{"id":12442,"date":"2019-08-26T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12442"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:06:45","slug":"12442-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/12442-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Been A Long Road\u2019: Krigger Celebrates 1,000th Win At Emerald"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Press Release: Jockey Kevin Krigger stole the show Saturday evening at Emerald Downs, riding four winners including career victory No. 1,000.<\/p>\r\n

Krigger swept races 4, 5, 6 and 7, scoring win No. 1,000 aboard I Double Dare You ($5.20) in race five, and adding a feature race victory on Vicente’s Shadow ($9) in the $16,600 Muckleshoot Casino Purse for 3-year-olds and up.<\/p>\r\n

Krigger also won the fourth on Honkytonkbar ($13.40) and the sixth on Bounty Hunter ($23.40), and has 19 wins in 70 mounts since returning here August 2.<\/p>\r\n

Krigger’s milestone victory on I Double Dare You was in gate to wire fashion as the 5-year-old mare cruised by 3 \u00bd lengths for trainer Rigoberto Velasquez and owner John Sneesby.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIt’s been a long road to get to 1,000 wins, a lot of highlights and I’ve ridden at a lot of places,\u201d Krigger said in the winner’s circle. \u201cBut it’s great to get my thousandth win at Emerald Downs, this place is like my second home.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

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A 35-year-old native of the Virgin Islands, Krigger broke his maiden in 2001 at Thistledown and is best know for winning the 2013 Santa Anita Derby on\u00a0Goldencents<\/a>. Of his 1,002 career wins, 361 have come at Emerald Downs including the 2005 riding title with 126 wins.<\/p>\r\n

In the featured seventh race, Krigger and Vicente’s Shadow held off Kevin Orozco and Bullet Drill in a driving finish for a head victory. Owned and trained by Satchell Stevens, Vicente’s Shadow ran 6 \u00bd furlongs in 1:17.77 while ending a nine-race losing streak that included three seconds, two thirds, and a nose defeat in the 2018 Auburn Stakes.<\/p>\r\n

A 4-year-old Kentucky-bred by Liaison, Vicente’s Shadow is 2-3-2 in 11 starts overall with earnings of $41,645.<\/p>\r\n

For Stevens, nephew of Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, it was his first victory at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\r\n

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\"\"Jockey Kevin Krigger stole the show Saturday evening at Emerald Downs, riding four winners including career victory No. 1,000. Krigger swept races 4, 5, 6 and 7, scoring win No. 1,000 aboard I Double Dare You ($5.20) in race five, and adding a feature race victory on Vicente’s Shadow ($9) in the $16,600 Muckleshoot Casino Purse for 3-year-olds and up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-happening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}