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The Lecomte Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses at a distance of one and one-sixteenths miles on the dirt run annually in mid-January, at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event currently offers a purse of $250,000.
Smarty Jones Stakes at Parx Racing and Casino Smarty Jones (February 28, 2001) is a champion Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and came second in the Belmont Stakes .
Kenneth L. "Ken" Ramsey (born 1935) and Sarah Kathern "Kitten" Ramsey (February 5, 1939 – May 29, 2022) [5] are horse breeders and owners of Thoroughbred race horses. They have multiple graded stakes winners, three Breeders' Cup winners, and the Ramseys themselves have won multiple Eclipse Awards for outstanding owner and breeder.
Arrogate (April 11, 2013 – June 2, 2020) was a Thoroughbred racehorse, and was the richest horse in equine history (by earnings).. He won the 2016 Travers Stakes in a record time in his first stakes appearance.
Irad Ortiz Jr. (born August 11, 1992) is a Puerto Rican jockey who has been a leading rider in the New York Thoroughbred horse racing circuit since 2012. He won his first Breeders' Cup race on Lady Eli in 2014, and his first American Classic on Creator in the 2016 Belmont Stakes.
The horse is trained by Jena Antonucci, the first woman to have a horse she trained win one of the three races in American horse racing's triple crown, namely the Belmont Stakes in 2023. [10] The horse was ridden in the 2023 Belmont Stakes by jockey Javier Castellano , who also previously rode him to a win in the Peter Pan Stakes. [ 11 ]
Lava Man was the first horse in a generation to win a Grade 1 race on dirt and turf in the same year, and he is the only horse to win a North American Grade 1 race on dirt, turf, and an artificial racing surface. He is the all-time leading earner among claimers and is arguably the greatest claim in racing history. [6] [5]
McKinzie is sired by 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense and out of the graded stakes winning Petionville mare Runway Model. Through his dam, McKinzie is a descendant of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and was born at Summer Wind Farm in Georgetown Kentucky, home of, among others Littleprincessemma, Careless Jewel, and Eblouissante, a half sister to Zenyatta.