They have cometh out of all corners for the Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 18 at Fair Grounds. The Fair Grounds racing office assembled and finalized the Lecomte and the rest of its six-stakes card Saturday, and a boxcar field of 14 was entered in the Grade 3, $250,000 Lecomte, the first 42-point scoring race in Churchill Downs’ Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Road to the Derby, the series of races that determines the Derby field through points accumulation, has so far included stakes distributing 21 qualifying points spread among the top five finishers. The 1 1/16-mile Lecomte should have Built as the favorite, and might, but for two factors: Built drew poorly in post 12, and trainer Brad Cox has two entrants. Cox over the last two years has won graded-stakes races at a 28 percent clip. Admiral Dennis stumbled at the start and clunked home a distant fourth as the 4-5 favorite in the Dec. 26 Gun Runner. Joel Rosario takes over from Luis Saez, while Florent Geroux rides Disco Time, who figures the shorter price between the Cox pair. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Disco Time, a Juddmonte homebred by Not This Time, makes his two-turn and stakes debut after beginning his career with comfortable Churchill Downs scores in a seven-furlong maiden and a one-turn-mile first-level allowance. Built, Jareth Loveberry named to ride by trainer Wayne Catalano, scored a second-out maiden win over seven furlongs at the Keeneland meet in October, after which Catalano freshened him into the Gun Runner. Built made an easy lead on a slow pace, but even so finished unusually fast for a 2-year-old in a dirt route, winning by 6 3/4 lengths with a good 92 Beyer Speed Figure. Built, unless he sets off at an intemperate tempo, won’t make the lead in the Lecomte, which, on paper, features plenty of pace among the field. Magnitude, a fading Gun Runner second, returns for another crack at Built. Stretchout sprinter Tough Catch, Saez named to ride by trainer Dallas Stewart, won the six-furlong Sugar Bowl on the Gun Runner card, and Stewart also entered Dapper Moon, at his best a distant fourth in East Avenue’s Grader 1 Breeders’ Futurity. The $150,000 Silverbulletday, a steppingstone toward the Fair Grounds Oaks and the Kentucky Oaks, drew eight fillies from just three barns. Kenny McPeek entered three, with leading stable jockey Brian Hernandez on Golden Gamble, beaten favorite last month in the Untapable Stakes. Hernandez’s brother, Colby Hernandez, rides Gowell’s Delight, a smart Fair Grounds debut winner going two turns against modest opposition. She’s a Swede, Saez named, won an off-turf maiden Fair Grounds route last out and appears least likely among the trio. Cox entered Chasten, another Juddmonte homebred, whose lone start produced a decent Churchill maiden win over seven furlongs, and California Sunset, third behind Golden Gamble in the Untapable. Whit Beckman trains the Untapable winner, Her Laugh, but entered two different fillies. While Drexel Hill showed late signs of life checking in fifth in the Untapable, her dirt debut, Simply Joking rates the stronger of the two, debuting Dec. 21 in the $100,000 Letellier Memorial, a six-furlong sprint she won despite making mistakes of inexperience. Bless the Broken, far behind victorious Muhimma when seventh in the Demoiselle at Aqueduct, rounds out the field. The Grade 3, $175,000 Louisiana Stakes drew an appealing field, as, in fact, did all the older-horse stakes. The Louisiana, a dirt route for older horses, marks the Midwest debut for 5-year-old Skinner, among the better Southern California members of his generation. The 10-strong Louisiana also lured Hit Show, beaten favorite last out as the Cox-trained favorite in the Grade 2 Clark, as well as speedy 4-year-olds Track Phantom and Maycocks Bay, both drawn outside. Three $100,000 grass contests for older horses, routes for males and females and a sprint for males, all rouse some level of active interest. The Bradley lacks standouts but drew 14 entrants, two whose connections hope wet conditions move the race to dirt. Nobals, winner of the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, flew to Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Sprint last month but didn’t race after contracting a fever. Instead, he shows up in the 5 1/2-furlong Duncan Kenner, which lured an eclectic cast of 10. The Marie Krantz can accommodate 14 fillies and mares and drew 16, all the most interesting ones South American imports. Champagne Rose, a Group 1 winner over 1 1/4 miles on turf in her native Brazil, is set to make her North American debut under the guidance of trainer Kenny McPeek. Even more intriguing is Nanda Dea, a champion miler in Argentina who aced her American unveiling zipping to victory in a third-level allowance at Keeneland in October. Trainer Ignacio Correas called her “special” before that start, and she might well be. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.