Delta Downs will trials for the Old South Futurity on Saturday.

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VINTON, LA—APRIL 23, 2014—Cartels Wave, a gray son of champion Wave Carver who ran fourth in the March 22, $194,000 Harrah’s Entertainment Futurity (G3), will make his next start in Saturday’s 330-yard Old South Futurity trials at Delta Downs.

Racing for Priscilla Rodriguez and trained by Robert Meche, Cartels Wave was acquired for $9,000 at last year’s Heritage Place Yearling Sale at Oklahoma City. The colt has earned $14,149 from two outs.

Cartels Wave will break from the outside post in the first of seven trials. Jorge Linares has been named to ride the colt.

Two other Harrah’s Entertainment Futurity finalists, JW Come On Man and Amazzing, have also been entered in the Old South Futurity trials. A filly by the First Down Dash stallion Tac It Like A Man campaigned by J.W. Owens from the barn of trainer Jeff Acuna, JW Come On Man ran sixth, 1 1/2 lengths behind winner Gotta Run Miss, in the Harrah’s Futurity.

JW Come On Man is the 2-1 morning-line favorite in the sixth heat. Eddie Cox will ride the filly from post 6.

Amazzing finished ninth as the second-fastest qualifier in the Harrah’s Futurity. The sorrel daughter of the Shazoom stallion Ragazzo is owned and trained by Jorge Haddad of Seguin, Texas.

Amazzing will break from post 6 under jockey Saul Ramirez Jr. in heat 2.

Other 2-year-olds entered in the Old South Futurity trials include Jose Angel Linaje’s Capitansita and Eric P. Johnson’s Coal Fired. Capitansita is coming off of a half-length victory as the 2-1 favorite in a March 22, 250-yard maiden special weight dash for Texas-breds at Sam Houston Race Park, while Coal Fired will be making his first start since March 1, when he made his career debut with a second-place finish to JW Come On Man in a Harrah’s Entertainment Futurity trial.

Coal Fired and Capitansita drew posts 5 and 9, respectively, in the seventh trial.

A total of 66 2-year-olds have been entered in the Old South Futurity trials. The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the $25,000-added final on Saturday, May 17.

The Old South Futurity trials, and all Delta Downs races, can been seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.