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Three Louisiana Champions Day Stakes Set for Saturday at Evangeline Downs

Three-time stakes winner San Lorenzo Dash will start off a layoff in Saturday's 440-yard, $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic Stakes (RG2) at Evangeline Downs.

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BY MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

OPELOUSAS, LA–DECEMBER 13, 2023–Rogelio Marquez Jr.'s San Lorenzo Dash, a three-time stakes winner during the Delta Downs meet, will make her first start in 2 1/2 months in Saturday's 440-yard, $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic Stakes (RG2) at Evangeline Downs.

The 2-1 morning-line favorite in a field of 10 aged Louisiana-bred runners, San Lorenzo Dash will be making her first official start at the classic 440-yard distance. The homebred 4-year-old Heza Fast Dash mare has earned $95,600 from seven races this year, and her three stakes victories include the 400-yard, $60,000 Vals Fortune/Teddy Abrams Jr. Stakes (RG2) on June 21.

San Lorenzo Dash drew post 6 and will be ridden by David Alvarez for trainer Jesus M. Marquez.

LRH Heart Of Glass, a 4-year-old daughter of Five Bar Cartel racing for Carlos Campos, boasts a four-race win streak that includes victories in the 330-yard, $60,000 Flashy Hemp Stakes (R), and the 400-yard, $50,000 Mid-City Stakes (R). Francisco Campos Sr. trains the sorrel mare.

LRH Heart Of Glass drew post 3 and will be ridden by Arturo Alvarez.

Two other Louisiana Champions Day stakes will be contested on Saturday. Gene Cox's Moonin Rusty headlines Saturday's 400-yard, $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Derby (RG2) for state-bred 3-year-olds. A homebred son of Moonin The Eagle, the gray gelding is coming off of a wire-to-wire, 2 1/4-length victory in the November 4, 400-yard Opelousas Stakes (RG3) at Evangeline Downs.

Moonin Rusty drew the rail post and will be ridden by Juan F. Garcia Jr. for trainer Dwayne Breaux.

Ten state-bred 2-year-olds are entered in Saturday's 350-yard, $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile Stakes (RG2).

Last Freighttrain, a graded stakes placed Freighttrain B filly owned by Harry Stratton and a $33,000 buy at last year's LQHBA Yearling Sale, drew post 7 and will be ridden by David Alvarez for trainer Orlando Orozco. Last Freighttrain has banked $97,984 from six outs, and her summer record included a second-place finish, a head behind winner One Cool Corona, in the September 2, $449,000 LQHBA Sale Futurity (RG1) at Delta Downs.

All Evangeline Downs races can be seen at Q-Racing Video.

LQHBA is the official authorized representative of the American Quarter Horse racing and breeding industry in Louisiana, the unified voice of quarter Horse breedings in the State of Louisiana for purposes of communicatting the advantages and rewards of breeding Quarter Horses in the State and for the purposes of a conducting and coordinating activities with breeding and racing agencies.