Grade III race | |
Location | Fair Grounds Race Course New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Inaugurated | 1943 (as LeCompte Handicap) |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website | Fair Grounds |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄16 miles |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-olds |
Weight | 122 lbs |
Purse | US$200,000 (since 2013) |
Bonuses | Qualifications points – Road to the Kentucky Derby |
The Lecomte Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses at a distance of one and one-sixteenths miles on the dirt run annually in mid-January, at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event currently offers a purse of $200,000.