Fair Grounds Blog

It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm just sitting down to review the end of this season. It's hard to believe the season is over already, but it's over, game, set, match.

Just like another strong female force we're all familiar with that was named Hurricane Katrina, trainer Michelle Lovell has stormed through Louisiana like a Category 5 hurricane.

It is hard to believe that the end of this Fair Grounds racing season is rapidly approaching. As of today, Friday, March 19th, we've got only seven racing days left to go.

The Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund is a national organization that assists jockeys and exercise riders in their times of need.

I must admit that the day they were teaching us about Einstein's Theory of Relativity in school, I wasn't paying attention (I was probably reading the Racing Form).

After writing about the New Orleans Saints getting to and winning the Super Bowl over the past couple of weeks, I promised I'd get back to talking about racing, in particular about trainer Helen Pi

Unthinkable, Unimaginable, Unbelievable!

The wonderful thing about a blog is you can write about anything you want and do it in an informal way.

Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner wearing the blue silks with the white trim, weighing in at 117 pounds, from Lafayette, Louisiana, the seven-time Fair Grounds riding champion, this is "Roc

The action here last week was fast and furious in more ways then one.