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The Fair Grounds Handicap is an American

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horse race for four-year-olds and up run at the Fair Grounds Race Course

Fair Grounds Race Course

Fair Grounds Race Course, often known as New Orleans Fair Grounds, is a thoroughbred racetrack and racino in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is operated by Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company, LLC....

in New Orleans, Louisiana

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early in the year. A Grade III

Graded stakes race

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T stakes race, it's set at a distance of 1 and one-eighth miles or 9 furlongs on the turf

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, and offers a purse of $125,000.

This race is part of Louisiana Derby Preview Day at the New Orleans oval.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2009	Diamond Tycoon	5	Julien Leparoux Julien Leparoux Julien R. Leparoux is a Champion jockey currently racing in the United States.Leparoux, grew up in a racing family, the son of a jockey turned assistant trainer. He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for...	Andrew McKeever	Charlotte Musgrave	1:52.12
2008	Daytona	4	Mike E. Smith	Dan L. Hendricks Dan L. Hendricks Dan L. Hendricks is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Hendricks took out his trainers license in 1987 after working for Richard Mandella for nine years. On July 7, 2004, Dan is paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a motocross accident at Perris, California...	J.Davenport/T.Lenner et al.	1:50.09
2007	Cloudy's Knight Cloudy's Knight Cloudy's Knight is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.Out of Northern Dancer's grandadaughter, Cloudy Spot, he was sired by the 1980 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Lord Avie...	7	Ramsey Zimmerman	James McMullen	S J Stables LLC	1:49.48
2006	Fort Prado	6	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...	Jeff Trosclair	Team Block	1:43.16
2005	G P Fleet	5	Jose Martinez, Jr.	Steven Flint	Klein family Eugene V. Klein Eugene Victor Klein was an American businessman who was Chairman of the Board of Directors and chief stockholder of National General Corp., an insurance and entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California...	1:53.79
2004	Mystery Giver Mystery Giver Mystery Giver is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning three consecutive editions of the Fair Grounds Handicap at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Trained by long time trainer Richard Scherer, Mystery Giver set the track record at the Fair Grounds...	6	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...	Richard R. Scherer	Team Block	1:51.77
2003	Mystery Giver Mystery Giver Mystery Giver is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning three consecutive editions of the Fair Grounds Handicap at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Trained by long time trainer Richard Scherer, Mystery Giver set the track record at the Fair Grounds...	5	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...	Richard R. Scherer	Team Block	1:50.41
2002	Mystery Giver Mystery Giver Mystery Giver is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning three consecutive editions of the Fair Grounds Handicap at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Trained by long time trainer Richard Scherer, Mystery Giver set the track record at the Fair Grounds...	4	Eddie Martin, Jr.	Richard R. Scherer	Team Block	1:50.13
2001	Candid Glen	4	E. J. Perrodin	Andrew Leggio, Jr.	Glen C. Warren	1:54.03
2000	Profit Option	5	Lonnie Meche	Kenneth Hoffman	Team Canonie, Inc.	1:52.52

Earlier winners (partial)

1999 - Aboriginal Apex (6) (Stakes winner.)
1998 - Joyeux Danseur (5) (Grade I stakes winner.)
1997 - Snake Eyes (7) (Multiple graded stakes winner.)
1996 - Born Wild (4) (Multiple graded stakes winner.)
1995 - Yukon Robbery (7) (Multiple graded stakes winner.)
1994 - Yukon Robbery (6)
1993 - Yukon Robbery (5)
1992 - Rainbows For Life
Rainbows For Life
Rainbows For Life is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by Sam-Son Farm, he was trained by Olympic Gold Medalist and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Day....

(4)
1991 - First Tea (4)
1988 - Top Quest (GB) (5)

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