Muckleshoot Gold Cup Weekend! - Episode #91

It’s Indian Relay weekend at Emerald Downs! Qualifying heats begin on Friday night, continue on Saturday and culminate in the Muckleshoot Gold Cup Championship on Sunday. It’s great action, horse racing of a different variety. The Black Lodge Singers, Ryan Yellowjohn Hoop Dance and more among the entertainment on Track Level. Gayle Skunkcap Jr, publicist for Indian Relay racing, joins the podcast. Emerald Downs offers its first two Thoroughbred stakes races of the meeting Sunday with the Auburn Stakes for three-year-old colts and geldings and the Seattle Stakes for three-year-old fillies. Both races are at 6 furlongs. Trainer Blaine Wright, who’s won three straight Auburn Stakes and four of the past six Seattle Stakes joins Joe, Vince and Bill on the podcast. Wright will saddle Clovisconnection in the Auburn, a winner of three races in California since last fall.