Emerald Downs

8/12/2023 (Auburn, WA) This Sunday is Championship Sunday at Emerald Downs with 4 Stakes races all in a row from the 5th to the 8th race capped off with the…

8/11/2023 (Auburn, WA) Friday night was a 7 race card with a total of 47 starters for an average of nearly 7 starters per race. The total handle was right…

8/11/2023 The 13th Power Rankings of the season were lucky for Alex Cruz who scored a 5-win Sunday and took the lead in the jockey standings for the 1st time…

8/9/2023 How “Snappy Nashville” and a $2 Show led to a lifelong fan of Horse Racing Many of my friends no how big of a Horse Racing fan I am…

8/9/2023 (Auburn, WA) The draw for the 2023 $150,000 Longacres Mile was completed Wednesday afternoon and in the end 10 horses will break from the Emerald Downs starting gate and…

8/6/2023 This week it’s an all-in-one re-cap of the entire weekend. We’ll begin with Sunday’s races and work backwards. The weekend saw many things including Alex Cruz’s Friday night win…

8/4/2023 The 12th Power Rankings of the season saw Silvio Amador soar to the top with an outstanding week and finished off a big month that saw him get back…

8/3/2023 (Auburn, WA) Sunday Emerald Downs is turning back the clock to the 1970’s celebrating Longacres and one of horse racing’s golden ages. It of course was a time when…

7/30/2023 (Auburn, WA) Sunday was the wrap-up of Premio Esmerelda weekend celebration and was met with a huge Sunday crowd, dancing horses beautiful cultural dancing, food trucks, kids activities and…

7/29/2023 (Auburn, WA) Saturday night racing continued and featured a 7 race card with 46 starters for an average of 6.6 per race. The card did have 3 races with…

7/28/2023 The 11th Power Rankings were all about the Stakes as Jose Zunino gets few chances each week yet he is a monster in Stakes and swept the Washington State…

7/27/2023 Larry’s Week in Review This past week was another important week of racing at the Auburn Oval with 2 more Stakes races including the final prep race for the…

7/23/2023 It is one of the more anticipated Sunday’s of the year it was Corgi race day. The Sunday card featured 9 races, including 2 Stakes, the Washington Legislator’s Stakes…

7/22/2023 The 7 races on Saturday couldn’t be more different as there were many chances to make a stack of money including the 2nd 10k+ pick 5 of the year.…

7/21/2023 (Auburn, WA) Friday night racing had 7 races with 43 starters or just over 6 a race average. 4 favorites won along with 2 2nd fav’s and the longest…

7/21/2023 The 10th Power Rankings go full circle from week 1 with Kevin Radke skyrocketing back to the top of the rankings scoring 5 wins leading all this past weekend…

7/19/2023 Sunday the focus at Emerald Downs was the two 3-year-old stakes races, the Kent Stakes and the Irish Day Stakes until word broke that the Stronach group announced they…

7/16/2023 Sunday was another double Stakes day, this was the 3-year-olds week with the 50k Kent Stakes for fillies and 50k Irish Day stakes for colts and geldings. Both favorites…

7/15/2023 If you had been around racing in the Northwest for the past 50+ years no doubt you know him well or have heard of Victor “The Predictor” Cozetti. Vic…

7/14/2023 The beginning of week 11 was another Friday-Sunday schedule but the Friday night card marks the halfway point of the 2023 season. This week will be capped with a…