{"id":11401,"date":"2011-08-12T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T04:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/defending-champ-noosa-beach-receives-high-weight-for-longacres-mile-emerald-downs\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T04:43:26","slug":"defending-champ-noosa-beach-receives-high-weight-for-longacres-mile-emerald-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/defending-champ-noosa-beach-receives-high-weight-for-longacres-mile-emerald-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champ Noosa Beach receives high weight for Longacres Mile | Emerald Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emerald Downs<\/a> Director of Racing Bret Anderson has released a list of 28 handicap weights for the 76th renewal of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (G3) on Sunday, Sunday, Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Top local hope and defending Longacres Mile champion Noosa Beach was assigned high weight of 125 pounds \u2014 three more than both the 122 pounds assigned both Southern California-based multi-millionaire Awesome Gem and Northern California-based New Zealand-bred Our Nautique.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

The great Chinook Pass\u2014the six-length Longacres Mile winner in 1983\u2014is the last horse to carry 125 lbs in the Mile. Since then, the most weight carried is 124 lbs. by Bolulight, sixth-place finisher in 1993.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Bad \u2018N Big at 128 pounds in 1978 holds the record for most weight carried by a Longacres Mile winner, followed by Trooper Seven with 126 pounds. in 1981.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Winner of seven straight races and 10 of his last 11 overall, Jeff Harwood\u2019s Noosa Beach carried a track record 126 lbs while winning his most recent start, the July 24 Mt. Rainier Handicap at 1-1\/16 miles. The half-length victory, however, marked the smallest margin of victory during the current winning streak, which began over a year ago with a 4-\u00bd-length score in the 2010 Mt. Rainier Handicap<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Last year, Noosa Beach (20-14-3-2-$480,722) carried 120 pounds while winning The Mile by 1-\u00bd lengths in 1:34 4\/5.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

West Point Thoroughbred\u2019 Awesome Gem\u2014expected to ship in with David Flores to ride for trainer Craig Dollase\u2014also carried 122 pounds in the 2009 Longaacres Mile when he finished second behind Assessment as the 2-to-1 betting favorite. The 8-year-old gelding has earned $2,578,200 in a brilliant 45-race career that includes first, second or third place finishes in 17 graded stakes races.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

St Liams Halo at 120 lbs is the high weight of the expected three-horse contingent from Hastings Racecourse, followed by Crew Leader at 118 and Don\u2019twaitforme at 116.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer nominated four horses, but only Honour the Deputy, weighted at 117 lbs., is expected to run in The Mile.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Over 12 runners are expected to enter; marking the fifth straight year the race will have the maximum 12 starters.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

The Longacres Mile is limited to 12 starters with high weights preferred. Entries will be taken Wednesday, Aug. 17 and announced during a draw brunch at 11 a.m. in the Emerald Room (4th floor).<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Weights for the 76th Longacres Mile, $200,000 (G3), Sunday, Aug. 21 <\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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Noosa Beach\u00a0\u00a0125<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Awesome Gem\u00a0\u00a0122<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Our Nautique (NZ)\u00a0122<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Indian Firewater\u00a0121<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

St Liams Halo\u00a0\u00a0120<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Run It\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0119<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Slew the Man\u00a0\u00a0119<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Crew Leader\u00a0\u00a0118<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dahoud (NZ)\u00a0\u00a0118<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kevlar Kid\u00a0\u00a0118<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Almost Time\u00a0\u00a0117<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Assessment\u00a0\u00a0117<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Honour the Deputy\u00a0117<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Rooster City\u00a0\u00a0117<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Spurrier\u00a0\u00a0117<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Winning Machine\u00a0\u00a0117<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Cherokee Notion\u00a0\u00a0116<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Don\u2019twaitforme\u00a0\u00a0116<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Hollywood Harbor\u00a0116<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Saratoga Boot\u00a0\u00a0116<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Whatsthescript (IRE)\u00a0116<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Posse Power\u00a0\u00a0115<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Davos\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0115<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

J P Jammer\u00a0\u00a0114<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Our Minesweeper\u00a0\u00a0114<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Price\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0114<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Seven Torrents\u00a0\u00a0112<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Wasserman\u00a0\u00a0112<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Emerald Downs Director of Racing Bret Anderson has released a list of 28 handicap weights for the 76th renewal of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (G3) on Sunday, Sunday, Aug. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}