Fair Grounds
Cooptado to skip Louisiana Stakes
Hodges Photography/Amanda Hodges Weir Cooptado (inside) prevailed by a nose at the wire in Saturday's Tenacious Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Cooptado, winner of the Tenacious Stakes on Saturday, won’t run back in the Louisiana Stakes and will be pointed to longer dirt races next year, trainer Tom Morley told Fair Grounds publicity.
But Dimension, who upset the Buddy Diliberto Memorial Stakes on the Saturday card, could run back Jan. 13 in the Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap. Letellier Stakes winner She’s Pretty Lucky could run next in the Jan. 28 Bara Lass Stakes for Texas-breds on Jan. 28 at Sam Houston.
*** Due to the Christmas holiday, there is a special Wednesday program this week, with Fair Grounds going dark on Sunday. The Wednesday feature is race 5, a second-level dirt-sprint allowance race for fillies and mares.
