Emerald Downs.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWith apprentice jockey Eliska Kubinova riding her second of three winners Saturday, Chaching Pete ran six furlongs in 1 minute, 8.58 seconds, the second fastest time this season at the distance, and paid $14, $7.60 and $4.60. Preston Boyd is the winning owner and trainer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Advancement, ridden by Leonel Camacho-Flores, gamely held second place and paid $7 and $4. It was neck back to Immigration, ridden by Jennifer Whitaker, and a $5 show payoff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Howard Belvoir trains both the second and third-place finishers, and with a victory would have pulled to within one victory of Frank Lucarelli heading into Sunday’s closing day card.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Belvoir did saddle two winners on the card,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Country Square in the third and Be There Joe in the seventh, to trim Lucarelli’s lead to 52-51, but Lucarelli countered with a victory by Who’s Calling Now in the ninth, and owns a 53-51 lead into Sunday when both trainers have seven horses entered on the getaway day program.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kubinova, a 22-year-old native of the Czech Republic, began riding at Emerald Downs three weeks ago and was one-for-18 prior to Saturday. She quadrupled that total with victories aboard Leanna’s Blast ($37.60) in the second race, Chaching Pete in the 10th and Hannibal Lector ($6.40) in the 11th and final race, which also was the final Quarter Horse race of the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Chaching Pete has been a study in consistency. The 4-year-old Petersburg gelding is 4-4-2 in 12 starts with earnings of $26,365. Saturday’s race was his first start for Boyd, who claimed the horse for $7,500 Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
NOTES:<\/strong> Vann Belvoir also enjoyed a big day, scoring with long shot winners Leanna’s Blast ($37.60) and Stormin’ Patrick ($38.20). Both horses are owned by Keith Swagerty’s West Coast Racing LLC.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nJockey Leonel Camacho-Flores made it eight straight days with at least one win with a last-to-first victory aboard Platinum Stiletto ($18.60) in the sixth races.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sunday marks closing day of the 82-day meeting with an 11-race card at 2 p.m. The ninth race is the 74th running of the $65,000 Gottstein Futurity for 2-year-olds. The five-horse field includes three colts and two fillies, with Mike and Amy Feuerborn’s Chu and I the 9-to-5 morning line favorite for trainer Jim Penney and jockey Juan Gutierrez. Also Sunday, the annual Ashbaugh-Beal Claiming Challenge for the top claimers at the track. There are 54 horses entered in the six Ashbaugh-Beal races including full fields of 12 in the fifth and sixth races.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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