{"id":20757,"date":"2011-07-09T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/mr-mad-max-takes-the-friday-feature-at-emerald-downs-horse-racing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T00:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T07:55:36","slug":"mr-mad-max-takes-the-friday-feature-at-emerald-downs-horse-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/mr-mad-max-takes-the-friday-feature-at-emerald-downs-horse-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Mad Max takes the Friday feature at Emerald Downs | Horse Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Mr. Mad Max, last into the stretch, rallied strongly for a one-length victory Friday in the $9,300 Pepsi Purse for 3 year olds and up at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>With a perfectly timed ride by Deborah Hoonan-Trujillo, Mr. Mad Max ran one mile in 1:37.22 on a fast track and paid $4.60, $2.60 and $2.10. Dan Mackle is the trainer for owners Sue and Tim Spooner of Olympia.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Snow On the River, ridden by Leslie Mawing, gained the lead on the last turn and led by 1-\u00bd lengths at the eighth pole, but was overtaken late and settled for second place. The runner-up paid $4.40 and $2.80.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Over and Under, an 18-to-1 long shot ridden by Javier Matias, finished third and paid $3.20. Gold Harbor, Hoofprintsintime and Touch the Sun completed the order of finish.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Gold Harbor and Touch the Sun engaged in an early speed duel while setting fractions of :23.23 and :46.62, a rapid pace that helped set the table for Mr. Mad Max. And the 4-year-old gelding was up to the task, commencing his bid on the last turn and sweeping past the leaders with a late rush for the victory.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>A Washington-bred by Tribunal, Mr. Mad Max is two-for-four at the meeting\u2014both victories via last-to-first rallies\u2014and is 3-4-2 in 20 starts overall, with $41,153 in earnings.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Hoonan-Trujillo rode two winners on the eight-race card and leads the jockeys with 10 riding doubles at the meet. The Spooners have won four races at the meeting and are No. 3 all-time with 134 wins at Emerald Downs.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><strong>NOTES:<\/strong> 3-year-old Camp Granada ($6.20) produced one of the meet\u2019s most impressive maiden victories with a 7-\u00be -length score in the fourth race, running the six furlongs in a brisk 1:08.83 under Leslie Mawing. Owned by Ron Crockett and trained by Frank Lucarelli, the son of Forest Camp-Pleas Write is a half-brother to 2010 Kent Handicap winner Rewritten.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Lucarelli had a big night with two winners running sub-1:09 six furlongs. The second was Randall &amp; Rossi\u2019s 4-year-old filly Alittlebitfamous ($3.40), who clocked a 1:08.42 while winning the sixth race by 8-\u00bc f lengths under Pedro Terrero. Five-for-six at Emerald Downs and six-for-10 lifetime, Alittlebitfamous was claimed by Bill Bomar for $7,500 with Jonathan Nance the new trainer\u2026Mawing rode two winners and leads Joe Crispin 54-52 in the jockeys\u2019 standings.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Live racing continues Saturday with first post at 2 p.m. Simulcast action includes the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup (G1) featuring 4-to-5 morning line favorite Twirling Candy.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Mad Max, last into the stretch, rallied strongly for a one-length victory Friday in the $9,300 Pepsi Purse for 3-year-olds and up at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":20758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20757","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\/20757"}],"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=20757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20757"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}