AUBURN, Wash. (May 30, 2011) * Showme Yourfriends registered one of the biggest surprises in Emerald Downs’ history Monday with a half-length victory over Winter Warlock in the $50,000 Auburn Handicap for 3-year-old colts and geldings. Off at odds of 50-to-1, the lightly raced gelding held on gamely through the stretch for the stunning triumph [...] Read More.

Monday, May 30, 2011 Shakopee, MN — Humble Smarty won the 17th running of the $35,000 Honor the Hero Express by 7 ¾ lengths on Monday, setting a new track record of 56.1 seconds for five furlongs. The race was originally scheduled for the turf but was moved from the rain-soaked course to a main [...] Read More.

AUBURN, Wash. (May 29, 2011) * Michael and Amy Feuerborn appear to have another top-class filly at Emerald Downs. Last year their Sis’s Sis emerged from the claiming ranks to win two stakes and was voted the track’s Top 3-Year-Old Filly. Sunday, Class Included moved to the head of this year’s 3-year-old filly division with [...] Read More.

Sunday, May 29, 2011 Contact: Jeff Maday Media Relations Manager (952) 496-6408 jmaday@canterburypark.com Shakopee, MN — The only Minnesota bred Quarter Horses in the field finished first and second in the $17,550 Skip Zimmerman Stakes at Canterbury Park on Sunday. Mr Hempens Feature, ridden by Ry Eikleberry, overcame a poor break to prevail by one [...] Read More.

AUBURN, Wash. (May 28, 2011) * Hollywood Harbor, voted Top Juvenile in 2009, returned to the winner’s circle Saturday with sharp three-quarter-length victory in the $20,000 Scarff Ford Purse for older sprinters at Emerald Downs. With regular rider Jose Zunino aboard at 120 lbs., Hollywood Harbor ran 6-½ furlongs in 1:15.17 on a fast track [...] Read More.

LOUISVILLE, KY (Saturday, May 28, 2011) – Barbara Hunter’s homebred Keertana became the first female to defeat males in the Grade III, $111,200 Louisville Handicap when she narrowly prevailed in a nail-biting, three-way photo for the win Saturday at Churchill Downs. The 5-year-old mare, ridden by Jose Lezcano, hung a nose on Bearpath to triumph [...] Read More.

AUBURN, Wash. (May 27, 2011) * The classy Carry On John powered to the lead past mid-stretch and notched a 1 ¾-length victory Friday in the $11,900 Les Schwab Purse for older sprinters at Emerald Downs. With Joe Crispin riding, Carry On John ran six furlongs in 1:08.88 on a fast track and paid $5.60, [...] Read More.

LOUISVILLE, KY (Friday, May 27, 2011) – Jerry Romans’ Sassy Image, who sprang a 16-1 upset in the Grade I Humana Distaff on Kentucky Derby Day for her fourth win in five starts at Churchill Downs, headlines a field of 10 fillies and mares entered for Monday’s Grade III, $100,000 Winning Colors. The eighth running [...] Read More.

Emerald Downs News and Stable Notes Thursday, May 26, 2011 The last time Tom Wenzel was part of a three-horse entry was in the 2007 Longacres Mile (G3). On that historic afternoon owner Ron Crockett finished one-two in the Northwest’s biggest race with The Great Face and Raise the Bluff, and his third entrant Don’twritemeoff [...] Read More.

Five years ago trainer Allen Gideon took his mare, Bella Capini, to the breeding shed. He was in for the surprise of his life. Bella Capini, it turned out, was already in foal, a development that took Gideon completely by surprise. He had been away in California on business and couldn’t understand how in the [...] Read More.