Longtime Horseman Dorignac Passes Away
NEW ORLEANS, LA. (November 7, 2006) --
Joseph P. Dorignac III, a longtime Louisiana-based horseman and a member of a prominent New Orleans family, died Monday evening after a brief illness. He was 60.
Mr. Dorignac won leading trainer honors at Fair Grounds in 1972, 1975 and 1984, finished second six times between 1971 and 1980 and also won leading trainer honors at Arlington Park and Atlantic City Race Course.
He trained no fewer than a dozen Fair Grounds stakes winners, including Truchas, who won the 1975 Furl Sail and Bayou Handicaps, Big Dare in the 1974 Pan Zareta and Diamond Blank in the 1973 Thanksgiving Handicap. He was inducted into Fair Grounds’ Racing Hall of Fame in 2002.
Mr. Dorignac’s family served as part owner of Fair Grounds for many years, and his father, fellow Hall of Fame member Joseph P. Dorignac Jr., was the track’s president from 1977-84 in addition to a successful career as a supermarket operator and Thoroughbred breeder in the state of Louisiana.
Funeral arrangements are pending. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations in Mr. Dorignac’s memory to the American Diabetes Association.
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