Fair Grounds
New Orleans Handicap next for Noble Bird
Barbara D. Livingston Noble Bird is headed to the New Orleans Handicap on April 1.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Noble Bird, sixth most recently in the Pegasus World Cup, is headed to the Grade 2, $400,000 New Orleans Handicap at Fair Grounds on April 1, trainer Mark Casse said.
On Friday, in his first work since the Pegasus, Noble Bird went five furlongs in 1:00.30 at the Palm Meadows training center.
“I thought he went fantastic,” Casse said.
Noble Bird will be making his first start at Fair Grounds, and that will mark the 10th track at which he has raced. He has won 7 of 21 starts, his biggest victory coming in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs in 2015.
