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The Lecomte Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses at a distance of one and one-sixteenths miles on the dirt run annually in mid-January, at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event currently offers a purse of $250,000.
The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association [1] and the Jockey Club of Canada. A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then ...
In the lead-up to the 1972 U.S. Triple Crown series, No Le Hace won the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. He then won the mile and one sixteenth Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds Race Course in late March. In April, he was sent to Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he won the Arkansas Derby.
Select prep season races that traditionally serve as steppingstones to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series have been elevated from 10-4-2-1 to 20-8-6-4-2. These include G3 Lecomte Stakes, G3 Southwest Stakes, G3 Withers Stakes, G3 Holy Bull Stakes, G3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes, G3 Sam F. Davis Stakes and the Listed John Battaglia Memorial ...
Midnight Bourbon (January 25, 2018 – April 17, 2022) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2021 Lecomte Stakes and came second in the 2021 Preakness Stakes and Travers Stakes and 2022 Saudi Cup. [1] [2] [3] Midnight Bourbon died suddenly from an "acute gastrointestinal situation" on April 17, 2022. [4]
The field of four were all stakes winners, with Epicenter going off as the even-money favorite. Early Voting went to the early lead while Epicenter settled in last place along the rail. He swung five-wide moving into the stretch and moved steadily to the lead to win by 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths over Zandon, with Early Voting finishing fourth.
War of Will (foaled April 17, 2016) is a classic winning American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2019 Preakness Stakes and is one of only three modern-day racehorses to win a Grade One on dirt and turf. He also won the 2019 Lecomte Stakes, 2019 Risen Star Stakes, and 2020 Maker's Mark Mile Stakes.
Earnings in non-restricted stakes races act as a tie breaker. When originally announced in September 2019, the main Road to the Kentucky Derby would have remained substantially the same as the 2019 Road to the Kentucky Derby , consisting of 35 races, 19 races for the Kentucky Derby Prep Season and 16 races for the Kentucky Derby Championship ...