Maurice native Kent Desormeaux rode Big Brown into his third Kentucky Derby win on Saturday, beating out Eight Belles by 4 3/4 lengths. Big Brown was favored to win at 5:2. The only other horse to win the derby from the 20th position was Clyde Van Dusen in 1929, and the 1915 winner Regret was the only other horse to take the derby with only three career starts.
Big Brown and Desormeaux's victory was marred though by the tragedy of Eight Belles, who was euthanized after breaking both of her front ankles after the race. Last year's winning jockey and Catahoula native, Calvin Borel came in third on Saturday's race third riding Denis of Cork, after starting off in last place. Lafayette native Robby Albarado finished tenth on Z Fortune.
The Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, takes place in Baltimore on May 17. Watch the 134rd Kentucky Derby below as it was broadcast on NBC or watch this overhead view.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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