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1/7/2023 – Free Like A Woman with jockey Pedro Cotto, Jr. aboard wins the Bob F. Wright Memorial Stakes. Hodges Images / Lou Hodges, Jr.
The desk is about for Honest Grounds Race Course & Slots’ 152nd season, and there is an additional serving to of Louisiana-bred stakes to feast upon one week forward of the 99th working of Thanksgiving Basic.
Three of the 9 races carded for opening day on Friday, Nov. 17, are statebred stakes for females: The Doris Hebert, The John Valene, and The Donovan L. Ferguson.
With 10 races slated for Saturday, the males will take centerstage within the three characteristic stakes: The Joseph R. Peluso, The Jacob V. Morreale, and the Larry D. Robideaux. Run in reminiscence of departed members of Honest Grounds racing neighborhood, every carries a $75,000 purse and function the proper springboard for Louisiana Champions Day on Dec 9.
First submit on each Friday and Saturday is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. (all instances Central).
Friday’s highlight will probably be on Louisiana-bred fillies and mares
Cross-entered within the Doris Hebert Memorial 6-furlong dash (Race 6) and the 1 mile and 70 yards John Valene Memorial (Race 8), Gerald Bruno Jr., Chasey Pomier, and Jerry Caroom’s Free Like a Woman will look to return to kind on Friday. Made the morning line favourite in each, 9-5 within the Hebert and 2-1 within the Valene, the sensational filly skilled by Chasey Pomier is winless since taking the Distaff and Louisiana Legends Mademoiselle Dash in early summer season, each at Evangeline Downs. Vicente Del-Cid will get the decision to assist reverse the three-race slide, which will probably be his first race aboard the 13-time winner who would surpass $1 million in earnings if she had been capable of be victorious in whichever stakes her connections decide on.
It could be becoming if Sabra Tuff was capable of seize the day within the John Valene. Owned by Valene Farms’ Murray Valene, Sabra Tuff’s first race towards fellow statebreds is in a stakes named for Murray’s father, who handed away in 2018 on the age of 100. The daughter of Cross Visitors beat her odds ending fourth within the 2022 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), and extra not too long ago completed fourth to Randomized within the Alabama (G1). The three-year-old’s stablemate Accommodate Eva runs in Race 9, the Donovan L. Ferguson, a 5 1/2 furlong dash for juvenile fillies, and he or she has adopted a equally bold path, getting into recent off a Tenth-place end within the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
Publish time for Hebert is scheduled for 3:15 p.m. (all instances CT) and the Valene will go at 4:15 p.m. adopted by the Ferguson at 4:45 p.m. Comply with this hyperlink for an inventory of every stakes subject: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/FG111723USA-EQB.html#RACE6
On Saturday, Nov 19 the main focus shifts to Louisiana-bred colts and geldings
A subject of 9 La-bred juvenile males will line up within the beginning gates for the Joseph R. Peluso Memorial Stakes, a 5 1/2 furlong dash throughout the principle monitor. In a wide-open affair of well-bred however lightly-raced juveniles, the DS Younger Futurity winner, Tav Enterprises’ El Dinero, was tabbed because the morning line favourite at 7-2. The son of El Deal traveled vast when ending third final out within the Louisiana Legacy at Delta Downs in October. Scheduled as Race 5, the Ferguson is the primary leg of the 15% takeout $1 Choose 6. Publish time is 2:45 p.m.
The boldness of Brittlyn Steady’s Behemah Star is likely to be on the rise as quickly as he scans the paddock forward of the Jacob V. Morreale to seek out Touchuponastar, his brother by one other mom, is just not there. That foe has stored him out of the winner’s circle 4 instances up to now 12 months. Within the subject of 9, there are two others who’ve confirmed tough for the 5-year-old, as Who Took the Cash and Mangum each enter to tackle Brittlyn Stables’ beloved son of Star Guitar. With two third-place finishes since Brittlyn Stables moved Behemah and the remainder of their stars into the care of Shane Wilson, the 4-time winner will reunite with final 12 months’s main rider Rey Gutierrez, who triumphantly piloted Behemah within the 2022 Star Guitar Stakes. Written at 1 mile 70 yards throughout the principle monitor, a distance at which Behemah has by no means completed out of the cash, the Morreale will go as Race 7. Publish time is scheduled for 3:45 p.m.
The Larry D. Robideaux Memorial guarantees to be a thriller as 13 statebred, male 3-years-old and up will rip via 6 filth furlongs making an attempt to say their supremacy atop the division forward of Louisiana Champions Day. In final 12 months’s version the tempo boiled over organising for a late rail run from Brian’s Iron Mike, and although new faces be a part of the forged of acquainted characters, the second working of the Robideaux may unfold similarly.
Cross-entered within the Morreale, Set-Hut’s Mangum will get the lukewarm 4-1 nod by morning line oddsmaker Mike Diliberto. Having carried low weight of 111 kilos in two of his final three stakes victories, if the Jeff Delhomme trainee had been to run within the Robideaux, he would journey with 122 kilos and Treylon Albert on his again.
The penultimate affair of the 10-race card, the Robideaux is scheduled for 4:45 p.m. Comply with this hyperlink for an inventory of every stakes subject: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/FG111823USA-EQB.html#RACE5
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