The nine-furlong Skip Away Stakes (GIII), named for 1998’s Horse of the Year, drew a compact but talented field of six older handicap runners who will race the nine furlongs in search of the winnerâ...
With all the best in the division either waiting for the Kentucky Oaks (GI) or their last preps for the first Friday in May set to be contested over the next two weeks, a decent field of seven sophomo...
Before Saturday’s $1 million Louisiana Derby (GII) Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Gun Runner had done everything a good horse on the Triple Crown trail could do to earn respect. He’d won three of his f...
With her impressive victory in Saturday’s Fair Grounds Oaks (GII), folks can finally stop feeling sorry for Paul Reddam’s Land Over Sea. The talented daughter of Bellamy Road had carried the disti...
Longshot and former claimer S’maverlous won for fun in his very first stakes attempt in Saturday’s $400,000 New Orleans Handicap (GII) at Fair Grounds. The Mike Maker-trained son of Tiz Wonderful,...
Earle Mack, Wachtel Stable, and Brous Stable’s Argentine-bred Take the Stand took the lead from the break and never looked back en route to a 1 1/4-length victory in the $300,000 Muniz Memorial ...
Since the first running of the Dubai World Cup and Cigar’s victory in 1996, some really talented American-based horses have taken their best shot in the great “Duel in the Desert.” This year is ...
Saturday’s $1 million Louisiana Derby (GII) at Fair Grounds is the first Kentucky Derby prep race on American soil to offer 100 points (the UAE Derby in Dubai beats it out as the first by a matter o...
Gallant Stable’s Mineshaft Handicap (GIII) winner Majestic Harbor will attempt to earn his second consecutive graded stakes victory in the $400,000 New Orleans Handicap (GII). The eight-year-o...
A field of 11 solid grass performers will race the about 1 1/8-mile distance in the $300,000 Muniz Memorial Handicap (GIIT) which has been carded as the 8th race of the afternoon. Â Coming off three ...