Mobile Bay Back to Defend LA Champions Day Classic

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Mobile Bay wins the LA Bred Premier Night Championship Stakes in February

If Mobile Bay can race well off an extended layoff, the grade 2 winner looks well-positioned to register a second straight Louisiana Champions Day Classic Stakes win Dec. 9 at Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots.

The $150,000 Classic is the most lucrative race on a card that features six other black-type stakes for Louisiana-bred Thoroughbreds. Those seven stakes will offer total purses of $750,000.

Tigertail Ranch homebred Mobile Bay closed out his 2016 season with a 4 3/4-length romp in last year's Louisiana Champions Day Classic then opened 2017 with a clear victory in the LA Bred Premier Night Championship Stakes Feb. 11. at Delta Downs. But the son of Lone Star Special has not raced since picking up the eighth stakes win of his career in that February test.

Winner of the 2015 Super Derby (G2), Mobile Bay will carry high weight of 124 pounds in Saturday's 1 1/8-mile race. He enters the race off a strong work pattern for trainer Victor Arceneaux, including a five-furlong breeze in a bullet 1:00 1/5 Dec. 2 at Evangeline Downs.

In the six other stakes:

  • Juvenile fillies will get the day started in the $100,000 Lassie Stakes, where Brittlyn Stable homebred Minit to Stardom (Star Guitar ) will try to make the class jump from impressive debut maiden winner to stakes winner when she makes her second career start in the six-furlong test.
  • In the Ladies Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on the turf, Allied Racing Stable's Invenian Viam (Half Ours ) will try for a second straight win on the course after taking the Si Cima overnight stakes Nov. 18.
  • In the 1 1/16-mile Turf, Scrivener Stables' Trust Factor (Paddy O'Prado) will try for his second stakes win of the season. He enters with a win or runner-up finish in each of his past four starts.
  • In the six-furlong Juvenile, Brittlyn Stable again figures prominently with a Star Guitar 2-year-old entered off an impressive maiden debut win in Divine Bean.
  • In the Sprint, at six furlongs, Dare to Dream Stable's Jockamo's Song (Half Ours) will try to secure a third straight stakes victory.
  • Closing out the day will be the six-furlong Ladies Sprint where Town and Country Racing's My Miss Chiff (Into Mischief ) enters off a clear victory in the Happy Ticket Stakes.


Entries: Louisiana Champions Day Lassie S.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Saturday, December 09, 2017, Race 5

  • STK
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 2 yo Fillies
  • 3:05 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Cool Spring (LA) Florent Geroux 117 Danny Pish 8/1
2 2Girls Life (LA) Ashley Broussard 122 Karl Broberg 8/1
3 3Sarah's Holy Belle (LA) Chantal Sutherland 117 Ricky Courville 8/1
4 4Andthebandplayedon (LA) Corey J. Lanerie 122 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 7/2
5 5Yes Gorgeous (LA) Jose Valdivia, Jr. 122 Scott Gelner 4/1
6 6Minit to Stardom (LA) Colby J. Hernandez 122 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 5/2
7 7Just a Bandit (LA) Kerwin D. Clark 122 Allen Landry 10/1
8 8She'screative (LA) Jansen Melancon 122 J. R. Caldwell 10/1




Entries: Louisiana Champions Day Ladies S.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Saturday, December 09, 2017, Race 6

  • STK
  • About 1 1/16m
  • Turf
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 3:35 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Mr. Al's Gal (LA) Diego Saenz 115 Justin Jeansonne 4/1
2 2Seaside Candy (LA) Colby J. Hernandez 118 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 8/1
3 3Pera (LA) Chantal Sutherland 118 Ricky Courville 15/1
4 4Safari Calamari (LA) Jose Valdivia, Jr. 118 Ron Faucheux 8/1
5 5Inveniam Viam (LA) Shaun Bridgmohan 122 Brad H. Cox 5/2
6 6Dontmesswithjoanne (LA) Florent Geroux 115 Brad H. Cox 3/1
7 7Tenpins Tempo (LA) Ashley Broussard 115 Lee Thomas 20/1
8 8Calamity Jane (LA) Miguel Mena 118 Edward J. Johnston 10/1
9 9Pacific Pink (LA) Corey J. Lanerie 118 Edward J. Johnston 10/1




Entries: Louisiana Champions Day Turf S.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Saturday, December 09, 2017, Race 8

  • STK
  • About 1 1/16m
  • Turf
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up
  • 4:35 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Hail to the Nile (LA) Corey J. Lanerie 118 Sturges J. Ducoing 10/1
2 2Who Datawaki (LA) Chantal Sutherland 118 Lee Thomas 20/1
3 3Jack Snipe's (LA) Florent Geroux 119 Gary M. Scherer 12/1
4 4Trust Factor (LA)Keeneland Sales Graduate Robby Albarado 122 Michael J. Maker 8/5
5 5Gentlmens Agrement (LA) Colby J. Hernandez 118 Leo G. Gabriel, Jr. 8/1
6 6Fort Pulaski (LA) Jose Valdivia, Jr. 122 Danny Pish 3/1
7 7Impressive Student (LA) Jamie Theriot 115 Joe O. Duhon 15/1
8 8Extra Credit (LA) Shaun Bridgmohan 118 Brad H. Cox 5/1
9 9Harbor Pilot (LA) Gerard Melancon 118 Scott Gelner 15/1




Entries: Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile S.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Saturday, December 09, 2017, Race 9

  • STK
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 2 yo
  • 5:05 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Pound for Pound (LA) Eddie Martin, Jr. 122 Jose Grimaldo 8/1
2 2Prayer Boy (LA) Kerwin D. Clark 122 Allen Landry 20/1
3 3Ready Prospector (LA) Gerard Melancon 122 Oscar Modica 4/1
4 4Uncle Herbie (LA) Jamie Theriot 122 Tracy A. Norris 30/1
5 5Divine Bean (LA) Colby J. Hernandez 122 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 7/2
6 6Cajun Creed (LA)Keeneland Sales Graduate Florent Geroux 122 Danny Pish 9/2
7 7Greeley Went West (LA) James Graham 122 James E. Hodges 8/1
8 8Singing Deacon (LA) Aubrie Green 122 James E. Hodges 8/1
9 9Exigent (LA) Miguel Mena 122 W. Bret Calhoun 6/1
10 10Aceguitar (LA) Ted D. Gondron 122 Danny Pish 6/1




Entries: Louisiana Champions Day Classic S.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Saturday, December 09, 2017, Race 10

  • STK
  • 1 1/8m
  • Dirt
  • $150,000
  • 3 yo's & up
  • 5:35 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1One King's Man (LA) Gerard Melancon 118 F. Dewaine Loy 20/1
2 2Mageez (LA) Mitchell Murrill 118 Delmar R. Caldwell 5/1
3 3Mobile Bay (LA) Diego Saenz 124 Victor Arceneaux 5/2
4 4Classy Bird (LA) Eddie Martin, Jr. 118 Lonnie Briley 12/1
5 5Seaside Candy (LA) Colby J. Hernandez 115 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 6/1
6 6Grande Basin (LA) Miguel Mena 118 Edward J. Johnston 5/1
7 7Underpressure (LA) Corey J. Lanerie 121 Chris Richard 4/1
8 8Extra Credit (LA) Shaun Bridgmohan 118 Brad H. Cox 5/1




Entries: Louisiana Champions Day Sprint S.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Saturday, December 09, 2017, Race 11

  • STK
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up
  • 6:05 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Hunker Down (LA) Corey J. Lanerie 118 Delmar R. Caldwell 12/1
2 2Philly (LA) Colby J. Hernandez 118 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 12/1
3 3Stand Him Up (LA) Gabriel Saez 120 Howard Alonzo 7/2
4 4Jockamo's Song (LA) Gerard Melancon 120 Michael Stidham 5/2
5 5Just Kissing Buck (LA) Diego Saenz 118 Dale White, Sr. 8/1
6 6Nubin Ridge (LA) Ashley Broussard 118 Alan Klanfer 4/1
7 7Biblical Strength (LA) Mitchell Murrill 118 Jason H. Meaux 20/1
8 8My Friend Flavin (LA) Robby Albarado 118 Leo G. Gabriel, Jr. 8/1
9 9Outofthisgalaxy (LA) Kerwin D. Clark 120 John Rannie Ladner 15/1
10 10Double Barrel Man (LA) Shaun Bridgmohan 118 Lee Thomas 12/1




Entries: Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Sprint S.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Saturday, December 09, 2017, Race 12

  • STK
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 6:35 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Sunny Oak (LA) Corey J. Lanerie 118 Edward J. Johnston 9/2
2 2Dr Liz (LA) Chantal Sutherland 116 Ricky Courville 50/1
3 3Discreetly Grand (LA) James Graham 118 Morris G. Nicks 20/1
4 4My Miss Chiff (LA) Mitchell Murrill 116 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 9/5
5 5Play Unified (LA)Keeneland Sales Graduate Miguel Mena 118 W. Bret Calhoun 20/1
6 6Bitsy's C C (LA) Ashley Broussard 116 Sam B. David, Jr. 15/1
7 7Elektracutioner (LA) Jose Valdivia, Jr. 116 Ray Sibille 12/1
8 8Wheatfield (LA) Florent Geroux 118 Danny Pish 2/1
9 9Fairwell Tax Break (LA) Gabriel Saez 118 Howard Alonzo 20/1
10 10Look Into My Eyes (LA)Keeneland Sales Graduate Robby Albarado 118 Efren Loza, Jr. 6/1