Time for Week 2 of the Xpressbet Washington Cup at Emerald Downs, and this time 2-year-olds take center stage for a Sunday doubleheader featuring the $50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile presented by Elysian Brewing Company and the $50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile Filly presented by Pegasus Training & Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
Both races are 6½ furlongs in distance, and both drew fields of 10. If all 20 horses start, it would boost the average stakes field size to 8.5 this season.<\/p>\n
Scott Stevens, who has enjoyed tremendous success in limited action this season at Emerald Downs, rides Harbors Rule for trainer Chris Stenslie in the Juvenile Colt & Gelding. Harbors Rule and Stevens nearly pulled of a 31-to-1 upset in the WTBOA Lads three weeks ago, but were tagged by Muncey in the final jumps of the six-furlong stakes. Improving with every start, Harbors Rule (Harbor the Gold-Felice the Cat)is a full brother to Trackattacker, who won this race by 9¼-lengths as a 1 to 20 favorite in 2014, accounting for over $520,000 of a record $554,000 show pool.<\/p>\n
Stevens is 5-3-2 in 15 starts at the meet including three stakes wins. He rode 5-year-old mare No Talking Back to a pair of stakes wins for Stenslie, and 3-year-old filly Alittlelesstalk to a victory in the Washington Cup Sophomore Filly last week.<\/p>\n
In the Juvenile Filly, Windy Point, You Go Girl and For You Only – second, third and fourth in the Barbara Shinpoch Stakes three weeks ago – square off at 6½ furlongs. Windy Point is 1-2-0 in three starts with earnings of $30,677, and has fired in all three starts including seconds to For You Only in the Angie C Stakes and Cakewalk in the Barbara Shinpoch.<\/p>\n
The field for the Washington Cup Juvenile Colts & Geldings Stakes presented by Elysian Brewing Company (Race 8, 5:30 p.m.): 1-Gold Crusher, Gary Wales, 120 pounds; 2-Riggski, Connie Doll, 118; 3-Love the Vino, Ryan Barber, 120; 4-Unmachable, Alex Anaya, 118; 5-Stanley’s Wave, Juan Gutierrez, 118; 6-Forty Smooches, Kevin Orozco, 118; 7-Code Charlie, Kevin Krigger, 120; 8-Wilson to Lockett, Eddie Martinez, 120; 9-Wicked Winnings, Lorenzo Lopez, 118; 10-Harbors Rule, Scott Stevens, 118.<\/p>\n
The field for the Washington Cup Sophomore Filly Stakes presented by Pegasus Training & Rehabilitation Center (Race 6, 4:30 p.m.): 1-Known Value, Gary Wales, 117 pounds; 2-Windy Point, Juan Gutierrez, 119; 3-You Go Girl, Kevin Krigger, 117; 4-Miss Prospector, Javier Matias, 117; 5-Salty Little Lass, Jose Zunino, 119; 6-For You Only, Jennifer Whitaker, 119; 7-Pinchalinch, Ryan Barber, 117; 8-Discreet Demons, Connie Doll, 117; 9-Smashing Success, Scott Stevens, 117; 10-Lovefliesonwings, Eddie Martinez, 119.<\/p>\n
2019 Xpressbet Washington Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n $50,000 Soph C&G presented by Muckleshoot Casino: Makah Lane ($4.20), 1M 1:36.21<\/p>\n $50,000 Soph Filly presented by Freight NW: Alittlelesstalk ($2.60), 1M 1:37.26<\/p>\n $50,000 Juvenile C&G presented by Elyisan Brewing Company, 6½ F<\/p>\n $50,000 Juvenile Filly presented by Pegasus Training Center, 6½ F<\/p>\n $50,000 Filly & Mare presented by Xpressbet, 1 1\/16 M, Sept. 15<\/p>\n $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic, 1 1\/16 M, Sept. 15<\/p>\n Racing this week<\/strong><\/p>\n • Friday, Sept. 6 (59 live race date\/67 live race-day meet)<\/p>\n 6:30 p.m. (7 races)<\/p>\n Fab Friday<\/p>\n • Saturday, Sept. 7 (60\/67)<\/p>\n 5 p.m. (8 races)<\/p>\n September Saturdays<\/p>\n • Sunday, Sept. 8 (61\/67)<\/p>\n 2 p.m. (10 races)<\/p>\n $50,000 WA Cup Juvenile C&G presented by Elysian Brewing Co.<\/p>\n $50,000 WA Cup Juvenile Filly presented by Pegasus Training Center<\/p>\n Beerfest<\/p>\n Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n Killarney Lass is the 3-to-1 morning line favorite in Saturday’s $100,000 BC Oaks at Hastings Racecourse. A victory would be worth $55,000 plus a $25,000 bonus for sweeping the Washington Oaks and BC Oaks. Washington Oaks runner-up Twirling Devon also is shipping to Vancouver for the BC Oaks. … Mt. Rainier Stakes winner More Power to Him runs in the $50,000 S.W. Randall Plate for 3-year-olds and up, also Saturday in Vancouver. Kevin Orozco rides More Power to Him and Twirling Devon. … 2018 Washington Horse of the Year Sippin Fire worked a mile in 1:43 2\/5 Thursday and is possible for the $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic on Sunday, Sept. 15. … Undefeated Baja Sur, unraced since winning the Coca-Cola Stakes in June, worked four furlongs in :49 3\/5 Monday…Fresh off his record 22nd victory at Emerald Downs last week, Mike Man’s Gold looks to add another victory in Sunday’s seventh race for $25,000 claimers at 6½ furlongs. … Sunday’s 10-race card begins with a $3,200 maiden race for Quarter Horses at 300 yards. To date, Emerald Downs has run six Quarter Horse races at the 2019 meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Time for Week 2 of the Xpressbet Washington Cup at Emerald Downs, and this time 2-year-olds take center stage for a Sunday doubleheader featuring the $50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile presented by Elysian Brewing Company and the $50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile Filly presented by Pegasus Training & Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42124"}],"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=42124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42124"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}