$65,000 WASHINGTON OAKS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2015
36th RUNNING, 3-YEAR-OLD FILLIES, 1 1/8 MILES
Track Record: 1:45 2/5, Flying Notes (3), Sept. 2, 2002
Stakes Record: 1:47 1/5, Flirtacious Girl, August 21,1999
Statistics from 1996-2014 @ EmD:
Most Wins
Trainer: 3, Grant Forster (Youcan’ttakeme, 2003; Bianconi Baby, 2004; A Classic Life, 2005)
Owner: 2-tie, Michael and Amy Feuerborn (A Classic Life, 2005; Class Included, 2011) Northwest Farms (Elusive Horizon, 2008; Stopshoppingdebbie, 2013)
Jockey: 3-tie
Ricky Frazier (A Classic Life, 2005; She’s All Silk, 2006; Zenovit, 2010) Gary Baze (Crossatyourownrisk, 2000; Graceful Cat, 2001; Youcan’ttakeme, 2003)
Largest Winning Margin: 9 ½ lengths, Flirtacious Girl, August 21, 1999
Smallest winning margin: head, She’s All Silk (August 19, 2006)
Track: fast 17, wet-fast 1, sloppy 1
Favorites: 7-for-19 Odds-on: 7-for-14
Gate-to-wire: 8-for-19
Largest $2 Win: $23.60, Rivoltella, August 18,2007
Smallest $2 Win: $2.80-tie, Youcan’ttakeme (2003), No Flies On Doodle (2009), Stopshoppingdebbie (2013)
Winner bred: Kentucky 11, Washington 6, Florida 1,Maryland 1
OWNERS HOMETOWNS
1—Ambleside Park (10) George Gilbert, Langley, BC; Raymond Hanson, Everett, WA
2—Rastanora (8) Paymaster Racing (Michael Waters, Kirkland, WA)
3—Ethan’s Baby (3) Todd & Shawn Hansen, Tenino, WA
4—Suite One SCRATCHED
5—Cup of Soup (12) Thomas Glasgow, Laveen, AZ; Ezra Lee Craig, Phoenix, AZ; Ramiro Meraz-Martinez, Glendale, AZ
6—Perhaps a Pie (8) One Horse Will Do Corp. (Jody Peetz, Issaquah, WA), Brewer Thoroughbreds (Will Brewer, Seattle, WA), Chris Stenslie (Enumclaw, WA)
7—Suva Harbor (5) Gary Barber, Los Angeles, CA
8—Belle Hill (7-5) Aithon Stable LLC (James Perkins, Mary Beth Holt-Perkins, Issaquah, WA)
WASHINGTON OAKS SERIES
May 31: $50,000 Seattle Handicap, Deb’s Wildcard ($8.20) 1:16.34
June 28: $50,000 Irish Day Handicap, Belle Hill ($8.40) 1:36.67
July 18: $50,000 Kent Handicap, Belle Hill ($3.40) 1:45.14
Aug. 8: $65,000 Washington Oaks, 1 1/8 Mile
FAB 5 HANDICAPPERS
Joe Withee (EmD1): Belle Hill, Perhaps a Pie, Ethan’s Baby (3-14, $114.30)
Geller’s D-Man (EmD2): Belle Hill, Suva Harbor, Perhaps a Pie (3-14, $131.10)
Jacob Pollowitz (EmD3): Belle Hill, Perhaps a Pie, Ethan’s Baby (6-14, $165.30)
Vic Cozzetti (Predictorsays.com): Belle Hill, Perhaps a Pie, Ethan’s Baby (6-14, $132.70)
Nick Rousso (Daily Racing Form): Perhaps a Pie, Belle Hill, Ethan’s Baby (3-14, $126.90)
Consensus: Belle Hill (22), Perhaps a Pie (12), Ethan’sBaby (4) (5-14, $152.30)
NOTES: The Oaks is one of Emerald Downs’ most formful stakes with odds-on winners five of the last seven years:Lady Fifty Two (2014), Stopshoppingdebbie (2013), Class Included (2011), No Flies On Doodle (2009) andElusive Horizon (2008). . .Trainers Larry Ross and Sharon Ross (Belle Hill) have had enormous success in the Oaks, combining for five wins: Zenovit (2010), Ever Lasting (1996) and Cadette Stevens (1991) for Larry,Graceful Cat (2001) and Guinevere (1998) for Sharon. . .Larry Ross and jockey Leslie Mawing already have combined for four stakes wins at the meet: Belle Hill in the Irish Day Handicap and Kent Handicap, and Stryker Phdin the Budweiser Handicap and Mt. Rainier Handicap. They are a combined 7-for-14 in stakes the last two years at Emerald Downs. . . No Flies On Doodle in 2009 is the last gate-to-wire Oaks winner. Other gate-to-wire winners:Elusive Horizon (2008), She’s All Silk (2006), Bianconi Baby (2004), Youcan’ttakeme (2003), Erica’s Smile(2002), Flirtacious Girl (1999) and Guinevere (1998). . . Youcan’ttakeme, one of only two fillies or mares to win Horse of the Meeting at Emerald Downs, was owned and bred by the late Herman Sarkowsky, who will be inducted into the Washington Racing Hall of Fame tonight. . .Canadian invader Ambleside Park is out of Capilano, aDemons Begone filly that shipped in from Hastings for an $8.20 upset in the 1997 Washington Oaks. . . .Flirtacious Girl set the stakes record 1:47 1/5 in 1999 and earned an Oaks record 109 Beyer in the process. . . Ethan’s Babycould follow the pattern set by Class Included (2011) and She’s All Silk (2006), who finished second in the Kent before winning the Oaks.
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