Seattle Slew Hcp-press kit

$50,000 SEATTLE SLEW HANDICAP
SUNDAY, JULY 25
34th RUNNING, 3-YEAR OLDS, 1 & 1/16 MILE

Track & State Record: 1:39 3/5, Kid Katabatic (5), July 26, 1998
Stakes Record*: 1:41, Peaceful Reign, Aug. 2, 2009
*Distance @ 1M 1977-2000 & 2002; 6 ½ F 2001

Most Wins
Trainer: 3, Bud Klokstad (I.M. Bzy, 1998; Jumron Won, 2001; Flying Notes, 2002)
Jockey: 4, Gallyn Mitchell
(Prefabricate, 1994; Cromarty Bay, 1995; Jumron Won, 2001, Peaceful Reign, 2009)
Owner: 1, Various

Purse: $50,000
1st—$27,500
2nd—$10,000
3rd—$7,500
4th—$3,750
5th—$1,250

Owners Hometowns
1 — Cyber Bell (15).....Tice Ranch Stables LLC (Lou & Diane Tice, Seattle, Wash.)
2 — Posse Power (8-5).....Willow Creek Farm (Claire Lein, Fall City, Wash.)
3 — Newfound Man (4).....John & Janene Maryanski, Auburn, Wash.
4 — Saratoga Boot (8).....Gary Hughes, Clarkston, Wash.
5 — Silk Street (8).....Anthony Ramsden, London, England
6 — Mr. Mad Max (12).....Sue & Tim Spooner, Olympia, Wash.
7 — Koala Beach (5-2).....Jeff Harwood, Kent, Wash.

3 year-olds @ Emerald Downs
May 23 – $50,000 Auburn Handicap, 6.5 furlongs/Posse Power/1:15-sly/FDuran/FLucarelli/$5.60 (2)
June 27 – $50,000 Pepsi-Cola Hcp, 1 Mile/Koala Beach/1:34 1/5-fst/R Frazier/D Harwood/$11.40 (3)
July 25 – $50,000 Seattle Slew Handicap, 1 1/16 Mile
Aug. 15 – $75,000 Emerald Derby, 1 1/8 Mile
Sept. 12 – $40,000 Chinook Pass Stakes ®, 1 Mile

ETC.— Doris Harwood & Ricky Frazier (Koala Beach) are a combined 17-for-39 in stakes @ EmD, and have combined for four stakes wins in 2010…Frazier ranks No. 1 among jockeys with 67 career stakes wins @ EmD…Harwood ranks first all-time among trainers with 44 stakes wins @ EmD…Harwood ranks second to Bud Klokstad, 15-13, in 3-year-old stakes wins @ EmD. Jim Penney is third with 12 and Frank Lucarelli (Posse Power) is fourth with 10…The June 27 Pepsi-Cola Handicap is an early contender for Race of the Meeting as Koala Beach, Posse Power & Newfound Man were separated by a neck at the finish line…Favorites are 0-for-2 in the first two races of this series: Forener, 5th @ 9-10 in the Auburn, and Posse Power, 2nd @ 3-5 in the Pepsi-Cola…Favorites also have struggled in recent runnings of the Seattle Slew: Winning Machine, 3rd @ 9-5 in 2009; Gallon, 4th @ 6-5 in 2008; Wild Cycle, 2nd @ 3.30 in 2007; Courting Seattle, 3rd @ 2.10 in 2006… Alexandersrun in 2005 was the last favorite to win the race…Exclusive Eagle ($52.40 in 2006) and Mulcahy ($32.20 in 2007) both notched major upsets in the Seattle Slew…Howard Belvoir & Jennifer Whitaker could replicate their Mulcahy triumph with longshot Cyber Bell in this year's running…The No. 1 & No. 7 post-positions have yielded the highest percentage of winners in route races this season. The one-hole is 18-for-87 (20.6 percent) and the seven-hole is 11-for-56 (19.6 percent).