Emerald Downs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nWith Juan Gutierrez up for his second win on the card, Making Fire ran six furlongs in 1 minute, 09.97 seconds on a fast track and paid $18.80, $11.80 and $4.20. Bill Tollett is the trainer for owner-breeder Petra Lewin of Olympia, Wash.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Gotta Get Even, a 26-to-1 long shot ridden by Joe Crispin, rallied for second place and paid $17.60 and $7.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It was another three-quarters of a length back to third-place finisher Farm Crew, ridden by Gallyn Mitchell, and a $4.40 show payoff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Victriolic, Camp Pendleton, Hillbilly Cadillac, Evil Urges, Lake Sawyer and Old West completed the order of finish. The 13-10 betting favorite, Lake Sawyer lagged far back early and failed to make a serious threat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hustled to the lead, Making Fire set fractions of :22.30, :45.26 and :57.28 en route to the victory. The Washington-bred son of Makors Mark has won two straight and is 2-1-1 in five career starts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
NOTES: <\/strong>Jockey Leonel Camacho rode three more winners to make it eight victories in the last three riding days for the 27-year-old native of Zacatecas, Mexico. Since Aug. 1, Camacho-Flores’ 27 wins are the second most by any jockey at Emerald Downs*Joe Steiner rode two winners for the second time in three days*Tollett swept the late double with Making Fire and Ty Goes Gold ($10.20) and was the only trainer with two wins*Frank Lucarelli sent out Private Swing ($3) for a victory in the fifth race and leads Howard Belvoir 51-48 in the race for the 2011 training title*The track was listed “wet-fast” for the first three races and upgraded to fast for races four through eight*Live racing continues Sunday with Washington Cup IX at 2 p.m. The 10-race card includes six stakes worth $215,000 combined purse money. The $40,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic is the day’s richest race with Newfound Man at 2-1 on the morning line, followed by He’s All Heart at 5-2, Aaron the Baron at 3-1, Wasserman at 7-2, Mr. Mad Max at 6-1 and Snow On the River at 15-1.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The speedy gelding Making Fire held off the closers for a three-quarter-length victory in Saturday’s featured event for 3-year-olds at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323"}],"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=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}