Stamping himself as the top local contender for the Longacres Mile in six weeks, Anyportinastorm blitzed a solid field of older horses in Sunday’s $50,000 Budweiser Stakes at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n
A 5-year-old by City Zip, Anyportinastorm blazed 6½ furlongs in 1:14.35 and romped home 6½ lengths clear of stable mate Oh Marvelous Me in another convincing performance.<\/p>\n
With Juan Hernandez riding at high weight of 124 pounds, Anyportinastorm paid $2.40, $2.10 and $2.10 as the prohibitive 1 to 5 choice in the wagering. Blaine Wright — winning his sixth stakes already this season — is the winning trainer for Peter Redekop of Vancouver, B.C.<\/p>\n
Breaking alertly from the No. 6 post, Anyportinastorm led through fractions of :22.66, :44.92 and 1:08.26, entered the stretch three lengths clear of Oh Marvelous Me, and drew off to win with total authority.<\/p>\n
Anyportinastorm’s winning time represents the fastest 6½ furlongs of the meet and is two ticks off Mach One Rule’s stakes record set two years ago. Anyportinastorm also ran the meet’s fastest six furlongs, 1:07.54, while winning the $50,000 Governor’s Stakes four weeks ago.<\/p>\n
“When I asked him at the quarter-pole, he responded very well,” said Hernandez, now a lofty 7 for 12 lifetime with six stakes wins at Emerald Downs. “Today he was on fire.”<\/p>\n
Anyportinastorm is 7-1-4 in 13 lifetimes starts with four stakes victories. Sunday’s winnings, $26,400, boosted his career total to $241,925.<\/p>\n
The $50,000 Mt. Rainier Stakes on July 21 is the final local prep for the $200,000 Longacres Mile on August 11. Wright, however, said Anyportinastorm would skip the Mt. Rainier to await the 84th renewal of the Grade 3 Mile.<\/p>\n
Oh Marvelous Me, ridden by Juan Carreno at 120 lbs, ran another excellent race to finish second and paid $4.40 and $3. Owned by Todd and Shawn Hansen, Oh Marvelous Me has finished in the money in four straight stakes at Emerald Downs – thirds in last year’s Longacres Mile and Pete Pedersen Overnight Stakes, and seconds in this year’s Governor’s Stakes and Budweiser Stakes.<\/p>\n
Hit the Beach, ridden by Jose Zunino at 120 pounds, finished with a late rush for third and paid $4.80 to show, while Grinder Sparksaglo, El Huerfano, Elliott Bay and Many Roses rounded out the order of finish.<\/p>\n
El Huerfano, second choice at 9 to 2, was off a step slow and never really got untracked Sunday.<\/p>\n
Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n Wright has finished first and second in three stakes this season and has zoomed into seventh place all-time with 37 stakes wins at Emerald Downs, including 26 the last three seasons. … Anyportinastorm accounted for $40,327 of $59,338 in the win pool and $28,904 of $36,817 in the show pool. … For Wright and Hernandez, the victory atoned for last year’s Budweiser in which Riser was disqualified and placed last for interference leaving the starting gate. … Canadian invader Under Par ($6.20) zipped six panels in 1:08.64 to take the $18,500 Gold Rush Dancer Purse for older fillies and mares. A 4-year-old Stephanotis filly, Under Par is 7 for 11 lifetime for trainer Mark Cloutier and owners Canmor Farms and Maureen Gross. … Reddy to Star ($15) delivered a flashy victory for trainer Doris Harwood in Sunday’s $18,500 maiden special weight for 2-year-olds, running five furlongs in :59.07 under Javier Matias for Shady Valley Ranch and Jeff Harwood. Reddy to Star (Abraaj-Hit a Star) is the younger brother of Emerald Downs’ stakes winners Daytona Beach and Hit the Beach (third in the BudweiserGovernor’s). … Matias recorded his third straight riding double to gain sole possession of second place with 27 wins. … Gary Wales rode one winner – his 19th straight day with at least one win – and tops the riders’ standings with 43 wins. … Juan Gutierrez also had a two-win day Sunday and is tied for fourth with 24 wins. … Anyportinastorm gave Wright his 10th straight day with a training victory. … Frank Lucarelli also had a win Sunday and leads Wright 28-22 in the overall trainers’ standings. … In stakes wins, Wright has six while Roddina Barrett and Dan Markle are tied for second with one win apiece. . … Saturday, Mike Man’s Gold tied the track record with his 21st victory at Emerald Downs. Sunday, younger brother Mike Man’s Bro ($4.60) won his second straight at Emerald Downs and 10th career win overall with a head victory in race three. … Wednesday racing this week followed by the Fireworks Spectacular afterward. First post 5 p.m.<\/p>\n –##–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stamping himself as the top local contender for the Longacres Mile in six weeks, Anyportinastorm blitzed a solid field of older horses in Sunday’s $50,000 Budweiser Stakes at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":41244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41243","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\/41243"}],"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=41243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41243"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}