Two-time defending champion trainer Ron Faucheaux wins three on Thursday, including the day’s fifth race allowance claimer with Rose Palace. It was the speedy gray filly’s second consecutive win and jockey Jose Luis Rodriguez was aboard.
Gentilly triple: Faucheaux trains three winners at Fair Grounds Thursday
Wells Bayou, left, ridden by jockey Florent Geroux, took an early lead and held off NY Traffic to win he 107th running of the $1,000,000 Grade II Louisiana Derby horse race, Saturday, March 21, 2020, at a fanless Fair Grounds race course in New Orleans. (Amanda Hodges Weir/Hodges Photography, Fair Grounds Race Course via AP)