Riser and Little Dancer can earn $25,000 bonuses Saturday with victories in the $150,000 B.C. Derby and $100,000 B.C. Oaks at Hastings Racecourse.<\/p>\n
The bonuses – which would be paid in U.S. dollars – are for any 3-year-old that sweeps the Emerald Downs Derby and B.C. Derby, and any 3-year-old filly that sweeps the Washington Oaks and B.C. Oaks.<\/p>\n
Riser is the 5-2 favorite in the 1 1\/8-mile B.C. Derby, with Aaron Gryder aboard at 126 lbs for trainer Blaine Wright and owner Jared Chappell.<\/p>\n
Little Dancer is the 7-2 second choice in the 1 1\/8-mile B.C. Oaks, with Rocco Bowen shipping in to ride at 121 lbs for trainer Doris Harwood and owner Ron Schmid. Daz Lin Dawn, six-for-six this year with six stakes wins, is the 6-5 morning line favorite.<\/p>\n
The B.C. Oaks is scheduled for 3:46 p.m. and the B.C. Derby 5:25 p.m. Emerald Downs plans to show both races on the giant TV screen.<\/p>\n
Gold Rush Dancer in action Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n While the Emerald Downs Derby winner returns to action Saturday in Canada, the Longacres Mile winner resurfaces Saturday in Cypress, Calif.<\/p>\n Gold Rush Dancer is the 2-to-1 morning line favorite in the $75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes at Los Alamitos Race Course.<\/p>\n The E.B. Johnston, one mile on dirt, drew a field of six including defending champion and 5-2 second choice Soi Phet, the Jerry Hollendorfer-trained He Will (3-1), El Huerfano (4-1), Lucky J Lane (8-1) and Start a Runnin (15-1).<\/p>\n Gold Rush Dancer drew the No. 3 post with Evin Roman up at 124 lbs for trainer Vann Belvoir and owner John Parker. Post time is 2:58 p.m. (between races 3 and 4 at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n Finish lines<\/strong><\/p>\n Rocco Bowen will donate $20 for each victory through the end of the season to hurricane relief efforts, and Paul Beattie said Eli Sports would donate an additional $10 for each Bowen victory through closing day on Sept. 24. … Bowen has clinched his second straight Emerald Downs riding title with a career-high 114 wins. He is averaging 1.72 wins per day. … Washington-bred Percy’s Bluff continued his winning ways in California, scoring by a length in a 5-furlong turf race Monday at Golden Gate Fields. A 5-year-old Raise the Bluff gelding, Percy’s Bluff is 6-0-2 in eight starts this year for owner\/trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, and 16-8-7 in 36 lifetime starts with earnings of $196,508. … Mike Man’s Gold goes for his fifth win of the meet in Sunday’s $20,500 Muckleshoot Casino Purse for 3-year-olds and up at 6 ½ furlongs. Mike Man’s Gold is the 8-5 choice with Emmett Park (3-for-3 at the meet) second choice at 9-5. … Mr. Takahashi shoots for his fifth straight win in Saturday’s fifth race for older $5,000 claimers at 5½ furlongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riser and Little Dancer can earn $25,000 bonuses Saturday with victories in the $150,000 B.C. Derby and $100,000 B.C. Oaks at Hastings Racecourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":30321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30320","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\/30320"}],"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=30320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30320"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}