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Sunday is Italian Day at Emerald Downs! Italian food, music, beer and drinks are the fare along with Tony LaStella, the Sorelli’s Pizza Eating Contest and a bocce ball tourney. Saturday has $1 specials all around the track including hot dogs, popcorn, ice cream, soda pop, doughnuts and muffins. First race on Saturday and Sunday goes at 1:30. The theme this week on “Horseracing NW,” is lifelong care of the Thoroughbred race horse. Owner Victor Bahna has written “Heliacal Star,” a novel about an at-risk runner and his cloudy future. There’s plenty of intrigue in this thriller. Bahna will be selling his book at EmD on Sunday. Ann-Kathrin Zemann, Deputy Secretary for the WHRC, has fulfilled her lifelong goal of being an owner of a retired Thoroughbred and she tells her story with enthusiasm.

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Saturday is Ladies Day at Emerald Downs! Free admission for all gals with beverage specials and prize drawings, too. Sunday is Wiener Dog day, the canines that began the trend of entertainment between Thoroughbred races. Speaking of Thoroughbreds, take a look at the racing at Emerald Downs scheduled for this weekend, much great action headed by the first two Washington Cup events on Sunday. More Mile talk! The 2024 Longacres Mile will go down in history as one of the most memorable, dramatic and exciting in the many decades of the race. Scott Hanson of the Seattle Times and winning trainer Grant Forster (Five Star General) join Joe and Vince to speak to the event with smiles on their faces (we’re sure).

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The Mile was memorable! The 89th Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs provided the highest level of drama for a Thoroughbred horse race. Five Star General brought back a great story and delivered even more by edging Clovisconnection right on the wire. Five Star General became the just the fourth back-to-back winner in race history. Winning owner Ken Alhadeff joins Joe and Vince to recap a great day at Emerald Downs. Also joining this week’s show is WTBOA President Dana Halvorson. He gives highlights and details regarding next Tuesday’s WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale. Horses go to auction at 1 pm and it’s free to attend. Emerald Downs provides great entertainment Saturday with the world-famous T-Rex races and Sunday there’s a free, survivor-style handicapping contest. First race on weekends at 1:30 pm.

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Make plans to be at Emerald Downs Sunday for the 89th running of the Longacres Mile! This year’s race features the past two winners – Five Star General (2023) and Slew’s Tiz Whiz (2022) among the full gate of 12 middle distance specialists. The Mile goes as race nine at approximately 6 pm. The Mile is the final leg in an all-stakes Pick-4 wager. John Lindley of Parker’s joins Joe and Vince to go over Mile field. The 2024 class of the Washington Thoroughbred Hall of Fame has their induction ceremony on Saturday at 1 pm. Be here to witness stories on local history. Racing starts afterward at 2:10. Saturday morning is the final “Breakfast At the Wire” show of the season, free to attend between 8-10 am. And, Mile morning it’s the “Railbird Rally” in the park area beginning at 11 am. There’s $1 hot dogs and several $5 beverage specials at the Rally. See you Mile week at Emerald Downs!

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It’s just over a week to the 89th Longacres Mile and that’s a prominent subject on this week’s Horse Racing NW. The past two Mile winners are expected to race – Slew’s Tiz Whiz from 2022 and Five Star General from last year. Special events such as “Breakfast At the Wire,” “The Railbird Rally” and “Dancing at the Downs,” are all upcoming this month at Emerald Downs. Go to emeralddowns.com for more information. Leading trainer Justin Evans joins Joe and Vince and speaks to topics such as his current season, dealing with new horses in the barn and also four nominees to the August 11 Longacres Mile. Evans is seeking his second straight EmD training title and is currently in 11th place in North America with 84 wins in 2024.

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Fiesta Premio Esmeralda, the highly popular Hispanic summer festival, highlights Saturday and Sunday at Emerald Downs! Lots of fans expected and the dancing horses kick things off on track at 12:30 each day. “Breakfast At the Wire,” morning workout show starts its three Saturday run this week – 8-10 am on Track Level, hosted by Dean Mazzuca. This ‘cast recaps last weekend’s exciting stakes activity, including a dead-heat in the Governor’s between Arma d’Oro and Slew’s Tiz Whiz. Tom Wenzel, trainer of Slew’s Tiz Whiz, joins Joe and Vince and recaps the action, which saw a Wenzel victory in the other stake with Aloha Breeze. Wenzel and Blaine Wright each have three stakes wins at the meeting and Wenzel is at 59 for his Emerald Downs career, one ahead of Wright. They trail all-time leader Doris Harwood at 67.

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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.

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Happy Fourth of July from Emerald Downs! Racing resumes this Saturday and Sunday with two-year-old stakes Angie C. and King County Express respectively. We’re just five weekends away from the 89th running of the Longacres Mile and defending champion Five Star General is in action this Saturday at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Five Star General is expected to defend his Mile title vs the likes of 2022 hero Slew’s Tiz Whiz and others near and far. Horse owner Jody Peetz joins the group and speaks to the upcoming Hollywood Harbor Sprint Series, beginning on Saturday, July 20. Peetz has both opened her checkbook and done the leg work to fund and promote previous races and series at Emerald Downs and elsewhere. The HH Sprint Series figures to have purses 50% higher than regular values.

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The annual Fireworks Spectacular is right around the corner! Emerald Downs presents its July 3 evening of entertainment with Thoroughbred racing at 5 pm followed by a tremendous fireworks show afterward. Tickets are still available at emeralddowns.com or through Customer Service at 253-288-7711. Don’t miss the fantastic show, Wednesday, July 3! Top northwest handicapper John Lindley joins Joe and Vince on this week’s show. Lindley is author of his decades long “Parker’s” tip sheet and also provides “Race Notes,” free of charge at emeralddowns.com. Many topics discussed and John joining in on segment 3 with Selections and his own Sport Short.

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Many of the track’s top horses are in action this weekend as Emerald Downs presents the Hastings and Budweiser Stakes at six furlongs. Blazingbellablu tops entrants in Saturday’s Hastings for fillies and mares. She’s been a Washington champion the past three years and won this race in 2023. Fantastic sprinter Aloha Breeze heads the competition, she the winner of two sprint stakes for three-year-old fillies last year. In Sunday’s Budweiser, it’s another meeting of Slew’s Tiz Whiz and Papa’s Golden Boy, the seventh time they’ve gone head-to-head at Emerald Downs. Papa leads the matchup 4-2 and has won the Budweiser the past two times he’s been in it. Slew’s Tiz Whiz is two-time defending Washington Horse of the Year and hero of the 2022 Longacres Mile. Paul Beattie is the guest, speaking to the outstanding coverage of Emerald Downs on elisportsnetwork.com.

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