Grade II race | |
Location | Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1966 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Website | Fair Grounds |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄16 miles |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | Left-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-old fillies |
Weight | 122 lbs with allowances |
Purse | $400,000 (since 2019) |
The Fair Grounds Oaks is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt run annually in March, usually on Louisiana Derby day at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event currently offers a purse of $400,000.
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History
The race was inaugurated on 19 February 1966 as the eighth event on the card where the featured event was the A. B. Letellier Memorial Handicap. The event was held on a sloppy track with Oklahoma bred Help On Way, ridden by Larry Gilligan defeating Dutch Maid with Gee Ma in third.[1] Help On Way next start was unsuccessfully run against colts and geldings in the Arkansas Derby.
The following year in 1967 winner Furl Sail continued to win the Acorn Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes and was fourth in the Coaching Club American Oaks. [2]
In 1977 the Fair Grounds administration made a scheduling change and ran the event a second time in December over a distance of 1+1⁄8 miles.[3] In 1978 the event was run in December again with split divisions.[4]
The track administration then reverted to a March running with the shortened distance of 1+1⁄16 miles but did not hold the event in 1979.[3]
The event was first upgraded in 1982 to a Grade III race.[5] The race was run as the Coca-Cola Fair Grounds Oaks in 1989 and 1990 with sponsorship from Coca-Cola.[3]
In 2006 the race was cancelled due to massive damage inflicted upon Fair Grounds Race Course by Hurricane Katrina.
The race is considered a prep race to the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, including the Kentucky Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes.
The race has produced numerous Kentucky Oaks winners, including Tiffany Lass, Blushing K. D., Silverbulletday, Ashado, Summerly, Proud Spell, Rachel Alexandra and Believe You Can.
Records
Speed record:
- 1+1⁄16 miles – 1:42.20 Blushing K. D. (1997)
Margins:
- 12 lengths – Truly Bound (1981)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 3 – Donnie Meche (1997, 2000, 2003)
- 3 – Florent Geroux (2015, 2020, 2021)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 4 – J. Larry Jones (2008, 2012, 2015, 2019)
- 4 - Steve Asmussen (2003, 2005, 2014, 2022)
Most wins by an owner:
- 2 - Albert M. Stall (1968, 1997)
- 2 - Winchell Thoroughbreds (2005, 2014)
Winners
Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Distance | Time | Purse | Grade | Ref |
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Fair Grounds Oaks | |||||||||
2024 | Tarifa | Flavien Prat | Brad H. Cox | Godolphin Racing | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.24 | $388,000 | II | [6] |
2023 | Southlawn | Reylu Gutierrez | Norm W. Casse | Robert E. Masterson | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.38 | $376,000 | II | [7] |
2022 | Echo Zulu | Joel Rosario | Steven M. Asmussen | Land N Racing & Winchell Thoroughbreds | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:42.69 | $388,000 | II | [8] |
2021 | Travel Column | Florent Geroux | Brad H. Cox | OXO Equine | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:42.75 | $400,000 | II | [9] |
2020 | Bonny South | Florent Geroux | Brad H. Cox | Juddmonte Farms | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.57 | $388,000 | II | [10] |
2019 | Street Band | Sophie Doyle | J. Larry Jones | J. Larry Jones, Cindy Jones & Ray Francis, | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.54 | $392,000 | II | [11] |
2018 | Chocolate Martini | Mitchell Murrill | Thomas M. Amoss | Double Doors Racing | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.44 | $293,000 | II | [12] |
2017 | Farrell | Channing Hill | Wayne M. Catalano | Coffeepot Stables | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.09 | $388,000 | II | [13] |
2016 | Land Over Sea | John R. Velazquez | Doug F. O'Neill | Reddam Racing | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.74 | $400,000 | II | [14] |
2015 | I'm a Chatterbox | Florent Geroux | J. Larry Jones | Carolyn & Fletcher Gray | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.40 | $396,000 | II | [15] |
2014 | Untapable | Rosie Napravnik | Steven M. Asmussen | Winchell Thoroughbreds | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.09 | $384,000 | II | [16] |
2013 | Unlimited Budget | Javier Castellano | Todd A. Pletcher | Repole Stable | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.22 | $490,000 | II | [17] |
2012 | Believe You Can | Rosie Napravnik | J. Larry Jones | Brereton C. Jones | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.94 | $480,000 | II | [18] |
2011 | Daisy Devine | James Graham | Andrew McKeever | James M. Miller | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.25 | $500,000 | II | [19] |
2010 | Quiet Temper | Robby Albarado | Dale L. Romans | Mark H. Stanley | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.55 | $300,000 | II | [20] |
2009 | Rachel Alexandra | Calvin H. Borel | Hal Wiggins | L & M Partners | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.55 | $400,000 | II | [21] |
2008 | Proud Spell | Gabriel Saez | J. Larry Jones | Brereton C. Jones | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.01 | $376,000 | II | [22] |
2007 | Mistical Plan | Corey Nakatani | Doug F. O'Neill | J. Paul Reddam | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.02 | $396,000 | II | [23] |
2006 | Race not held | ||||||||
2005 | Summerly | Jerry D. Bailey | Steven M. Asmussen | Winchell Thoroughbreds | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.79 | $300,000 | II | [24] |
2004 | Ashado | Cornelio Velasquez | Todd A. Pletcher | Starlight Racing | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.07 | $300,000 | II | [25] |
2003 | Lady Tak | Donnie Meche | Steven M. Asmussen | Heiligbrodt Racing | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.36 | $350,000 | II | [26] |
2002 | Take Charge Lady | Anthony J. D'Amico | Kenneth G. McPeek | Select Stable | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.30 | $350,000 | II | [27] |
2001 | Real Cozzy | Eddie Martin Jr. | Daniel C. Peitz | Robert E. & Lawana L. Low | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.58 | $350,000 | II | [28] |
2000 | Shawnee Country | Donnie Meche | D. Wayne Lukas | Overbrook Farm | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.81 | $350,000 | III | [29] |
1999 | Silverbulletday | Gary L. Stevens | Bob Baffert | Mike Pegram | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.99 | $372,900 | III | [30] |
1998 | Lu Ravi | Willie Martinez | Carl Bowman | Yoshio Fujita | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.70 | $300,000 | III | [31] |
1997 | Blushing K. D. | Donnie Meche | Sam B. David Jr. | James P. & Sue V. Burns | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:42.20 | $175,000 | III | [32] |
1996 | Bright Time | Luis Felipe Diaz | Benjamin W. Perkins Sr. | New Farm | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.98 | $157,550 | III | [33] |
1995 | § Brushing Gloom | Jerilyn Brown | Richard W. Small | Robert E. Meyerhoff | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.12 | $150,000 | III | [34] |
1994 | Two Altazano | Kirk LeBlanc | William Stice | Harold V. Goodman | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:42.50 | $156,400 | III | [35] |
1993 | Silky Feather | Elvis J. Perrodin | Tony J. Richey | Stanton P. Powell | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.60 | $106,800 | III | [36] |
1992 | Prospectors Delite | Pat Day | Neil J. Howard | William S. Farish | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.20 | $106,650 | III | [37] |
1991 | Rare Pick | Patrick A. Johnson | Terry L. Mason | William H. Turner | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.50 | $109,400 | III | [38] |
1990 | Pampered Star | Shane Romero | Robert J. Frankel | Ritt Family Trust & Engelson | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.60 | $99,200 | III | [39] |
1989 | Mistaurian | Douglas Valiente | Stephen A. DiMauro | Chaus Stable | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.80 | $90,000 | III | [40] |
1988 | Quite a Gem | Elvis J. Perrodin | Frank L. Brothers | John A. Franks | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.40 | $90,000 | III | [41] |
1987 | Up the Apalachee | Mario R. Torres | George Arceneaux | John Minos Simon | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.40 | $100,000 | III | [42] |
1986 | Tiffany Lass | Ricky Frazier | Angel Barrera | Aaron U. Jones | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.00 | $166,400 | III | [43] |
1985 | Marshua's Echelon | Ronnie Franklin | Noxie Romano Jr. | Joseph Pizzatola | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.80 | $182,400 | III | [44] |
1984 | My Darling One | Chris McCarron | Laz Barrera | Dolly Green | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.60 | $170,000 | III | [45] |
1983 | Bright Crocus | Sandy Hawley | Adrian J. Maxwell | W. Levan, B. Walters & L. Weston | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.80 | $114,000 | III | [46] |
1982 | Before Dawn | Jorge Velasquez | John M. Veitch | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.40 | $113,000 | III | [47] |
1981 | Truly Bound | Bill Shoemaker | Bud Delp | Windfields Farm | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.80 | $108,400 | [48] | |
1980 | Honest and True | Alonzo Guajardo | Larry Robideaux Jr. | Jessica G. Bell | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.40 | $56,375 | [49] | |
1979 | Race not held | ||||||||
1978 | La Doree (ARG) | Bryan Fann | Louie J. Roussel III | Earl Schieb | 1+1⁄8 miles | 1:52.40 | $38,487 | Division 1[50] | |
Shadycroft Lady | Ruben Martinez Jr. | Robert E. Prather | Mary L. Tobin | 1:52.60 | $37,387 | Division 2[51] | |||
1977 (Dec) | Table The Rumor | Bill Shoemaker | Frank L. Brothers | Albert M. Stall Sr. & Jack Van Berg | 1+1⁄8 miles | 1:52.40 | $90,300 | [52] | |
1977 (Mar) | Quid Kit | Angelo Jean Trosclair | S. Allen King Jr. | Adele W. Paxson | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.60 | $34,525 | [53] | |
1976 | Bronze Point | Heriberto Arroyo | Harry Trotsek | Howard B. Noonan | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:44.40 | $34,250 | [54] | |
1975 | Lucky Leslie | Donald Brumfield | Douglas A. Dodson | Valley Farm | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.60 | $30,000 | [55] | |
1974 | Bold Rosie | Phillip Rubbicco | Jere R. Smith | W. Archie Lofton | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.60 | $34,325 | [56] | |
1973 | Knitted Gloves | Julio C. Espinosa | Isaac K. Mourar | Robert E. Lehmann | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.00 | $23,825 | [57] | |
1972 | My Charmer | Larry Melancon | Larry Robideaux Jr. | Benjamin S. Castleman | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.00 | $28,350 | [58] | |
1971 | Rosemont Bow | Kenneth Knapp | Harry Trotsek | Brightview Farm | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:43.40 | $17,675 | [59] | |
1970 | Kay Emy | Martinez Heath | Ralph Lentini | Joseph Straus | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:47.60 | $18,825 | [60] | |
1969 | † Royal Fillet | Leroy Moyers | W. Clayton Prickett | W. Clayton Prickett | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.80 | $16,600 | [61] | |
1968 | Trapeze | Jimmy Nichols | Albert M. Stall Sr. | John C. Oxley | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:46.20 | $18,075 | [62] | |
1967 | Furl Sail | Joe L. Lopez | John L. Winans | Mrs. Edwin K. Thomas | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:45.20 | $17,300 | [63] | |
1966 | Help On Way | Larry Gilligan | Ronnie G. Warren | Everett Lowrance | 1+1⁄16 miles | 1:52.60 | $10,000 | [1] |
Notes:
§ Ran as an entry
† In the 1969 running of the event Around The Horn was first past the post but was disqualified and place second for interference in the straight and Royal Fillet was declared the winner.
See also
References
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