Risque’s Legacy would not be denied Sunday at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n
Turning the tables from three weeks ago, Risques’s Legacy shook off 1-to-5 favorite Alliford Bay past mid-stretch and held off Retreat Yourself and a flying Blazinbeauty for a one-length victory in the $50,000 Kent Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.<\/p>\n
With Rocco Bowen aboard at 119 pounds, Risque’s Legacy ran 6½ furlongs in 1:16.86 and paid $9, $5.20 and $4.40. Washington’s champion 2-year-old filly of 2016, Risque’s Legacy improved to 3-1-0 in four lifetime starts with earnings of $73,105. Tom Wenzel is the winning trainer for owner\/breeder Karl Krieg of Oak Harbor, Wash.<\/p>\n
Alliford Bay, unbeaten in two previous starts including a 3¼-length victory in the May 7 Seattle Stakes, weakened in the final furlong and finished sixth.<\/p>\n
Breaking from the No. 1 post-position, Risque’s Legacy attacked Alliford Bay from the opening bell, setting fractions of :21.88 for the quarter-mile and :44.23 for the half, and the two fillies entered the lane head-and-head for the lead. This time, though, it was Risque’s Legacy emerging triumphant, opening a 1½-length advantage inside the eighth pole and saving enough juice to fend off Retreat Yourself from the inside and Blazinbeauty on the outside.<\/p>\n
Retreat Yourself, ridden by Javier Matias at 119 lbs, finished second at odds of 32-to-1 and paid $16.80 and $11.40, while Blazinbeauty was third and paid $6.80 to show. Last year’s Gottstein Futurity winner, Blazinbeauty now has thirds in both 3-year-old fillies stakes this season.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the order of finish were Sorceress Warning, Reginella, Alliford Bay, Daddyalwayssays and Irish Lass.<\/p>\n
Bowen, the meet’s leading rider with 39 wins including three more on Sunday, was emotional following the race.<\/p>\n
“These silks right here are where it all started,” said Bowen, pointing to the dark green and lime silks of owner Karl Krieg. “Karl and Tom gave me a chance on Makors Finale in the 2012 Emerald Downs Derby. It was very important for me.”<\/p>\n
Substituting for an injured Gallyn Mitchell, Bowen and Makors Finale led gate-to-wire for a $13.40 upset in the Derby, proving the Barbados native was up to a big race assignment. In fact, Bowen and Wenzel are now a combined 15-for-46 in stakes at Emerald Downs – a 32.6 percent strike – including four with Makors Finale and eight with the great Stopshoppingdebbie.<\/p>\n
The $50,000 Irish Day Stakes at one mile on Sunday, June 25 is next for 3-year-old fillies.<\/p>\n
Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n Risque’s Legacy and Retreat Yourself were the only two Washington-breds in the Kent Stakes. … 2015 Oregon Horse of the Year Its Allabout Jerry ($7.60) smoked through the lane to capture his season debut in race five under Leonel Camacho-Flores for trainer Rigoberto Velasquez. Itsallabout Jerry tagged Grand Palais and Trick Or Retreat in the final yards, running 6½ furlongs in 1:16.18 and improving to 8-for-28 lifetime with earnings of $107,770. … Trainer Joe Toye remained red-hot as Summer Harbor ($11.80) scored easily in Sunday’s fourth race, giving Toye three wins for the week and a 6-for-15 mark this season. Toye and jockey Rocco Bowen are a combined 14-for-58 here the last two seasons. … Although Alliford Bay missed in the Kent Stakes, owner Peter Redekop, trainer Blaine Wright and jockey Irving Orozco scored a race later with Golden Gate shipper Emmett Park ($10.60) in a $20,500 optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up. A 6-year-old Bob and John gelding, Emmett Park ran 6½ furlongs in 1:15.56 and is 9-for-36 lifetime. … Our Lucky Day ($65) posted the largest $2 win mutuel of the meet with a nose victory over Solar Heat in the ninth race nightcap. Ridden by apprentice David Martin for trainer Nick Lowe, Our Lucky Day was the knockout punch as the $0.50 Pick 5 returned $5,914. … Six of Sunday’s nine winners paid at least $10 to win. … The jockey\/trainer combination of Eduardo Gutierrez-Sosa and trainer Hector Magallanes have won two of the first three Quarter Horses races this season, including an easy win by Spartin ($12.40) in Sunday’s first race. … Bowen’s three wins extended his lead to 39-21 over Kevin Orozco atop the jockeys’ standings. … Wright’s victory with Emmett Park moves him into a first place tie with Frank Lucarelli at 12-12 in the trainers’ standings. … Wenzel is now tied with Lucarelli for fifth place in all-time Emerald Downs’ stakes wins with 39 apiece. … Trainer Jeff Metz and owner Brett Brophy combined with 3-year-old gelding Ucanthankmelater ($9.40) to win Sunday’s third race at Santa Anita. … Live racing continues Monday with a 10-race program on Memorial Day. First post is 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Risque’s Legacy would not be denied Sunday at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":28586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28585","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\/28585"}],"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=28585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}