Sat: LA Legends Night
Jul 6, 2013 0:00:34 GMT -5
Post by Jon on Jul 6, 2013 0:00:34 GMT -5
Mack - Any info for Rosie's horse?
OPELOUSAS — Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino will once again offer purses totaling more than $925,000 on the ninth edition of Louisiana Legends Night, a 12-race program featuring eight stakes races including seven with a six-figure purse that are restricted to Louisiana bred horses on Saturday.
Created during the opening season of racing at the new facility in Opelousas. Louisiana Legends Night has been a resounding success popular with both horsemen and race fans alike and has solidified itself as the marquee event of the spring/summer thoroughbred racing season at Evangeline Downs.
This year’s event, like prior editions has drawn most of the top Louisiana bred horses in training including divisional champions Heavy On Themister, Sittin at the Bar, Top Cat Boogie and others.
The public has responded positively to the series as well with more than $14 million wagered on the previous editions including three separate $2 million nights.
“We are pleased with the response we’ve gotten not just from our locally based horsemen but from those stabled elsewhere throughout Louisiana and the southwest,” Racing Secretary Coleman Lloyd said.
“While we don’t have Star Guitar (the four-time Louisiana Bred Horse-of-the-Year and all-time leading money earning Louisiana bred was retired last summer) we have plenty of talented and fast horses and we should see some very exciting and competitive racing.”
Heavy On Themister is considered the one to beat in the Legends Night Classic. Rebeccas Farms and T.J. Dickey’s Heavy On Themister, freshened since an uncharacteristic dull effort at the New Orleans Fairgrounds in March, looks to bounce back as he returns to his favorite oval and squares off against 11 rivals.
The Shawn David trainee looked to be the successor to Star Guitar after winning the 2012 Evangeline Mile along with a pair of state-bred races before his 5th place finish in the Costa Rising Stakes.
He enters the classic off a pair of bullet workouts at Evangeline Downs and has been installed as the 5/2 favorite.
Rosie Napravnik, who rode him to victory in those two state bred stakes races over the winter, is in from her summer base of Churchill Downs for the mount.
Carded as the 11th race on the program, the Louisiana Legends Night Classic has an approximate post time of 9:50 p.m.
OPELOUSAS — Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino will once again offer purses totaling more than $925,000 on the ninth edition of Louisiana Legends Night, a 12-race program featuring eight stakes races including seven with a six-figure purse that are restricted to Louisiana bred horses on Saturday.
Created during the opening season of racing at the new facility in Opelousas. Louisiana Legends Night has been a resounding success popular with both horsemen and race fans alike and has solidified itself as the marquee event of the spring/summer thoroughbred racing season at Evangeline Downs.
This year’s event, like prior editions has drawn most of the top Louisiana bred horses in training including divisional champions Heavy On Themister, Sittin at the Bar, Top Cat Boogie and others.
The public has responded positively to the series as well with more than $14 million wagered on the previous editions including three separate $2 million nights.
“We are pleased with the response we’ve gotten not just from our locally based horsemen but from those stabled elsewhere throughout Louisiana and the southwest,” Racing Secretary Coleman Lloyd said.
“While we don’t have Star Guitar (the four-time Louisiana Bred Horse-of-the-Year and all-time leading money earning Louisiana bred was retired last summer) we have plenty of talented and fast horses and we should see some very exciting and competitive racing.”
Heavy On Themister is considered the one to beat in the Legends Night Classic. Rebeccas Farms and T.J. Dickey’s Heavy On Themister, freshened since an uncharacteristic dull effort at the New Orleans Fairgrounds in March, looks to bounce back as he returns to his favorite oval and squares off against 11 rivals.
The Shawn David trainee looked to be the successor to Star Guitar after winning the 2012 Evangeline Mile along with a pair of state-bred races before his 5th place finish in the Costa Rising Stakes.
He enters the classic off a pair of bullet workouts at Evangeline Downs and has been installed as the 5/2 favorite.
Rosie Napravnik, who rode him to victory in those two state bred stakes races over the winter, is in from her summer base of Churchill Downs for the mount.
Carded as the 11th race on the program, the Louisiana Legends Night Classic has an approximate post time of 9:50 p.m.
