Quarter Horse meet opens at Fair Grounds

Fair Grounds in New Orleans will open a 10-date meet for Quarter Horses on Thursday. The season will run through Sept. 8.

First post on Thursday is 12:30 p.m. Central.

Fair Grounds has scheduled 10 stakes races for the meet, with half to be run on the closing-day card Sept. 8. The program will be anchored by the Grade 1, $150,000-added Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association Sale Futurity. Other races on the card will include the Grade 2, $40,000 Mid-City Stakes for 3-year-olds and up over a classic distance of 440 yards.

The stakes schedule begins Thursday with the Grade 3, $40,000 Treme, which drew nine horses. It’s part of a 10-race program. Saturday’s card brings 11 trials for the LQHBA Sale Futurity.

Fair Grounds opens a meet for Thoroughbreds in November.

◗ In staff changes, Bridget Harmon has been promoted to senior director of finance for Churchill Downs Inc.’s Louisiana operations, including Fair Grounds and Fair Grounds OTB and Casinos. Harmon has been with Fair Grounds since 2011.

◗ Trials for the Grade 1, $3 million All American Futurity for Quarter Horses are Friday and Saturday at Ruidoso Downs.

◗ Remington Park opens its meet Aug. 24.

◗ The Arkansas Racing Commission is scheduled to meet Thursday in Little Rock, Ark.

◗ The New Mexico Racing Commission is scheduled to meet Aug. 23.