7/22/2021 (Auburn, WA) Week 11 begins tonight and hopefully there will be as many good opportunities as week 10 offered to bettors. Let’s review last week’s betting highlights and further down for stat nerds are all the leader boards, win, in the money and in the superfecta, percent’s and more! […]
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Emerald Downs: Week 10 featured 2 Baby Stakes the Angie C and King Co Express and 2 Streaks end
7/21/2021 (Auburn, WA) Week 10 is in the books and another outstanding week of performances so let’s get to it! King County Express Stakes Just a field of 5 2-year-old colts and geldings loaded into the Emerald Downs starting gates in the 4th race for the 1st of two 2-year-old […]
Emerald Downs: The Betting Parlor and Leader Boards thru week 9
7/14/2021 The Betting Parlor There were two season high returns in week 9 starting with the Pick 5. The 50-cent Pick 5 on Saturday that returned one lucky ticket holder $33,298.95. Yep, just 1 winning ticket on Saturday. This was and has been much to the contrary of the horizontal […]
Emerald Downs: Papa & Daffodil win Stakes, Cruz & Gutierrez keep on winning & huge Pick 5 top week 9
7/13/2021 (Auburn, WA) Week 9 was the first week of the Thursday, Saturday & Sunday racing schedule that will remain in place until they go to just weekends after Labor Day. There was plenty for all fans of racing from 2 big Stakes races, Governor’s and State Legislators Stakes, two […]
Emerald Downs: The Betting Parlor and Leader Board
7/8/2021 Time to get caught up with all the meet stats, leader boards, top and average pay-offs and average odds and a closer look at the 10-cent Superfecta. Meet Stats Race Days: 16 Total Number of Races: 134 Average per Day: 8.4 Total Number of Starters: 900 Average per day: […]
Emerald Downs: Explosive Win for Bella’s Back, Alex Cruz sparkles & the Sky lights up!
7/3/2021 (Auburn, WA) The 1st Saturday night of racing went off with a bang! Literally. A contentious card of 7 races were the pre-function to the traditional huge Fireworks show the track has been known for since their first Fireworks show back in 1998. Of course there was no show […]
Emerald Downs: 2-Year-Olds make 1st starts, “Guti” goes off, Cruz streak reaches new level in Feature on Thursday
7/1/2021 (Auburn, WA) On the final night of Wednesday racing it was quite a card with the first 2-year-old races of the season, the 2020 horse of the year, “Dutton”, making his first run and the all-time Emerald Downs leading jockey, Juan Gutierrez, showing everyone he is on top of […]
Emerald Downs: The Betting Parlor
6/28/2021 (Auburn, WA) Finally, time to catch up on what has been happening at the betting windows this season at Emerald Downs. As much fun as it is to watch the sport and follow the horses, jockeys and connections the other half of the sport happens in the betting […]
Emerald Downs: Larry’s Round-Up; 20% of the Season is in the Books! Highlights and more!
6/23/2021 Larry the SportsCat’s Emerald Round-Up! (Story written prior to Wednesday’s races.) (Auburn, WA) It’s time for our in-house Horse Racing expert Larry the SportsCat to re-cap the first 11 days of the 50-day 2021 race meet. Below he highlights milestones, interesting and fun facts […]
Emerald Downs: Racing Cancelled for Sunday due to excessive heat concerns
6/23/2021 (Auburn, WA) Emerald Downs racing officials have cancelled racing for Sunday, June 27 as a precaution to the expected excessive heat warning issued by the National Weather service. Temperatures are expected to reach as high as 101-degrees. Concern for the horses, jockeys, staff and fans is the reason for […]