Win Place Show
Emerald Downs podcast Horse Racing NW, featuring Joe Withee & Vince Bruun. Weekly thoroughbred insight, news, handicapping, and more!
Episodes
November 23, 2023 • 69 mins
Happy Thanksgiving from Emerald Downs! The 5t Floor is open this Holiday and you can enjoy a full Turkey Day meal for just $17.50 at Quick Pix. A turkey dinner with all the fixins’ including dessert. Also, there's full card simulcasting from top tracks such as Laurel, Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds, Del Mar, Golden Gate and Woodbine. WHRC Commissioner Doug Moore joins Joe and Vince on Horseracing NW. Moore sorts out the re...
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November 2, 2023 • 97 mins
Emerald Downs is ready for Breeders’ Cup simulcasting, this Friday and Saturday, November 3-4. Gates open on Friday at 8:30 am, Saturday at 8:00 am. The 5th floor is first come-first served as far as seating, so get here early. Watch and wager on the 40th running of the Breeders’ Cup, a truly world-wide competition consisting of 14 races over the two days. It’s free admission at Emerald Downs and there’s food specials both days...
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October 13, 2023 • 72 mins
The 40th Breeders’ Cup is just around the corner, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4 at Santa Anita. Seating on the Fifth Floor at Emerald Downs, each day, is first come-first served. Do the Cup in style this year. The 6th Floor Suites are available for a minimum $1,000, including amenities. Get your group together and call Emerald Downs Group Sales at 253-288-7700. Matt Dinerman’s first job as Track Announcer was at Emerald Do...
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September 22, 2023 • 54 mins
Emerald Downs concluded the 2023 season on a high note last Sunday, September 17, and Joe and Vince recap the action that decided several season-ending honors including Slew’s Tiz Whiz earning his second consecutive Horse of the Meeting title. Thanks to all who made the year memorable – the fans and handicappers, the horsemen and their grooms, EmD staff and officials and, of course the horses! Trainer Tom Wenzel joins Joe and...
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September 15, 2023 • 74 mins
It’s Closing weekend at Emerald Downs this Saturday and Sunday, September 16-17. The season that began on May 6 concludes early Sunday evening after an 11-race card that will decide many honorees among horse and human participants. Categories in the balance are Horse of the Meeting, Older Filly/Mare, both Juvenile sex divisions and Top Washington-bred. The three stakes on Sunday – Washington Cup Filly and Mare, Muckleshoot Triba...
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September 8, 2023 • 72 mins
Fan Appreciation Day this Sunday! Free admission for all on Sunday Sept. 10 at Emerald Downs. Add to that, numerous food and beverage specials at concession stands and bars. Racing Saturday, too, starting at 5 pm. That’s also the schedule for closing week, Sept. 16-17 – 5 pm Saturday and 2 pm Sunday. Trainer Blaine Wright and Turf Writer Paul Beattie join Joe, Vince and Bill this week on the podcast. Wright has several pr...
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September 1, 2023 • 66 mins
September has arrived and the EmD schedule is Saturday-Sunday for the final three weekends of live racing. This Sunday, Sept. 3, is “Italian Day” with the usual Italian music, dancing, food/beverage and the popular Sorelli Pizza Eating Contest. Sorelli’s owner/operator Kelly Dougan joins Joe, Vince and Bill – talking pizza and horse racing. Prominent breeder/owner Keith Swagerty joins the crew to speak about an exciting fu...
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August 24, 2023 • 64 mins
More great racing and entertainment this weekend at Emerald Downs! It’s our final Fab Friday, August 25, with its food/beverage specials and horseshoe toss sponsored by the Seattle T-Birds and KJR radio. Sunday offers two Washington Cup stakes races – one for juvenile colts/geldings, the other for two-year-old fillies. And, Sunday is Wiener Dog Day at the races – the doggies that started it all! Joe, Vince and Bill’s guests...
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August 18, 2023 • 61 mins
A memorable “Mile Day” is followed this weekend with three days of racing, including the meet’s two Quarter Horse stakes races. Plus, Sunday is “T-Rex Day” at the track. EmD is on a historical mission to find the top T-Rex runner going back tens of thousands of years! There’s going to be several heats, a championship dash and a T-Rex kids race too. All T-Rex’s get in free on Sunday. WTBOA President Dana Halvorson joins Joe,...
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August 10, 2023 • 73 mins
The race of the year is Sunday at Emerald Downs, the $150,000 Longacres Mile! Defending champion Slew’s Tiz Whiz is the morning-line favorite at 9/5 over Five Star General at 2-1. Friday night racing at 7 pm while Saturday begins just after 5 pm with the 2023 Washington Hall of Fame ceremony preceding racing. “Groove Nation” performs on the fifth floor after racing on Saturday. The traditional “Railbird Rally” starts at 11:30 am ...
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August 4, 2023 • 69 mins
August has arrived and Emerald Downs is just over a week away from the 88th Longacres Mile! It’s Championship Sunday on August 13 with $150,000 Mile and three other $50,000 stakes – Emerald Distaff, Muckleshoot Derby and Washington Oaks. This Sunday, the track’s top juveniles are in action in the $50,000 WTBOA Lads and Lassies, for colt and fillies respectively. This weekend, enjoy a trip back in time. Sunday is “Turn ...
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July 22, 2023 • 72 mins
The Longacres Mile is just three weeks away and further positioning for local starters happens this Sunday in the Governor’s Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs. Defending champion Slew’s Tiz Whiz is back after a furious runner-up finish in his seasonal debut June 25. Bridleuptothebar won that Budweiser stakes last month and he’s back along with eight others. It’s a stakes doubleheader that includes the Washington State Legislators Stakes ...
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July 14, 2023 • 53 mins
This week’s “Horseracing NW” reviews and previews events on the track at Emerald Downs. Grant Forster, trainer of Five Star General, is the guest. Five Star General, with three placings in the Mile, 2020-21-22, comes back from the Midwest where he’s had another very productive season. Forster won the Mile in 2005 with 60-1 No Giveaway. There’s another EmD stakes doubleheader on Sunday with previous three-year-old stakes winners ...
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July 7, 2023 • 67 mins
The Emerald Downs racing surface plays host to the fastest two-year-olds in the northwest Sunday with the running of the King County Express and Angie C. Stakes for colts and geldings and fillies, respectively. Both races are at 5 1/2 furlongs with a purse of $50,000. Post time Sunday is 2 pm. Post time for Friday night is 7 pm while Saturday is 5 pm. Top national handicapper Chris Larmey is the guest, the Washington native spe...
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June 30, 2023 • 64 mins
This week’s show recaps the top performances of last weekend in the Hastings Stakes and Budweiser stakes. Breeder/owner Holly Rydman of Bridleuptothebar, Budweiser winner, joins Joe, Vince and Bill. Also a guest is Steve Butler from Everett, the first winner ever in a “Grandparents Race,” last Sunday at EmD. Sport shorts, selections and trivia on “Horseracing NW.” Emerald Downs live racing schedule for this holiday weekend ...
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June 22, 2023 • 58 mins
It’s a three-day weekend of great action at Emerald Downs! Friday night racing begins at 7pm with the first “$1,000 Horseshoe Toss” of the season. It’s free to sign up, turn in your entry black before post time of the the 3rd race. It’s also the first “Grandparents Weekend” themed promotion at EmD, all grandparents get in free on Saturday and Sunday. There’s a grandparents race down the stretch on Sunday, too. Racing excit...
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June 15, 2023 • 64 mins
It’s Indian Relay weekend at Emerald Downs! Qualifying heats begin on Friday night, continue on Saturday and culminate in the Muckleshoot Gold Cup Championship on Sunday. It’s great action, horse racing of a different variety. The Black Lodge Singers, Ryan Yellowjohn Hoop Dance and more among the entertainment on Track Level. Gayle Skunkcap Jr, publicist for Indian Relay racing, joins the podcast. Emerald Downs offers its...
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June 9, 2023 • 79 mins
Be at Emerald Downs Friday night, June 9, and get your "Fab Friday T-Shirt!" Wear the shirt back for Friday night free admission the rest of the season. It'll be Friday-Saturday-Sunday racing at Emerald Downs through the end of August. Western Hockey League champs, the Seattle Thunderbirds are here on Saturday, there's "Dancing At the Downs" Saturday night and Bulldog racing on Sunday. Anthony "The Big A" Stabile makes h...
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June 2, 2023 • 60 mins
Jockey agent Aldo Matias joins Joe, Vince and Bill on this week's show. Matias is agent for his stepfather Javier Matias (#5 all-time in EmD wins) as well as Kevin Orozco and Rigo Sarmiento. Aldo Matias is a student in the University of Arizona Racetrack Industry program, he's bilingual and an accomplished soccer player. Stats, selections, sport shorts and trivia too, on Horseracing NW. It's a Family Fun weekend at Emeral...
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May 25, 2023 • 57 mins
Put Emerald Downs in your plans this Memorial Day weekend! Racing Saturday, Sunday and Monday - first race at 2 pm. Besides great action on the track, fans have a chance to win high quality, outdoor-themed gifts in "The Great Outdoor Giveaway," all three days. Emerald Downs has three-time defending jockey champion Alex Cruz back riding, the always popular Kevin Radke off to a great start and talented newcomers in the saddle such...
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