Evangeline Downs is putting the spotlight on older grass runners during Saturday night’s Louisiana Legends program, with the main events the $75,000 Turf and the $75,000 Distaff Turf. Louisiana Legends Night features six stakes in all, with the races restricted to horses bred in Louisiana. This year, Evangeline moved the dirt route races for older runners to separate cards in April. Purses for Saturday’s stakes total $450,000. Other high points on the card include an appearance by Monte Man, the 2018 Louisiana-bred of the Year, in the $75,000 Sprint. In addition, the pick four on races 4-7 will have a minimum guaranteed pool of $50,000. The Turf, at 1 1/16 miles, drew seven including stakes winners Extra Credit, Pound for Pound, Budro Talking, In the Navy, and Mageez. :: MEMORIAL DAY SALE: Save 50% on Formulator PPs, DRF Plus access, and handicapping reports “It’s a pretty wide-open race,” said Mike Neatherlin, who trains Budro Talking. Budro Talking enters off a close fourth-place finish in an optional $40,000 claiming race at a mile on turf April 19 at Lone Star Park. “We just had a rough trip there, couldn’t get through,” said Neatherlin. “We hope to have a little bit better trip. “I really think he’s got a great chance in there. He’s really training forwardly. I was looking at the Form and the numbers look like he fits real well in there.” Budro Talking, who for his last start earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 74, will break from post 6 under Chris Rosier. “He likes to come from off of it,” said Neatherlin, who trains Budro Talking for Jerry Durant. Extra Credit could go favored as a three-time stakes winner who won the Louisiana Champions Day Turf at Fair Grounds in 2017. He is making his second start of the year, and enters off a fifth-place finish in the off-the-turf Dixie Poker Ace on March 2, also at Fair Grounds. Pound for Pound, who makes his turf debut off a narrow loss in a local allowance, is a half-brother to Flatlined, a Grade 2 winner on the grass who earned nearly $500,000. In the Distaff Turf, which will be run at a mile, Hyper Piper, Bermuda Star, and Yes Gorgeous all should get good support in the nine-horse field. Special Blessing, coming off a 6 1/2-length win in the $75,000 Evangeline Downs Distaff over the main track April 26, is not certain to start Saturday. “We’re probably not going to run if it stays on the grass,” trainer Bret Calhoun said Thursday. “If we scratch, we’ll point for the next stakes, an open stakes, the Spotted Horse.” The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, a high of 90 degrees, and a 10 percent chance of precipitation. Hyper Piper, who was third last out to Special Blessing, makes a rare turf appearance, though she has won on the grass. Bermuda Star was fifth in an off-the-turf stakes last out at Fair Grounds and last year defeated open company on the grass in the $60,000 River Cities at Louisiana Downs. Yes Gorgeous also was a stakes winner on turf last season at Louisiana Downs. Monte Man, who won five stakes last year while going 6 for 7 overall in 2018, is moving back to dirt for the Sprint. He won the 5 1/2-furlong race a year ago at Evangeline. “He does everything right,” said Ron Faucheux, who trains Monte Man for Ivery Sisters Racing. “He never really has a bad day.” Monte Man, who will be ridden by Gerard Melancon, is part of an eight-horse field that includes stakes winners Laughingsaintssong and Win Lion Win. Power Jet will be seeking his second straight stakes win at the meet in the $75,000 Cheval, a mile race for 3-year-olds that drew eight, including the talented Shang. Power Jet won the $75,000 Equine Sales Derby by 2 1/4 lengths on May 4, closing from 10th in the one-mile race at Evangeline. “He put it all together in that race,” said trainer Bret Calhoun. “He got the trip we wanted. The speed kind of came back to him. He ran a big race.” Calhoun noted Power Jet had a couple of “less than desirable trips” leading up to the Equine Sales Derby, among them a fifth-place finish to Shang in the Crescent City Derby at Fair Grounds. The $75,000 Soiree for 3-year-old fillies at a mile drew recent Evangeline stakes winner Fortune Got Even as well as Delta Downs stakes winner Goodprofit, who is a half-sister to top older Louisiana-bred Underpressure.