Blaine Wright News Today

Slew’s Tiz Whiz and Alex Cruz both shined bright at Emerald Downs in 2023, both earning multiple awards and titles.

The vase was recovered in a sting operation two years later when officers posed as buyers offering £450,000.

Slew's Tiz Whiz will try to become the fifth two-time winner in the 88-year history of the Longacres Mile, to be run Sunday at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash.

Last year, Slew’s Tiz Whiz exploded in the final furlong to collar Papa’s Golden Boy and win going away in 1:34.46

Munnings Tale led all the way and scored a 4¾-length victory over Camden High in Friday’s Muckleshoot Casino Purse for older fillies and mares at Emerald Downs. The victory gave Blaine Wright his 1,000th career training win.

Skinner, who has been scratched twice since finishing a close third in the Santa Anita Derby, tops a field of six in the Los Alamitos Derby.

Irish-bred Balnikhov rebounded with aplomb from an unplaced finish in his previous start when digging deep Saturday to prevail in a close finish in the $250,000 San Francisco Mile (G3), the signature race at Golden Gate Fields' Winter/Spring Meet.

Friday was the day that the family of U.S. Army Pfc. Robert Wright had been waiting on for more than 70 years.

Police are searching for Elaine Wright, 70, who was last seen in the area of Concord Lane in Columbia

Longacres Mile champion Slew’s Tiz Whiz was voted 2022 Emerald Downs Horse of the Meeting for the 52-day season that concluded Sunday.