Feeling Fancy Wins Federal Way

Feeling Fancy loves to race at Emerald Downs.

The Sky Mesa filly is 3-for-3 at Emerald Downs including her first stakes win Sunday in the $50,000 Federal Way Handicap for 3-year-old fillies.

With Francisco Duran up for his first Emerald Downs stakes victory, Feeling Fancy rallied from just off the pace for a 2 ½-length victory over Knight Raider in 1:15 1/5 for 6 ½ furlongs on a fast track.

Trained by Frank Lucarelli and owned by Chris Randall of Bellevue, Wash., Feeling Fancy carried 115 lbs. and paid $5, $3 and $2.60. The $27,500 first-place check improved her earnings to $51,835.

Feeling Fancy is undefeated at Emerald Downs—3-for-3 –but she's 0-for-3 in California, where Lucarelli said the Kentucky-bred struggled with the synthetic racing surfaces.