by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|03.02.2023|11:00am Fair Grounds: Rosie Napravnik To Spearhead ‘New Vocations Day At The Races’ On Saturday On Saturday, March 4, retired jockey and horse advocate Rosie Napravnik will be on site at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots to spearhead the third annual “New Vocations Day at the Races.” A four-time local riding champion who was instrumental in the opening of the New Vocations facility in Covington, Louisiana, Napravnik will join […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|01.02.2023|2:02pm ‘Things Are Going Well’: Calhoun Heads Into 2023 With Momentum At Fair Grounds Entering the new year at Fair Grounds, Bret Calhoun holds a 19-12 lead over four-time track titleholder Brad Cox in the trainer standings at the New Orleans oval. A native of Dallas, Texas, Calhoun has landed in the top 10 of the Fair Grounds standings 16 consecutive years and he finished as the runner-up three […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|12.18.202212.18.2022|7:25pm7:42pm Zozos Wins Fair Grounds Allowance In First Start Since Kentucky Derby, Stakes Could Be Next Barry Butzow and Joni Butzow’s homebred Zozos made his first start since the Kentucky Derby (G1) a successful one, winning a second-level allowance going 1 1/16 miles on Saturday at Fair Grounds. The lightly raced 3-year-old is trained by Brad Cox. “I thought his race was really good yesterday,” Cox said Sunday morning. “He came […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|11.14.202211.15.2022|2:02pm1:44pm Fair Grounds Opens 80-Day Meet On Nov. 18, 65 Stakes On Tap The nation’s third oldest racetrack, Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots is set to open for the 151st meet on Friday, Nov 18. Two racing days kick things off and post time will be 3 p.m. (all times Central) on Friday and 1:15 p.m. on Saturday. Opening weekend of the 80-day Thoroughbred meet includes the […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|03.29.2022|8:45pm Graham, Faucheux, Brittlyn Stable Win Fair Grounds Titles Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots in New Orleans, La., wrapped up its sesquicentennial (150th) season of racing on Sunday, March 27, and although the destruction caused by Hurricane Ida (late August/early September) offered plenty of challenges, fans were welcomed back to the facility as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic slowed and business was […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|03.14.2022|10:16am Asmussen Confident In Clairiere Ahead Of Wednesday’s 4-Year-Old Debut Stonestreet Stables’ Clairiere, the winner of the Rachel Alexandra (G2) presented by Fasig-Tipton here at Fair Grounds and the Cotillion (G1) at Parx during a stellar 3-year-old campaign for trainer Steve Asmussen, is entered to make her 4-year-old debut in Wednesday’s seventh race, a conditioned allowance event to be run over 1 1/16 miles. A […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|03.02.2022|10:43am Elle Z Repeats In Mardi Gras Stakes Four weeks ago, Elle Z and Change of Control put on a show in the Fred P. Aime Memorial with the former prevailing by a nose. In Tuesday’s $75,000 Mardi Gras Stakes at Fair Ground Race Course & Slots, that anticipated battle lost all chance to materialize when Change of Control hopped at the start […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|02.25.2022|5:23pm Change Of Control, Elle Z Go Head-To-Head Again In Mardi Gras Stakes M Bar O’s Elle Z is in the best form of her career. Perry Harrison’s Change of Control is a two-time graded stakes winner. Four weeks ago, they put on a show in the Fred P. Aime Memorial with the former prevailing by a nose, and on Tuesday they’ll go hoof to hoof once again […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|02.06.202202.06.2022|7:36pm11:52pm Fair Grounds: Mitchell Murrill Records 1,000th Career Win Just a little more than eight years into a career that began at Delta Downs on Halloween in 2013, jockey Mitchell Murrill won his 1,000th career race on Sunday at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots in New Orleans, La., guiding Selective Racing’s Yin Yang (2-1 second choice) to victory for trainer Brad Cox in […]
by Joe Kristufek/Fair Grounds|02.04.202202.04.2022|3:41pm3:42pm Rosie Napravnik To Spearhead Feb. 12 ‘New Vocations Day at the Races’ At Fair Grounds On Saturday, Feb. 12, retired jockey and horse advocate Rosie Napravnik will be on site at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots to spearhead the “New Vocations Day at the Races.” A four-time local riding champion who was instrumental in the opening of the New Vocations facility in Covington, La., Napravnik will join host Joe […]