For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Cup of Soup drew clear for a 2\u00be-length victory in Friday’s featured $21,400 Copiers Northwest Purse for 3-year-old fillies at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ridden by Juan Gutierrez, Cup of Soup ran one mile in 1:37.97 and paid $26.40, $8.80 and $3.60.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A Kentucky-bred by Einstein, Cup of Soup is developing into the track’s Rodney Dangerfield filly \u2013 in three starts, she has victories at odds of 11-1 and 12-1,and a third at 15-1. Friday, she stalked Quibble and Bella Colomba to midway on the last turn, swept to the lead into the lane, and rolled home uncontested for the victory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Caliente Gold, the even-money favorite ridden by Julien Couton, finished well for second place and paid $3 and $2.40. A maiden racing against winners, Caliente Gold now has two seconds and a third in three career starts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Belle Colomba, ridden by Jose Zunino, held third and paid $3.40 to show. Suite One, Zippinaroundtown, Ritzy Tags and Quibble completed the order of finish.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Cup of Soup began her career in Texas, but she raced mainly in Arizona before arriving at Emerald Downs this spring. Trainer Manny Ortiz claimed her two races back for $7,500, with Friday’s win yielding a tidy $11,550 payday for owners Thomas Glasgow, Ezra Lee Craig and Ramiro Meraz-Martinez<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Trainer Manny Ortiz is 10-for-28 in his first season at Emerald Downs, and said he plans to return again next year. … Buddy Dave ($9.20) regained the lead as the track’s leading active winner with his 16th victory at Emerald Downs with a come-from-behind triumph in race four. An 8-year-old Kentucky-bred by Five Star Day, Buddy Dave has been owned by Kingsport Syndicate and trained by Vince Gibson throughout the gelding’s 65-race career. … Trainer Howard Belvoir clicked a notch closer to 2,000 career wins when Mary Lois ($10.60) rallied to win race three under Jennifer Whitaker. Belvoir now has 1,997 career wins and, with five horses entered Saturday and Sunday, could reach the milestone this weekend. … Belvoir is No. 3 all-time with 678 wins at Emerald Downs, and Whitaker has been up for 318 of them. … Favorites were 0-for-13 the last two Fridays until Grindster ($3.40) rallied to win the Friday nightcap. … Even with the favorite prevailing in the finale, the $0.50 Pick 5 paid a healthy $9,371, second largest of the meet. … Juan Gutierrez was the only rider with two wins and took over sole possession of second place with 47 wins, one more than Leslie Mawing. … Julien Couton rode one winner to push his meet-leading total to 58 wins. . .Live racing continues Saturday with first post 2 p.m.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cup of Soup drew clear for a 2\u00be-length victory in Friday’s featured $21,400 Copiers Northwest Purse for 3-year-old fillies at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":16502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501"}],"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=16501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16501"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}