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Midnight Bourbon and Joe Talamo hold off Proxy and Mandaloun to win the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds
From one of the last crops by the now-pensioned Tiznow (by Cee s Tizzy), Midnight Bourbon became his sire s 81st stakes winner with a victory in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans on Jan. 16.
Last year, Midnight Bourbon had shown high-class form. The bay had finished second to Sittin On Go (Brody s Cause) in the G3 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sept. 5 and had been third to Jackie s Warrior and Reinvestment Risk in the G1 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park on Oct. 10 in the last start at two for Midnight Bourbon.
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One Kentucky Derby qualifying points race was held over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, but there were a couple of other races worth looking at.
The points race was the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes from Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., a 1 1/16-mile contest offering 17 Derby points to the top four finishers (10-4-2-1). While no winners of the Lecomte have gone on to capture the G1 Kentucky Derby, there are some notable successes in the not-too-distant past, including G1 Preakness winners War of Will (2019) and Oxbow (2013). Going back a few more years to 2007, you ll find Derby runner-up Hard Spun on the Lecomte winner s roster.
Midnight Bourbon leads all the way in Lecomte Jan 17, 2021 by James Scully/TwinSpires.com
Midnight Bourbon made all the running in the $200,000
Lecomte Stakes (G3), leading wire-to-wire for Winchell Thoroughbreds and Steve
Asmussen in the first of three Kentucky Derby qualifiers at Fair Grounds.
Joe Talamo was up on the Tiznow colt, and Midnight
Bourbon is a half-brother to Grade 1 winner Girvin, who captured the Louisiana
Derby (G2) and Risen Star S. (G2) at Fair Grounds in 2017.
Previously unbeaten Mandaloun was in position to challenge
in upper stretch but lacked the necessary rally, finishing third as the 3-5 favorite
in his stakes debut.
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