Current Tag: Risen Star
Road to Kentucky Derby Revs up at Fair Grounds
POSTED: February 16, 2024
Angel of Empire (outside) won the 2023 edition of the Risen Star (Hodges Photography) Championship Series Begins Saturday With Grade 2, $400,000 Risen Star Churchill...
Angel of Empire Bursts Onto the Scene in G2 Risen Star
POSTED: February 18, 2023
Angel of Empire breaks through in the G2 Risen Star (Hodges Photography) Fair Grounds Press Release NEW ORLEANS— Albaugh Family Stables’ Angel of Empire, the...
$1 Million Toyota Blue Grass nominees led by Epicenter and Smile Happy
POSTED: February 25, 2022
LEXINGTON, KY – Keeneland’s $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1), which will be run for the 98th time on April 9, opening Saturday of Keeneland’s...
The Risen Star stakes and the all stake pick 4 from the Fair Grounds
POSTED: February 17, 2022
On this episode of Past the Wire's podcast Gate to Wire brought to you by Spendthrift Farm hosts Michael Vale and Jonathan Stettin talk the Risen Star at the...
Risen Star GII begins Road to Kentucky Derby Championship Season
POSTED: February 11, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series is set to kickoff Saturday in New Orleans with a field of 13 horses...
The week and weekend are chock full of stakes races straight through to Fat Tuesday
POSTED: February 10, 2021
A pre-week, weekend and post-weekend packed full of stakes action with 40 races, 16 graded. Three Derby prep races—El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gates...
Enforceable Gets Kentucky Derby Points in Lecomte
POSTED: January 18, 2020
Off at odds of 6-1, Enforceable returned $15.60 to win and gave the Casse barn its second straight Lecomte score. A year ago, War of...
2019 Risen Star Stakes Preview
POSTED: February 15, 2019
On Saturday, the Fair Grounds will host the Grade 2, 1-1/16th, $400,000 2019 Risen Star Stakes, which will be the first Kentucky Derby prep race...
