GUTHRIE, OK—MARCH 2, 2015—Grade 1 winner and first crop sire Louisiana Senator got his first winner and first stakes finalist Sunday during eight trials contested for the Grade 3 $240,910 Harrah's Entertainment Futurity at Louisiana Downs.

Sunday (Mar 1) was the first day that open two-year-old Quarter Horses could make an official start*. The winner of the March 21st 300 yard event, the first open futurity for two-year-old American Quarter Horses in 2015, will earn a $108,409.

Refrigerator Handicap winner Louisiana Senator got his first winner from his first starter when Time For The Senator won the fourth trial to the $240,910 Grade 3 Harrah's Entertainment Futurity. The filly out of In His Dreams, by Apollo (TB), races for owner/trainer Jorge Haddad, and posted the ninth fastest qualifying time of :15.726 seconds for the 300 yards.

Haddad purchased the half-sister to stakes winners Political Option ($286,180), Sizzlin Cartel ($233,446) and Louisiana Blue Dream ($102,332) for $15,000 from her breeder J.E. Jumonville in the September Heritage Place Yearling Sale in Oklahoma City. Time For A Senator's dam is a sister to the dam of world champion and last year's leading freshmen sire Apollitical Jess ($1,399,831).

Louisiana Senator won or placed in 12 of 20 career starts an earned $499,408. He also won the Grade 2 Eastex Handicap and Golden State Juvenile Invitational. He was second in the Los Alamitos Super Derby(G1) and Remington Park Invitational Championship and was finalist in both the Champion of Champions(G1) and The Championship at Sunland Park(G1), etc.

The son of champion Jess Louisiana Blue stands for a 2015 fee of $3,500 at Lazy E Ranch, near Guthrie, Oklahoma. He is owned by Terry Wootan and Joe David Yates.

* Through a special dispensation by AQHA, 2-year-old Louisiana-breds are allowed to start in the trials to the RG2 Mardi Gras Futurity prior to March 1.