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Puhich and his old warhorse Background continue to fight on

Puhich and his old warhorse Background continue to fight on

Trainer Michael Puhich was hospitalized with a faulty liver in 2024, when his world got even worse. One of hi…

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McPhee opts for allowance with talented duo

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By Mike Seely Verified
| Daily Racing Form Verified
Having owned and trained last year’s top sophomore colt at Emerald Downs, the Muckleshoot Derby winner He’s Not Talking, 78-year-old Doug McPhee knows a thing or two about how to handle a 3-year-old campaign.
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New Seattle business owners bring a jolt of energy to the Ave

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By Mike Seely Verified
| The Seattle Times Verified
Serious drinking, in and of itself, is a descent into darkness. It’s fitting, then, that to reach the dimly lit College Inn Pub on University Way Northeast, aka the Ave, one must walk down a dozen or so stairs to find a subterranean collection of faintly British-feeling rooms where it seems the Hunchback of Notre Dame might drink pints of grog from a wooden mug. In any other college town, the College Inn Pub would be a perennial cash cow.
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Cap It Daddy on the rise for Madrigal's two-horse stable

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By Mike Seely Verified
| Daily Racing Form Verified
Among the trainers with horses entered in Saturday’s seventh race at Emerald Downs are a Washington Racing Hall of Famer in the twilight of his career (Howard Belvoir), the track’s all-time winningest trainer (Tom Wenzel), and a perennial West Coast stalwart whose horses finished one-two in Sunday’s $50,000 Budweiser Stakes (Blaine Wright). Then there’s Elodio Madrigal.
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