NEW ORLEANS – After about a month of shed-rowing and jogging, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies runner-up Top Decile began galloping at Fair Grounds this week, and trainer Al Stall Jr. said he’s pleased with what he sees. Stall said he has yet to map out a racing schedule for Top Decile, who is a few weeks away from a workout. Obvious local stakes possibilities for her are the Silverbulletday on Jan. 17, the Rachel Alexandra on Feb. 21, and the Fair Grounds Oaks on March 28. Stall has the option of starting her 2015 campaign in a first-level allowance race. Stall also said he has yet to decide on a jockey to replace Rosie Napravnik, retired since the Breeders’ Cup, on Top Decile. Napravnik rode her in all three of her races. Top Decile twice fell a half-length short of winning a 1 1/16-mile Grade 1 race. In the Alcibiades on a wet-fast track at Keeneland, she made a strong late run but was outfinished by the European stretch runner Peace and War. In the Juvenile Fillies on a speed-favoring Santa Anita track, Top Decile rallied strongly but couldn’t catch the front-running Take Charge Brandi. “Bad luck,” Stall said. “It’s very unfortunate. She catches a weird racetrack at Keeneland and a weird racetrack in California.” A Congrats filly owned by Klaravich Stables and William H. Lawrence, Top Decile debuted by defeating maidens at 6 1/2 furlongs at Saratoga. Stall said when he began training the filly he didn’t see her potential for route races, but Napravnik was quick to see it. “I really didn’t,” Stall said. “Rosie said that after she breezed. She said the filly wants to go two turns. That’s why we waited for a six and half at Saratoga. She was right.” Stidham, Leigh Court get familiar Multiple graded stakes winner Leigh Court, who was sold last month for $1 million, has joined trainer Mike Stidham’s stable at Fair Grounds. A Grand Slam filly who won 7 of 12 career starts under trainer Josie Carroll for owner-breeder Eugene Melnyk, Leigh Court was purchased by Speedway Stables at the Fasig-Tipton November sale in Lexington, Ky. Stidham said the filly came to him through the recommendation of longtime friend John Adger, an adviser for Speedway’s Peter Fluor. As a 4-year-old this year, Leigh Court won the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland and the Grade 3 Seaway Stakes at Woodbine. Last year, when she was named champion 3-year-old filly in Canada, she won the Grade 3 Ontario Colleen Stakes at Woodbine. She raced twice at Fair Grounds in 2013, winning her maiden here in her debut. Leigh Court finished fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint in her last start. After spending some down time at Stone Farm in Paris, Ky., she arrived at Fair Grounds last Sunday and started jogging Monday. “We’ll kind of get her into our program, learn a little bit about her, take it one step at a time,” Stidham said. “The ultimate goal is to have her as good as we can get her for races that come up at Keeneland.” Stidham, typically among the leading trainers at Fair Grounds, started this meet quickly, securing four wins, four seconds, and a third from his first 12 starters. With $3.2 million in purse earnings this year through November, he has a chance to surpass his single-year high, $3.27 million, reached in 2012. Stidham said he doesn’t necessarily point to Fair Grounds. “The reason we generally do well is we get a lot of 2-year-olds in, and we’re not a run-early 2-year-old stable,” he said. “They come in with conditions. That really determines how you’re going to do.” Two-year-olds Fantasize and Toutsie Rules already have won for Stidham at this meet. He said he has about 20 2-year-olds here, and several will be debuting in the next three to six weeks. Apprentice drawing attention Apprentice jockey Andre Ramgeet, who had been riding at Charles Town before coming to New Orleans, has caught the attention of local horsemen by riding seven winners in the first two weeks of the meet. Ramgeet, a 23-year-old Florida native, is the son of jockey Andrew Ramgeet and a cousin of jockeys Rajiv Maragh and Shamir Maragh. The younger Ramgeet said he talks to his father, who is riding at Mahoning Valley Racecourse in Ohio, every day. “We go over the races, what I should have done,” Andre Ramgeet said. “Sometimes I mess with him. ‘Dad, why didn’t you win this race?’ ” Rick Mocklin, Andre Ramgeet’s agent, said he was yelling advice as Ramgeet was riding the 2-year-old first-time starter Nanny’s Peach in a maiden race on Thanksgiving Day. “I was hollering at the TV, ‘Go around! Go around!’ ” Mocklin said. Apprentices generally won’t rally along the rail in the stretch, he said. But that’s what Ramgeet did, squeezing Nanny’s Peach through a hole. She won, paying $36.80. “I pretty much stayed there,” Ramgeet said. “She was giving me run. I wasn’t going to back down.” Mocklin said Ramgeet came to Fair Grounds three weeks early to work horses and introduce himself to trainers. The early arrival, plus two victories on Unlimited Lil Lady at Delta Downs for trainer Ron Faucheux before the Fair Grounds meet opened, helped Ramgeet gain a foothold in Louisiana, Mocklin said. “We’re hoping this has a snowball effect,” he said of the jockey’s fast start. Trainer Ron Faucheux said: “I like him a lot. He rode a perfect race both times. He doesn’t look like a bug boy.”