Lousiana Downs Race Track

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Lousiana Downs Racing Schedule: Thursday through Sunday Racing Dates 2009: May 4 - October 20 Post Times: 2:05 p.m. Lousiana Downs Race Track Location: Bossier City, Louisiana Lousiana Downs Official Website: www.ladowns.com

Lousiana Downs Facts:

The Louisiana Downs Race Track is one of the younger race tracks in America - considering the large number of race tracks that are 50 or more years old. The Louisiana Downs Race Track is located in Louisiana - as you might expect. It's a healthy track, taking up almost 350 acres of land. The track is located near Shreveport. As mentioned, it is a younger track. Louisiana Downs was opened on a cool October day in 1974-making it just over thirty years old. The first day of racing went very well as 15,000 horse racing fans attended the event.

The Louisiana Downs set many national records for attendance and handle size during its first twenty years of operation. The Louisiana Downs organized a new meet, the Super Derby, in 1980. The Super Derby was designed to attract the top three-year-olds from all over the country and bring them to one day of fine racing at the track. The initial purse ended up being $500,000, which was the largest purse ever put up for three-year-olds. The race proved to be about which horse was the best on its first holding when Belmont Stakes winner, Temperence Hill, won it and became only the third horse in history to earn more than one million dollars.

The Super Derby has proved to be a calling ground for the elites in horse racing. Over the two-plus decades the event has been held, it has attracted:

• Four Kentucky Derby winners.
• Four Preakness Stakes winners.
• Five Belmont Stakes winners.
• Seven Travers Stakes winners.

The Super Derby has proved to be a horse racing event to watch and to place horse bet.

In 2002, the Louisiana Downs Race Track was purchased by Harrah's Entertainment. Harrah's brings their commitment to entertainment to the table. They have worked hard to further mold the Louisiana Downs into a great race track. Every day of the season there's great horse racing action and some of the horse racing world's top horses and trainers can be found gracing the track at Louisiana Downs. The Louisiana Downs became the first horse racing track in history to showcase Quarter Horse racing mid-November through mid-December. While the Louisiana Downs might be a younger horse racing track in the grand scheme of things, there's definitely a bright future ahead.