Risen Star Stakes

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Grade III race
Risen Star Stakes
Location	Fair Grounds Race Course New Orleans, Louisiana
Inaugurated	1973
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website	www.fairgroundsracecourse.com
Race information
Distance	1 1/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Track	Dirt, left-handed
Qualification	Three-year-olds
Weight	Assigned
Purse	$300,000

The Risen Star Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the Fair Grounds Race Course. It is open to three year old horses and is raced over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. A Grade III event, it offers a purse of $300,000. The race is a prep to the Louisiana Derby and an official prep race for the Kentucky Derby.

Previously known as the Louisiana Derby Trial Stakes, in 1989 it was renamed to honor locally-owned Risen Star who won the race in 1988 and went on to win the Preakness and Belmont Stakes and be voted the 1988 Eclipse Award for American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse.

Notably, in 1975 Golden Chance Farm's colt Master Derby won this race then went on to win the Louisiana Derby and the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes.

The Risen Star Stakes was run in two divisions in 1993 and again in 1995.

[edit] Records

Speed record:

• 1:42.80 - Zarbs Magic (1996)

[edit] Winners of the Risen Star Stakes since 1995

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2008	Pyro	Shaun Bridgmohan	Steve Asmussen	Winchell Thoroughbreds	1:44.68
2007	Notional	Robby Albarado	Doug O'Neill	J. Paul Reddam	1:44.18
2006	Lawyer Ron	John McKee	Robert E. Holthus	James T. Hines, Jr.	1:43.13
2005	Scipion	Gary L. Stevens	Patrick L. Biancone	Virginia Kraft Payson	1:44.54
2004	Gradepoint	Robby Albarado	Neil J. Howard	Mt. Brilliant Stable/W. S. Farish	1:45.36
2003	Badge of Silver	Robby Albarado	Ronny Werner	Ken and Sarah Ramsey	1:42.99
2002	Repent	Tony D'Amico	Kenneth McPeek	Select Stable	1:43.86
2001	Dollar Bill	Chris McCarron	Dallas Stewart	Gary & Mary West	1:43.45
2000	Exchange Rate	Corey Nakatani	D. Wayne Lukas	Padua Stables	1:44.25
1999	Ecton Park	Shane Sellers	W. Elliott Walden	Mark H. Stanley	1:44.83
1998	Comic Strip	Shane Sellers	Neil J. Howard	Elkins/Farish/Humphrey	1:44.20
1997	Open Forum	Donna Barton	D. Wayne Lukas	Bob & Beverly Lewis	1:44.20
1996	Zarbs Magic	E. J. Perrodin	Bret Thomas	Foxwood Plantation	1:42.80
1995	Knockadoon	Willie Martinez	Anthony L. Reinstedler	William K. Warren, Jr.	1:45.44

[edit] Earlier winners