LIVE RACING SCHEDULE Delta Downs will conduct the fourth of 22 weeks of live Thoroughbred racing this Wednesday through Saturday. Post times each night during the 88-day season are at 5:45 p.m. The track’s 2011-2012 meeting will run through March 17. The only exception to the post time schedule will occur on Saturday, November 19, when a special afternoon program will take place during the ninth running of the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot (Gr. III). Post time on Jackpot Day will be at 1:15 p.m.

THE $1,000,000 DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT GOES

NEXT WEEK!!! The richest race day of the year happens next week as Delta Downs hosts the ninth running of the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot (Gr. III) on Saturday, November 19. There is a special first post time of 1:15 p.m. CST on Jackpot Day. In addition to the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot, the track will also card seven other stakes races including the $500,000 Delta Downs Princess (Gr. III). The entire card, 11 races in all, will feature a total of nearly $2.2 million in purse money awarded.

Fans can win their very own official $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot t-shirt between now and November 18 on the track’s simulcast show hosted by track announcer Don Stevens.

Each evening, Stevens will gather emails

and enter them in a special drawing to determine one t-shirt winner per night. The winning name will be revealed on the simulcast program during the pre-race handicapping segment prior to race 10.

All t-shirt winners will then be entered into a

grand prize drawing that will take place after the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot is run on November 19. The grand prize includes a Friday and Saturday night in Delta Downs luxurious hotel and free buffet meals during the visit!

$100,000 JACKPOT DAY PICK 4 NEXT WEEK

In addition to great racing on Delta Downs Jackpot Day, November 19, race fans can also take a shot at a big payoff with the $100,000 guaranteed Pick 4 wagering pool. The bet will take place on races 4-7, which includes the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot (Gr. III) and the $500,000 Delta Downs Princess (Gr. III) along with two other exciting stakes events. Last year’s Delta Downs Jackpot Pick 4 bet returned a whopping $5,551.60 for a $2 ticket with the winning combination of 8-6-8-1. The Delta Downs Jackpot Day Pick 4 record payoff came in 2006 when Birdbirdistheword anchored the bet when it paid a staggering $22,225.80!!

VISIT DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT WEBSITE

Fans now have a way to keep up with all the fun and excitement of Delta Downs Jackpot Day on the internet. It’s at www.deltadownsjackpot.com. The Delta Downs Jackpot website features up-to-date information on nominations, entries, past performances, past winners, handicapping tournaments and the $100,000 Jackpot Day Pick 4 wager. Fans can also relive past $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot races with video of all previous runnings going back to the inaugural race in 2002.

November 9 – 12, 2011 

 

Delta Downs now has a special page on Facebook for fans to get information and interact with track announcer and simulcast host Don Stevens. Check us out, and be sure to click the ‘Like Us’ button. Simulcast fans from coast to coast are discovering the hottest new racing page on Facebook every day!

STAR GUITAR WINS ANOTHER GOLD CUP

Millionaire Star Guitar and jockey Corey Lanerie

winning last week’s $100,000 Gold Cup.

After winning the $100,000 Gold Cup at Delta Downs in 2009, Brittlyn Stables Inc.’s (Evelyn Benoit) Star Guitar finished a very disappointing fourth as the 1-2 wagering favorite in the same race last year. This past Saturday he made amends for that rare loss by rallying past the field under jockey Corey Lanerie to record his second victory in the one-mile test for older Louisiana-bred horses. The tally by Star Guitar, a 6-year-old son of Quiet American, marked his sixth consecutive stakes win and it added another $60,000 to his already bulging bankroll. The bay runner has now won 20 of 26 starts and has earned a staggering sum of $1,425,862. The connections of Star Guitar had to wait a while before celebrating in the winner’s circle last week as the stewards dealt with a jockey’s objection involving second-place finisher My Star Runner. After the review it was found that My Star Runner

had interfered with Heavenville in mid-stretch. He was disqualified and placed fourth. That action moved Eighth At Citypark up to second and Heavenville up to third.

Star Guitar, getting a post-race kiss from owner Evelyn Benoit.

LAWYER TIFFANY PLEADS HER CASE IN MAGNOLIA STAKES

Lawyer Tiffany and jockey Juan Larrosa winning the Magnolia.

Fletcher B. Clement and Dennis Milligan’s 3-year-old filly Lawyer Tiffany snared her first career stakes win last week when she defeated eight rivals in the $100,000 Magnolia Stakes.

Under jockey Juan Larrosa, Lawyer Tiffany drew clear in the stretch to win by three lengths over favored Daphne Angela. Harlies Dreams was another 1-1/2 lengths behind in third.

  Three of Lawyer Tiffany’s four career victories have come at Delta Downs. She broke her maiden at Louisiana Downs last September then won a pair of allowance races in Vinton last season before her stakes triumph on Saturday night. Lawyer Tiffany has now won four of 10 starts and amassed $169,132 in total earnings.

Fans can look for the daughter of Pure Prize to possibly show up in this year’s Louisiana Premier Night Distaff on February 4. Lawyer Tiffany took part in last year’s LAPN Starlet as a 3-year-old where she finished third to Cat’s Production.

HEBERT GETS CLOSER TO MCMAHON IN THE JOCKEY STANDINGS

Two-time Delta Downs leading jockey Tracy Hebert.

After recording a riding double last Thursday and scoring four wins total for the week, Tracy Hebert has drawn within three wins of leading jockey C. J. McMahon. Through the first three weeks of the season McMahon has ridden 15 winners while Hebert’s mounts have made it to the winner’s circle 12 times. Following the top pair of riders as the third week of the season gets underway on Wednesday are Diego Saenz (11 wins), Gerard Melancon (11), Richard Eramia (7), Kevin Smith (7), Don Simington (7), Ismael Corrales (6), John Jacinto (5), Jansen Melancon (4).

A total of five different jockeys recorded riding doubles last week. They included Don Simington (Wednesday), Tracy Hebert (Thursday), Gerard Melancon (Friday), and Ismael Corrales and Billy Patin (Saturday).

Delta Downs Jockey Standings By Wins October 19 – November 5, 2011

BOURGEOIS INCHES CLOSER TO 2,000 WINS

Keith Bourgeois sent out two winners last week, which brings his career total 1,995 training wins for his career. Bourgeois saddled Corey’s Red Boy before he won last Thursday’s fourth race, a 6-1/2 furlong claimer. Then on Saturday night he sent out Mis Avie in the ninth race. Mis Avie, a late running gray filly, got her second win of the season in the one-mile claimer and placed Bourgeois just five wins shy of the 2,000 plateau.

RICHEY AND HOUSE NOW TIED AT THE TOP

AMONG TRAINERS Through the first three weeks of the current season at Delta Downs there is a two-way tie for leading trainer. Tony Richey and Brian House have each seen five of their horses make it to the winner’s circle. Incredibly there are six trainers in a tied for third-place in the trainer standings with four wins each. They include Sam Breaux, Keith Bourgeois, Shane Wilson, Charles Hukill, Brett Brinkman and

  Patrick Devereaux, Jr. Scott Gelner and Preston Adams round out the top 10 conditioners as they are tied for ninth place with three wins each. As far as training multiples go, there were two of them accomplished during last week’s action at Delta Downs. Ex-jockey C. J. Woodley won two races on the Wednesday card and Kevin D. Martin had two wins on Friday night.

Delta Downs Trainer Standings by Wins October 19 – November 5, 2011

JLF WINNING TRAINER FINISHES THIRD IN

$5 MILLION BC CLASSIC

2011 Jean Lafitte winning trainer Kelly Breen.

Trainer Kelly Breen’s career has been on the rise in recent years and the results of last weekend’s $5 million Breeders’Cup Classic (Gr. I) will only serve to enhance his resume further. Breen, who will most likely saddle his third $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot starter next week with Jean Lafitte winner My Adonis, finished third

in the BC Classic with River On Ice at Churchill Downs.

The 30-1 Morning line longshot, who gave Breen his first Belmont Stakes win back in June, rallied strongly under jockey Garret Gomez to get the show spot behind Drosselmeyer and runner-up Game On Dude. My Adonis will attempt to showcase Breen’s conditioning talents even more when he goes postward in the Jackpot. A win would mark Breen’s first in the $1,000,000 grade III offering.

West Side Bernie (black cap) finishing second to Big Drama in the

2008 edition of the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot.

In 2008 Breen’s trainee West Side Bernie ran second to stakes record holder and eventual Breeders’ Cup Sprint champion Big Drama. Last year Breen saw his charge Sweet Ducky finish fourth to Gourmet Dinner in the season’s richest race.

CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE TRACK? WATCH THE

RACES ONLINE

 

CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE TRACK? WATCH THE

RACES ONLINE

Delta Downs now offers free live streaming video of its nightly race programs on the Internet. You can view the action by visiting www.deltadowns.com.

Free live streaming video is a great way to enjoy Delta Downs racing even when you can’t make it to the track in person.

GET FREE RACE REPLAYS AT HOME!

In addition to free live streaming video of Delta Downs races, the track also offers free replays of all the races run earlier this season on its website. To view the replays as many times as you like free of charge, just click on ‘Race’ on the homepage and then click ‘Race Replays/Live Racing’.

Possible $500,000 Delta Downs Princess (Gr. III) starter and My Trusty Cat winner, Citizen Advocate, with jockey Luis Juardo up.

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who has nominated Del Mar Futurity winner Drill to the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot.

2011-2012 STAKES RACES