Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino is a racetrack in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, just east of Opelousas. It is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming . With a one-mile oval track, the facility provides close to 1,000 horse stalls for Thoroughbred flat racing and American Quarter Horse racing.
The inaugural running of the event was on 21 March 1981 as the Budweiser Tampa Bay Derby Stakes with sponsorship for Budweiser making it the richest stakes race at the track. [2] The event was won by the long shot Paristo, who was part of the field entry of horses at the odds of 35-1 in a time of 1:45 2 ⁄ 5 . [ 2 ]
The Locust Grove Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, age three and older, over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles held annually in September during the early fall meeting at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The current purse is $400,000.
Tapit Trice has run four times in 2023 winning three of his races. Two of his victories were in major qualification events on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby [7] and then a grinding win in the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes by a neck [4] thus easily qualifying for the 2023 Kentucky Derby.
Once a steeplechase jockey, Tagg (who grew up in Abington, Pennsylvania and won his first race in 1972 at Liberty Bell Park) was a journeyman who had been on the racing scene for over 30 years. The victory by Funny Cide made Tagg the first trainer to win the Derby in his first attempt since Neil Drysdale saddled Fusaichi Pegasus to win the 2000 ...
Epicenter made his final start of the year on December 26 in the newly created Gun Runner Stakes, an early prep race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby over 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles at Fair Grounds Race Course in Louisiana. He pressed the early pace while racing two wide, then moved to the lead at the top of the stretch and won by 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths. [8]
The American Graded Stakes Committee upgraded the race to its current Grade II status in 2010. [ 2 ] The most notable winner of the event is the 2004 winner Kitten's Joy who as a three-year-old went on to finish second in the Breeders' Cup Turf to Better Talk Now and was voted as the U.S. Champion Male Turf Horse .
Churchill Downs announced that beginning in 2009 this race would be called the Eight Belles Stakes in honor of the deceased filly, Eight Belles, who finished second in the 2008 Kentucky Derby. [6] In 2010, the Louisville Distaff Stakes was renamed the La Troienne Stakes. [7] Since 2011 the event has been scheduled on the same card as the ...