{"id":38948,"date":"2019-02-07T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/stables-open-for-winter-training-at-emerald-downs\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:20:44","slug":"stables-open-for-winter-training-at-emerald-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/stables-open-for-winter-training-at-emerald-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Stables open for winter training at Emerald Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 horses were on the grounds Thursday as Thoroughbreds belatedly began training for the 2019 live racing season at Emerald Downs Racetrack &#038; Casino.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Sophie Grace, a 4-year-old Curlin filly trained by Roy Lumm, was the first horse on the track, jogging one mile under exercise rider Miguel Landeros at 11:35 a.m..<\/p>\n<p>Director of Racing Bret Anderson reports 248 horses on the grounds and expects the horse population to swell to nearly 1,000 by opening day on Saturday, April 20.<\/p>\n<p>Training, scheduled to begin Monday, was postponed until Thursday due to a weekend snowstorm and lingering cold and icy conditions. More snow is expected Friday and could affect training this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Normal training hours are 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily with no renovation break. Beginning Wednesday, Feb. 20, training hours are 7:30 to 12:30 with renovation from 10 to 10:30.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-day meeting begins with a 24 Carat Giveaway on April 20, while the stakes schedule begins Sunday, May 12 with the $50,000 Seattle Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. The 84th renewal of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (Grade 3) is Sunday, Aug. 11, and anchors a Championship Sunday quadruple-header featuring the Emerald Distaff, Muckleshoot Derby and Washington Oaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Track officials hope to be up to 1,000 horses by opening day, April 20 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":38949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38948"}],"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=38948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38948"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}