Emerald Downs Racetrack & Casino has announced 28 stakes events worth an aggregate $1,515,000 in purses for its 2020 live racing season that begins Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n
The 85th renewal of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (Grade 3) on Sunday, Aug. 9 – earliest date ever for the Northwest’s premier race – anchors the second annual Championship Sunday featuring stakes races in four divisions. In addition to The Mile, Championship Sunday includes the $50,000 Emerald Distaff, $50,000 Muckleshoot Derby, and $50,000 Washington Oaks.<\/p>\n
A second stakes quadruple-header is offered Sunday, July 12, featuring the $50,000 Mt. Rainier Stakes for older horses, $50,000 Boeing Stakes for older fillies and mares, $50,000 King County Express for 2-year-old colts and geldings, and $50,000 Angie C Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.<\/p>\n
The Mt. Rainier at 1 1\/16 miles is the final local tune-up for the Longacres Mile.<\/p>\n
As usual, stakes action heats up in the latter half of the 63-day meeting, with 20 stakes scheduled during July, August and September.<\/p>\n
The 2020 schedule offers 10 stakes for older horses (five apiece for males and females), 10 for 3-year-olds (five apiece for males and females) and seven for 2-year-olds.<\/p>\n
In 2019, stakes races averaged a healthy 8.5 runners with a $10.60 average $2 win payoff.<\/p>\n
The xpressbet.com Washington Cup will feature six stakes races over three weekends — Aug. 30, Sept. 6 and Sept. 13 — and offer $300,000 in aggregate purses for Washington breds.<\/p>\n
The $80,000 Gottstein Futurity at 1 1\/16 miles is the biggest race of the season for 2-year-olds on Sunday, Sept. 20, while the 10th renewal of the $40,000 Bank of America Emerald Championship Challenge is offered for Quarter Horses on Sunday, Aug. 23.<\/p>\n
Indian Relay also returns in 2020. The fifth annual Muckleshoot Gold Cup — featuring Indian Tribes from throughout the western United States and Canada — is scheduled Friday, June 19, Saturday, June 20, and Sunday, June 21.<\/p>\n
Training for the Emerald Downs’ season begins Monday, Feb. 3.<\/p>\n
2020 Emerald Downs Stakes Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n 28 Stakes: $1,505,000<\/strong><\/p>\n Date, stakes, purse<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday, May 10: Seattle Stakes (3-year-old fillies) • 6 furlongs • $35,000<\/p>\n Sunday, May 17: Auburn Stakes (3YO colts and geldings) • 6 F • $35,000<\/p>\n Sunday, May 24: Hastings Stakes (3&UP fillies and mares) • 6 F • $35,000<\/p>\n Sunday, May 31: Governor’s Stakes (3&UP) • 6 F • $35,000<\/p>\n Sunday, June 7: Kent Stakes (3YO F) • 6½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, June 14: Irish Day Stakes (3YO C&G) • 6½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, June 21: WA State Legislators Stakes (3&UP F&M) 6½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, June 21: Budweiser Stakes (3&UP) • 6½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, July 5: Coca-Cola Stakes (3YO F) • 1 1\/16 mile • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, July 5: Seattle Slew Stakes (3YO C&G) • 1 1\/16 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, July 12: Mt. Rainier Stakes (3&UP) • 1 1\/16 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, July 12: Boeing Stakes (3&UP F&M) • 1 1\/16 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, July 12: Angie C Stakes (2YO F) • 5½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, July 12: King County Express (2YO C&G) • 5½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 9: Washington Oaks (3YOF) • 1 1\/8 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 9: Muckleshoot Derby (3YO) • 1 1\/8 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 9: Emerald Distaff (3&UP F&M) • 1 1\/8 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 9: Longacres Mile (G3) (3&UP) • 1 M • $200,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 16: Barbara Shinpoch Stakes (2YO F) • 6 F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 16: WTBOA Lads Stakes (2YO C&G) • 6 F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 23: Bank of America Challenge (3&UP) • 440 Y • $40,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 30: WA Cup Sophomore Filly • 1 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Aug. 30: WA Cup Sophomore Colt & Gelding • 1 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Sept. 6: WA Cup Juvenile Filly • 6½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Sept. 6: WA Cup Juvenile Colt & Gelding • 6½ F • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Sept.13: WA Cup Filly & Mare • 1 1\/16 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Sept. 13: Muckleshoot Tribal Classic (3&UP) • 1 1\/16 M • $50,000<\/p>\n Sunday, Sept 20: Gottstein Futurity (2YO) • 1 1\/16 M • $80,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aggregate $1.5 million in purses up for grabs during live racing season <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44207","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\/44207"}],"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=44207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44207"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}