Trainer Steve Asmussen will saddle a pair of millionaires in the $100,000 Colonel E.R. Bradley on Saturday at Fair Grounds, when Lagynos and defending winner Gigante go in what is one of three turf stakes on Lecomte Day. There are a total of six stakes races on the card. The Bradley, which is a 1 1/16-mile race for 4-year-olds and up, goes on turf alongside the $100,000 Duncan F. Kenner and $100,000 Marie G. Krantz Memorial. The Bradley drew a field of 11 that includes Grade 2 winner Idratherbeblessed and Kapuna, who finished a respective one-two last out in the Buddy Diliberto Memorial at Fair Grounds, and Theismann, who makes his stakes debut after winning his last three starts in Kentucky. Lagynos will start as a chief contender as a three-time stakes winner who has earned $1.7 million. He captured the $500,000 Tapit at Kentucky Downs in August with a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 104. “We’re very fortunate that he excels at Kentucky Downs because of the purses there,” Asmussen said, “but he’s been a wonderful, consistent horse for quite a while.” :: Big Action in the Big Easy at Fair Grounds! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Lagynos has earned $1.5 million on turf and while he has yet to run over the local course, he was meant for the Fair Grounds turf in December 2024, when he ran in the Woodchopper. He won the race, which was moved to the main track, one start after capturing the Grade 3 Commonwealth Turf at Churchill Downs. In more recent times, Lagynos has been working at Fair Grounds for his first start since Nov. 8, when he dead-heated for third in the Grade 3 River City at Churchill. The winner of the race, Wolfie’s Dynaghost, came back in his next start to win the Grade 3 Fort Lauderdale at Gulfstream Park with a Beyer Speed Figure of 100, and the ninth-place finisher, Encino, returned to take the Prairie Bayou at Turfway Park. “We gave him a little bit of a freshening,” Asmussen said of Lagynos. “I think it’s a very competitive race, but he’s always fun to run.” Jose Ortiz has the mount on Lagynos from post 4. “He’s a very versatile horse,” Asmussen said of the 5-year-old who races for Prince Sultan Bin Mishal Al Saud. Gigante, a 6-year-old, is a Grade 2 winner and an eight-time stakes winner who has earned $1.3 million. He is proven over the Fair Grounds turf as the winner of both the Woodchopper in 2023 and last year’s Bradley. He went on to win the Remington Park Green and a no-conditions allowance last year before finishing fifth in the Diliberto Memorial on Dec. 20. “Disappointed in his last race, but he’s capable of better than that,” Asmussen said. “And he’s always done well at the Fair Grounds.” James Graham has the mount from post 10 for Clark Brewster and L and N Racing. Idratherbeblessed led from start to finish in the Diliberto Memorial, holding off Kapuna by three-quarters of a length. He faces a new pace rival in the Bradley in Theismann, who has used his speed to win three consecutive turf allowances, from Ellis Park, to Churchill Downs, to Keeneland in his last start Oct. 18. The Beyer of 92 that Theismann earned last out stacks up favorably against the 94 that Idratherbeblessed earned in the Diliberto Memorial, which ranks as the best last-race Beyer in the Bradley. Marcelino Pedroza Jr. has the mount on Idratherbeblessed from post 3, while Ben Curtis will be on Theismann from post 7. A battle up front could set the table for either one of the Asmussen millionaires, or stakes winners Cameo Performance and Reagan’s Wit. Kenner Memorial Usually Wrong gets a rematch with Heart Headed in the Kenner, which drew a field of 13 that includes also-eligible Tough Catch. The Kenner is for 4-year-olds and up over 5 1/2 furlongs on turf. Heart Headed and Usually Wrong met at the distance in a Dec. 21 allowance at Fair Grounds. Multiple stakes winner Usually Wrong finished first by 2 3/4 lengths, but was disqualified for ducking out and impeding his rival and was placed second behind Heart Headed. “It was just an unfortunate situation,” said Robertino Diodoro, who trains Usually Wrong. “He was hit once left handed and shied away from the stick. The horse that he interfered with was never going by him, but that’s a part of the game. The horse still won the race in his mind and our minds, so we’ll move on from that.” The allowance went in a blazing 1:01.96, and Usually Wrong earned a career-high Beyer of 101. He will start from post 4 under Isaac Castillo. “It’s not an easy race, but I think our horse is doing very well and if he can run the same race back, I think we’re in business,” Diodoro said. “Sprinting on the grass, you need the right trip, so hopefully we can get lucky and save some ground and sit right behind the speed. And hopefully, he has the same turn of foot as he did last time.” Usually Wrong has won three stakes, with two coming on turf and the other on dirt in the $100,000 Zia Sprint in November. He previously won the Chamberlain Bridge and Grand Prairie Turf Sprint, both at Lone Star Park. “Obviously, he’s a nice horse on the dirt, but he’s just got a little better turn of foot when it comes to the grass,” Diodoro said. “We’re happy we can get another grass race in him.” Usually Wrong, who overall is 7 for 10, races for his breeders, B G Stables and Selman Shaby. Wendelssohn, winner of the Thanksgiving Classic in his last start Nov. 27, is looking for his first turf win in the Kenner. Others adding depth to the field are Grade 2 winner Bear River and stakes winners Mondogetsbuckets, Front Free, High Front, and Touch Catch. Krantz Memorial Medoro will be making a meaningful class move when she goes from a start in the Grade 1 Matriarch at Del Mar to the Krantz Memorial for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on turf. Medoro, who is one of the most accomplished members of the 11-horse field as a Grade 3 winner and four-time stakes winner, enters off a sixth-place finish in the Matriarch. Her rivals include Nanda Dea, a Group 1 winner in Argentina; Wild Bout Hilary, a Grade 3 winner on dirt at Oaklawn; and Cupids Crush, who was second in last year’s off-the-turf Krantz. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.