Emerald Downs: Walk Down Memory Lane and How I got hooked on Racing
8/9/2023 How “Snappy Nashville” and a $2 Show led to a lifelong fan of Horse Racing By Paul Beattie Many…
Emerald Downs: 2023 Longacres Mile Draw completed, Slew’s Tiz Whiz tops the 10 horse field
8/9/2023 (Auburn, WA) The draw for the 2023 $150,000 Longacres Mile was completed Wednesday afternoon and in the end 10…
Emerald Downs: Throwback Weekend! Cruz goes off on Sunday plus the Lads and Lassies
8/6/2023 This week it’s an all-in-one re-cap of the entire weekend. We’ll begin with Sunday’s races and work backwards. The…
Emerald Downs: Jockey Power Rankings #12; Amador Surges, Bowen flexes, Anaya, Whitaker love July
8/4/2023 The 12th Power Rankings of the season saw Silvio Amador soar to the top with an outstanding week and…
Emerald Downs: Sunday is Turn Back the Clock Day celebrating Horse Racing of the 1970’s!
8/3/2023 (Auburn, WA) Sunday Emerald Downs is turning back the clock to the 1970’s celebrating Longacres and one of horse…
Emerald Downs: Sunday 1/4’s, Daffodil Sweet wins again, Toye hits win #400, Dancing Horses & new high Pick 5, Pick 4 & DD payouts
7/30/2023 (Auburn, WA) Sunday was the wrap-up of Premio Esmerelda weekend celebration and was met with a huge Sunday crowd,…
Emerald Downs: Saturday Night Racing Miss Dynamic is just that gives Bowen a triple; Negron and Cruz shut out
7/29/2023 (Auburn, WA) Saturday night racing continued and featured a 7 race card with 46 starters for an average of…
Emerald Downs: Jockey Power Rankings #11; Zunino dominates Stakes soars to top, Amador Blazes
7/28/2023 The 11th Power Rankings were all about the Stakes as Jose Zunino gets few chances each week yet he…
Emerald Downs: Larry’s Week in Review, Cruz hits career win #800, Zunino-Wenzel sweep Stakes, 15k Pick 6 Payout and more
7/27/2023 Larry’s Week in Review This past week was another important week of racing…
Emerald Downs: Sunday Zunino & Wenzel sweep the Gov’s and Legislators Stakes and it’s Corgi Weekend!
7/23/2023 It is one of the more anticipated Sunday’s of the year it was Corgi race day. The Sunday card…
Emerald Downs: Saturday Cruz closes gap in Jockey race and wins career #800; Nan Elizabeth takes feature; pick 5 pays 10k
7/22/2023 The 7 races on Saturday couldn’t be more different as there were many chances to make a stack of…
Emerald Downs: Friday Night Napoletano takes the feature, Cruz extends Fri nite win streak, Radke and Wright double
7/21/2023 (Auburn, WA) Friday night racing had 7 races with 43 starters or just over 6 a race average. 4…
Emerald Downs: Jockey Power Rankings #10; Radke surges, Anaya blazes while Cruz and Negron remain in a battle
7/21/2023 The 10th Power Rankings go full circle from week 1 with Kevin Radke skyrocketing back to the top of…
Emerald Downs: Local Reaction to Golden Gate closing announcement
7/19/2023 Sunday the focus at Emerald Downs was the two 3-year-old stakes races, the Kent Stakes and the Irish Day…
Emerald Downs: Sunday Irish Day 2 Stakes as takes the Irish Day and wins the Kent Stakes; Cruz cuts into the Jockey lead plus art show
7/16/2023 Sunday was another double Stakes day, this was the 3-year-olds week with the 50k Kent Stakes for fillies and…
Emerald Downs: Saturday Night feature celebrates Vic Cozzeti as Deshambeau wins “The Predictor Memorial Race”
7/15/2023 If you had been around racing in the Northwest for the past 50+ years no doubt you know him…
Emerald Downs: Friday Night Lights, Negron bounces back with Double, Cruz extends Friday Night streak and Queensboro takes the feature
7/14/2023 The beginning of week 11 was another Friday-Sunday schedule but the Friday night card marks the halfway point of…
Emerald Downs: Jockey Power Rankings #9 No stability in Power Rankings! Cruz re-asserts himself, Ortiz Blazes, Amador & Radke win Stakes
7/14/2023 This is our 9th Power Rankings of the year and just when it looked like maybe leading rider Luis…
Emerald Downs: Wright hits 1,000! 2 Baby Stakes, Appeal Factor takes Angie C; Whiskey Harbor wins King County Express
7/11/2023 Things got started quickly this week at emerald Downs as trainer Blaine Wright won his 1,000th race in Friday’s…
Emerald Downs: Jockey Power Rankings #8 Power Rankings jumble again, Negron asserts himself, Ortiz Blazes, Enriquez still hot
7/7/2023 This is our 8th Power Rankings of the season and again it is a scramble as we have seen…