Evangeline stakes schedule worth $1.5-million
Thoroughbred Times
Posted: 2/1/06

Evangeline Downs has boosted the purses of the Evangeline Mile Handicap and the D.S. "Shine'' Young Memorial Futurity by $50,000 each, taking the value of those races to $150,000 apiece.
Those stakes, along with Louisiana Legends Night, anchor a 17-race stakes schedule at Evangeline's 2006 meet, which runs from March 30 through September 4.
The Evangeline Mile for three-year-olds and older will be run on August 12. The D.S. "Shine'' Young Memorial for two-year-olds at five furlongs is scheduled for the Louisiana Legends Night on July 1.
Louisiana Legends Night features $720,000 in purses and includes seven stakes races and three starter allowance races for Louisiana-breds.
Three $100,000 races—two divisions of the John Franks Memorial Sales Stakes on August 4-5 and the Lafayette Stakes on September 4—are also part of the track's stakes program, which offers $1.5-million in purses. Twelve $75,000 stakes races will also be contested.
"We are proud to offer this beefed up stakes schedule to our horsemen for our 41st-consecutive season in southwest Louisiana and feel it is certain to be the best ever," said David Yount, Evangeline's executive director of racing.