May 5, 2016
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$50,000 SEATTLE STAKES TOPS SUNDAY CARD,
NEWCOMER FIND JOY RATES BIG LOOK
Emerald Downs’ 28-race stakes schedule begins Sunday with 3-year-old fillies vying 6 ½ furlongs in the $50,000 Seattle Stakes. The seven-horse field includes several highly decorated runners: 2015
WTBOA Champion 2-Year-Old Filly My Heart Goes On, 2015 Emerald Downs’ Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Princess Kennedy, and unbeaten Invested Prospect, a speedster who wired the field in the 2015 Northwest Farms Stakes.
The role of betting favorite, however, could belong to Find Joy, a regally bred daughter of Drosselmeyer-Hurricane Hannah, purchased for $185,000 last year by David Taylor of Seattle.
Find Joy (pictured in her stall on the right) has trained forwardly for her Northwest debut, including a sparkling six furlong gate drill in 1:11 4/5 on April 28. Her five races feature a debut victory at Pimlico last summer followed by four tries against strong California competition, including a third in the Anoakia Stakes at Santa Anita.
“We were going to run her in a little stakes at Golden Gate but she didn’t like the synthetic (surface) much so we just kicked her out with hopes to bring her up here and compete really well in the stakes,” trainer Frank Lucarelli said. “She’s been getting over the Emerald Downs surface really well.
“She has really good speed but she can rate. We’ll probably just settle in behind the speed and we could end up with a really nice trip if three or four of these fillies decide to go for the...
