A busy weekend at Emerald Downs is topped by a stakes doubleheader! Saturday is the 6 1/2 furlong Irish Day Stakes featuring Miner League, who’s on a four-race winning streak, including the June 16 Auburn Stakes. Miner League meets Whiskeyjack for the first time, who was an impressive allowance winner here July 3. Sunday, 11 three-year-old fillies meet in the Kent Stakes, also at 6 1/2 furlongs. Appeal Factor is the clear favorite, bringing in her unbeaten three-for-three record.

Trainer Grant Forster joins Joe and Vince and relates the schedule to defend Five Star General’s Longacres Mile title is alive and well for the August 11 Classic. Ron Callan, one of last Saturday’s “Old Media Alumni,” relates stories of his career in Seattle television and radio and his journey to Oregon State athletics.