Louisiana Derby
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The Louisiana Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 run annually at the Fair Grounds Race Course
Fair Grounds Race Course
Fair Grounds Race Course, often known as New Orleans Fair Grounds, is a thoroughbred racetrack and racino in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is operated by Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company, LLC....

 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

. Usually run in early March, the race is open to horses, age three, willing to race 11/8 miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt. A Grade II
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 event, it currently offers a purse of $1,000,000.

The race was named in honor of Fair Grounds' home state, Louisiana. The race was held at Crescent City Race Course from 1894 through 1908. It was also held at Jefferson Park from 1920 through 1931. The race was not held in 1895 through 1897, 1909 through 1919, 1921 through 1922, 1940 through 1942, 1945 and 2006. In 2006, the race was cancelled because the track was partially destroyed by Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

.

The race was run at one mile in 1894; it was run at 1⅛ miles from 1898 until 1988. The race has been run at 1-1/16 miles from 1989 through 2009. On August 11, 2009 the owner of Fair Grounds, Churchill Downs Incorporated
Churchill Downs Incorporated
Churchill Downs Incorporated is the parent company of Churchill Downs. The company owns several other thoroughbred and standardbred racetracks.-History:...

, announced that they were moving the Louisiana Derby from eight weeks prior to the Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...

 to only five weeks prior. They also announced that the distance of the Louisiana Derby would be increased back to 1-1/8 miles and that the purse would be increased $150,000 to $750,000. In 2010, that figure was bumped up to $1,000,000.

Two winners of the Louisiana Derby have gone on to win the Kentucky Derby: Black Gold
Black Gold (horse)
Black Gold was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 50th running of the Kentucky Derby in 1924....

 in 1924, and Grindstone
Grindstone (horse)
Grindstone is a thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby in 1996. He became jockey Jerry Bailey's 2nd Kentucky Derby winner and the second in a row for trainer D. Wayne Lukas....

 in 1996. The 1988 winner, Risen Star
Risen Star
Risen Star, , was a champion thoroughbred race horse.The dark bay colt was the son of the great Triple Crown winner Secretariat out of the mare Ribbon. Bred by Arthur B. Hancock III and Leone J. Peters, Risen Star was bought by Louisianans Ronnie Lamarque and Louie Roussel III at the 1987 Calder...

, went on to become a "Dual Classic Winner" by winning the Preakness
Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

 and Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes
The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...

.

Records

Speed record:
  • 1:42.60 - Crypto Star (1997) (at 1-1/16 miles)
  • 1:48.80 - Clev Er Tell (1977) (at 1⅛ miles)

Winners of the Louisiana Derby since 1973

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Distance
(Miles)
Time
Purse
Grade
2011 Pants On Fire 3 Rosie Napravnik Kelly Breen George & Lori Hall 1-1/8 1:49.92 $1,000,000 II
2010 Mission Impazible 3 Rajiv Maragh
Rajiv Maragh
Rajiv Maragh is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. An Indo-Jamaican, he is the son of a jockey who rode in Jamaica before relocating to Florida where he began a career as a horse trainer....

Todd A. Pletcher Twin Creeks Racing Stable 1-1/8 1:50.32 $750,000 II
2009 Friesan Fire
Friesan Fire
Friesan Fire is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by 1992 American Horse of the Year, A.P. Indy, a son of the 1977 U.S. Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew. His dam, Bollinger, is an Australian Group One winner and a daughter of the 1993 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Dehere...

3 Gabriel Saez
Gabriel Saez
Gabriel Saez is a Panamanian horse racing jockey. He began his riding career in his native country in 2004, becoming the leading apprentice jockey in 2005. Saez moved to the United States in February, 2006, and almost instantly became Delaware Park Racetrack's leading jockey that same year...

J. Larry Jones
J. Larry Jones
J. Larry Jones is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer. A former commercial farmer, he embarked on a career as a professional trainer in 1982....

Vinery St./Fox Hill Farm 1-1/16 1:43.46 $600,000 II
2008 Pyro
Pyro (horse)
Pyro is an American Thoroughbred Stallion Racehorse. His sire is Pulpit, a son of the 1992 Eclipse Award Winner for American Horse of the Year, A.P. Indy...

3 Shaun Bridgmohan
Shaun Bridgmohan
Shaun X. Bridgmohan is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.At age thirteen, Bridgmohan's family emigrated to the United States, settling in South Florida where he developed an interest in horse racing...

Steve Asmussen
Steve Asmussen
Steven Mark Asmussen is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas...

Winchell Thoroughbreds 1-1/16 1:44.44 $600,000 II
2007 Circular Quay
Circular Quay (horse)
Circular Quay is a thoroughbred racehorse who was a 2007 Kentucky Derby contender. The son of 1995 Belmont Stakes and Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch is owned by Michael Tabor and trained by Todd Pletcher....

3 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Michael Tabor
Michael Tabor
Michael B. Tabor is a businessman and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.-Thoroughbred racing career:...

1-1/16 1:43.01 $600,000 II
2006 No Race - No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race II
2005 High Limit 3 Ramon Dominguez
Ramon A. Dominguez
Ramon A. Dominguez is an Eclipse Award-winning champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing....

Robert J. Frankel Gary & Mary West 1-1/16 1:42.74 $600,000 II
2004 Wimbledon 3 Javier Santiago Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert
Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...

James McIngvale 1-1/16 1:42.71 $600,000 II
2003 Peace Rules
Peace Rules
Peace Rules , is a multiple Grade I winning American Thoroughbred race horse. By Jules Peace Rules (bred and foaled in Florida at Newchance Farm on April 26, 2000), is a multiple Grade I winning American Thoroughbred race horse. By Jules Peace Rules (bred and foaled in Florida at Newchance Farm on...

3 Edgar Prado Robert J. Frankel Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...

1-1/16 1:42.67 $750,000 II
2002 Repent 3 Jerry D. Bailey Kenneth McPeek
Kenneth McPeek
Kenneth G. McPeek is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Kenneth G. McPeek was born August 2, 1962 in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Tates Creek High School and then the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration...

Select Stable 1-1/16 1:43.86 $750,000 II
2001 Fifty Stars 3 Donnie Meche
Donnie Meche
Donnie James Meche is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Donnie Meche won his first race at Evangeline Downs in May 1993...

Steve Asmussen
Steve Asmussen
Steven Mark Asmussen is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas...

J. Cassells / R. Zollars 1-1/16 1:44.76 $750,000 II
2000 Mighty 3 Shane Sellers
Shane Sellers
Shane Jude Sellers is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs....

Frank L. Brothers
Frank L. Brothers
Frank L. Brothers is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer who in 1991 won two of the three U.S. Triple Crown races...

Aspiration Stable 1-1/16 1:43.29 $750,000 II
1999 Kimberlite Pipe 3 Robby Albarado
Robby Albarado
Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...

Dallas Stewart
Dallas Stewart
Dallas Stewart trains a string of thoroughbred horses in Kentucky from bases at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, Keeneland Race Course, Fair Grounds Race Course, Arlington Park and Saratoga Race Course. Before venturing out on his own, he spent 12 years working under the tutelage of leading trainer...

J. D. Gunther 1-1/16 1:43.56 $640,000 II
1998 Comic Strip 3 Shane Sellers
Shane Sellers
Shane Jude Sellers is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs....

Neil J. Howard
Neil J. Howard
Neil J. Howard is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Howard began working for a racing stable in 1969 and went on to spend seven years as an assistant and stable foreman to future Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller before going out on his own in 1979.With Summer Squall, in 1990 Neil...

William S. Farish III 1-1/16 1:43.36 $500,000 III
1997 Crypto Star 3 Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

Wayne Catalano Darrell & Evelyn Yates 1-1/16 1:42.60 $400,000 III
1996 Grindstone
Grindstone (horse)
Grindstone is a thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby in 1996. He became jockey Jerry Bailey's 2nd Kentucky Derby winner and the second in a row for trainer D. Wayne Lukas....

3 Jerry D. Bailey D. Wayne Lukas
D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...

Overbrook Farm 1-1/16 1:42.79 $370,000 III
1995 Petionville 3 Chris Antley
Chris Antley
Christopher Wiley Antley was a champion American jockey.He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida but grew up in Elloree, South Carolina. He left school at sixteen to ride horses professionally at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. His first win was on a horse named Vaya Con Dinero...

Randy Bradshaw Everest Stables 1-1/16 1:42.96 $350,000 III
1994 Kandaly 3 Craig Perret
Craig Perret
Craig Perret is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding quarter horses in match races...

Louie J. Roussel III Louie J. Roussel III 1-1/16 1:42.86 $325,000 III
1993 Dixieland Heat 3 Randy Romero
Randy Romero
Randy Paul Romero is a Hall of Fame jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing, Born into a family involved with horses, his father Lloyd J...

Gerald Romero Leland Cook 1-1/16 1:44.80 $300,000 III
1992 Line In The Sand 3 Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

Neil J. Howard
Neil J. Howard
Neil J. Howard is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Howard began working for a racing stable in 1969 and went on to spend seven years as an assistant and stable foreman to future Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller before going out on his own in 1979.With Summer Squall, in 1990 Neil...

William S. Farish III 1-1/16 1:43.40 $200,000 III
1991 Richman 3 Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

William I. Mott William F. Lucas 1-1/16 1:44.50 $200,000 III
1990 Heaven Again 3 Corey Nakatani
Corey Nakatani
Corey S. Nakatani is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his big break in 1990 when he rode Itsallgreektome to win big stakes races.Nakatani currently resides at Belmont Park...

Vincent Timphony K. Timphony et al. 1-1/16 1:43.80 $165,000 III
1989 Dispersal 3 Jose Santos Bud Delp
Bud Delp
Grover Greer "Bud" Delp was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best remembered for his conditioning of Hall of Fame colt, Spectacular Bid....

Henry & Teresa Mayerhoff 1-1/16 1:43.80 $165,000 III
1988 Risen Star
Risen Star
Risen Star, , was a champion thoroughbred race horse.The dark bay colt was the son of the great Triple Crown winner Secretariat out of the mare Ribbon. Bred by Arthur B. Hancock III and Leone J. Peters, Risen Star was bought by Louisianans Ronnie Lamarque and Louie Roussel III at the 1987 Calder...

3 Shane Romero Louie J. Roussel III R. Lamarque/L. J. Roussel III 1-1/16 1:42.80 $165,000 III
1987 J. T.'s Pet 3 Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

Lynn S. Whiting W. Cal Partee 1-1/8 1:51.00 $120,000 III
1986 Country Light 3 Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

Steve Penrod
Steve Penrod
Steve Penrod is a distinguished professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His education and career have led him to become an expert in the areas of psychology and law. He has contributed heavily to the field of psychology in the area of eyewitness memory, specifically the...

Cherry Valley Farm 1-1/8 1:50.40 $186,650 III
1985 Violado 3 Jacinto Vasquez
Jacinto Vásquez
Jacinto Vásquez is a retired Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey. He rode two Kentucky Derby winners, Foolish Pleasure in 1975 and Genuine Risk in 1980, but may be best known as the regular jockey for the great filly Ruffian.-Biography:...

 
not found Due Process Stable 1-1/8 1:50.20 $185,000 III
1984 Taylor's Special 3 Sam Maple
Sam Maple
Samuel A. Maple was an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Carrollton, Ohio, Sam Maple was one of eight brothers and sisters. His older brother, Eddie, was also a jockey...

William I. Mott William F. Lucas 1-1/8 1:49.60 $185,000 II
1983 Balboa Native 3 Jorge Velasquez
Jorge Velasquez
Jorge Velásquez is a thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.Jorge Velasquez career in thoroughbred racing began in his native Panama but as a teenager moved to the United States...

D. Wayne Lukas
D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...

Robert N. Spreen 1-1/8 1:50.60 $185,000 II
1982 El Baba 3 Don Brumfield
Don Brumfield
Donald Alan Brumfield is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.During his thirty-five year career, Brumfield won 4,573 races in 33,222 rides. He retired from racing in 1989. Brumfield was the "track all-time leading rider in terms of races won " at Churchill Downs, where he won 16 riding titles...

Dewey Smith Dorothy Dorsett Brown 1-1/8 1:50.60 $185,000 II
1981 Woodchopper 3 Jorge Velasquez
Jorge Velasquez
Jorge Velásquez is a thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.Jorge Velasquez career in thoroughbred racing began in his native Panama but as a teenager moved to the United States...

John M. Gaver, Jr. Greentree Stable
Greentree Stable
Greentree Stable, in Red Bank, New Jersey, was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs, New York with his brother Harry Payne...

1-1/8 1:50.80 $210,000 II
1980 Prince Valiant 3 Mike A. Gonzalez John M. Gaver, Jr. Greentree Stable
Greentree Stable
Greentree Stable, in Red Bank, New Jersey, was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs, New York with his brother Harry Payne...

1-1/8 1:50.40 $160,000 II
1979 Golden Act
Golden Act
Golden Act was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Sired by Gummo, a grandson of Nasrullah who was a son of the extremely important sire, Nearco, he was out of the mare Golden Shore....

3 Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

Loren Rettele W. H. Oldknow & R. W. Phipps 1-1/8 1:51.20 $170,000 II
1978 Esop's Foibles 3 Chris McCarron
Chris McCarron
Christopher John "Chris" McCarron is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He is currently working as a racing analyst for TVG Network....

Loren Rettele Jerry Frankel 1-1/8 1:50.80 $135,000 II
1977 Clev Er Tell 3 Ray Broussard
Ray Broussard
Raywood J. Broussard was an American jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing."Ray" Broussard was born in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, home to a large number of persons of Acadian ancestry and an area that would produce a number of other Cajun jockeys including Eddie Delahoussaye, Randy...

Homer C. Pardue
Homer C. Pardue
Homer Chesley Pardue was an American trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.Born in Louisville, Kentucky, across the street from Churchill Downs, Homer Pardue began working in the racing industry as an exercise rider at the famous track while still a fourteen-year-old schoolboy...

J. R. Straus & I. Proler 1-1/8 1:48.80 $100,000 II
1976 Johnny Appleseed 3 Marco Castaneda John M. Gaver, Jr. Greentree Stable
Greentree Stable
Greentree Stable, in Red Bank, New Jersey, was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs, New York with his brother Harry Payne...

1-1/8 1:49.80 $100,000 II
1975 Master Derby
Master Derby
Master Derby was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1975 Preakness Stakes.-Background:He was bred by Robert E. Lehmann at his Golden Chance Farm in Paris, Kentucky...

3 Darrel McHargue
Darrel McHargue
Darrel G. McHargue is a retired American Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. One of five children from a family not connected to horse racing, he was first introduced to riding as a teeneage boy when he rode a neighbor's Quarter Horse...

Smiley Adams Golden Chance Farm 1-1/8 1:49.60 $100,000 II
1974 Sellout 3 Marco Castaneda Not Found Jean Pancoast 1-1/8 1:51.20 $93,000 II
1973 Leo's Pisces 3 Robert Breen Not Found Joseph Taub 1-1/8 1:51.60 $85,000 II

See also

  • Louisiana Derby "top three finishers" and starters
    Louisiana Derby top three finishers
    This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Louisiana Derby, an American Grade 2 race for three year-olds at 1-1/8 miles on dirt held at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. - References :* *...

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