Riser sprinted to the early lead and never looked back while rolling to a powerful 5¼-length victory in Sunday’s $50,000 Coca-Cola Stakes for 3-year-old colts and geldings at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n
Ridden by Eswan Flores at 120 pounds, Riser covered 6½ furlongs in a meet-fastest 1:15.26 and paid $3.80, $2.60 and $2.20. Blaine Wright, who also saddled runner-up Aqua Frio, is the winning trainer for owner Jared Chappell of Sugar City, Idaho.<\/p>\n
Riser set fractions of :22.22, :44.46 and 1:08.86 en route to his second victory of the meet and his first career stakes win. An Ohio-bred colt by Mizzen Mast-Goodbye Cat, Riser earned $27,500 while upping his career ledger to 3-0-0 in six starts with earnings of $54,845.<\/p>\n
“I really thought (Riser) was the fastest horse in the race, and I told Eswan to put him on the lead,” said Wright, the meet’s leading trainer with 14 wins.<\/p>\n
Aqua Frio, ridden by Kevin Orozco at 118 pounds, chased the winner home and while no threat to the winner easily was best of the rest. An $180,000 Uncle Mo colt, Aqua Frio earned $10,000 and is 2-6-1 in 10 starts with earnings of $108,950 for Peter Redekop of Vancouver, B.C.<\/p>\n
Sharkzilla, upset winner of the Auburn Stakes last month, advanced five-wide on the turn and finished evenly for third place, 2¾ lengths back of Aqua Frio. Ridden by Erick Lopez at high-weight of 124 pounds, Sharkzilla paid $2.60 to show.<\/p>\n
Rifle Gernade, longest shot on the board at 47-1, finished fourth, followed by Strate Remark, Monydontspenitself, Keller’s Gold, Last Call Lobo and Sure Sweet.<\/p>\n
Flores has ridden Riser in both wins this season, including a 7-length allowance win last month.<\/p>\n
The $50,000 Seattle Slew Stakes at one mile is next for 3-year-olds on Sunday, July 2.<\/p>\n
Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n An Emerald Downs’ record carryover of $42,633 is up for grabs in the $0.20 Pick 7 when racing resumes Friday. Thorn Legacy ($23.40), Ready Set Jet ($19.20) and Ozark Daredevil ($17.20) combined to thwart Pick 7 players Sunday. … Rocco Bowen rode four winners Sunday and has opened a 23-win lead in the jockeys’ standings. Bowen, who has 47 wins in 26 days, also was involved in a starting gate mishap in the 10th race in which his mount, Dialing Fordollars, was a late scratch. Bowen appeared to escape serious injury, although he was favoring an ankle. … David Martin and Juan Gutierrez rode two winners each Sunday. … Eswan Flores has stakes wins this season aboard Citizen Kitty (Hastings) and Riser (Coca-Cola). … Blaine Wright has two stakes wins this season – Alliford Bay (Seattle) and Riser – and 14 all-time at Emerald Downs. … Emmett Park, also trained by Wright, ran 6 ½ furlongs in 1:15.56 on May 28, which was fastest of the meet until Riser’s win Sunday. … Jerre to Carrie ($4.20) joined Exit Sixty Slew in the three-win category at the meet, scoring a nose triumph over long shot Ila Veiw in Sunday’s ninth race for $40,000 claiming fillies and mares. Ridden by Bowen for trainer Kay Cooper and owner Richard Caswell, Jerre to Carrie zipped 6½ furlongs in 1:15.67. … The Quarter Horse combination of jockey Eduardo Gutierrez-Sosa and trainer Hector Magallanes struck again Sunday with Tickle Ur Fancy ($6.20) in the $5,000 allowance opener at 350 yards. Gutierrez-Sosa and Magallanes have now won four of the first five Quarter Horse races this season. … Live racing resumes Friday with Indian Relay Racing 2017. In addition to live Thoroughbred action, there will be three Indian Relay races Friday, Saturday and Sunday. First post Friday is 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riser sprinted to the early lead and never looked back while rolling to a powerful 5¼-length victory in Sunday’s $50,000 Coca-Cola Stakes for 3-year-old colts and geldings at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":28730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28729","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\/28729"}],"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=28729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28729"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}