Six 3-year-olds running a mile and 70 yards Sundayat Fair Grounds  in a first-level optional $50,000 claimer have a chance to demonstrate whether they belong on the path to the Louisiana Derby. “Whoever wins it or runs second will probably run back in the Risen Star,” said Larry Jones, who trains Jensen, who will be trying two turns for the first time in the race. The Grade 2 Risen Star, the final stakes prep for the $1 million, Grade 2 Louisiana Derby, will be run Feb. 20. The Louisiana Derby will be run March 26. The $41,000 race Sunday didn’t draw an entrant at the $50,000 optional-claiming price. The likely favorite is Harlan Punch, who hasn’t raced since finishing third, five lengths behind winner Exaggerator, in the Grade 3 Delta Downs Jackpot on Nov. 21. Harlan Punch, who has won 1 of 3 starts, finished second in the Jean Lafitte at Delta Downs in his second start. Trainer Tom Amoss said he thinks Harlan Punch will appreciate moving from the bullring at Delta Downs to the mile track at Fair Grounds. “I think he’s a nice horse,” Amoss said. “He’s a big, strongly made horse. I don’t think he’s a horse for Delta.” Amoss already is on the Louisiana Derby trail with Mo Tom, who won the first Louisiana Derby stakes prep, the Grade 3 Lecomte, on Jan. 16. The trainer wouldn’t speculate about whether Harlan Punch might join Mo Tom in the Risen Star. “This race is the only thing in my mind right now,” Amoss said. Dolphus, trained by Joe Sharp, was set to run in the Lecomte but reared in the starting gate, got loose briefly, and was scratched. If the $50,000 Keith Gee Memorial on Sunday is switched from turf to dirt, Sharp would run Dolphus in that race instead of this one. A Lookin At Lucky colt who is a half-brother of Rachel Alexandra, Dolphus has won 1 of 2 starts. He finished third at this level and distance, four lengths behind winner Pinnacle Peak, on Dec. 18. Concerning whether this race might lead to the Risen Star for Dolphus, Sharp said: “It just depends how he comes out of it. He hasn’t had what I’d call a strenuous campaign to this point. He’s a pretty fresh horse.” Jensen, a Haynesfield colt, rallied past maidens to win at six furlongs Jan. 10. Jones said he thinks Jensen will benefit from stretching out. “That’s what pedigree says he’s supposed to do,” Jones said. The other horses are Spikes Shirl, a Dallas Stewart trainee who lost by a neck to Tiznoble in a mile race at this level Dec. 28; Texas Jambalaya, a Terry Eoff trainee coming off a fourth-place finish in the seven-furlong Big Drama on Jan. 9 at Delta Downs; and Royal Ramson, a maiden trained by Danny Pish.