Winning Machine, voted Top 3-Year-Old at the 2009 meeting, served notice Sunday that he means business as a 5-year-old in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Trained by Frank Lucarelli for owners Raymond Kwik of Spokane and Paul Goldberg of Westport, Conn., Winning Machine paid $9.60, $5.20 and $3. The winner ran six furlongs in 1:09.13 on a fast track.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He\u2019s All Heart, ridden by Gallyn Mitchell, held second place and paid $5.40 and $3.20. It was another half-length back to Assessment, ridden by Juan Gutierrez , and a $2.40 show payoff. Boundtogetbusy, Wasserman, Margo\u2019s Gift and Our Minesweeper completed the order of finish.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Designed as a steppingstone to the $50,000 Governor\u2019s Handicap at 6 \u00bd furlongs on May 22, Sunday\u2019s race attracted an elite field of handicap division runners with one notable exception: Noosa Beach. The 2010 Longacres Mile winner is stabled at Emerald Downs but made his 2011 debut Friday at Hastings Racecourse with an impressive victory in the $50,000 George Royal Stakes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Trainer Doris Harwood said Noosa Beach is being pointed to the Governor\u2019s where he figures to faces his former stablemate, Winning Machine, who began his career in the Harwood barn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sunday, Winning Machine assumed a stalking position, in fourth place, as Boundtogetbusy led in fractions of :22.32 and :44.75. He\u2019s All Heart gained a short lead into the lane, but Winning Machine gained the lead past mid-stretch and won going away.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan was to sit off the pace, because we knew He\u2019s All Heart and Boundtogetbusy would be going to\u00a0 the front,\u201d Mawing said. \u201cI had a lot of horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A Kentucky-bred by Toccet, Winning Machine has a 6-4-3 record in 20 starts with earnings of $309,176. He won three stakes at Emerald Downs in 2009, the same year he also defeated Noosa Beach and Jersey Town in the British Columbia Derby at Hastings Racecourse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
NOTES: The track condition was listed wet-fast the first three races and upgraded to fast for races 4-to-9\u2026Oregon-bred Quarter horse Cosmic Clash ($9.20) led gate-to-wire to win the first mixed breed event of the season in :47.09 for 870 yards. Statistics for Quarter horses and mixed breed races, incidentally, are kept separately from Thoroughbred events.\u00a0 For example, Deborah Hoonan-Trujiilo, who rode both Cosmic Clash and second-race winner De Cantina, received credit for one Quarter horse win and one Thoroughbred win\u2026H H Harbor, a first-time starter trained by Tim McCanna romped by 11 \u00bd lengths in the fourth and was claimed for $7,500 in a three-way shake by trainer Chris Stenslie for owner One Horse Will Do Corp. The 3-year-old Harbor the Gold filly ran five furlongs in :57.89 seconds\u2026Trainer Gary Morris Jr. saddled two winners including a $19.20 upset by My Date Rayann in the sixth race\u2026Matt Hagerty rode My Date Rayann and the last two days had winners at 15-1 and 8-1 \u2026Live racing resumes Friday with first post at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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