakes added.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Godolphin Racing's Flashing, a winner of four of six starts this season including the grade I Test Stakes, has a clear edge over a full field of 3-year-old fillies in the $300,000 Lexus Raven Run (gr. II) Oct. 24 at Keeneland.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The brilliant filly Careless Jewel, a romping winner of Saratoga's Alabama Stakes (gr. I) in her last start, heads the field for the $750,000 Fitz Dixon Cotillion Stakes (gr. II) at Philadelphia Park Oct. 3.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009With his superstar Rachel Alexandra waiting to make her next start, another 3-year-old filly punctuated a big night for trainer Steve Asmussen when Four Gifts took the $250,000 Charles Town Oaks by a half-length over Royal Card. Four Gifts' win provided Asmussen and jockey Robby Albarado their third stakes win on Charles Town Races & Slots inaugural Race for the Ribbon night Aug. 15.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Just Jenda served noticed that she is a force to be reckoned with in the 3-year-old filly division, as she followed up last month's dominating stakes win at Monmouth Park with another convincing score, this one in the $200,000 Monmouth Oaks (gr. III) Aug. 15.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Multiple graded stakes winner Four Gifts headlines the inaugural running of the $250,000 Charles Town Oaks, the feature race on Race for the Ribbon night to be held Aug. 15 at Charles Town Races & Slots.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
You don't witness it very often, but one of those cheering the loudest for D. Wayne Lukas and Oxbow in the final quarter mile of the May 18 Preakness Stakes (gr. I) was one of his opponents in the race. [More]