End of Season Wrap-Up - Episode #136

It’s a wrap! The 2024 season came to a close with an outstanding closing day card and an exciting Gottstein Futurity. Colonel Ludlow took the top two-year-old race over stablemate A Thousand Miles. Leading trainer Justin Evans had more season-ending titles with Top Sprinter Neiman, Top Older Horse Arma d’Oro and Top Claimer Surprsinglyperfect, as well as Top Juvenile Colonel Ludlow. Join Joe and Vince along with guest John Lindley as they detail the top efforts at Emerald Downs during the 2024 meeting. At the top of the list, Alex Cruz’s unprecedented fifth consecutive local riding title. Carlos Montalvo and Tom Wenzel defended their titles as top stakes jockey and stakes trainer. The track’s Fifth Floor is open seven days a week for full card simulcasting.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Mucosuit horse racing Northwest an Emerald Down season has been

(00:55):
put to rest. The twenty twenty four meeting ended one
day September fifteenth. The twenty ninth season at Emerald Downs
here in Auburn Shoe with me along with Vince Brune
and Vince Fifty five days of racing started back on Saturday,
May fourth and concluded with three stakes wins and a

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lot of great performances.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Is it is it weird to say that the season
seemed like it went fast and slow all at the
same time. I don't no. Yeah, it was a little
bit of weather closing weekend which was kind of unfortunate,
like Sluiced his Whiz coming out of the Muckleshute Travel Classic.
But yeah, a lot of great performances to wrap up
the twenty ninth season, which we'll be talking about yeah

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with you and John Lindley, and.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
John Lindley of Parker's is going to join us. John
Lindley of Emerald Downs Television as well, does a great
job bringing out information. And you know that Parker's tip
sheet of his is pretty darn efect. If he had
another one closing weekend with a very small wager, he
hit the early pick four for one hundred and seventy

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dollars or something like that. John's going to join us
here on horse Racing Northwest as we talk about the
twenty twenty four Emerald Down season, starting with some wagering statistics.
Betting favorites last year were thirty eight percent this year
thirty seven percent. Second favorites about the same, just a

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few more this year. And by the way, we had
four hundred and thirty three races this year, Vince, and
four to thirty five last year.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Right, And that four to thirty three includes what doesn't
include the two races washed out the end of Saturday's cards,
so we had three more days, but pretty much the
same amount of races.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
YEP favorites in the money seventy six percent last year
and just under seventy four percent this year, ten to
one winners were up. We had thirty four this year,
thirty one last year. Odds on winners fifty three percent
last year they won at this year they won a
fifty four and a half percent. We had one hundred

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and twenty five odds on horses this year at Emerald,
downs one hundred and nine last year, so there were
a lot of those. I think we were talking mid
season that the racing just seemed just a little more
interesting this year. I think we had a few more
better horses. I didn't really do the field size for

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the stakes races, but we always get off to a
good start in that regard, and then two year olds
were down a little bit this year, so that might
have drugged the overall total down for field size and stakes.
But just some interesting races were used to our six
and seven horse fields and sometimes a little bit less.

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But if you got three competitive horses in there, it's
still a good handicapping test, sure is.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
And this is kind of a West Coast thing. I
was just telling them Joe before we started here that
you know, our percentage of winning favorites as far as
dirt races go on the West Coast, we actually have
a little bit lower percentage right now. I mean, thirty
seven is not that exorbitant anymore, especially in dirt racing.

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So yeah, I thought the racing overall was decent. And
doing the line, you notice that that there's many many
real tough, competitive races where you didn't have to just
have a big favorite and then just try to figure
out who the distant second choice would be.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Okay, well, fifty five days in the books at Emerald Downs.
Thanks for coming out this year and thanks for listening
to horse Racing Northwest as well. And we'll have our
regular format for today with a lot of information about
last week and the meeting in the first segment, John
Lundley in the second, and then our clothes out with
our sports shorts in trivia and anything else. So okay,

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just throwing out some different things. We only had two
multiple steaks winning horses at the meeting, now that's pretty low.
For instance, the very low the three year old Philly
and the three year old Colt and Gelding division had
a different winner every race.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, and the champions in those divisions I would have
had no problem with a lot of different winners. You
know about dynamic secret and Lapush, you know, and usually
a lot of times the horse that wins the Oaks
or the Derby or the one the voter see last.
Just like the Academy Awards, you know, it kind of
kind of sticks out a little bit more in people's minds.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
And it is the only route race those two in
the Steaks schedule for those divisions.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, but I think a good example would be Lapush
won the Oaks and certainly was great, had three nice
wins at the meet. But then you look closing closing
week and Arctic brees. You know, who won the Kent
Stakes comes back with a nice allowance win, and then
closing day Chai, who was runner up in the Kent
Steaks Arctic Breeze wins the beats Older Phillies and Mayors,

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and the Washington got Philly and Mayor. So that was
pretty strong. I think as it turned out.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
It was Anarctic Breeze did not run in the Oaks.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
That's right, Miss. The race was a scratch, and that
horse being by arrogate, I think, you know, a horse
wants ground, and I think you know has a very
nice future for Blaine and Peter Reticop. Peter Reticopp by
the way, in addition to winning that feature at Emerald Downs,
also won the b C Derby. I think the horse's

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name is august Don and august Raine august Rain. And
that was a huge move that horse made. You know,
you got to move a little earlier on the bull ring,
and I thought the horse was in trouble at one point,
ended up winning pretty easily. And then he also won
the three year Old Philly Stakes.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
He won the Oaks with Avanna. They're both be Sea Breads.
August Rain by side old Havana is by Vino Rosso,
but she is a b Sea bread So he swept
both those rich races.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
And I saw him interviewed up there with august Rain.
He said, originally they didn't think the horse was going
to be all that much of a race horse, and yeah,
it just goes to show sometimes these horses develop and
surprise you, you know, And that certainly is a good horse.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
And is it Avanna who's like six for six this
year or something like that, she's won six straight.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, she's really good, so you know, tougher than the rest,
who was a stakes winner here and was stakes place
and all our three went up there and ran a
credible fourth. I thought in that race was up there
battling all the way around. But maybe there three year
olds a little bit above our this year.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Say yeah, yeah, congratulations to Peter Rettikopp. There for sure
are only two multiple stakes winning horses at the meeting
precise timing. Of course, that two year old Philly, she
won all three of her starts. She won all three
Steaks in her racing this year. Pretty amazing. In fact,

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that's the first time that's happened in Emerald Down's history
where a horse won his or her first three races
all stakes to start a career. Aloha Breeze was a
double winner as well in Steaks company, and those are
the only two. Everything else was split up Armadero and
Sluiced His Whiz and Neieman and Lapush. You mentioned the

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three year olds and Alizing Bella Blue Brees.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know, now a champion at two, three and four.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's that's a first.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Quite an accomplishment. I think the horse is seven for
ten lifetime at Emerald Downs. The only race she lost
this year was the Hastings when Blazing Bella Blue one
and that race in retrospect, you know, Aloha Breeze was
coming off the bench and dynamic miss really went after
her herd and heavy early and two. Yeah, and uh,

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you know, I think if she wins that racing wretch,
maybe she's horse of the meat. But certainly Aloha breeze. Wow,
what a what a three year run she's had.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, first Philly to do that at Emerald Downs to
be Emerald Downs Meat champion at ages two, three and four.
Tom Winsle had a couple of divisional winners and Justin
Evans had several. Why don't you go over the divisional
honors there, Vince while we're at it here on that.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't have my whole list right here, but I
can do most of them. You can. The two year
old Phillies you mentioned precise timing was in addition to
being the horse the meeting was the top Washington bread
and the leading person or at the meet and the
tier old culture gelding. You know you mentioned, you know,
not a lot of double stakes winners at the meet.

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Colonel Ludlow ends up winning the Gottstein over a one
thousand miles of Philly the stable mate and ends up
getting the championship, and a lot of people point out,
you know, by being by street sense, certainly bred to
appreciate the added ground. The thing that threw me off
with him was I didn't think the maiden win was

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anything special. Maiden fifteens, you know, it was kind of
a routine win. Did what he had to do or whatever.
But certainly on the stretch out that was that was
what that horse want. In a thousand miles, those two
went one two the whole way around. They did nothing
wrong with Candy Kabay or See that Tiger. They both
ran fine. I thought, See that Tiger not that great
a trip, you know, a little bit wide, made a

(10:12):
menacing move into the last turn, and then only beaten
less than two lengths for all of it. So certainly
not a bad effort. I think with a different trip,
maybe right there the lesson you know we talked about
there is people taking a short price on a horse
that's doing something new. I still think if I could
pick any horse out of those four, I might pick
See that Tiger. I don't know what you would think, Joe, Yeah, No,

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I mean as a long term prospect.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, Colonel Ludlow the winner by street sense out of
a smart strike Mayor and big time mud bread as
well well. His maiden victory and a maiden claimer was
in the mud.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, yeah, and I certainly moved him up there. We
did have a bit of an off track that day.
The top handicap horse goes to Armdo and he had
three wins at the meet, heat and the Governors and
two good route wins, so he showed some diversity. Not
a bad effort and lastest smile of the meeting. Yeah,
one of thirty four O four the sprinter, also from

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the same bar Nieman. He was really good. He fortunately
got scratched the day of the mile, but he had
the fastest six of the meet and was solid. The
top claimer also from Justin Evans, surprisingly Tiger, Surprisingly Tiger
and surprisingly surprisingly Perfect and Mary Walker, the only two
four time winners at the meet. Either of those two

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could have been top claimer. Surprisingly Perfect ran good on
closing day also, that is what went right down to
the wire, so either one of those would have been fine.
Surprisingly Perfect got the vote, got the vote.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, It's funny those two had four wins, probably five
or six weeks ago, and nobody else was able to
get that fourth win too.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
I know, And I think we had about twenty five
three time winners at the meet, so again it was
spread out quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
So justin Evans. Yeah, he had four horses get divisional honors.
You mentioned Amnima, Arma de Oro, Colonel Ludlow and surprisingly
Perfect as top claimer. Tom Winsle had Lapush and Laloha Breeze.
So those two Barnes did really well, Kay Cooper, she

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started eight steaks, she had eight steaks starters, won four
steaks and had two seconds, so she had a great
meet that way. And horse of the meeting precise timing. Yeah,
three added that steak win with Chai on closing day.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, and precise timing. I guess you'd mentioned Bred by
Rick and Debbie Pats owned by Blue Ribbon Racing. That's
a syndicate headed by Debbie regular writer Kevin Rosco, who's
been a great stakes writer. I know he's not winning
as many races as he used to, but give him
the chance and he delivers.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
He does. Kevin's had a fine career and he came
through on precise timing for those three wins and leading
steaks jockey was Carlos Montalvo for the second straight year. Yeah,
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
You know we were talking it's amazing as some of
those stakes where he didn't have him ount, Yeah, I
think I would want him.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
I would do when you get you know, some of
those bigger fields like the Mile and the Gottstein. He
didn't ride either one of those races. Carlos tied in
twenty twenty three with Jose Zanino with four wins each.
This year, Carlos Montalvo the only jockey to win four
steaks and the defending stakes leading trainer from last year

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also was our top stakes trainer this year.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's Tom as you mentioned with the Loja, Breeze and
Lapush and you just mentioned the name Jose Zanino. A
little bit tough to have ed his wiz scratched on
out of the Michleshue Tribal Classic where the race, I
think the race played out certain name all Escort ran huge,
but I gotta thinklesed his wis have been tough. Nevertheless,
Jose went one for one on his closing day and

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winning on a skip in the park. The whole crowd
was cheering on and you could see Joe how popular
he is with his fellow riders down there in the
winter circle. They all came out and a lot of
trainers and owners down there to salute Jose off.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, gate crew and jocks room personnel and fans, mutual sellers,
just a super popular guy. Jose had the first race
named for him on closing day and then as you mentioned,
just the one mount and he brought it home. The
storybook finish for Jose Zanino going out winter, he's going

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to be around Emerald Downs. He's going to be working
in our maintenance department.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
The front side maintenance department, which he did last year.
And that's great, good for him, and he he rode
some great horses here. Sluiced his with Obie Harbor, Hollywood Harbor.
You know, he's another guy if you if you gave
him the opportunity, he delivered.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, he really in his last three years. Ob Harbor
was what twenty sixteen, I think twenty sixteen sixteen, But
he had that great winter down at Turf Paradise like
what two years ago maybe three, and he just has
parlayed that with some confidence and got that mount on.
Sluiced his wiz and really came through on him and

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wrote it several other Tom Weinzel top horses also. Okay,
we're moving right along on talking about the twenty twenty
four meeting at Emerald Downs. Not quite related to that
is Saturday's Pennsylvania Derby one million dollar Grade one. The
Pennsylvania Derby at Parks goes at three ten Pacific time.

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It's race number thirteen. It's worth a million bucks, and
there's a Washington bred in there. Lonesome Boy is in
the race. Owned by John Parker and trained by Hugo Padilla.
Bowman's going to ride again. I forget his first name,
but he's been his regular rider. And Lonesome Boy had
that outstanding winter winter where he won in December at

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Parks over a good track. He went to Aqueduct in
late January and won easily in a rich allowance race
in a sloppy track. Came back to Parks, ran third
in a steak and then he won the City of
Brotherly Love by six and three quarters lengths. He is

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three for five on wet tracks, you know. And I
didn't look ahead to see what the weather forecast is
at Pennsylvania near Philly on Saturday, but Lonesome Boys in
a one million dollar race. He did run in the
Wood Memorial finished fourth of twelve, and he was kind
of in it all the way at eighty to one.
So he had just a tiny little chip coming out

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of the long Branch in May at Monmouth, had a
couple few months off, came back, ran fifth in a sprint,
so he's a route horse. He's in the Pennsylvania Derby,
so that's exciting for Washington Racing. A million dollar race
for lonesome boy, a son of Nationhood and at a
girl pearl and as we remember, he was in our

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Gottstein of twenty twenty three and he has really grown
up since then, and let's get him going on that comeback.
Let's hope he comes back as good as he was
in the winter.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
You've had also on that card the Kotillion, it's kind
of parks his big day. They got Torpedo Anna who's
been on such a role for Ken McPeak in company
Brian Hernandez, so that'll be fun. It's kind of a
nice fit on the calendar for them. As Saratoga and
del Mar come to a close, Kentucky downs done so

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strategically a good time for the Pennsylvania Derby and the
Kotillion that's.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
A million dollar race as well, right the Kotillion, yep,
all right well, A Lonesome Boy is the leading Washington
Bred earner for twenty twenty four still at over one
hundred and thirty seven thousand. Huge Bigley is second, and
he's been around a few years. He's a seven year
old now. He was in the mile a.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Couple of years ago, think twenty twenty one.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, Hansen shipped him out to run in the mile.
He is in at Churchill Downs on the twenty fifth,
which would be next Thursday, for in a fifty six
thousand dollars pers going one mile. Huge Bigley's at one
hundred and nine thousand precise timings, number three on the
list undefeated three steaks wins ninety one thousand, followed by

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Big Bowie, Chai Krem Dementh Dynamic Secret, Rocky bay Ray
slewsed his whiz at fifty three thousand earned Perfect Dude
raced here early in the meet and he might be retired.
He hasn't had any works. The eight year old with
that awesome comeback. He's at fifty one thousand. So Lonesome

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Boy in action on Saturday. Huge big Lee number two
on the Washington Bred earnings list. In action at Churchill
next week. Okay, anything else from last weekend.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Vince, Yeah, we got our final list of weekly honors.
Valpak Jockey. One guy we didn't mention. This was for
September thirteenth through fifteenth. Manuel Americano Prentice. He really closed out.
She didn't be met with in fine fashion with a
four bagger. He had never even won two on a card.

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So he wins four on closing day, including his first
stakes victory with a nice ride on Colonel Ludlow in
the Gottstein the trainer. Well, we mentioned how much how
many honors he also got justin Evans seven for fourteen
closing week. Hard to overlook that the owner Ochrest Farm,
they went two for two and they had naval Escort

(19:48):
with the Muckleshute Tribal Classic. He won by open lengths
there and then they debuted viewed another nice one called
pay Rula, another one of those nice ones out of
Karula who debuted with a victory back here in twenty sixteen.
So Oakcrest Farm went two for two last week. They're
the owners of the week, and then the wah bread

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would be naval Escort, who I mentioned what was the
official margin of victory there about seven?

Speaker 3 (20:14):
I think it was seven lengths and three quarters shooting
Tribal Classic.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
He's back on the beam this year with a couple
of wins, so nice work there for naval Escort cortshoot
Cafe Groom comes from David Martinez. I think his name
is Frankie Castile, okay.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
And naval Escort gave his sire the win in the
leading Sire category.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah. It's hard to knock off Harbor the Gold around here,
but he did it twenty to nineteen for Coast Guard.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Each of those sires had several horses racing over the
three days of our closing weekend, and Naval Escort for
Coastguard gets the nod. And I think that might be
his first title. Lebrage had a win in there in
all those Harbor the Gold.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Is yeah, the first one for Coast Guard. He's been
in the top five several years in a row.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, okay, so there's some of that. Yeah, Jose's Nino
goes out of winter. Let's see. We did have our
Earmorald Downs golf tournament on Tuesday to benefit the Backstretched
Chaplaincy Program and we raised a few thousand dollars for them,
and that money goes to a great cause, just putting

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on events and actually purchasing clothes and boots for stable
area workers that might need some help. So Andre Andre
and his team. Andre Simms is our chaplain His team
won the darn Thing, their first first entry into the
Emerald Downs Golf tournament.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
And the rain held off for you guys, I guess
it did.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
It was Tuesday. Monday was really nice. Wednesday and Thursday
are really nice. This week Tuesday it didn't rain and
it was a little overcast, but we had a great time.
And Bob Fraser are direct of operations. He did a
super job procuring some prizes. So if we open it

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up next year, which I did mention on this podcast,
I think a couple of times. For your one hundred dollars,
which a nice portion went to the Backstretch Chaplaincy program,
you've got the round of golf, the golf cart, the
lunch afterwards, and a Raffle ticket eligible for some really
nice prizes. We had a lot of drawings for winning

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well Raffle, not including yourself. For those who don't know,
Joe's an excellent golfer. Who would be the best golfer
at Emerald Downs right now? Well, Tom porter from our
parking department. Boy, he can, he can move the ball
out there. He is a long hitter. Tom's good and

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just employees at Emerald Downs just aren't that many, but related,
you know, a lot of owners and trainers are involved too.
Robby Bay Robbie's a golfer guy named Dave Brazier.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, remember him.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
He's a player, he's a handicapper and he actually has
been a breeder and an owner in the past. Hasn't
had a horse for quite a few years, but his
grandparents raced Sparrow Castle to the Washington Hall of Fame
back in the early sixties. But Dave is an outstanding golfer.
He kind of carried our team this year. He's a

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long hitter as well and hit a lot of good shots.
So we had a good time. There was about twenty
teams involved in That was Tuesday at Auburn golf Course. Okay,
we're moving right along. There's steaks races parks, as Vince mentioned,
not just the Pennsylvania Derby, but a whole host of

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stakes races there this weekend, this Saturday, and parks with
a huge day. Churchill Downs has a bunch of steaks
on Saturday, so does golf Stream. Los Alamados has one
steak race. They are back in action and Grant's Pass
is racing as well. So full card simulcasting at Emerald
Downs seven days a week. Saturdays are real big this

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time of year. As we get just actually just a
few weeks more, we'll have Breeders Cup, kind of last
race Breeders Cup prep events.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yes, I think towards the end of this month. Yeah,
I think sant Anita opens a week from Saturday. I
want to say about the twenty seventh or so, and yep,
we're getting close to Breeders' Cup time and of Emerald
Down's interests. That same week, Turf Paradise kicks off there
twenty twenty four to five. Me. I believe it's on

(24:39):
November second, So a lot of our horsemen heading down
that way right now. I've seen a few horses in
at Fresno. I see a two year old in that
ran here. I think it's I'm a Margarita girl is
at Fresno on Saturday, So keep your eyes out for
those Emerald chippers. Sometimes you can catch a price on
a horse you've been following here and you kind of
know how it stacks up against uh, the other competition

(25:01):
here and maybe you know, sometimes those buyers can throw
people off a little bit and uh kind of fun
time of the year to try to I'll talk about
one later in our sports shorts from a few years back.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
And just a little more on Justin Evans. He had
a tremendous closing week, as Vince said, seven out of fourteen.
He won the final three races of the meet. Sure
he did right after Colonel Ludlow. Ludlow came giant game
and he just absolutely air coming out of the mile,
coming out of the mile, and then Kayline got the
job done as the favorite. In the finale, he went

(25:35):
back to a route and won easily. So that was
his six three win day of the meat for Justin.
So he won it.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
What which Jack went three which is a record for
a leading moldown's leading trainer. So yeah, you got to
give it up. He's I know, he dominates and all
that other guys. Blaine Wright had another great season here
with thirty four wins. He's always a force stayed races.
Lucarelli another top three finish for him. You know those

(26:04):
guys are money in the bank around here. And Miguel
Hernandez had a big first year I think with nineteen wins,
Scott Tubbs sixteen. So it wasn't just justin he was.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
He was great.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
But takes a lot of guys to put on a
race meet.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
And it takes some riders as well. And you know,
we just Alex Cruz has had a big lead for
so long this year that we just boy, he is
just there every year. And he won again, a big
win for Alex Cruz, a dominant win for his fifth
consecutive unprecedented in the state of Washington to win five

(26:40):
consecutive titles at a track, and Alex Cruz did it again.
He has won all five years he's been up here,
starting in twenty twenty. Congratulations to Alex Cruz, our leading
rider once again. He's headed down to Phoenix. Kevin Kruger's
headed down there as well. Who ended up? Did he
end up number? I think he did. He tied with

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rayas with Luis Rays at forty.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Eight, and then Carlo Lopez right behind them with forty seven.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Carlo Lopez finished strong, the defending Turf Paradise Jockey Champion
and Juan Guterres, what a what a comeback here.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
He had right, didn't ride that many, but he was
very very good when he did. I think, you know,
right around twenty three percent for the meat he was.
He got a stakes win on Dynamic Secret and yeah,
great comeback for him.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, we're gonna take a break come back with John
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rush is the leader, is a straight way down the stretch.
Public appearance, a skip in the park is rolling on
the outside, and here comes the Argentinian flyer, Jose's Nino
with a skip in the park on the outside, determined
to get to the front, and he'll make his final

(28:31):
ride a winning one with a skip in the park.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
And we mentioned that in our first segment on horse
racing Northwest Jose Zannino goes out a winner on a
Skip in the Park his only mount on closing day
last Sunday, and Jose a super popular guy, a lot
of extra chur in coming down the stretch for him,
and he was bent down to even money, a little

(28:58):
bit lower than maybe expected, but nonetheless did come through.
Joining us now on horse racing. Northwest is a big
fan of stretch runners like a skip in the Park.
Let's bring in John Lindley of Parkers and Emerald Downs Television. John,
did you catch that little reference there on Closers.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Hey, Joe and Vince. Yes, I might have mentioned I
might have heard something about the closer, but actually skipping
the park. We talked about him many times last year
and going into this year.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
He has talent.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
He just seemed to find ways to get beat. But
he had a couple of big efforts at the end
of the year, and as he mentioned, the final race
of Jose Zonnino's career was supposed to be Sloozed his
Wiz but ended up being him and he kind of
just ran like sloozed his wids. So it was kind
of fun to see and I know the public was
on him and it was great that he was able
to win that final race.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, two to one Morning line, a skip in the
park listed as the favorite. He did go off as
the favorite a little bit lower than that. And hey,
that just Vince and John, that just gets us right
into the dynamic morning line a little bit. And John,
you know, we made a point to look for that
on our TV screens throughout the season because there's some

(30:09):
good information there.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, I think we've talked many times. Emerald Downs truly
is a kind of a better's paradise in the sense
of the information that is given out for free, one
of them being their race notes, one of them being
you know, your show with the amount of information you give
out and vincent information. But this year we added a
little little rink, not a wrinkle, but something new, and

(30:33):
that was that dynamic Morning line, which, as everybody knows,
you know, information is valuable everywhere when it comes to betting,
and of course, if you have a good idea of
what your horse is going to go off at when
the gates open, that's going to help you make decisions better.
And this year, you know, most of us prior to
this year could look at Will Pays and kind of
guess on the morning what the final ods would be,

(30:55):
but it wasn't as accurate as I think we found
it to be this year. And then you know, you
could use that information where you see things that maybe
you wouldn't expect of horse getting a lot more play
than maybe you or anybody else thought in the opposite case,
and I found it to be kind of interesting. There
were some big anomalies a couple of times that really

(31:16):
were made racing a little more interesting to watch, to
see how the public was going to bet certain races.
And I think, as everybody knows, most of the money
comes from off track and it's being you know, some
of it is also computer generated too. But watching watching
those odds is always you know, fascination of players to
see what you're going to get, but also to see

(31:36):
who else is drawing, drawing play or not. And I
thought it was very useful. I don't know about Joe
and you two also vinced to see, but I thought
it was kind of fascinating the whole.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, and as the one who me and Gary Doherty
were the ones doing it most of the time, and
it was it did what you just said, John, And
one thing I've noticed on social media against horse players
more upset than anything else. Is a big odds drop
on a winner, and it's understandable. You think you're going
to get eighteen dollars and you end up getting eight

(32:07):
ninety or eight eighty or something like that, and people
just blow up. Well, this kind of prepares people for that. Here,
this horse is you know, don't get too excited at
this eight to one because it's coming down or you know,
Joe said, the reverse is true too. You a horse
might be getting less play than you like, and you
like that as a handicap or good. I've got a

(32:27):
faith in my opinion here. No one else likes it,
But I'm going to get sixteen dollars instead of you know,
the nine to twenty I thought I was going to get.
So but anyway, your Joe points will take. It's a
useful tool and people can do with it what they want.
But I found, for the most part it was pretty accurate.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, go ahead, John, go ahead, Joe. Okay, Well all
I was going to add to that that Vince started. Yeah,
being there every day every race, I'm you know, kind
of price shopping a lot. And that's some of the
things that I noticed when a horse would go up
that I like because others are coming down, and let's

(33:02):
face it, I would say probably over eighty percent of
the races, the favorite is going to go down a
little bit lower than the morning line, especially you know
on a sex horse field or so. And there was
a couple of races that you know, it went up. Hey,
I got to play that horse. It's going to be
eight or nine to one now, and it, you know,
showed five to one on the morning line. So yeah,

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the reverse is true. It's it's just more information.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
John, Yeah, And I think, as you mentioned, it can
determine maybe who you play if you're playing the win
or win place in show pools. But it also can
determine whether or not maybe you play an exotic for
the same reasons. If, for example, you like a horse
that you thought might be reasonably price eight to five,
seven to five, two to one as a heavy favorite,
but you find out it's going to be way lower,

(33:49):
then maybe you would change and look to exotics and
maybe get a little more a dollar for your punch
there if you want to try something different. But it
was just fascinating to me to watch. We had several
that has been setting you. We noticed that we're fairly
accurate and there were some anomalies too. It was just
interesting to see how people and you know, everybody knows

(34:09):
and money's determined by the public, the payoffs are how
they perceived the race well before we saw the closing off,
which I thought was pretty useful to see and did
help make some decisions there. But hopefully that will continue
and hopefully we'll start to see other tracks do it.
But as I mentioned, between the penny breakage and the
low takeout for some of our bets, and the information

(34:29):
we give out and the dynamic warning line, it really
is a handicapping better's paradise there at Emerald Downs because
that information is not available on other racetracks. It's taken
for granted and maybe a little bit here the last
few years people expected and you added this sprinkle for
this this year, and I think that's great.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I remember several fifteen to ones that at about Tato
House early in the year was fifteen on the line
and the dynamics said four and went off at seven
to two and one. The one that really sticks out
was It's cracking time, I think was the horse mid
meat about and was eight to one on the morning
line and maybe could have been a little lower, but

(35:07):
not a lot lower than that. And you know, because
you always look and try to see what you missed
on something like that, ended up the dynamic stood out
at four to five and the horse did win. It
barely held off Van Dooley, and that was just a
dramatic case of the dynamic really pointing out a horse
that was going to take all kinds of action.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, computer assisted wagers are part of the game now
and sometimes those can be pretty big wagers and real
impacting on the final odds, and that comes into play
as well on some of these big swings. But yeah,
just more information. And John brought up the penny breakage thing.
I you know, we should get a figure from Phil Zigler,

(35:48):
our truck president. He's all over that stuff on just
how much more money was returned in the form of
winning wagers. And you know, you might think, why are
they doing penny breakage just you're losing a little revenue there. Well,
it's a plus for the horse player and it might
attract a new player to Emerald Down's wagering.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Let me tell you, if I had could retroactively get
all the money I lost before penny breakage over the years,
that would be a nice little check I'd be getting
into my account, right, So it makes a difference.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, Okay, it.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Adds up for sure. And I think especially for people
who like to.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
Bet place and show absolutely on your return and it's
not my strength, but there are the people that do
like that, and I think that is also a big
positive too.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
It is kind of odd to see those payoffs early on.
We kind of lookd at some funny things and we're like, huh,
two dollars and twenty seven cents and some of that.
But we got used to it pretty quick and just
go back to the dynamic morning line. I think if
you know this a little recently, is a giant game
on the closing day was a horse too that I
think what happened is the dynamic morning line kind of

(36:59):
showed the public that this horse was going to get
bet more and the more and more people looked at
the horse, and more and more the money came down
on him. And he wasn't just like.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
He won like a four to five shot.

Speaker 5 (37:09):
Yeah, four to five shot. And then the other one
that to me was interesting that people may remember with
Clayton Delaney who was well heavily bet in one race
and none of us can kind of.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Figure out why.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
And he ran a good third that day. But it
was interesting there because in that case, the amount of
money bet on him was kind of out of line,
made everybody else in the race of a pretty good
price there. And that's the thing that Joe mentioned is
you're going to find some races where maybe a horse
that is a contender, but maybe not as strong as
the amount of money we see in the dynamic winning line.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, that was a little head scratcher on Clayton Delaney
because he hasn't won a race in a while.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
He would have been a good show parlay horse at
the meet.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah, he fired a lot at a lot of different distances,
but as far as winning, he was a little light there. Okay,
Well John H. John keeps track, he does his own
speed figures and uh, the quality of Emerald Downs racing
this year, what did you think of it?

Speaker 5 (38:10):
I think it was on par with others. I do
think our strongest area was the older horses. I mean
there's no question that when you have Nieman, five star,
General Amada Oro and of course lot his whiz and
they are consistently horses that could run anywhere in the country,
as we've knew by five star general. And then you

(38:33):
look at those horses and they're as good as you
know top steaks horses, not grated steaks horses, but top
steaks horses for sure around the country and like for example,
northern California or you know, Midwest and type horses. And
I think it's pretty cool that those type of horses
are here and they continue to be here. We've seen
them again and again and again. And we talked many

(38:55):
times about the number of horses that have run on
the Lakers Mile again and we had the top four
finishers back this year, and I think that's a testament
to a Emerald Downs. And of course the owners and
trainers to keep these horses at Emerald and such and
point them towards our older stakes series. And you know
that's important because those are the horses that people want

(39:18):
to come out and see again and again and again.
And of course we have the younger horses, and those
this year are kind of up in the air on
in my opinion on where they'll end up. I think
the three year olds are decent, I mean, dynamic, secret
and Whiskey Jack, and you know, they look like they're
going to have some potential to be against older horses.
For sure. Whiskey Jack, I think he in that first

(39:40):
race on July third was so impressive, but because of
timing and circumstance, he wasn't really able to get another
big sprint effort like that. But maybe as a four
year old with some rest, he might be able to
compete with some of the older horses. What she's going
to have to learn to do and and dynamic streets.
Secret also just seemed to get better as year went on.

(40:00):
I think those three year olds are definitely, you know,
going to be on par with previous ones. And then
give credit to the Philly one thousand miles in Godstein.
She got it out a big second there and we'll
see if she comes back here next year too, But
she looks like she's pretty talented.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
Yeah, Justin Evans was anxious to run her farther and
he got that two turn distance in the Gottstein and
she was in it every step of the way. Kevin
Krigger had broken Colonel Ludlow's maiden, so he had you know,
they had their discussion. He's first call for Evans, they
went with the Philly with Krigger and he just missed

(40:37):
as manuela Americano got his first Is that his first
ever steak win?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
I know, yes, okay, yep, because his first ever win
was here earlier in the meet. So he finished with
a flourish Oh you bet so?

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Yeah. Two year olds, you know, see that Tiger was
really spectacular in two races. But what'd you think of
his trip there in the Godstein John.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah, I think both obviously with the track condition being
off and those two year olds running on it for
the first time, except for Colonel Ludlow who was now
two for two on wet surfaces, and you know, they
kind of were at a little disadvantage there, and both
the favorite see that Tiger and Kendy Cabayo did have
some trouble, it wasn't huge trouble and they still acquitted

(41:23):
themselves pretty well there. I think it's going to be
hopefully we'll see them next year, and hopefully we'll see
them on a dry surface if they go to a
route when we get that a little further down the line.
But as we talked on the show and amongst ourselves,
clearly see the Tiger up to that point had run
two gigantic races, including when he won the stakes race

(41:43):
battling between horses with his stablemate on one side of
him and another horse inside of him, and then drew
off to a big win. He may potentially be, you know,
one of the top horses to run to the Emerald as
a three year old. We'll see that, you know, how
they mature and all that. And Candy Kubayo definitely has
talent too. They just it wasn't their day on Sunday.

(42:04):
You give credit to the Winter, who you know, battled
with this stable mate and also handled the wet surface,
which this year seemed to be a few more of
those than normal, especially the closing weekend. But they're running decent,
decent numbers there. I think the Phillies, precise Timing and
Beauty Bark were some that I will see how they
mature over the winter. I think of the two, Beauty Bark,

(42:26):
even though she was beaten, kind of came into that
race off a little short timing and just one race
and might be a little better than precise timing. But
you can't ignore a horse that's undefeated and has the speech.
She has. We'll see how she does over the winter,
because I'm guessing both horses will be turned out brought
back next year, which is also a big advantage for
Emerald to have. You know, even though we're isolated, we

(42:47):
do get these horses that you know, don't go too
far during the winter and then are back next year.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
That helps a lot, and it always has for our
Northwest racing that horses get some time off, and yeah,
that is a good thing. And of course, so many
of our trainers are going to go to Phoenix this fall.
They're offering a good meat down there, four days of
racing per week, and the person level right about what

(43:13):
we're at. So we'll be following those, we'll be following
the Turf Paradise meet closely. But again, yeah, so many
of our trainers. By the way, his wiz, Rory Brewer,
who was part owner with the Wenzel family and the Griffins.
He reports that's his wiz is coming back next year.
So that's that's great, that is excellent.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
You know, things just didn't really work out that well
for him this year. That's kind of you know, the
previous two years they really did, and he ran good
again this year. He ran a great race in the mile,
and of course he ran great in the Governors, but
with his closing style. And John will be the one
to mention this. You know, even a great horses up
against it sometimes when they have to make up.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
A lot of ground, it's hard to have a good,
great winning percentage when you're a deep closer. And that's
why horses like Chump Salmon and and Striker PhD those
types are very memorable in Washington racing history. Well, John,
we had we had to me it seemed like a

(44:16):
little more of an inside bias on more racing days
this year than others. I don't know if you want
to comment on that.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
Yeah, I do think for sure we did. I think
it wasn't a few of the days we talked on
the show and amongst ourselves of course back in June.
For sure, there was late May and early June. It
seemed as the meat progressive attracted to me. He seemed
to be relatively fair, but definitely leaned, especially on mile weekend,

(44:44):
towards the inside also. But you know, we've discussed it's
kind of tough because, as everybody knows, being on the
lead and or on the rails always an advantage since
the same time horses like sused his whiz or even
who manages to find the inside a lot and get
it to his jockey. But you know they're going to

(45:07):
be at a disadvantage, and I think there was for sure,
you know, some days that you know, the inside was
appeared to be significantly better, but a lot of other
days it might have been minorly better. I do think
some of the horses like check a Nut Bay and
Gunning for Gold, who ran some gigantic sprints, you know,
really fast races, were you know, aided by what we

(45:27):
would call it, you know, a real bias or an
inside bias. But at the same time, a horse like
surprisingly Perfect he overcame it despite breaking sloan, racing wide
on trips, and was still able to be our claimer
of the meat. So it wasn't like you couldn't overcome it.
But I did think some of the races it did
make some horses look a little better than they are.

(45:47):
And you know, we'll see how some of them, uh
you know, do well during if they if they're staying
training and go down this winter. As I was mentioning
on the show, I'm waiting for Prince Abdul to come
back and run in the race because his mile effort
was just super gigantic and it's hidden, it's not something
you would notice, but he was so wide around the

(46:07):
track and still was in contention relative to the rest
of the field.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
At the end, he drew the twelve.

Speaker 5 (46:14):
Helped some of the horses look look a little better.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Than they might speaking speaking of that, and the mile
was the race of the meat, a great race this year,
and uh, I was just looking. Clovis connection has been
working very well down at Pleasanton. I you know, I
know last year they went down and beat Top Harbor
down at Fresno, and there are a couple of stakes
coming up there. They got the Harris Farms is at
six furlongs and I think it's the Bulldog is at

(46:38):
a mile and a so maybe that's a possibility for them.
I'm not sure about Prince Abu Dhabi, but I'm with you.
He ran. He ran deceptively good that day, finishing fourth.
Uh you know, very difficult tasks from the twelve le
oh yeah, and just a rough first turn and wide thereafter,
and that just made that miles so much more dramatic.

(46:58):
Knowing how the race pattern was for the day and
five Star General had a wide first turn. What what
a great long acres mile race of the meeting, no
doubt about that. And the reason five Star General didn't
get top older horse, well he only ran here one time.
To be eligible for season ending honors, you have to

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have two starts or more at the meeting.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
So you would think after the governors, you would never
find a more dramatic race than a dead heat, and
we found a way to do it.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (47:31):
We found a way to make the mile even more
dramatic than Governor's which are saying something as you mentioned
that I talked about a little bit ago. The older
horses put on a show for us this year. And
you know, Donor Norton, E mean, hopefully he comes back
to an amal day oorro But five Star General and
flused his whiz and you know all four of them were,
you know, kind of changing, you know, well three of
them ran against each other and kind of change positions

(47:53):
a few times. But five Star General was able to
finish his career on a great note. And it was
just almost not pretty dramatic, as you mentioned, in a
lot of fun days. That day and then closing day
with as Aino winning his final mind It's just it
was a great year.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
That was a way to cap it right there. John,
Thanks again for your attention to Emerald Downs. It has
been invaluable over the years. John started selling Parkers his
tip sheet back in the eighties at Long Acres and
he has continued on through Emerald Downs and now adding

(48:28):
your expertise on TV. It's just been a great addition
to our presentation. So thank you for that. And of
course John's race notes. We've talked about those plenty of
times over the years. I thought even more than ever
those were valuable because you just had different people making
the short comments in the daily racing form at the

(48:50):
end of the running line, and John's were much more detailed.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Yeah, they're so thorough and accurate, which is, just like
you say, invaluable. You feel like you're at a disad
if you don't use them. I did.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
I felt naked a couple home boy. I didn't look
up the trouble on that one. John, thank you and
we'll be seeing you this fall.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
I hope everybody has a great fall and winner and
Breeders' Cup plays. Even though Ambroill finally closed. Breeders Cup's
not far so hopefully the people will get out there
for that day. We'll talk to you later.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Thanks again, Thanks John, John Lindley joining us on horse
Racing Northwest, and yeah, he has been a great contributor
to our season. You know something that's going to be
going on next year at Emerald Downs. There's going to
be a little chase for Doris Harwood's career stakes total

(49:41):
at Emerald Downs and Galen Mitchell's career stakes.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Total right, Doris Harwood sixty seven career steaks wins hot
on the heels are three guys still active here, Tom
Winslell sixty one, plaining right fifty nine, Frank Lucarelli fifty five,
So well, you know Tom, the way he's going, I
guess it's possible he could he could catch next year.
And in the all time leading stakes winning jockey Galen

(50:06):
Mitchell with eighty, Juan Guterres narrowed the gap with that
win on Dynamic Secret. He's got seventy seven. Now, as
we mentioned, one had a fine season, so that possibly
could go well next year a year or two down
the road. So all of them closing in.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
No, Yeah, those leaders, Doris Harward and training and Galen
Mitchell and riding. Those records have been theirs for a
lot of years, and we've got people closing in on those.
So we'll take a time out come back with our
third and final segment here on horse racing Northwest.

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Speaker 4 (51:13):
They round the turn and head for home and Colonel
Ludlow squares off with a thousand miles at the inside.
Kendy Cabayo not far out of it. See that tiger
gaining on the outside two hundred yards away out front.
Colonel Ludlow's opening up once again, but fighting back is
a thousand miles from the inside. It's a driving finish
in the Godstain. Colonel Ludlow has won it.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
That was Colonel Ludlow taking the Gottstein Futurity closing day
at Emerald Downs last Sunday race long duel with stablemate
one thousand miles the Philly The Justin Evans runners run
one to two. Colonel Ludlow gets top two year old
at the meeting, and it was hard for one thousand
miles to displace Precise Timing as top Juvenile Philly. Because,

(52:00):
of course, Precise Timing became the first horse in Emerald
Down's history to win first three career starts, all stakes races.
She gets top Juvenile Philly, and of course horse of
the meeting, that's Precise Timing. Okay, let's go into our
sports short sec segment here on horse racing Northwest. As

(52:23):
I'm trying to get it together, I've got a couple
of tidbits from the Emerald Downs meeting. We've got Washington
Bred in a one million dollar horse race on Saturday,
the Pennsylvania Derby. John Parker's Lonesome Boy is in that
race a little after three pm at Parks on Saturday,
and he's already the leading Washington Bread earner for this

(52:45):
year and we're rooting for him. When's the last time
Washington Bread ran in a one million dollar horse race? Well,
it was four years ago the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. Bodenheimer,
the son of Adam Boy Roy, came in with a
really fine record. He was three wins from four starts
in his two year old season. He had won a

(53:06):
steak at Keenland, and he broke just a little slowly
in that Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, kind of little
hop and he finished eighth out of fourteen. I can't
remember that name of that Wesley Ward horse that won
that race, but he was a really fine turf sprinter anyway.
Bodenheimer the most recent Washington bred to run in a

(53:28):
one million dollar horse race, and also Carlos Montalvo two
seasons at Emerald Downs and two leading steak seasons for
a jockey. The last time a jockey at Emerald Downs
won the most stakes two consecutive years was Leslie Mowing
twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen, and Vince, you know what

(53:52):
happened each one of those years, Striker PhD won the
Long Acres mile. Well.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Speaking of Leslie, I got a couple of them here
the racing related one of the horses from not long
ago that's kind of been forgotten was she was really
really good. Was a horse named Belle Hill, and she
rattled off three straight steaks wins here in the three
year old Philly division back in twenty fifteen, and then
she air including a five length win in the Washington Oaks,

(54:21):
after which Larry Ross told you in the Winter Circle
that he thought this was the best horse he had
ever trained, which was certainly high praise considering some of
the stock Larry has had over the years. Well, then
she was shipped down to Santa a Nita that year
showed up in the Grade three Autumn Miss to run
on turf, being by sky Mesa out of Sealy Hill,

(54:42):
and she went off at nine to one and won
it by a half length with Leslie Mouing going down
for the mount there and paid twenty one twenty, so
we did pretty good there. She was overlooked in that race,
but up here those people who had washed her. I
know there was a few people on the fifth floor
pretty happy that day that she got the grated wins.
She was really good Bell Hill, Yes.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
She was, well said and yeah, Larry and Sharon Ross
trainee one of our better three year old Phillies ever
for sure.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
And the other one I had is We all remember
Knight's Choice as a stallion, but he was a darn
good race horse too, of course, winning the Gottstein by
seven in seventy eight. But at Delmar in their nineteen
eighty meet he had back to back races and classified
allowance company and the first one was twenty third of

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July nineteen eighty. The winner and second place finisher Bad
and Big beats Knight's Choice. So Bad and Big, of course,
was a seventy eight mile winter and Knight's Choice was
the seventy eight Gottstein winner, and they tangled an allowance
race and finished one two, and then three weeks later
Knight's Choice comes back in another classified allowance race and

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the one to two finishers there was a horse called
u Nalakleet that was a wash and bread Una La
cleat Una Lakleet won the race and knights Choice second
there and a Washington bred Exacta in a classify allowance
at Delmar. Those all in a three week span back
in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Yeah, Knight's Choice and then he certainly made his name
as a Washington sire. Tremendous Washington sire Pilco Scamper was maybe.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
The first crop, you bet, and Night's choice, of course
was by Drumfire out of a Mira called yang Bred
by Quicklock Corporation, which of course became Northwest Northwest Arms.

Speaker 6 (56:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Over there in Yakama, Jerry Paxton, Jerry passed away. Wow,
I believe it was January of twenty fifteen, that long ago.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
I know, t time assailant man.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
Okay, some sports shorts there regarding thoroughbred racing and Emerald
Down's related stuff. So we are onto. We're onto our
trivia section. I don't have any selections for this weekend, Vince.
Unless you do, We're I don't really either. Certainly rooting
for Lonesome Boy on Saturday, that would be great if
he can.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
He's kind of up against it.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
They're tough. I mean some of the horse sees the
day won the Preakedness. He's in there. Stronghold won the
Santa Anita Derby and the Sunland Derby, was second in
the Indiana Derby and Dragoon guard By Arrogate is four
for four this year for brad Cox.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
You know what you offer a million dollars? Yeah, they
will show right.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Exactly okay am I missing any superstars else, that's pretty good.
And it's looks like it's an eleven horse field in
the Pennsylvania Derby. All right. Our trivia question last week
was who had the fastest Gottstein futurity. We had twenty
eight straight runnings at a mile out of sixteenth at
Emerald Downs from nineteen ninety six through two thousand and three.

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It was positive prize. Back in two thousand and four,
Tim mccanna trainee Ricky Fraser aboard and Russ Knakagawa got
that one. Positive prize went to mile onto sixteenth in
a speedy one forty one and two fifths as he
followed up his lads victory with the win in the Gottstein.
So Russ gets that one. And our trivia question for

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this week, what was the last time a Washington Bread
long acres mile winner was not the Washington Horse of
the Year for that season? Last time a Washington Bread
mile winner was not named Washington Bread horse of the
year at the end of the season.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
I think I might know that one.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
You know a lot of those trivia questions.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
By the way, the weather forecast for Philadelphia on Saturday
is eighty one and clear, so it looks like they'll
have a fast track there. That's up in ben cirben A.
I was there one. It was called Philadelphia Park, probably
about twenty years ago. Boy, it's way away from Philadelphia's
actually yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I haven't been there, all right. That is a capper
on the twenty twenty four Emerald Downs meeting. We'll be
back with a podcast prior to the Breeders' Cup in
later October, so stay tuned for that. Thanks for joining
us all year long, and if you have a stab
at the trivia question, send it to Trivia at Emeraldowns

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dot com. Thanks to John Lundley for joining us and
Si La Bar has been our producer editor for horse
Racing Northwest since it's an inception, So have a great
racing fall. Thanks for listening to horse Racing north Quest