$35,000 DENNIS DODGE STAKES
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
17th RUNNING, 2YO COLTS & GELDINGS, SIX FURLONGS

Track Record: 1:07, Atta Boy Roy (4), Sept. 13, 2009 & Noosa Beach (4), May 16, 2010
Stakes Record:  1:08, Fast Parade, October 2, 2005
Most Wins
Trainer: 4, Bud Klokstad (Time for a Prize, 1997; I.M.Adevil, 1999; Jumron Won, 2000; Bub, 2002)
Jockey: 4, Juan Gutierrez (Millenium Nugget, 2003; Margo’s Gift, 2007;
Noosa Beach, 2008; Mack’s Gold Bullet, 2010)
Purse: $35,000
1st—$17,500 2nd—$6125 3rd—$4375 4th—$2625 5th--1750

Owners Hometowns
1—Music of My Soul (2) Elttaes Stable (Ken Alhadeff, Seattle, WA)
2—Cariboo Road (5-2)                  Glyn Kelly, Vancouver, BC; Anne MacLennan, Vancouver, BC 
3—Rhinghals (10) Todd & Shawn Hansen,  Olympia, WA
4—Mike Man’s Gold (7-5) Swag Stables (Keith Swagerty, Auburn, WA)
5—Ethan’s Way  SCRATCHED
6—Master’s Bluff (6) Debra Larson, Phoenix, AZ; Shadley Reichert, Seattle, WA

2YO Colts & Geldings Series @ Emerald Downs
July 1: $25,000 NWSS Slewdledo Stakes, Master’s Bluff, 5F/:57.91 (fast), $5.20 (2-6)
July 29: $50,000 Premio Esmeralda Stakes, Mike Man’s Gold, 6F/1:10.04 (fast), $20.20 (4-8)
Aug. 18: $50,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes, Mike Man’s Gold, 6-½ F/1:16.72 (fast), $5.60 (2-9)
Sept. 9: $35,000 Dennis Dodge Stakes (WA-Bred), 6F
Sept. 23: $65,000 Gottstein Futurity, 1M

SUPER 6 HANDICAPPERS
Joe Withee (EmD1):
Mike Man’s Gold, Music of My Soul, Cariboo Road (8-22—$227.60)
Robert Geller (EmD2):
Cariboo Road, Music of My Soul, Mike Man’s Gold (3-22—$180.40)
Gary Dougherty (Horse Racing Seattle):
Music of My Soul, Mike Man’s Gold, Cariboo Road (5-22—$226.40)
Vic Cozzetti  (Predictorsays.com):
Mike Man’s Gold, Cariboo Road, Music of My Soul— (8-22—$224.40)
Nick Rousso (Daily Racing Form):
Cariboo Road, Mike Man’s Gold, Music of My Soul— (11-22—$266.00)
Jacob Pollowitz (EmD3):
Mike Man’s Gold, Music of My Soul, Cariboo Road (7-22—$234.90)
Consensus:
Mike Man’s Gold (20), Cariboo Road (15), Music of My Soul (13) (9-22—$227.50)

NOTES: Trainer Howard Belvoir, tied for most Washington Cup stakes wins with five, saddles Rhinghals in the Dennis Dodge Stakes…Music of My Soul’s full-brother Noosa Beach won the 2008 Dennis Dodge Stakes. His trainer, Doris Harwood, won this race three consecutive years from 2007 to 2009 (Margo’s Gift, 2007; Noosa Beach, 2008; Koala Beach, 2009)…Last year’s winner, Brady’s Kat, will start in the $35,000 Chinook Pass Stakes for 3-year-old colts and geldings. His owner/breeder Keith Swagerty looks for back-to-back Dennis Dodge scores with Mike Man’s Gold… David Bennett (Master’s Bluff) seeks his first WA Cup victory at Emerald Downs. Bennett captured the Diane Kem for 2-year-old fillies with Freedom March in 2002—one year before the WA Cup series began.

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