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Inaugurated in 1980, the Super Derby is open to three-year-olds and the distance is 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles on the dirt. It is the richest race held at Louisiana Downs. In its history, the Super Derby has attracted some of the top horses in the country including winners of all three American Classic Races. The Super Derby was a Grade I race from 1983 ...
The track’s most notable race is the Super Derby, a race first ran in September 1980 now at the curren distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles (1,700 m). It was once a top race for 3 yo’s and horses such as Tiznow won the race. The race, along with the track suffered a precipitous decline and was moved to the turf for 2 years and was placed on ...
The Louisiana Derby (6:42 p.m. EDT post time) will offer 200 qualifying points toward the May 4 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, including 100 to the winner and 50 to the runner-up.
On April 10 Bernard de Marigny, Julius C Branch and Henry Augustine Tayloe organized the Spring Meeting of The Louisiana Jockey Club at the Louisiana Race Course. [3] Tayloe was a member of the founding dynasty of American horseracing: the son of John Tayloe III, founder of the Washington Jockey Club, imported the first Epsom Derby winner Diomed, bred the foundational American thoroughbred Sir ...
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Race Distance Purse Grade Track Date 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Ref Louisiana Derby: 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles $1,000,000 2 Fair Grounds Mar 22 2025 Jeff Ruby: 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles $700,000 3 Turfway Mar 22 2025 Florida Derby: 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles $1,000,000 1 Gulfstream Mar 29 2025 Arkansas Derby: 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles $1,500,000 1 Oaklawn Park Mar 29 2025 Blue Grass ...
The race was run at one mile in 1894; it was run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles from 1898 until 1988. The race has been run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles from 1989 through 2009. On August 11, 2009 the owner of Fair Grounds, Churchill Downs Incorporated, announced that they were moving the Louisiana Derby from eight weeks prior to the Kentucky Derby to
Mystery Giver also won the race three times, in 2002 through 2004. [7] Originally a handicap, in 2020 the conditions of the event were changed to a stakes allowance race, thus changing the name of the event to Fair Grounds Stakes. The event has been held in mid-February since 2010 as is part of Louisiana Derby Preview Day at the New Orleans ...