Fair Grounds wraps up Quarter Horse meet with LQHBA Sale Futurity

Fair Grounds in New Orleans will close out its Quarter Horse meet Saturday with a 12-race program led by the richest race of the season, the $297,220 Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association Sale Futurity.

The LQHBA Sale Futurity is a restricted Grade 1 and one of five stakes on the program. Together, the races are worth more than $435,000.

Second Down Leaving will put a perfect 3-for-3 record on the line in the Sale Futurity. He won the first two starts of his career at Delta Downs, including the $50,000 Louisiana Juvenile Stakes. Second Down Leaving then came to Fair Grounds and set the fastest qualifying time for the Sale Futurity when he won his 350-yard trial by a neck in 17.39 seconds on Aug. 18.

Stormy T will be going for her fourth consecutive victory when she starts in the Sale Futurity. She began her streak in a maiden race at Delta, then was a nose winner of her trial Aug. 18.

Another leading contender is the multiple stakes-placed Tf El Whiskey.

◗ Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., opens its Quarter Horse meet on Saturday with trials for the 350 yard division of the Black Gold Futurity. The Grade 3 race , which has a purse of $133,500 added, will be run on Sept. 24. The 440-yard division of the Black Gold Futurity will close out the meet on Nov. 11. Will Rogers is racing on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.