7/27/2021 (Auburn, WA) Sunday was one of the most anticipated days of the year at Emerald Downs and a huge crowd showed up on a beautiful Sunday afternoon to take in the beauty of horse racing and the fun of the Corgi races! A total of 72 Corgi’s were entered […]
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Emerald Downs: Week 11 Champs crowned in the Kent & Irish Day Stakes, the Ladies dominate Saturday and some big pays and more
7/27/2021 (Auburn, WA) Week 11 was huge with 2 stakes for 3-year-olds the Kent Stakes for fillies and the Irish Day Stakes for all 3-year-olds. It was also the 2nd large promotional day of the year, after the July 3rd Fireworks show but the Corgi races drew an amazing 10,000+ […]
Emerald Downs: The Betting Parlor & Leader Boards Week 10
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! […]
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 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: 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 […]
Emerald Downs: Track’s 25th Birthday saw return of Big crowd plus 2 Stakes Races and a Special Hall of Fame Inductee
6/21/2021 (Auburn, WA) The hot sun pounding down on the white pavement outside the entry gates, long lines, confused patrons not sure where or how to bet, where to find the park, get ice cream or a cold beverage even where it was ok to have a smoke break. This […]
Emerald Downs: Front Speed Dominates Stakes Schedule Kick-off in the Hastings and Bud
6/19/2021 (Auburn, WA) The 2021 Stakes schedule got underway Thursday night highlighted with the first Longacres Mile prep race, the 50-thousand dollar Budweiser Stakes. The field of 8 ran as the 7th race on the 8 race card. The field set to go 6-furlongs would then suffer a late scratch […]
M’s Prospect Check: 6/17/2021
Eli Sports is launching a new weekly list where we check in on the Mariners top 5 prospects and see how they are progressing on their respective MiLB clubs. We will be going through their current rankings within the farm system, stat line to date along with how their past […]
Emerald Downs 25th year Opens with 2 Days of Racing and Fans
5/20/2021 (Auburn, WA) The 25th year opened up on Wednesday evening with 8 races and live fans for the first time since 2019. Some of the familiar names are of course here such as Champion trainer Frank Lucarelli, Hall of Famer’s Howard Belvoir and the Cooper-Penney family. Last year’s Champion […]