Emerald Downs

6/13/2022 Saturday Racing On yet another cloudy, drizzly day 7 races and of course the Belmont Stakes was the big draw. The track was fast all day and after a…

6/9/2022 (Renton, WA) Alex Anaya grew up in Cimarron, Kansas, not far from Dodge City, and was around horses and animals but had not thought much about being a jockey…

6/6/2022 The 1st 3-day racing schedule is in the books and below is our re-cap of Saturday and Sunday racing. We start with Sunday’s feature below and then the rest…

6/3/2022 The Summer schedule kicked into gear Friday night with 7 races and begins the 3-day a week racing schedule until the final week of the season in September. Fans…

5/31/2022 We missed last week but we now have 5 days under our belts and there are a couple of clear early leaders. The rest have really bunched together in…

5/22/2022 (Auburn, WA) Day 3 of the 2022 season and the sun was out with warm temperatures and a huge crowd was on hand to take it all in. The…

5/21/2022 (Auburn, WA) Saturday was Preakness Day and day 2 of the live racing season at Emerald Downs but it was all about jockey Kevin Radke in Auburn. Radke would…

5/20/2022 (Auburn, WA) We are going to wrap-up our opening day observations and have a look at the first “Betting Parlor” review of how the betting went down plus take…

5/19/2022 With Day 1 which was all of week 1 we are set with our 2nd round of Power Rankings. Quite a bit of movement and we arrive at these…

5/15/2022 The clouds rolled in the rain fell hard, the track was sloppy but smiles were aplenty at the Emerald Downs opening day. The smiles bright and clean on those…

5/14/2022 The 2022 season officially begins on Sunday and the 9 race card has a strong 72 entries for an average of 8 per race. Now the weather forecast is…

5/14/2022 This year we will be celebrating both the equine and human athletes more than ever as we introduce our first and maybe the sports first ever Jockey Power rankings.…

5/14/2022 The start of the 2022 live racing season at Emerald Downs begins Sunday and the excitement is building around the track. There are many reason to be optimistic coming…

5/7/2022 After 3 years of strangeness the 2022 Emerald Downs season feels like it is supposed to feel as they head into opening day next Sunday on May 15. At…

4/12/2022 Grants Pass Race Track has shut down their operations and will not run a meet in 2022 that was scheduled to begin on May 9th. Rumblings began when the…

4/10/2022 The race of the year in 2021 at Emerald Downs was clearly the Longacres Mile. Background with former Emerald Downs Champion jockey Rocco Bowen came home to run in…

Northwest Horse Racing Legend Richard Wright Passes Away By Gary Dougherty 11/28/2020 A Northwest horseman since the mid-1960s, Richard Wright passed away November 9, 2020 at the age of 81…

11/9/2020 (Auburn, WA) The post season awards have been announced for the 25th Emerald Downs season. We will go through each one and category and in this piece we focus…

11/4/2020 (Auburn, WA) The post season awards have been announced for the 25th Emerald Downs season. We will go through each one and category and we start with the Jockeys.…

10/30/2020 (Auburn, WA) Just the fact that there was a season is a tribute to everyone in the business from the jockey’s and trainers to the grooms, track crew, Emerald…