Risen Star Stakes

Horseraces infobox
class = Grade III
horse race = Risen Star Stakes


caption =
location = Fair Grounds Race Course
New Orleans, Louisiana
inaugurated = 1973
race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing
website = [http://www.fairgroundsracecourse.com/ www.fairgroundsracecourse.com]
distance = 1 ¹/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
track = Dirt, left-handed
qualification = Three-year-olds
weight = Assigned
purse = $300,000
bonuses = The Risen Star Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the Fair Grounds Race Course. It is open to three year old horses and is raced over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. A Grade III event, it offers a purse of $300,000. The race is a prep to the Louisiana Derby and an official prep race for the Kentucky Derby.

Previously known as the Louisiana Derby Trial Stakes, in 1989 it was renamed to honor locally-owned Risen Star who won the race in 1988 and went on to win the Preakness and Belmont Stakes and be voted the 1988 Eclipse Award for American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse.

Notably, in 1975 Golden Chance Farm's colt Master Derby won this race then went on to win the Louisiana Derby and the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes.

The Risen Star Stakes was run in two divisions in 1993 and again in 1995.

Records

Speed record:
* 1:42.80 - Zarbs Magic (1996)

Winners of the Risen Star Stakes since 1995

Earlier winners

*1995 - Beavers Nose
*1994 - Fly Cry
*1993 - Dixieland Heat
*1993 - Dry Bean
*1992 - Line In The Sand
*1991 - Big Courage
*1990 - Genuine Meaning
*1988 - Risen Star

*1987 - Authentic Hero
*1986 - Dr Bee Jay
*1985 - Mischiefinmind
*1984 - Taylors Special
*1983 - Explosive Wagon
*1982 - Linkage
*1981 - Senate Chairman

*1980 - Withholding
*1979 - Incredible Ease
*1978 - Battonier
*1977 - Run Dusty Run
*1975 - Master Derby
*1974 - Heavy Mayonnaise
*1973 - Navajo