No Talking Back, the longest shot on the board, rallied from far back and drew away for five-length victory Saturday in the $18,500 feature race for older fillies and mares on Kentucky Derby Day at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n
Ridden by Anne Sanguinetti, No Talking Back ran six furlongs in 1:09.44 and paid $60.40, the biggest $2 win price of the four-day-old meeting. Chris Stenslie, saddling her second winner Saturday, is the trainer for owners One Horse Will Do Corporation, Steve Shimizu and Carol Hubbird.<\/p>\n
A maiden racing against winners, Stenslie said No Talking Back was only in the race because a maiden special weight race failed to fill, and she decided to take a shot against winners.<\/p>\n
A 4-year-old Washington-bred by Flatter, No Talking Back is out of 2011 Gottstein Futurity champion Talk to My Lawyer. Her record is 1-4-1 in 10 starts with $37,567 in earnings, including $10, 175 for Saturday’s win.<\/p>\n
In sixth place early as Retreat Yourself set contested fractions of :21.75 and :44.49, No Talking Back rallied wide into the lane, collared Racy Rascal and Retreat Yourself past mid-stretch and won going away.<\/p>\n
Grace Bay, the 2-1 co-favorite, rallied inside for second place and paid $4 and $3, while Retreat Yourself held third and paid $3.80 to show. Jerre to Carrie, the other 2-1 favorite, rallied belatedly to finish fourth while Pepper Chrome, Sassy Debs Firefly, Racy Rascal and Getting Joellenned completed the order of finish.<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/strong> In the $18,500 co-feature for 3-year-old fillies, George Todaro’s Diamonds R rolled to a gate-to-wire victory over Brilliant Bird in 1:03.07 for 5 ½ furlongs. A Kentucky-bred by Alternation, Diamonds R showed promise as a 2-year-old with an 11½-length maiden victory and a fourth in the Gottstein Futurity. Trained by Tom Wenzel and ridden by Leonel Camacho-Flores, the winner set splits of :21.85, :44.83 and :56.79 en route to a 2 ¼-length victory. … Frank Lucarelli book-ended the card with Das Bear ($6) and Cool Hard Luck ($8.20) for his second straight training double. … Stenslie and Jeff Metz also had a pair of wins on the nine-race card. … Javier Matias swept the early double aboard Das Bear and Oh Yes I Did ($27.40), and is now No. 10 all-time with 460 wins at Emerald Downs. … Newcomer Gary Wales also rode two winners Saturday while apprentice Lucas Gutierrez notched his first Emerald Downs’ victory in race three on Weaveittobeaver ($7). … Sanguinetti’s win on No Talking Back was her first at EmD since 2014. She mainly has ridden in California the last four years. … Live racing continues Sunday with first post 2 p.m. and features carryovers in the $0.50 Pick 5-$8,077 and $0.20 Jackpot Pick 7-$5,173.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long shot No Talking Back storms to feature victory <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":34377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34376","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\/34376"}],"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=34376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34376"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}