{"id":41895,"date":"2019-08-15T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/wtboa-lads-barbara-shinpoch-share-sunday-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:30:00","slug":"wtboa-lads-barbara-shinpoch-share-sunday-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/wtboa-lads-barbara-shinpoch-share-sunday-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"WTBOA Lads, Barbara Shinpoch share Sunday spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Longacres Mile is in the books, but there are nine more stakes remaining this season at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n
Five of the stakes are for 2-year-olds, including Sunday’s doubleheader featuring the $50,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes for colts and geldings and $50,000 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes for fillies.<\/p>\n
The WTBOA Lads, which drew a field of 10, and the Barbara Shinpoch, which drew eight, are both run at six furlongs.<\/p>\n
The championship event for 2-year-olds, the $100,000 Gottstein Futurity at 1 1\/16 miles, is closing day, Sunday Sept. 22. Washington-breds, however, also have the $50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile and $50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile Filly, both at 6½ furlongs, on Sunday, Sept. 8.<\/p>\n
The field for the $50,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes (Race 8, 5:39 p.m.): 1-Muncey, Javier Matias, 114 pounds; 2-Wilson to Lockett, Julien Couton, 114; 3-Harbors Rule, Scott Stevens, 114; 4-Haveulostyourmind, Jose Zunino, 114; 5-Wicked Winnings, Gary Wales, 114; 6-Brett, Eddie Martinez, 114; 7-Forty Smooches, Kevin Orozco, 114; 8-Turntheclocktozero, Kevin Krigger, 116; 9-Dropyourbuffs, Juan Gutierrez, 114; 10-Reddy to Star, Jorge Carreno, 116.<\/p>\n
The field for the $50,000 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes (Race 6, 4:38 p.m.): 1-Cakewalk, Javier Matias, 113 pounds; 2-Tap That Spot, Scott Stevens, 113; 3-You Go Girl, Kevin Krigger, 113; 4-Jaded Tiger, Gary Wales, 113; 5-Windy Point, Juan Gutierrez, 115; 6-For You Only, Jennifer Whitaker, 119; 7-My Fol, Kevin Orozco, 115; 8-Munny, Jorge Carreno, 113.<\/p>\n
Mike Man’s Gold goes for record<\/strong><\/p>\n In Saturday’s featured seventh race, Mike Man’s Gold takes his second crack at becoming the track’s all-time wins leader.<\/p>\n Currently tied with West Seattle Boy at 21 wins apiece, Mike Man’s Gold is among nine horses entered in the $18,500 allowance\/optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up at one mile, with Mike Man’s Gold the 5 to 2 morning line favorite.<\/p>\n Mike Man’s Gold takes a 21 for 50 Emerald Downs record into Saturday’s feature, including a 5 for 12 record at one mile. A 9-year-old Liberty Gold gelding, Mike Man’s Gold has been claimed in all four outings this season including three straight for $25,000. His current owners, Greg Conley, Chuck Conley and Joe Toye, have owned Mike Man’s Gold for his last nine wins.<\/p>\n Saturday’s race, which also features stakes winners The Press, Hit the Beach, and Grinder Sparksaglo springboards nicely to the $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic on Sunday, Sept. 15.<\/p>\n Emerald Downs all-time wins<\/strong><\/p>\n 21-Mike Man’s Gold*<\/p>\n 21-West Seattle Boy<\/p>\n 17-Buddy Dave<\/p>\n 17-Olympic Lights<\/p>\n 16-Bob Stories<\/p>\n 16-Market Master<\/p>\n 15-Chaching Pete<\/p>\n 15-Fleet Pacific<\/p>\n 15-Polish Dollar<\/p>\n 15-Seattle Game<\/p>\n 15-Wine At Nine*<\/p>\n *Active<\/p>\n Stakes soaring high at Emerald Downs<\/strong><\/p>\n Buoyed by an 11-horse field in the Longacres Mile, average field size is a robust 8.4 horses per stakes race this season at Emerald Downs. And including the four stakes on Championship Sunday, the last seven stakes have all produced $2 win payoffs of $10 or higher, including Law Abiding Citizen’s $15.60 in the Longacres Mile (Grade 3).<\/p>\n Although he ran gallantly as the odds-on choice, Anyportinastorm became the 18th betting favorite to lose in 24 Miles at Emerald Downs. And odds-on favorites are now 0 for 3: Hesabull, second at 3 to 10 in 1997; Classic Cat, eighth at 4 to 5 in 1999; and Anyportinastorm; second at 7 to 10 in 2019.<\/p>\n Racing this week<\/strong><\/p>\n • Friday, Aug. 16 (50th day\/67 race dates)<\/p>\n 6:30 p.m. (7 races)<\/p>\n Fab Friday<\/p>\n • Saturday, Aug. 17 (51\/67)<\/p>\n 5 p.m. (8 races)<\/p>\n Breakfast at the Wire (8-10 a.m.)<\/p>\n Rocco Bowen Bobbleheads (limited supply)<\/p>\n • Sunday, Aug. 18 (52\/67)<\/p>\n 2 p.m. (10 races)<\/p>\n $50,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes<\/p>\n $50,000 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes<\/p>\n Family Fun Day\/Kids Race<\/p>\n Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n The top three Longacres Mile finishers – Law Abidin Citizen, Anyportinastorm and Restrainedvengence – all earned 96 Beyers. 2018 Mile winner Barkley earned a 94 Beyer and 2017 winner Gold Rush Dancer got a 97…Frank Lucarelli begins the week just three wins away from the 1,000-win mark at Emerald Downs. … And finally, Emerald Downs’ all-time leading rider Gallyn Mitchell celebrates his 57th birthday Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Longacres Mile is in the books, but there are nine more stakes remaining this season at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":41896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41895","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\/41895"}],"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=41895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41895"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}