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dapper delegate, frankel, smith, stall
elected to fair grounds hall of fame
NEW ORLEANS (Thursday, January 19, 2012) – Four new members have been elected to the Fair Grounds Hall of Fame: Dapper Delegate, the 1965 Louisiana Derby winner; Bobby Frankel, the only trainer to have won all four of Fair Grounds’ marquee season-ending stakes races; J.R. Smith Sr., trainer of several Fair Ground stakes winners, including 1967 Louisiana Derby hero Ask the Fare; and Al Stall Jr., conditioner of more than a dozen Fair Grounds stakes winners and twice the track’s leading trainer. The 2012 class will be inducted in a winner’s circle ceremony during the races on Fair Grounds Hall of Fame Day, March 10.
Dapper Delegate – owned by Dorothy Brown, trained by Alcee Richard – was a Bay Colt by Porterhouse, out of Monkeyaires. The colt won the 1965 Lecomte Stakes by eight lengths and went on to win that year’s Louisiana Derby by three lengths, topping a Brown-owned exacta with stablemate Doctor Brocato. One of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby in 1965, Dapper Delegate developed colic before the race and never made it to post. He died in
Frankel was one of the most successful trainers in the history of thoroughbred racing. Born in
Smith trained some 40 stakes winners. He began his training career as a teenager at
Stall grew up in a racing family – his father and his grandfather were breeders and owners. His father, Albert M. Stall, is a member of the Fair Grounds Hall of Fame and was chairman of the Louisiana Racing Commission for 28 years until retiring in 2004. Stall worked with racehorses at tracks throughout his teenage years during school vacations and while a college student. Among his employers was Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg and six-time Fair Grounds leading trainer Frank Brothers. Stall’s most famous charge was 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Champion Older Horse Blame, bred and owned by Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider. He trains
The official Fair Grounds Hall of Fame induction will take place in a winner’s circle ceremony between races on March 10, a day that also features two stakes named for Fair Grounds Hall of Fame members, the Black Gold Stakes and the
The 2012 class of the Fair Grounds Hall of Fame was elected by a vote of the 12-member Fair Grounds Hall of Fame Committee, comprised of
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