Mike Morris & Ron Schmid Join the Show - Episode #150

Racing continues to get better every week at Emerald Downs! Entries for the upcoming three-day weekend exceed an average of eight horses per race each day. Saturday is at 9.2 starters per race, a figure not achieved here in many years. Precise Timing, trained by Kay Cooper, is the top horse entered this weekend. Last year’s undefeated Horse of the Meeting goes Monday, Memorial Day, in race 8. Owner/breeder Ron Schmid and trainer Mike Morris join Joe and Vince. Schmid has been an active owner since Emerald Downs opened and has his homebred, Dynamic Dee Dee, in a maiden race this Saturday. Morris is from an extended family of horsemen from Oregon, including father Gary, and is excited for his small stable’s possibilities at Emerald Downs in 2025.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come in muchos.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It doesn't matter if you love craps, blackjack machines or
dining on the finest Asian, American and Salish cuisines. It
doesn't matter what you do or where you're coming from.
Mucous what you do is all at Muckleshoe, an easy
drive from wherever you are. All roads lead to Muckleshoe.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Mucosuit, and they turned for home.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Papa's Golden Boy leads them down the lane. Whiskey Jack
is chasing on the outside, Slu's his Whiz trying to
come after the leader. Now in deep stretch, Papa's Golden Boy,
the nemesis rivals ss his Wiz on the attack. S
His Wiz goes racing by and wins it by three.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Sles t Wiz.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
A first out winner in twenty twenty five. The twenty
twenties at Emerald Downs, a big part of it has
been five Star General and slews Tis Wiz. Those two
have won the last three Long Acres miles, and they

(01:34):
each had a streak going in the mile of top
three performances. Vince, that was great to see Slews His Wiz,
Papa's Golden Boy, the nine year old showed all that
tremendous speed that we've seen for a lot of years too.
But pretty good feature race there on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yes, talking to the connections, it sounds like both horses
came out of the race great, which is good to
hear because Papa's nine and sles his wiz is seven.
And that was win number ten for Slews to his
wiz at Emerald Downs, and he did jump up to
ninth place. Now he went past kid Kattabatic and jump
around one three thirty five, nine seventy two in earnings.

(02:12):
Those of you like buyers one oh eight and one.
We said the final time ties his career high with
a ninety one. And you know Tom Wenslil, by his
own admission, you know, doesn't have the horse fully cranked
this time of year. You know they're objective of course
is the mile. So he looks like he's going to
be back strong as ever. Papa's Golden Boy. He still

(02:33):
got all that zip around the turn that he's always
had and I honestly I thought he was gone at
the mid stretch. He did drift out a little bit
there and uh, but still clearly second best and it
took us sluice to his whiz to defeat him.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yeah, those two guys. You know, we talked on the
podcast last week that in looking at that race, there
were some new shooters and some younger horses, but man,
it was tough to get past those two. And they
did run one two once again at Emerald Downs. All right,
A three day weekend of racing at Emerald Downs coming

(03:09):
up Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Memorial Day, May twenty sixth,
first race each day at one fifty pm. So a
nice weekend of racing and vince the feeling, the vibe.
We'll talk about that with one of our guests, Mike Morris.

(03:29):
Trainer Mike Morris is going to join us here on
horse Racing Northwest. Also owner Ron Schmid will join us
as well on this week's edition. But boy, you get
out there for morning training, which you're out there a
lot do I do the training day with producer editor
sy La Barr on Thursdays, Man, it was just busy

(03:50):
and crowded and just all kinds of action at the track.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, and it's reflected at the entry box too, Joe.
On Saturday, eight races, seventy seven horses entered which is
what over nine a race and Sunday's card pretty much
the same for a nine race card eight point seven
eight point seven, and then Monday we're going to do
with the Royal Day, big fields there too, and the

(04:15):
twenty twenty five debut of our twenty twenty four horse
of the Meat Precise timing in an allowance race at
five and a half furlongs for three year old phillies.
In fact, Kay Cooper's got three in there, precise timing.
Beauty Bark who did everything, gave her everything she could handle.
That's precise timing in their matchup last year. And then

(04:37):
Kerroyale who was very impressive in a made special weight
victory two weeks ago. So Kay Cooper with a strong hand,
but racing throughout the weekend really strong. And there's some
great comebackers justin Evans with a couple. You'll be seeing
those as you go through the forum and program. But

(04:57):
there are some real talent here, guys like Jay Paul
Readham now you know running horses at Emill Downs, David Berson,
Rockingham Ranch. You know these are some big barns. Harris Farms.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
It's strong well and talking with trainer Mike Linzini this morning. Uh,
he says we're going to get several horses from Santa
Anita when that meat closes in early July, because del
Mar does not run the lower level claimers that Santa
Anita has been helping out with the northern California people,

(05:32):
and Mike says he's going to get several himself. But
he goes, you guys, you guys are going to get
a lot more horses from.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, and that's great because you know during during a meet,
some horses get turned out and so you get the
pipeline coming in. Uh. You know we said all winter
that you know, we thought we were going to set
up for a pretty good meet here and to see
it come to fruition is pretty exciting.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Well you just related some field size for opening or
for this weekend, and uh, hey, I was right on
ad I was right which one. I said that our
opening day card would be the worst card of the year,
and it is going to be.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
I said the same thing to people because their eyebrows
were kind of raised. Well, gosh, you guys kept saying
you're gonna have all these I said, well, well, a
lot of the local ones are not ready. A lot
of the ones have not shipped up yet. Trust us,
it's gonna it's gonna be good. And it is. And
not only that. You know, I mentioned doing the morning line, Joe.
You know what, men, horses, I've got three to one
favorites and seven to two and four to one, and

(06:31):
there's not many horses that you're making a twenty to
one line. These are competitive races. Everybody's kind of got
a chance in some of these races. I know the
favorites have run what about forty percent so far forever.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, it was nine for seventeen last week.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, I predict that's going to go down.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, because it's just mathematics.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, it's just too tough some of these I mean,
it's it's these races are so evenly matched.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
We haven't had a day yet in our first six
days where we've averaged eight starters per race, but it
got really close last weekend. And you just related, all
three of the days this weekend, Saturday, Sunday, Monday are
all averaging over eight horses per per race.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I'll rollate one little thing like with the Emerald Racing
Club when I tell them we're entering a race it's
usually you know, I'll send out the entry board and say, okay,
watch this, we're going to enter number seven. Well want
to see at least six in there, you know, and
that's kind of then we're in business. Well we got
thirteen this time, so yeah, that's how times are a
change in So we're in a twelve horse field and

(07:37):
that's kind of exciting too. That is race six on Sunday.
It's a non winners of three race and you always
want to get horses where you know the races have
a good chance of going. But boy, that's uh, that's
a lot of horses that.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Is okay, and that is that what's the name of
that horse again?

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Bengos Heat can race six.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
On sun Yeah, and go see so you can still
join the Emerald Racing Club. By the way, the Emerald
Racing Club's horse is going to be featured in are
Where Are They Now? Segment next week. It was Sir
looking Glass last year, who was a young horse and
off to a pretty promising start with good efforts, but
he had to be retired. He just physically wasn't holding

(08:21):
up to daily training and racing, and you found a
good home for him.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Anna Duke's Anna Dukes, Yeah, over in the Port Orchard
club member of course, the club member. Yeah. And as
I said, you know, get people interested, but you know
they need the resources and the time and the space
and all that. And Anna's got that, and she sent
us a video and the horse looks happy and healthy
and having a great time. And you know, we always say,

(08:47):
as owners, what do we owe the horse? Will we
own the best care possible and a good retirement, you know,
and that's what we try to preach that that is outstanding.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
And the club club has another good function this weekend,
you know, get a whole events two five three two
eight eight seven seven two three. That's two eight eight
seven seven to two three if you'd like to join
the club, because you've had just one starter so far
and another one this weekend. But five hundred dollars fee

(09:16):
plus your license gets you the whole year of excitement
and a lot of perks as well as a member
of the Emerald Racing Club. So there's that, and uh,
let's go onward. How about weekly honors from our previous
two days of racing last Saturday and.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
So okay, yeah, well this last week, you know it
was tough to choose the Valpak jockey because both Alex
Cruz and Manny Americano had four win days. Usually you
get a four win day that's you know, kind of
a cinches it. But Alex also had four seconds, and
so either of them could have got it. But Alex
Cruz back on the beam with four wins last week

(09:57):
or five time defending champion the Los Margaritas train George
Rosales Well, him and Alex tripled together on Saturday, so
George also had three wins and three seconds, so big
week for them. Muckle Shoote casino owner clemens View Farm.
They had a nice horse that you and John Linley picked,
Tyatan River and that was a clemens View production owner

(10:20):
and bred the horse out of Windy Point who was
a stake s winner here in twenty nineteen. So clemens
View Farm is the owner. The waw Bread Well, you
can't ignore sleus to his whiz right. Hard to top
him with his season debut. And the groom Howie Gibson
had a couple wins in Murrio. Bonderas groomed both of those,

(10:41):
so he's our groom of the week.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Howie off to a great start. He's tied for third
in the standings. The trainers and I remember during the
winter Vince Alex Cruz was going a little slow down
there at Turf Paradise, you know, you know he Vince said, yeah,
he'll pick up. You know, he's just too good of
a rider, and darned if he didn't. I think he.
I know, he finished in the top five down there.

(11:04):
Yeah at Phoenix, and you're probably thinking the same thing
after the first two weeks here when he was not
winning regularly.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, I will say it's going to be very This
might be the toughest challenge for him for winning the title.
But yeah, he's relentless. He just rides every race, and
he rides hard and the winds come.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Kevin Kriger are leading jockey after the first six days,
and I think he has nine wins I believe, right, yep, Yeah,
and leading trainer explaining right. Tim mccanna's second and a
big tie for third. But lots of barns, lots of
horses at Emerald Downs, they and the crowds. Vince have

(11:43):
been outstanding the first six days. It was not that
warm last Sunday and we didn't have any really big promotions,
but it was an excellent crowd.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, when I peered down from the six to four,
I couldn't believe how many people were down on the apron's. Yeah,
it's really encouraging.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
It is. So we're going to be up. You know,
we were up over ten percent in attendance last year.
The handle wasn't great last year. We're going to be
way up and handled this year. And you know, we're
up in attendance right now. So Emerald Down's going well
and we get that placement. You know, unfortunately without Northern California,

(12:19):
there's that little gap every half hour a Santa Anita
race goes and we're in there, and fans around the
country are going to notice our field size with horses
and handicapping and payoffs. So looking forward to a great
season at Emerald Downs this year. So yeah, the where
are they now this week? Is not by Might, a

(12:45):
lightly raced horse from Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, who Sean Salisbury
is doing a really good job over at Park Point
Thoroughbreds in Auburn. He runs that place, and not by Might.
He pretty much rescued that horse. The horse ran at
Emerald Downs after a year layoff, ran second is a
favorite and just another horse that you know, just couldn't

(13:06):
continue daily training and racing. So he was retired and
Sean got him rehabbed and now a young teenage gal
has him, Jessic Kakatie I believe is her name. It's
a real good story there. So that's our this week's
where are they now? And next week, as we mentioned,
it's going to be sir looking Glass who was in

(13:28):
the racing club last year. Okay, that's weekly honors. First
stakes races are June twenty second, and you know we're
just building up toward that as well. With you mentioned
precise timing is in on Monday.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yes, and yeah, we're seeing it, you know. And unlike
in the previous years, a lot of these races are
going that lead into the stakes. You know, last year
May the year before, a lot of horses were having
to go straight into the stakes. They're getting those important
preps this year, which is just going to help us
so much as we go down through our season.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Let's see, I got a couple other notes I believe here. Yeah,
this is a family fun weekend. By the way, pony
rides all weekend long Saturday, Sunday and Monday for the kids.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
We're gonna have good weather too.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, that's exactly We've been doing great crowds with not
being able to see Mount Rainier. That's gonna happen this weekend.
The kids race will be after the fourth on Sunday.
That has been growing and we must have had what
a couple hundred kids on the track in one of
those last year, So that'll be on Sunday. The kids
get to run down the stretch at Emerald Downs. Not

(14:37):
too far away is t Shirt Night. That is our
first Friday, June sixth, fab Friday, half price Friday. On
the Friday night's first rate seven pm. So June sixth,
you pay your admission, you get your T shirt, and
that is good for free admission the rest of the

(14:57):
Fridays and even if you don't. If you miss that night,
admission is half price on Fridays at Emerald Downs in
twenty twenty five, plus some other good deals as well
that are half price also. Okay, well, we're going to
talk with Mike Morris after the break. Trainer here at

(15:17):
Emerald Down's been in the game a long time and
also owner Ron Schmid, who had a pretty good horse
in our early in our career and is back in
action as a breeder owner this weekend. So those are
our guests and we'll continue forward here on horse Racing Northwest.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
It doesn't matter if you love craps, blackjack machines or
dining on the finest Asian, American and Salish cuisines. It
doesn't matter what you do or where you're coming from.
What you do is all at Muckleshoe, an easy drive
from wherever you are, All roads lead to Muckleshoot.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Much us.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Soon they round the turn and head for home now
and his iron Man on the lead validate chasing now
and from the outside tap it at midnight, two hundred
yards to go and his iron Man validate one more
final surge one hundred yards to the finish and his

(16:26):
iron Man's holding gamely and his iron Man the winner
by two.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
Anna's iron Man with a nice victory at Emerald Downs
last summer for trainer Mike Morris. And Mike is an
affable guy, Vince who we've got joining us here on
horse Racing Northwest today.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, you know talking to Mike and his publicists. Of course,
you and I we root for everybody we want to
see everyone a bit. I like when the smaller stables
get a win every now and then, and Mike will
tell us he is. And we don't have as many
these anymore as we used to do, and so it's
great to see one of the one of the guys
with a little bit of a smaller barn here at

(17:07):
emill Down. So welcome Michael.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Thanks.

Speaker 7 (17:09):
I's appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Good to have you, Mike. Yeah, Mike's always good to
talk to out watching training and always gives me the
name of his horse when we want to do a
training day segment. And as iron Man is back this year.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
Right, yeah, yeah, he ran last week.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Yeah, and yeah that was a good win. Last year.
I was following him, he was showing some good signs
and I bet him a few times and then I
didn't bet him one time and that was the race
we just dared. Was he seventeen to one that day?

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Sixteen sixteen to one?

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Well, that's good that he's back, and you know, you
got to start in him. He did well at Grant's
Pass as well and some time off. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (17:53):
Yeah, he's he's just a real honest little horse.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
You know.

Speaker 7 (17:56):
He's one that I've had since last year acquired and
I was able to spend the winter with him too
this year out of a training center, and so it
was good for him to get some time off. And
he's a you know, older horse, but I'm hopeful for
him this year.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Let's let's learn a little bit about you, Mike. Where
are you from and how do you get interested in horses?

Speaker 8 (18:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (18:21):
Thanks, Joe. Well, I grew up in Bend, Oregon, so
central Oregon. Not a lot of racing around there. We
had the Cricket River Round up for four days Ryanville Ranville, right,
which is always fun. And my family has been racing
horses since I've been in existence. My dad trained horses,
my older brother trained horses, and so we've been we've

(18:43):
been running into fair meets when that used to be
a thing and there was a lot of them, so
you know, places like Lakeview, Oregon and clam of Falls
and all those little tracks that are gone today unfortunately.
But we've we've continued on and just in the last
few years, you know, have really put more effort into
Emerald Downs and coming up here. It's a lot tougher,

(19:04):
of course, bigger competition, but a lot more fun too
when you do get one home.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. So racing family, and I'm sure
you learned a lot from you know, your brother and
your dad and who were some other people that you
were around when you were younger that might have helped out.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
So when when I was young, I was eighteen, I
was down at Turf Paradise, so that's where we were
out in Phoenix, and I bought my first horse for
seven hundred and fifty dollars and took him to a
fair meet in one and then brought him back to
Phoenix and son of a gun if you didn't win
there at thirty five to one. So the very first
horse I ever bought with my own money was a

(19:48):
two time winner right off the bat, and so yeah,
my dad had to wield him in the trifecta had
the only ticket you got the pool, so you know,
right off the bat. As an owner, high was pretty
hooked and thought it was easy, right. But yeah, so no,
I've been around a lot of really good trainers back then,
guys like Jeff Mullens and Mike Pipe.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
They were all at.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
The same level. I've known Justin Evans since he was
a little kid, probably the one that's had the most
success is a guy named Chris Hartman. And Chris used
to be his brother, was our groom for quite a
few years, and I know the whole family. And Chris
has gone on to do really big things at Churchhill
in Oaklawn, and it's fun to be able to pick
up the phone when he wins a big race and

(20:31):
call him and you know, sid stuff like that. But
my dad, Gary Morris, has been really the mentor for
me for the horses, and it's taught me a lot.
My older brother, Gary Junr as well. So yeah, it's
been a family affair and we're fortunate to have been
around a lot of really high end horses and trainers
throughout our career.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
So and so here you are at emimald this year.
I think you said you either got four or five
horses in training this year and kind of a cool
thing mentioned you haven't had too many of these in
your career, but you got a two year old in
training here?

Speaker 7 (21:04):
Yeah, I do. He's by a stud that I acquired
named Alphatique, son of Vosore, and I got him through
a roundabout way, came up to us from California, bred
a few mirrors to him, and a few friends have
bred a few and so yeah, this this particular one
is out of a mirror that was never started, but
as well bred out of a Bertrando side. And he's

(21:26):
a big seventeen hand two year old, which is good
and bad. He's got a big stride, but they're very
fragile when they're when they're that big. So we'll see
if we can get him started this year, I hope.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
So what do you think, what's your best guess on
getting a race in him at age two?

Speaker 7 (21:42):
I give it an eighty percent.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
No, I want to run him.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, anytime I know Joe and I hear Bertrando somewhere
in the blend, our ears kind of perk up there
a little bit. But you're mainly you kind of deal
with kind of the old war horses, right. The horses
are veterans that you have one a bunch of races
and maybe not the stakes level, but the lower claiming ranks,
and those we got to be a good horseman to

(22:06):
deal with those.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
Yeah. Someone said to me the other day, you like projects, right,
So those sometimes those are projects. And a lot of
the time it's not physical, it's something in their head, right,
that you need to need to get worked out. But yeah,
I've had a lot of those over the years, and
my family has too, and we've you know, you have
some success and if they're not going to work at

(22:27):
the track, I really love finding them a home and
a new new career as well. Uh, And so that's
been I've had a lot of I get a lot
of pictures from people of the horses over the years.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Right, Well, come on, man, you got to feed me
some of that info. We do the where are They Now?
Videos actually every week during the season, with just a
couple of exceptions, so I'll be talking to Mike about
those possibilities that have moved on from racing. In fact,
as we mentioned in our first segment, there next week's

(22:58):
where Are They Now? Is a X Racing Club horse,
Sir looking Glass.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
And like what Mike was just talking about, a horse
that needs to be retired, do you want to find
a good home for it? But it takes a lot
of resources, a lot of time, a lot of know how,
a lot of money, and a lot of people want
to take it on, but they don't have that maybe
the experience or the or the or the wherewithal to
pull it off. So it's quite a commitment and as horsemen,

(23:25):
I think it's great that we prioritize that.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Yeah, yeah, you need you know, you need space or
you need some money to support the horse.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
And I had one question, now, with your smaller outfit
like you are, do you kind of do it all
back there or do you have grooms? And who's your
exercise rider? How do you work all that out when
you got the smaller barn.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
Well, the I do have a groom and he does
a good job and I couldn't do it without him,
and I usually do every year here. The hardest part
of the exercise riders because they want to latch onto
a bar and that's got thirty forty horses. And so
I have three different exercise riders that come get on
five horses, and I haven't said at certain times when

(24:07):
they have a break and it works out pretty well.
They all have big barns, but they come to my
barn as well.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
So yeah, that is great. Yeah, Well, Mike's got a
few years of experience putting all that together, and you
know changes at Emerald Downs this year, Mike, there's just
a lot of people back there and a lot of horses,
and you know it's unfortunately Northern California racing went away.
I mean you've seen Portland Meadows go away and other

(24:35):
tracks as well. But pretty good feeling early in the
meeting at Emerald Downs this year with the field size
and competition, and it doesn't make it any easier for you.
But what do you think back there this year?

Speaker 7 (24:48):
You know, I actually really enjoy it everybody I've met,
and I'm one that generally says a low to everybody,
and so it's just been a really really good thing
for em All Downs. The horse population entries are closing
on time, and that's a good thing, right. So I've
met some great people from California and people that I
stood on the rail just this morning with a guy

(25:09):
that I've been watching run horses for probably thirty years,
Mike Linzini, And he's a master at the trade. Right
He's probably towards the top end of his career. But
people like that and now I get to reb elbows
with them and learn from them. So it's excellent.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
That is great. Yeah, Mike Linzini one of the many
new horses trainers up here this year, all kinds of them,
and man, it's busy out there in the mornings and
Vince is back there just about every morning, and you've
seen it.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
It is and like you said, Michael, it's just a
hub of activity. This year horse is coming and going
and it's to get them all out before the training
closes is quite a chore. And as you mentioned though,
the entries are closing on time. And I personally love
that a lot. And of course you need a lot
of horses to pull that off. But sometimes we hear

(26:01):
the trainers or owners, don't you like to have a
five or six horse field. I don't know. I love
the bigger fields myself.

Speaker 8 (26:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Well he's got to do the morning line, right, you.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Have to do the morning line.

Speaker 8 (26:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
It helps the handle right, Bigger the fields, yes, it does.
In the bottom line, that helps the horsemen, right. So
it's a good thing. It is tougher. It's hard to
on a little guy like me that has you know,
if you to run, to run in ten horse fields
and against you know, folks that have been running at
other tracks that are tough. So but you know, that's

(26:32):
just part of it. And if you have the right horse,
you can win in ten horse field. Just like a
five horse field.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Do you do you see yourself doing this a few
more years.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
Yeah, this is for me. I get up at four
in the morning, I come here, I work, do the
horses sell about eight or eight thirty till the break generally,
and then I go to work. I have a full
time job, and so I do that. I work in
tele communications. I've been doing it for thirty years. And
someone like me that if you want to have race horses,
you better have a job, right, So so yeah, it's

(27:04):
you know, it's a lot, and people ask me, geez,
how do you do that? And I see, I love it.
It's my passion. And if you don't have it, and
I don't go to the gym, but I get up
early to go.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
To the racetrack.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
That is a quite a schedule you've got. It is
do you get any days off? Obviably it's not from
the track, but.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
Well, we have Tuesdays a dark day, so it's a
walk day. That's usually pretty quick and I can get
home and my wife appreciates it too when I walk
in the door.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Well, with racing on Saturday and Sunday and Friday night,
you can probably you know, make those right.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Yeah, Oh, absolutely, yeah. I don't think I missed the
day last year, and I don't think i'll probably miss
the day this year either. Friday Night's always interesting because
you know, sometimes you don't get done back here on
the backside till midnight one in the morning, and then
you have to be up super early. But I love
running under the lights, and I think a lot of
people do.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Yeah, well, we're looking forward to our again. Our first
Friday Night will be June sixth, and Mike Moore joining us.
You talked about a couple of nice highlights, you know,
when you first got started there, winning two races right
off the bat with the first horse you bought yourself.
What about another career highlighter too, Mike.

Speaker 7 (28:15):
Well, I've had some good horses. I bought a horse
from John Martin one time down at Grant's Pass named
Boss Dancer. She was a street boss mayor. I still
have her. In fact, I have a full out of
a yearling coming. So she won fourteen races and they
were all lower level. She won it Union, Oregon, she

(28:36):
won it Prineville, she won it Grant's Pass, but she
really liked Portland Meadow's and she would come from fifteen
lengths off the pace and come get them at the wire.
And there's just no better thrill than when they run
like that. And so she was a very inexpensive purchase
that actually turned out to be a really good mayor.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
That's a good one right there, and I'm I'm going
to get back on ann as iron Man.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
I think now the horse had a race under its belt,
Like he said, the horses, you know, it's not going
to be a superstar, but the horse is a trier.
Probably got to win in there somewhere this year, I'm sure.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
And the distance he won at at Grant's Pass was longer,
wasn't it six and a half? Oh they're both sprints, Okay, yeah,
six and a half. That's a two turn spread, of course.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Well, well we'll see Vince. I you know, I really
like him. He's uh, he's he tries every time that
he runs, and and the other day he ran good.
He got beat six and a quarter and he led him,
you know, most of the way around there. So and
the fractions were decent. He needed. The race been off
for seven months and uh. One of the other trainers

(29:42):
teased me as I walked past. He said, well, you're
training showed up today, Mike, I said, thanks a lot,
you guys, right, so, but I expect I expect he
can win a race.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Another one I noticed that on the work tab is
Street Mogul. Is that your horse?

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Now?

Speaker 8 (29:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (29:54):
That showed some ability here last year.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yeah, Broke has made an allowance here last year after
it was claimed I think for eight and a friend
of mine and an owner has him here with me,
Randy Abrahamson, and he's training really well. He's probably gonna
work this weekend and and then we'll start looking for
a race. I think his last out was a twenty
five thousand and on two, which is where he'll fit here.

(30:18):
I hope this year again.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Beautiful all right, Well, Mike, hey, thanks for stopping by.
Always enjoyed talking to you out in the rail and
you know, following your horses. A smaller stable guy can
do that and have a great season, you know. Just
we're all optimistic this time of year. All the best to.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
You, Joe, thank you, and Vince. I really appreciate you
having me on today. I do listen to the podcast
and so it'll be exciting to have this in my.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Repertoireks great thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Mike Morris joining us. And before we take a break,
I have one passing to relate. Ky Kasmersky passed away,
the wife of Len Kazmersky. Of course, Kay was around
Long Acres Yakama Meadow's Emerald Downs for so many years.

(31:10):
She worked for us for some fifteen years.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
He was an usher up in the box area there yeh.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
And was friends with a lot of their clients, their owners.
And of course Len passed away a few years ago.
What Kay did recently pass so our condolences to their family.
Ky Kasmersky passing away. Okay, we're going to take a
short time out and come back with our third and

(31:37):
final segment here on horse Racing Northwest.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
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Speaker 9 (32:09):
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(32:32):
of them. Priotic blast. Here's another win. What a maten
claimer a claimer for the mate. Perhaps priotic blast gets
up to win it from behaving myself and on the
inside Miss twenty five twenty.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
That was Briartic Blast winning on Mile Day nineteen ninety
seven at Emerald Downs, Boint. She had a great two
or three year run. Four owner Ron Schmid, who joins
us on horse racing Northwest. Ron, great to have you
on and I bet you remember that.

Speaker 8 (33:02):
Race, Hi, Joe, Yeah, thanks for having me, you know
I do. It's it's funny that one was always stuck
in my mind because that was the day of the
long Here's Mile. We were in the undercard and the
agent for Gary Stevens asked us if he could ride
our horse. They'd obviously liked she had some good success
and at that time Keith Trevan was a trainer and
we got to talked about Gary Stevens. Gosh, that'd be great,

(33:25):
but our jockey Brian Campbell had such great success. We said,
we can't take Briane off. We've got to do it.
And I just remember, I still remember the call in
this thretch they were calling Gary Stevens of the horse
and it was all done, and then all of a sudden,
Bradick Blast blew up on the outside. Bingo, we were
down to the Winter Circle. It was a fun day.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Yeah, down to the Winter Circle again with Briartic Blast.
She really had an outstanding career. She climbed the claiming
ranks and I know you ran her in a couple
of stakes, and yeah, Gary Stevens up to ride. He's
a bull in the mile that year for owner Ron,
Judy and kid Katabatic and Chris low Seth led all

(34:05):
the way. Chris and Gary Stevens pretty good buddies over
the years, and Chris put it on his Hall of
Fame riding partner. But Barartic Blast one of the highlights
of Mile Day nineteen ninety seven. Yeah. Ron Schmid's been
around a little bit in racing and he's still active

(34:26):
this year. Ron, you're a Seattle guy. I take it
you probably made a few trips out to Long acres
in the older days.

Speaker 8 (34:33):
Well I did. That's how I got involved. You. I
was a busboy in the church club and I saw
these owners and I always want to be one of
these owners to realize how much bunny it costs. So
I kind of waited a while and then just went
out and cleaned it. A cheaper horse. We cleaned the
horse off of Ron Crockett and he's going to what
are you doing up the crocket? And it got claim
from us, and but I had won a race and

(34:54):
my kids we always would go on pedim and feed
him carrots. I mean, they were their animals. They're workers
with their animal and always try to treat them well.
And we were hooked. So that was kind of our farm.
I lived in Nicola, zach Out and Saman. I's so
hard to have them on our place. Yeah, it's been
a great run. Emil Down has been a great for us.
It's such a beautiful facility and I don't I'm sure

(35:15):
a lot of people recognize that until you go to
some of the other tracks around the country. They're not
as great as shape. They've done emill Down to a
great job and taking care of it as well. You
guys do a great job out there.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Well thanks, Yeah, you know, the facility does look great.
This is our thirtieth season and I know new trainers
to the barn area love the facilities back there as well,
with the dorm rooms for the grooms and the offices,
the tack rooms, the wash racks, et cetera. Yeah, and
business is good this year. We're going to have an

(35:46):
outstanding season. We've got a lot more horses. And just
before we get to your current horse, Ron, you have
had a lot of horses since Briardick Blast and you've
we've had some great success as well. Tell us a
little bit about it.

Speaker 8 (36:04):
Well, it's been fun. I mean, you get the bugs,
so we always like to have one run in somewhere.
We would claim a horse in the beginning of the
year and have something running, and of course sometimes we
get claim from you and a couple of week bred
But you know it's funny. I talked to a buddy
of mine and got him involved with one of them,
and he says, gosh, run it makes you want to
get a bed and go to work every day because
I can afford to do this and have some fun

(36:25):
doing it. And it's been a great run. I mean
like owning your own sports franchise. Whenever horse is running,
we always have people outing, and the track's really good
about giving us passes. So we'll go out and we'll
sit in the box, maybe have a beer, watch a
few races, and we go down and meet the jockey
and the trainer and wind loser draw. We're always good.
The animals are trying very hard. They were all the

(36:46):
responsible or the trainer. That just wasn't their day. But
it's a great time every time we come out when
they run.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Well, I'll say this, you generally have a smile on
your face. I like that about you. You're an optimistic
type guy and you're just looking ahead and you enjoy it.
It comes out in your voice right now. But yeah,
and Frank Lucarelli is your current trainer. Now, you have
had quite a few trainers. How's that? How's that situation? Work?

(37:15):
You've had?

Speaker 1 (37:16):
On?

Speaker 5 (37:16):
Fact, you probably had close to ten different trainers over
the years, haven't you.

Speaker 8 (37:20):
Oh yeah, if you can California, Yeah, you know probably,
And it's it's it's interesting when they're all different. And
I work with Frank and that changed from him, and
nothing personal has tried someone different, and you know, finally
got down to it, and Frank and I seem to
communicate the best. And I'm really kind of finishing up
my career with him, and he's been great and he's

(37:41):
always frank head's off to him. He never has a
horse with hurt or and he feeds him really well.
And I mean the other people do too, but I
thought Frank was a hit above on that. So they're
all been interesting people to deal with. I mean, God,
love the trainers. They get up early four in the morning.
I don't know how they do it. They must be
body about seven at night, but they're up early and

(38:03):
seven days a week. Those horses they need to eat. Yeah,
so's it's been a great run though, no complaint strengths,
do a great job and he's doing a great job
with a horse right now.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
Yeah, you bet. Frank Lukerelli our all time leading trainer
in wins and earning seven titles at Emerald Downs, has
another big stable this year and another trainer. She's our
all time leading stakes trainer still. Doris Harwood has the
lead over Tom Winzel and Blaine Wright, who are closing

(38:34):
in pretty quickly on her total. Doris retired about four
years ago, but she was slowing down a little bit
in total horses in her barn. But you got one
in there a few years ago. That was, I don't know,
a surprise to a few people, but she really climbed
the ranks. Tell us about that, Philly.

Speaker 8 (38:55):
Yeah, a little dancer. We got her. Doris Doris Moner. Yeah,
Doris wanted to do a sell or sell the horse
for the owner. And I said, well, Doris, what are
you buy? She's I got enough horses And I said, well,
why do we split it? She go, no, I got
enough horses. So uh well, I ended up buying with
a buddy and and she said the horse is really good,

(39:16):
and it was sick as a two year old. So
so it was out three years old, first time out,
and she wins. I was like, well, you know, it's
kind of nice that we bumped her up. And next
time she wins. Oh, it's pretty good. But sometimes when
they're younger, the light switch comes on and and just
a different game. And and so we got into a
stakes race and or the first time, and and it

(39:36):
looked like she was gonna win, but she got cut off,
and I thought, oh my gosh, I know we got
trouble of traffic trouble. But then the next time out
she had up winning a stakes race and that might
have been the Oaks, I'm not sure, but but we
ran in the Oaks and there were a six horse field,
and I remember, uh, just want a horse to come in.
Sirt gous gets third, we'll make some money. And and

(39:57):
she she led all the way around, and God love her,
she legged it out and kept about a half a
length in front and won the race. And we were
just shocked. I mean, we were done. And so we're
down in the Winter Circle. You were doing the interviews.
It was a great job. And my buddy Keith, he
was part owner, and uh, he said, oh god run,
I just got off the golf course and I had

(40:18):
six peers. I said, just be quiet, I'll do the talking.
And so we're down there and you're intergron and then
you go roun your buddy Keith here, and you went
to talk to her heart to Keith, I said, oh no,
here cuffs. But he said all the right things. You know,
Doris did a great job training the horse, and and
she then the horse and Doris obviously jilled and and
we actually took her off to Canada with the series

(40:39):
between Hastings and Emerald Downs and horse came and forth
up there. It was kind of sloppy track and and
uh anyway, so we it was. It was a great,
great run with her. She's the best. She's in Kentucky
now and she's making babies, so it's it's kind of
followed her a little bit and turned to follow her Offsprings.
But it was a great run. I mean, you know,
out of a thirty horses, the two or three that

(41:01):
have been exceptional, and it was worth every penny. Yeah,
so that's great.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
Oh yeah, little dancer. What a top story she was,
as you mentioned her rattling off consecutive wins and the
oaks and then she won like an overnight steak. Did
she went on mile day and dead heated with one
of Frank's horses. I believe she did, didn't she?

Speaker 8 (41:22):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Later I read them.

Speaker 8 (41:25):
I remember we ran against a big favorite that was
a four year old, and that was the mini fact.
It was kind of funny. My buddy had a horse
in the mile and the plaint piper, and he came
up and he said, hey, Ron, he might give in
Jerry holand Or for a ride. They were all on
the same plane coming up from California, and so he
got in there in the car and I said, sure,
I love you Ryan. And I said, oh, Jerry, it's
a three year old. They won't compete, Buole, it's the

(41:47):
four year old. And he goes, oh, you'd be surprised.
And he had the big favorite coming in and in
the stretch a Little Dancer was hit by two legs
and it was the local favorite. I can't remember that.
They came out and beat us. We came in second
and it went up to Jerry's got Jerry, you're right,
the three ye old could compete. He couldn't even talk
to me. He was just so mad. His horse was
both with the race. But we end up coming in

(42:07):
second as a three year old versus four year old's
mouth and at that point I said, gosh, we have
a good horse. Because when the three year olds can
run us, the older horses compete, you know you've got
a good horse.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
You bet no that that horse had an outstanding career.
Little Dancer owned by Ron Schmid, who is joining us
on horse racing Northwest. And Ron, I see you are
down as a breeder for the horse you were going
to run this weekend Saturday, Dynamic d D and uh,
you know, a very promising three year old Philly by

(42:40):
Dynamic Impact out of something about Iris.

Speaker 8 (42:44):
You're a horse breeder, Yes, it's it's fun to bring him.
I've read two other horses, and you know, you've got
him since babies, and it's they're kind of part of
the family. And I had owned something about Iris and
I had to retire, and the christopherson who bred Harbor
the Gold wanted her back. They named that horse after

(43:05):
our granddaughter. And they came to me and I said, okay,
you know, and they go, we'll tell you what, you
pick one of our stallions. We'll breed her, you get
her first baby, then we'll keep her after that. And
it was a great, a great offer, and so we
accepted and and so we had the baby and we did.
We named her something about Dedi because I'm sorry, Dynamic

(43:25):
Dedde because the father was Dynamic Impact, and my wife's name.
The grandkids call her Dedi, so we we named her
Dynamic Dedi and that's how she got her name. And
we ran her last year at the two year old
Lightly race. And you know, don't really want to push
the two year olds too much, so we got in there.
She she came in third a couple of times and
I think we had a fourth out of there. So

(43:46):
she kind of covered her now a little bit, which
is good. And then we put her on the farm,
uh down with the ben root for the winner and
got her back up and she's been training doing well
and put some weight on and and uh, well help
when she's ready to run. We've been trying to get
her in a couple of times and finally got her
into a big field. And you know, the maidens are
a great way for us at Lisa start and hopefully

(44:08):
she'll get a shot at Breakingner Maiden.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
Yeah, that's the fourth race on Saturday at Emerald Downs.
It's a maiden twenty five thousand claimer Dynamic DEDI is
number five in there with Kevin Rossco and Ron just
went over. Yeah. You know, her first career start was good.
Last August, she came back in two weeks was third
to Precise Timing and Beauty Bark. Of course, Precise Timing

(44:32):
unbeaten three for three all stakes races, and Beauty Bark
was right in there with her. A couple times. So
you were in against the top juvenile phillies last year,
and you know, I just like the fact she's run
behind horses and competed. Well. She gets to go on
lay six now she's passed horses. You're probably fairly optimistic

(44:56):
about her three year old year, aren't you.

Speaker 8 (44:59):
Yeah? Yeah, did the Frank liked her and and the
mother I love. I had to look up last night
we're talking about the mother ran nine times and hit
the board eight times. So I like the fact her
mother always tried hard and she had I mean, she's
a sweetheart for horse. So this this one's a love
bug too. We were petty and I were out there
in the barn last weekend and you know she just

(45:21):
loves to be petted and so that we really like
it as animals, although they can't come over with those
rogers big enough. But uh, she's been working out well.
The trainer likes her, the jockey likes her. But we
had to get her out to race. So this this
one field, and it's a big field. I mean it's
not used. We're not used to the emerald them and
ten horses and some of them twelve horse in the fields.

(45:42):
But that's great. It's great for the for the better
and the people coming out of the track. So we'll
see how she does. We've got a good post, you know.
When they're some of them are lightly raced for our
first time starters, you know, they get the gate for
a while, they're kind of flat footed and we're breaking
from five, so we'll be one of the last ones
in the gate that you help us out.

Speaker 5 (46:01):
Yeah, yeah, Kevin Rosco rides. He wrote her a couple
of times last year, so yeah, look for Dynamic Dedie.
I didn't see the morning line yet. It is probably
out by now, but as Ron said, it's a big field.
We've got a lot of big fields, a lot of
horses training. It's going to be a really good season.

Speaker 8 (46:21):
You know.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
Our our opening day card back on April twenty seventh,
we averaged less than six horses per race, But just
being around all winter and spring, with all the arrivals
from California, I told everybody that would listen, I go, well,
this is going to be our worst card of the
year because a lot of local trainers aren't ready quite yet,

(46:44):
and it's just getting better every day on the entries.
Ron and I know, as an owner, you wouldn't mind
running in a five or six horse field, but it's
not going to happen that much this year.

Speaker 8 (46:55):
Yeah, No, it's you know, I just love the competition
and sure it'll be fun. They'll be horse going up
and down. Probably more claims going on. I did to
see were our stargning guards were eight to one, but
the favorite in the race is four to one, So yeah,
there you go. Whoever made the odds just they have
no clue on how it's going to come out. But
that's the beauty for people coming out to bet on

(47:17):
these horses, because you know, if you're got a five
horse field and you're three to five, you're not going
to make any money. But in this race, any ors
can win, so you could you might be able to
have some fun if you're making some wagers.

Speaker 5 (47:27):
That's right. Yeah, Vince here are my co host. Yeah,
he said that he's probably got a few four to
one favorites this weekend because of the competition. But ron
great to have you in the game. You've been an
Emerald Down stalwart over the years, and keep participating and

(47:49):
good luck with a home bread this time. Dynamic DDY
on Saturday and you you grew up in Seattle, but
your permanent residence now is Las Vegas.

Speaker 8 (47:59):
Is it pretty much? We come back for some time
in the summer, but wanted to winter down there. I
just kind of laugh and tell people it's rained twice
in the last thirteen months, you know, so that's kind
of the bad news. But the good news is the
sunny where But in Seattle, you know, it's so beautiful
to rain, get the rain, but it's green. We noticed
that coming back up here. It's it's just different, but

(48:21):
it's fun. And down there there's a lot of places
to watch the horse race, so you can always if
it's not in your computer, your phote.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Yeah, yeah, no, that you bet well. Ron, thanks so much,
and good luck this week and good luck all year well,
especially starting with Dynamic d D this Saturday.

Speaker 8 (48:40):
Yeah, Joe, and thanks for all your service you've been
You're gonna outlast me. But we've been in a long
time doing this and what a great run. You know,
it's been so much fun. It's love being in an area.
We have a job that's fun and you do a
great job of what you do.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
Hey, thanks so much, Ron, Ron Smid joining us on
horse racing Northwest. Yeah, thanks much to Ron Schmid and
his horse Dynamic ded Evince in that fourth race on Saturday.
That was a tough one to do, the morning line

(49:13):
with first time starters, and you know, of course in
from Santa Nita, et cetera, et cetera, the beat goes on.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Well, I try not to cop out on something like
but I went over that race a bunch of times
and everyone to me was four to one, between four
to one and twelve to one. I couldn't just you know,
sometimes you just start trying to go backwards. Then well,
who can we If I can't find the favorite, who
can I say is going to be the longest? I
couldn't even do that. It's just very difficult. Now, there

(49:41):
was always the chance that a first timer will show
up with a lot of money or something like that.
But there's several races like that this weekend. If you
really like someone, you're pretty much guaranteed of getting a
good price.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
All right, Okay, Well let's go on to sport Shorts,
Vince sport short for you this week?

Speaker 4 (49:59):
Okay, Yeah, Sunday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs surprise surpriably. Well,
I'm a you know, a Montreal Canadians fan, so I'm
hardwired to not like the Leafs. But they're doing Toronto now.
They got eliminated in seventh game to flour the defending chance.
But it's not just the way they did. It was

(50:21):
those games five and seven at home. They lost both
of them six to one and they were just very feeble.
Toronto has not won the Cups in sixty seven. That's
fifty eight years the Toronto Maple.

Speaker 8 (50:33):
Leafs, So.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
That is closer to the sinking of the Titanic than
it is to today. And so any of you Toronto
Maple leaf fans out there, yeah, it's been a long,
long dry spell. Of course, no team from Canada has
won the Cup since nineteen eighty three, which is what
you know, thirty two years or that pales in comparison
to the to the Leafs dry spell.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
Okay, well, and the Saint Louis Blues when they were
an expansion team, I know they made the Stanley Cup Final.
Have they won a Stanley Cupp?

Speaker 4 (51:05):
Yes, in twenty nineteen they did. They were last in
the league in January, ended up got a real heater
and won the Cup.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
All right, all right, well, let's go into some back
and forth action. First one for me, trainer franklu Corelli,
our all time leading conditioner in wins and earnings, has
taken a little vacation in Italy for some time. If

(51:32):
you go over there, you better go over for more
ten days. And Mary Ellen Silva, Tim mccanna's top assistant,
who does a great job. She's also in Italy. They
left the same day and Mary Ellen paid a little
fee to get breakfast at the Vatican. So from our
couple of our top barnes, a little absence over across

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the pond there for a while.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
And did notice Tim on the grounds today, And as
we've mentioned many times, he's got a pretty strong presence
here at emill Doown's this year. Okay, here's one. I
hadn't realized this. You know, since Justify won the Triple
Crown in twenty eighteen, there's been twenty different winners of
the Triple Crown races. No one has won two Triple

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Crown races since Justify won the Triple Crown in twenty eighteen.
And of course this year we've had sovereignty and journalism
and if they show up in the Bellmouth, there's a
pretty good chance. Finally one one of them's going to
come up with two wins this year.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
That's a good one. Now, I just ask you if
you had a good trivia question, that would have been
a good one. Could have worded it somehow, but that
is different. Yeah, so many horses have skipped the Preakness
in recent years. We did bring that up as a
topic last week, and you mentioned Tim mccanna. Yeah, he'll
be here this weekend. He hasn't been present for his

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early starters the first six days, but Tim will be
here this weekend. He mentioned he's he goes, Yeah, I'm
even getting more out. They're sending more to me. I
got more to come up here. So he's actually maintaining
about twenty percent win average for the year, which is
very good. Vince's considering he's run mostly at Santa Nita.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Tim wins wherever he goes. You know, you and I
have talked about that, and he's got a strong bar.
And one thing about Tim, we've always talked about boyk
and he swat horses and races and he's not reckless,
but he's very aggressive, right and it works for him.
And he's also got a very good training program. Obviously Okay,

(53:30):
claim box busy again last weekend we've had twenty seven
claims in eight days. You know who gets hit hard
at the claim box is Blaine Wright. We've had three
twenty five thousand dollars claims this year. All of them
have been from Blaine Wright going South, a three year
old gelding, and then last week Rock and Tiger, a
first time starter, and Bourbon Dancer, a four year old gelding.

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Both went to trainer Justin Evans for twenty five thousand
and then last year Blaine had sixteen horses claimed off
him here at Emerald So and Blaine's very sharp, so
you know, and he enters, he knows there's a good
chance he's going to be losing those horses. But twenty
five is three of them already at the meet.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
Yeah, and Evans claimed the two last weekend.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Right, Rock and Tiger and Bourbon Dancer.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
And let's welcome back Justin Evans who had his first
two starters at the current meeting last Saturday and one
our last Sunday, and one ran one two with eleven
year old surprisingly perfect over eight year old Bedrock, surprisingly Perfect.
Twenty fifth career victory. That is an amazing horse, Vince,

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as you well know, claimer of the meeting last year.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
Yeah, and he talked about a will to win. He's
not going to let a horse buy him once he
makes the lead. Okay, we got a new another new
jockey here now, Akatsuki Tomita from Japan. He spent the
winner down at Santa Anida. Currently is a good friend
with Kazushi Kimura, who we all know from Woodbine and
is really caught on well in southern California. He rode

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nine horses at San Diannito, got five thirds and one second.

Speaker 8 (55:11):
And he's on.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
You know, he's going to be getting like Tim Mchanna's
using him and he won two hundred races in his
native country, including a Group two. So we talked about
how tough the jockey colony is. Well, there's another guy
with mister Timita beginning riding this week.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Yeah. Our biggest day and a lot of years of
individual jockeys participating in one day last Sunday, twenty one
jockeys participated. So there's an addition. We did mention earlier
about the field size is fantastic this weekend. We had
one eight point one average one day. Last season of

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eight horses per race over the full race day one
day twenty twenty three, one day twenty twenty two, one
day twenty twenty one, zero days, and prior to that,
there was several years with multiple eight or more starters
per race on a given day, but we're just going
to blow that away this year. I was trying to

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find out when the last time we had a nine
horses average per day, which we do this Saturday before scratches.
It's nine point two, so that means good wagering at
Emerald Downs this year. And speaking of that, we also
touched on a lot of favorites did win last week
over half nine out of seventeen, so favorites are winning

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at forty five percent, which is quite high, but as
Vince and I agreed, that number is going to come
down ten to one winners ten to one or greater
odds over ten percent. Another thing, Vince, we did not
have one odds on favorite in seventeen races last week,
which is a good sign. With that's a field size sign.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
Very good sign. Talking of favorite, where it's this horse
makes its Emerald Down's debut on Sunday. We got a
twenty four thousand dollars allowance for phillies and Maryor's name
fun money we mentioned justin Evans.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
This is for j.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
Paul Readham Kevin Kriger Up. She's a five year old Mayor.
She's been off a long time, but when last scene
she was running against horses like Daddy's Ruby, not just
running against them, but head and head with them. So
that'll be an interesting comeback in Sunday's feature race.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
Yeah, Dave Mowatt shipped a horse from trainer Grant Forrester
back at fair Grounds into the blain Wright Box erect
and that horse, of course has some nice credentials. Broke
a made in special weight winner at Fairgrounds and then
first two starts against winners were really strong efforts.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
And then My Little Lady, who only saw once is
another one out of Ross's Girl who won a maiden
special here easily last year one for one and of
course Ken just losed his whiz and see that Tiger,
Oh pretty deep race.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
Yeah, my Little Lady. Number four from Scratch is the
name of the horse that Dave Mowatt ten Brook Farm
owns From Scratch by flame Away out of a Cowtown
kat Mayor, Louisiana bred so that is an outstanding eighth
race on Sunday at Emerald Downs. Okay, any other sports

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shorts for you. We did have our first two time
winner at the meet last weekend, Moonlight Gray. Yes, nice
closing victory again for her.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
And again ridden by Alex Cruz, who begins the week
at nine hundred ninety six career wins. So good chance
you could hit one thousand this weekend?

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Yeah, yeah, okay, very good. Let's say Moonlight Gray was
on Saturday or Sunday, not that it really makes that
much difference. First two time winner. All right, So there's
some back and forth action from Vince and myself selections

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did want to give you? Mentioned to it? John and
myself both selected Tieton River. John was on with us
last week. John Lindley of Parker's Outstanding Handicapper. He doesn't
pick too many eight to one horses, but that one,
you know, fit It.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Was hardly eight to one by the time they left
the gates.

Speaker 5 (59:22):
Well, yeah, there was at least one scratch in there.
But I liked it as well. It was a good
special weight to Maiden ten and she won easy, so
good job there, and I don't think I gave credit
to the big A Anthony sta Bill from his Kentucky Derby.
He was just nailed at exact a cold sovereignty over journalism,

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and he did well up at the Mohegan Sun.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
Where he was, and that will pay more paid more
in the Derby than it will in the Belmont.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
If those two run one two, that's for sure. So
good job big A, who is not a real chalk guy,
but he nailed that. The third favorite over the favorite,
John White was darn close. He liked journalism on top
and Sandman was actually his second pick. But sovereignty is third.
So I guess a lot of handicappers were pretty close

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on the Kentucky Derby as the what was it again,
the third favorite over the favorite in the top two slots.
We're already done with the Preakness. What am I talking
about the Kentucky Derby for? But it'll apply on Belmont
Steak Saturday, which will be June seventh, coming up. All right, selections,

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you know I'm a little bit light right now that
two year old race. We had Ron Schmid on the
fourth race on Saturday. I am going to go with
the eight on top, and I think you probably have
ording missed, favored ording, missed, had the three hole in

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her debut you on our opening day, and now she
moves more towards the outside with Americana, She's going to
be one of the favorites. I think ron Schmidz horse
has a really good shot in their first time for
a price, first time lay six two year old to
three year old break dynamic DEDI I think you have
her at eight to one in there, and I am

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going to come back with Bonnie Jenny's horse. In the
fifth race, Guard your Spot just couldn't quite stay up
with kir Royal. Curland's Song was second, Kate Blossom third
in that race of May third. Yeah, Curland Song and
Kate Blossomer back. Guard your Spot was pressured from the

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one whole career debut. She moves outside, I think she'll
drift up a little bit because again she was outrun
by two of her foes that are coming up this Saturday.
Do you remember what you made that morning?

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
I want to say five or six to one, Okay,
and you know we're.

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
Thinking good shot. Excuse me, good thoughts of trainer Bonnie Jenny.
She's been in the hospital for a few days and
being diagnosed. You know, Bonnie has been around this game
since the sixties. Her dad at a place just off
the backside of Yakima Meadows, and Bonnie was a name

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trainer at Long Acres for many many years and Yakama
Meadows Emerald Downs, and certainly was wishing the best for Bonnie.
She's coming off a really good season where you know,
dynamic secret. He's not talking steakes winners here.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
And you know you'd mentioned those silks, some of the
earliest silks I remember, of course, or the green with
the black eight ball. Howie Gibson uses those now still
and then the yellow and green of Bonnie Jenny and
her dad Ed Lewis. Those go way way back here.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Exactly all right, And on to trivia here on horse
racing Northwest last week's question. You know, it's kind of
on the aftermath of see that tiger running that super
fast five and a half furlongs in his victory. Well,
who has the fastest three year old six furlongs in

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Emerald Down's history? And that wasn't too tough for Vince.
You know, my first thought was Baja sur who did
have the mark until another Blainwright trainee lowered it in
twenty twenty three Clovis connection to one oh seven point
five nine. Right, that's the fastest six furlongs for a
three year old in Emerald Downs history. We had a

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couple submissions of Baja Sir, so nobody got that one.
This week's question. The horse that is currently at Emerald
Downs that has been talked about on this podcast Los
His Whiz. He's been a divisional champion three straight years.
He was Horse of the Year in twenty twenty two

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and twenty twenty three. Last year he was a Washington
Bread Handicap Horse of the Year and Washington Bread Sprinter
of the Year. So he's won to Washington Bread divisional
title three straight years. Well, there's a few horses that
have done it four straight years, four straight divisional title years.

(01:04:19):
Name as many as you can send your answers to
trivia at Emerald doowns dot com. Divisional Washington Bread Champion
four consecutive years. Not easy to do, all right, Looking
forward to a great weekend, Vince, you got a little
morning line stuff yet to go for Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
Sure do, yep. And but Monday also shaping up as well.
And again if you mentioned the weather should be outstanding,
so come on out and enjoy some good racing and
some nice sunshine.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
Thanks for listening to horse racing Northwest