The West Central District 4A track and field meet was packed with competitive highlight on the final day of action today, May 22, at Mount Tahoma High.
Tahoma High athletes made a strong showing on both the girls and boys side. The girls team won the district meet with 77 points. The Kentwood girls finished fourth with 54.5 and Kentlake 15th with 20 points.
Emerald Downs has a new riding sensation.
He’s apprentice jockey Pedro Terrero, a 25-year-old native of Guanajuato, Mexico
The Kentwood High baseball team punched a ticket as one of the final four teams playing for the state title at Safeco Field.
The Conquerors lived up to their name, defeating Skyline 16-4 at Everett Stadium in the early game Saturday, May 22, and beating Mountlake Terrace 13-2 in the second game of the day.
Derek Eager took the shot put pegging 58 feet, 6.25 inches and discus at 184-06 on day one of the…
Rescue Plan and hot-riding apprentice jockey Pedro Terrero dominated the $15,100 Sound Transit Purse for 3-year-olds Friday evening at Emerald Downs.
Juan Gutierrez rode four winners Sunday to become only the third jockey in history to ride 700 winners at Emerald Downs.The 40-year-old native of Jalisco, Mexico, also zoomed into sole possession of first place in the jockeys’ standings with 19 wins.
Would anybody dare claim an exceptionally accomplished 8-year-old gelding for $50,000? We could find out Sunday as Wasserman is among eight horses entered in a $20,000 optional claiming race at six furlongs.
Week 6 honors: jockey – Juan Gutierrez (7-for-19); trainer – Doris Harwood (Noosa Beach and Winning Machine first and second Seattle Handicap); owner – Lisa Baze and Jerry Carmody with West Seattle Boy’s 16th win at Emerald; groom –Fernando Ochoa (Doris Harwood)
Hollywood Harbor, voted Emerald Downs’ Top Juvenile last year, is out of Sunday’s Auburn Handicap with changes to his left front suspensory ligament, trainer Chris Stenslie said.
With 24 Emerald Downs’s stakes wins, but zero in 2009, it was only a matter of time until trainer Frank Lucarelli made a splash in the 2010 stakes division.
California invader Feeling Fancy made sure it didn’t take long when she took home Emerald’s second stakes of the meet—the $50,000 Federal Way Handicap on May 9. Lucarelli will attempt to double the score with Posse Power, who makes his Emerald Downs debut in Sunday’s $50,000 Auburn Handicap for 3 year olds.
Tahoma and Kentlake dominated the South Puget Sound North All-League fastpitch honors this week.
The Falcons had six first-team members while the Bears had three on the first team and four on the second team.
The numbers are in.
And for Kentwood and Kentlake’s prep track and field programs, that proved to be a good thing after the South Puget Sound League meet May 12 and May 14 at French Field.
The top 10 individuals in each event earned berths to the West Central District meet at Mount Tahoma, which is slated for Friday and Saturday.
The Tahoma baseball team ended the season with a win and loss at the West Central District tournament Saturday.
After finishing third in the South Puget Sound League, 4A Division, the Bears lined up against Bellarmine Prep in the first game at the district tournament, played at Heidelberg Park in Tacoma.
A total of 16 horses, breeders, jockeys and trainers, four in each category, have been named as finalists for induction into the Washington Racing Hall of Fame.
Hollywood Harbor, Top Juvenile Male of 2009, and undefeated Forener top the list of nine 3 year olds nominated to the $50,000 Auburn Handicap on Sunday, May 23.
Noosa Beach delivered one of the most spectacular performances in Emerald Downs history Sunday with a one-length victory over stable-mate Winning Machine in the $50,000 Seattle Handicap for older horses
Sis’s Sis made it two-for-two on the young season with a hard-earned three-quarter-length victory over stable-mate Sweet Nellie Brown in the $18.000 feature race for 3-year-old fillies Saturday at Emerald Downs.
Tahoma took on Bellarmine Prep Saturday afternoon in the West Central District Playoffs. Behind a shutout effort on the mound…
Classielyte became the first horse to win three races at Emerald Downs this season with a gate-to-wire half-length victory Friday in the $12,100 Washington State 4-H Foundation Purse.
Nothing seemed to bounce Tahoma’s way Friday afternoon at the South Puget Sound League fastpitch tournament as it dropped both games.
