Saturday marks the 2,000th day of live racing at Emerald Downs, a milestone that includes nearly 23 seasons and more than 17,000 races.<\/p>\n
It all began 2:32 p.m, June 20, 1996, when Strawberry Morn captured the first race in track’ history, rolling to a 10-length victory in the $35,000 U.S. Bank Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Since then, an additional 17,431 races have been run at the Auburn oval, including 507 this season.<\/p>\n
1st Day: June 20, 1996<\/p>\n
1,000th Day: July 4, 2006<\/p>\n
2,000th Day: Sept. 15, 2018<\/p>\n
Total races (through Sept. 9): 17,432<\/p>\n
Only six days of live racing remain in 2018 – Sept. 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23. Sunday, Sept. 23 is Fan Appreciation Day with several $1 Specials and a stakes quadruple-header.<\/p>\n
Racing this week<\/strong><\/p>\n • Friday, Sept. 14<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:30 p.m. (7 races)<\/p>\n Fab Friday<\/p>\n • Saturday, Sept. 15<\/strong><\/p>\n 5 p.m. (8 races)<\/p>\n September Saturdays<\/p>\n The Retros (perform after races)<\/p>\n • Sunday, Sept. 16<\/strong><\/p>\n 2 p.m. (9 races)<\/p>\n Emerald Rewards Day<\/p>\n Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n Sippin Fire worked five furlongs in :59.80 Thursday in advance of the $100,000 Getaway Day Stakes for 3-year-olds on Sunday, Sept. 23. … Nominations for the Getaway and three other closing day stakes close Saturday: $50,000 Gottstein Futurity (2YO), $25,000 Pete Pedersen (3&Up) and $25,000 Fan Appreciation (F&M 3&Up). … Curious Rumor and Papa Mambo both go for their fifth win of the season in Sunday’s eighth race for $15,000\/$12,500 claiming fillies and mares. A victory for wither would be significant in the battle for the meet’s Top Claimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Track hits 2,000th day of live action on Saturday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":36682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36681","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\/36681"}],"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=36681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36681"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}