Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo., launches a 41-date mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses today, Monday. First post is 4 p.m. Mountain. The track's season was to have started May 23, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Arapahoe has shifted to a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday racing schedule this meet, and also will have a Saturday card Sept. 5 and Sunday card on its closing day, Sept. 6. The track will open with spectator-free racing and strict saftety protocols for participants. They must wear masks and follow social distancing guidlines or be subject to fines starting at $100. 

The stakes schedule starts Monday with the running of the $20,000 Inaugural for Thoroughbreds. 

Entries for Monday, with live odds plus scratches as available

Other highlights of the stakes schedule include the $30,000 Get Happy Mister, a sprint for 3-year-olds bred in Colorado. The race named for one of the meet's top horses from the past runs July 7. The $20,000 Colorado Derby at a mile and a sixteenth is July 27; a trio of $30,000 stakes, including the Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders' Assocation Futurity, run Aug. 4; and the $35,000 Gold Rush Futurity closes out the meet Sept. 6. 

The Gold Rush Futurity, which is for Thoroughbreds, will be part of a program of four stakes that also includes the Butch Gleason Classic that pays tribute to the late horseman who died in December 2016. Gleason was a perennial leading trainer at Arapahoe.