Mr. Bowling returns for Risen Star Stakes
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02/19/2012 - New Orleans, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lecomte Stakes winner Mr. Bowling heads a field of 11 three-year-olds for Saturday's $300,000 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course. The 1 1/6-mile race is a prelude to the $1 million Louisiana Derby on Sunday, April 1.
Mr. Bowling, trained by Larry Jones, will start from post three in the Risen Star with Robby Albarado again in the saddle. Owned by Brereton Jones, Mr. Bowling has earnings of $201,048 with three wins in five career starts.
Z Dager, second in the Lecomte, will break from post four with Shane Sellers riding. Trained by Steve Asmussen for Zayat Stables, Z Dager will go after his second career victory on Saturday.
Shared Property, who was third in the Lecomte, is also entered and will start from post 10 with Leandro Goncalves riding. The gelding is owned by Jerry Namy and trained by Tom Amoss. He won the Arlington-Washington Futurity last year at Arlington Park and was sixth in the Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland in October. Shared Property has earnings of $89,300.
Here is the full field in post position order: Afford, Shaun Bridgmohan; Optimizer, Carlos Marquez Jr.; Mr. Bowling, Robby Albarado; Z Dager, Shane Sellers; Ted's Folly, Ramsey Zimmerman; Adena's Chance, Richard Eramia' Hero of Order, James Graham; El Padrino, Javier Castellano; Mark Valeski, Rosie Napravnik, Shared Property, Leandro Goncalves and Tizanexpense, Miguel Mena.
Post-time for the Risen Star Stakes will be 6 p.m. (et).
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
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De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
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