For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lake Piru continued her impressive season Friday with a 3 3\/4-length victory over Five Alarm Charm in the $10,500 Washington Management Company Purse for 3-year-old fillies at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ridden by Anne Sanguinetti, Lake Piru ran 5\u00bd furlongs in 1:04.35 on a fast track, and paid $4.40, $2.60 and $2.40. Jeff Metz \u2013 en route to a second straight title \u2013 is the winning trainer for owner Paul K. Girdner.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Five Alarm Charm, an 11-to-1 long shot ridden by Javier Matias, rallied inside to snatch second place and paid $4.80 and $5.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tricky Person, ridden by Juan Gutierrez, held third and paid $3.80 to show. Zafari Nation, Sometimes a Lady and Ms. Parker completed the order of finish.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lake Piru, a California-bred daughter of Salt Lake, has fared well since arriving here in July, compiling a 2-0-1 record in four starts including a 14-to-1 upset on August 16. Her overall record, including stints in California, Arizona and Idaho, is 5-0-2 in 12 starts with earnings of $35,052.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The 47-year-old Metz, meanwhile, has pretty much sewn up a second straight Emerald Downs’ training title. With two wins Friday, Metz leads Frank Lucarelli 48-38 with only eight days left in the meet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Fighting City Hall ($17.40) led gate-to-wire in Friday’s seventh race as the 11-year-old gelding became the oldest winner at the meet. A California-bred by Smart Strike, Fighting City Hall won his career debut at Santa Anita on Jan. 15, 2006. … Seven different jockeys won races including leading rider Leslie Mawing, who won race four on Shoer Hugh ($6.80) for his 92nd win of the meet. … Rocco Bowen, second with 64 wins, also had a win Friday aboard Mz Dyno ($4.40) in race five. … Live racing continues Saturday with an eight-race card at 2:15 p.m.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lake Piru continued her impressive season Friday with a 3 3\/4-length victory over Five Alarm Charm in the $10,500 Washington Management Company Purse for 3-year-old fillies at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3667","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\/3667"}],"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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}