NEW ORLEANS (Friday, December 31, 2010) – Max Me Out, owned by the partnership of D&G Racing, Diamond Racing and 4-Star Thunder, responded with some stretch-running thunder of his own and drew off late for a 1 3/4-length tally in the $60,000 Woodchopper Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots on New Year’s Eve. [...] Read More.

NEW ORLEANS (Friday, December 31, 2010) – Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots announced today a 5 percent increase of overnight purses, effective Thursday (Jan. 6). “Bettors have responded to the consistently high quality of racing at Fair Grounds,” track Vice President & General Manager Eric Halstrom said. “It’s always gratifying when we can offer [...] Read More.

NEW ORLEANS (Thursday, December 30, 2010) – James Miller’s Daisy Devine popped clearly into the picture for Fair Grounds’ upcoming three-race sophomore filly series with an upset one-length victory in Thursday’s $47,000 featured mile and 40-yard allowance test for juvenile fillies at the New Orleans oval. The sophomore filly series will culminate this spring with [...] Read More.

NEW ORLEANS (Thursday, December 30, 2010) – The 24th running of the $60,000 Woodchopper Stakes for 3-year-olds at about one mile over Fair Grounds’ Stall-Wilson turf course as well as the 47th renewals of the restricted Louisiana Futurity ($112,224 colt and gelding division and $107,125 filly division) bring down the curtain on the 2010 calendar [...] Read More.

LAUREL, MD. 12-30-10—The 2011 Laurel Park winter meeting will feature 15 stakes races after the Maryland Jockey Club, Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and Maryland Horse Breeders Association agreed to a schedule. Headlining the program are a pair of Grade 2 $150,000 seven-furlong sprints on President’s Day weekend: the Barbara Fritchie Handicap for fillies and mares [...] Read More.

NEW ORLEANS (Monday, December 27, 2010) – Jim Tafel LLC’s Fast Alex has his connections thinking about the Grade II, $300,000 New Orleans Handicap in March after an impressive win in Monday’s feature, a $49,000 allowance for older horses at one mile and 70 yards over the Fair Grounds main track. Despite slow fractions of [...] Read More.

NEW ORLEANS (Sunday, December 26, 2010) – Wayne R. Sanders & Larry Hirsch’s Herp came from off the pace and burst through on the rail to win Sunday’s $47,000 entry-level allowance feature at six furlongs by 1 ¼ lengths over Pin Oak Stables’ Divine Music. The winner, a 2-year-old by Arch trained by Bret Calhoun [...] Read More.

NEW ORLEANS (Thursday, December 23, 2010) – Millennium Farms’ Great Mills stalked the pace set by Carl R. Moore’s Yankee Gone South, challenged the leader approaching the quarter-pole and inched clear to win Thursday’s $45,000 maiden special weight feature at 5 ½ furlongs over the Stall-Wilson turf course by 2 ¾ lengths. The winner, a [...] Read More.

NEW ORLEANS (Wednesday, December 22, 2010) – Feel the Thunder Stables’ Gran Estreno, two-time winner of the Grade III Washington Park Handicap at Arlington Park, closed steadily in the final furlong and inched clear to win by a half-length over Stacey Moak’s Southern Anthem in Wednesday’s $54,000 allowance/optional claiming feature for older horses at 1 [...] Read More.

LAUREL, MD. 12-22-10—Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course will conduct 146 days of racing in 2011, the same number that was scheduled for this year after the Maryland Jockey Club and its owners, MI Developments and Penn National Gaming, worked out an agreement with the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (MTHA) and Maryland Horse Breeders Association [...] Read More.