The Downs at Albuquerque opens its 54-day season with a 10-race program on Saturday. Post time for the first race is 1:30 p.m. (MDT).

Albuquerque's opening-day card includes a pair of feature races, both for Quarter Horses. The third race, an open 350-yard allowance with a purse of $14,300, has drawn a full field of 10 3-year-olds, including Lindsay Gonzalez's Especially Okey and Santa Fe Horse Racing by Carrillo's LLC's Primm Nevada, the first- and third-place finishers, respectively, in the 400-yard, $50,000 Animas Stakes at SunRay Park on May 29.

An earner of $65,503 from 12 outs, Especially Okey will break from post 8 and be ridden by Ruben Calderon. Primm Nevada has won three of 12 races, all against claiming company. The gelding by AQHA champion Brimmerton drew post 4 and will be ridden by Porfirio Cano.

The fourth race is a 870-yard, $14,300 allowance race that drew a full field of eight older Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds. Likely favorite Barbaric (TB), a Kentucky-bred 5-year-old Touch Gold gelding owned and trained by Robert S. Gonzalez, brings in a three-race win streak that includes two 870-yard starter allowance races at SunRay Park.

The Downs at Albuquerque's stakes schedule features a total of 34 races – 20 for Thoroughbreds and 14 for Quarter Horses. The slate includes the inaugural running of the 220-yard, $100,000-est. Zoom Zoom Zoom Shootout Stakes on Sunday, October 2. Racing secretary Jim Collins said that he expects the Zoom Zoom Zoom to attract entries from throughout the U.S.

Lineage Day on Sunday, August 21, features nine official black-type stakes for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses and two $10,000 claiming stakes for $5,000 claimers.

The Downs at Albuquerque season includes a 17-day New Mexico State Fair meet in September. Stakes highlights during the State Fair meet include the 400-yard, $50,000-added Senor Futurity (RG3) and 400-yard, $50,000-added Senorita Futurity (RG3), both of which will be contested on September 24; and the 6-furlong, $50,000-added Dessie & Fern Sawyer Futurity (R), and the 6-furlong, $50,000-added George Maloof Futurity (R), both of which will be run on September 25.

The Downs at Albuquerque is located at the Expo New Mexico fairgrounds in central Albuquerque. For more information on the meet, which runs through November 13, visit the track's website at www.abqdowns.com, or call the track at (505) 266-5555.