{"id":61723,"date":"2023-02-01T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/emerald-downs-in-auburn-releases-2023-stakes-schedule\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:20:00","slug":"emerald-downs-in-auburn-releases-2023-stakes-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/emerald-downs-in-auburn-releases-2023-stakes-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Downs in Auburn releases 2023 stakes schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emerald Downs in Auburn has announced 23 stakes worth $1.24 million in purses for its 2023 live horse racing season that begins Saturday, May 6.<\/p>\n

The 88th running of the $150,000 Longacres Mile anchors an Aug. 13 stakes quadruple-header featuring the $50,000 Emerald Distaff, $50,000 Muckleshoot Derby and $50,000 Washington Oaks, according to a post on emeralddowns.com<\/a>. The track’s premier event for 3-year-olds and up, the Longacres Mile was captured in 2022 by KD Thoroughbreds Slew’s Tiz Whiz over Lusk Racing’s Papa’s Golden Boy as Washington-breds took down the top two spots.<\/p>\n

The older horse division begins with the $50,000 Budweiser Stakes (6F) on Sunday, June 25, followed by the $50,000 Governor’s Stakes (6 ½ F) on Sunday, July 23, and the Longacres Mile.<\/p>\n

The 2023 stakes schedule features eight stakes double-headers, the Super Sunday quadruple-header Aug. 14, and a closing day triple-header Sunday, Sept. 17, featuring the $70,000 Gottstein Futurity for the Northwest’s top 2-year-olds.<\/p>\n

The $50,000 Seattle Stakes for 3-year-old fillies and $50,000 Auburn Stakes for 3-year-old colts and geldings kick off stakes action on Sunday, June 18.<\/p>\n

Seven stakes are offered for 2-year-olds—three apiece for fillies and colts and geldings—finishing with the Gottstein Futurity at a mile and one-sixteenth.<\/p>\n

Washington Cup features four stakes—$50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile Colts & Geldings and $50,000 Washington Cup and $50,000 Washington Cup Juvenile Fillies on Sunday, Aug. 27, and $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic and $50,000 Washington Cup Fillies & Mares on Sunday, Sept. 17. The 2-year-old Washington Cup races are restricted to Washington-breds while the older horse events are open to Washington and British Columbia breds.<\/p>\n

In addition to 21 Thoroughbred stakes, Emerald Downs offers two stakes for Quarter Horses—$30,000 John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship for 2-year-olds and the 14th running of the $40,000 Bank of America Emerald Championship Challenge for 3-year-olds and up.<\/p>\n

Opening day Saturday, May 6, coincides with the 149th Kentucky Derby. The 52-day meet concludes Sunday, Sept. 17.<\/p>\n

2023 Emerald Downs Stakes Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sun June 18 Seattle Stakes (3YOF) 6F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun June 18 Auburn Stakes (3YO) 6F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun June 25 Hastings Stakes (3&UP F&M) 6F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun June 25 Budweiser Stakes (3&UP) 6F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun July 9 Angie C Stakes (2YOF) 5 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun July 9 King County Express (2YO C&G) 5 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun July 16 Kent Stakes (3YOF) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun July 16 Irish Day Stakes (3YO) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun July 23 Governor’s Stakes (3&UP) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun July 23 WA St Legislators S (3&UP F&M) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 6 WTBOA Lassies Stakes (2YOF) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 6 WTBOA Lads Stakes (2YO C&G) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 13 Muckleshoot Derby (3YO) 1 1\/16 M $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 13 Washington Oaks (3YOF) 1 1\/16 M $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 13 Emerald Distaff (3&UP F&M) 1 1\/16 M $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 13 Longacres Mile (3&UP 1M $150,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 20 Bank of America EmD Chlg (3&UP) 440Y $40,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 20 John Deere Juvenile Challenge (2YO) 350Y $30,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 27 WA Cup Juvenile Filly (2YOF WA) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Aug 27 WA Cup Juvenile C&G (2YO WA) 6 ½ F $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Sept 17 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic (3& UP) 1 1\/16 M $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Sept 17 WA Cup Filly & Mare (3&UP F&M) 1 1\/16 M $50,000<\/p>\n

Sun Sept 17 Gottstein Futurity (2YO) 1 1\/16 M $70,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purses worth $1.24 million scheduled for 23 featured races; season runs May 6 to Sept. 17 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":61724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61723"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61723"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}