For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n O B Harbor, 2016 Emerald Downs Horse of the Meeting, died suddenly Tuesday from a twisted intestine, owner Jody Peetz said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The 4-year-old Oregon-bred was resting at his off-season home near Yakima when stricken by colic, and Peetz said a necropsy revealed a twisted intestine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Trained by Chris Stenslie, O B Harbor enjoyed a remarkable 2016 season at Emerald Downs, reeling off four spectacular victories including triumphs in the Governor’s Stakes, Budweiser Stakes and Mt. Rainier Stakes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A powerful front-runner ridden by Jose Zunino, O B Harbor ran meet fastest times at 5\u00bd furlongs, 6\u00bd furlongs and 1 1\/16 miles. Moreover, his 1:00.97 clocking in a 5\u00bd-furlong allowance victory was only one-tenth of a second shy of Hollywood Harbor’s world record, and his stakes record 1:13.59 in the Governor’s included extraordinary fractions of :21.58, :42.67 and 1:06.98.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “He had all the talent in the world and tons of heart,” Peetz said of O B Harbor. “He was the complete package and we loved him. It’s a terrible loss.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The 6-to-5 betting favorite in the $200,000 Longacres Mile (G3), O B Harbor suffered his only loss of the season while finishing third to Point Piper and Cyrus Alexander, but not before rocketing thru some of the fastest fractions in race history \u2013 :22.66, :44.70, 1:08.76 \u2013 and helping set the stage for Point Piper’s track and state record 1:32.90 clocking.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A dark bay or brown gelding by Harbor the Gold-Flying Memo, O B Harbor compiled a lifetime record of 6-1-3 in 12 starts with earnings of $163,191. In 2016, O B Harbor was 4-0-1 in five starts and led the meet in earnings with $124,050. In addition to Horse of the Meeting, O B Harbor was voted Top Sprinter and Top Handicap Horse.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" O B Harbor, 2016 Emerald Downs Horse of the Meeting, died suddenly Tuesday from a twisted intestine, owner Jody Peetz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":22569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22568","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\/22568"}],"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=22568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}