R.E.V. Racing’s Mach One Rules was voted Horse of the Meeting, Top Handicap Horse and Top Washington-bred as Emerald Downs announced its 2017 season honors on closing day of the track’s 22nd season.<\/p>\n
A 4-year-old gelding by Harbor the Gold-Felice the Cat, Mach One Rules won three stakes and posted meet-fastest times at 6½ furlongs and 1 1\/16 miles. Trained by Frank Lucarelli, Mach One Rules also finished runner-up in the 82nd running of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (Grade 3) won by Gold Rush Dancer in 1:33.85.<\/p>\n
Trainer Blaine Wright turned in one of the greatest seasons in track history – finishing first in wins (53), stakes wins (10) and earnings ($819,232) – the latter second highest in track history – while capturing his second straight title. Wright also established a single-season record for win percentage (35.8).<\/p>\n
Jockey Rocco Bowen won his second straight riding title, piling up a career-high 126 wins – 16 more than last year – while finishing 61 wins clear of runner-up Julien Couton in the standings. Bowen dominated the 72-day meet with 38 multiple-win days, including a meet-best five wins Saturday, September 16, and easily finished first in earnings with $1,224,068.<\/p>\n
Emerald Downs Derby winner Riser and Washington Oaks champ Little Dancer were voted Top 3-Year-Old and 3-Year-Old Filly respectively, while Citizen Kitty won three stakes races including the Emerald Distaff and was a unanimous choice for Top Older Filly or Mare.<\/p>\n
Bella Mia, also a triple stakes winner in 2017, captured honors as Top 2-Year-Old Filly, while Elliott Bay won two stakes including the Gottstein Futurity and earned honors as Top 2-Year-Old Colt or Gelding.<\/p>\n
Emmett Park, four-for-four at the meet, was the choice for Top Sprinter and Wine At Nine was 6-1-1 in nine starts and took honors for Top Claimer.<\/p>\n
John Parker led the owners’ standings in both wins (22) and earnings ($329,297), and also bagged the Northwest’s top racing prize with homebred Gold Rush Dancer in the Longacres Mile.<\/p>\n
Emerald Downs 2017 season honors<\/strong><\/p>\n Horse of the Meeting:<\/strong> Mach One Rules (4\/WA)<\/p>\n Top Washington-bred:<\/strong> Mach One Rules (4\/WA)<\/p>\n Top Older Horse:<\/strong> Mach One Rules (4\/WA)<\/p>\n Top Sprinter:<\/strong> Emmett Park (6\/KY)<\/p>\n Top Older Filly or Mare:<\/strong> Citizen Kitty (5\/WA)<\/p>\n Top 3-Year-Old Male:<\/strong> Riser (3\/OH)<\/p>\n Top 3-Year-Old Filly:<\/strong> Little Dancer (3\/KY)<\/p>\n Top Juvenile Male:<\/strong> Elliott Bay (2\/WA)<\/p>\n Top Juvenile Filly:<\/strong> Bella Mia (2\/WA)<\/p>\n Top Claimer:<\/strong> Wine At Nine (5\/KY)<\/p>\n Race of the Meeting:<\/strong> Longacres Mile<\/p>\n Leading Jockey:<\/strong> Rocco Bowen (126)<\/p>\n Leading Jockey Stakes Wins:<\/strong> Julien Couton (6)<\/p>\n Leading Trainer:<\/strong> Blaine Wright (53)<\/p>\n Leading Trainer Stakes Wins:<\/strong> Blaine Wright (10)<\/p>\n Leading Owner:<\/strong> John E. Parker (22)<\/p>\n Top Riding Achievement:<\/strong> Rocco Bowen<\/p>\n Top Training Achievement:<\/strong> Blaine Wright<\/p>\n Durkan Award:<\/strong> Joe Toye<\/p>\n Lindy Award:<\/strong> Javier Matias<\/p>\n ===<\/p>\n Emerald Downs Horse of the Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n 2017<\/strong>-Mach One Rules (WA)<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>-O B Harbor (ORE)<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>-Stryker Phd (WA)<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>-Stryker Phd (WA)<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>-Herbie D (BC)<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>-Class Included (KY)<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong>-Noosa Beach (WA)<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong>-Noosa Beach (WA)<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong>-Assessment (KY)<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong>-Wasserman (WA)<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong>-The Great Face (WA)<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong>-Flamethrowintexan (FL)<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong>-No Giveaway (WA)<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong>-Demon Warlock (WA)<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong>-Youcan’ttakeme (WA)<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong>-Flying Notes (KY)<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong>-Makors Mark (WA)<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong>-Edneator (WA)<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong>-No Curfew (WA)<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong>-Wild Wonder (KY)<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong>-Kid Katabatic (BC)<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong>-Name for Norm (WA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" R.E.V. Racing’s Mach One Rules was voted Horse of the Meeting, Top Handicap Horse and Top Washington-bred as Emerald Downs announced its 2017 season honors on closing day of the track’s 22nd season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":30629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30628","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\/30628"}],"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=30628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30628"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}