Sunday is Longacres Mile Preview Day at Emerald Downs with two stakes races on the card, the Mt. Rainier Handicap and Boeing Handicap.

The $50,0000 guaranteed Mt. Rainier at 1-1/8 mile for thoroughbreds, 3 years old and up, is the seventh race on the card with seven horses going to post.

Maple Valley residents Michael and Amy Feuerborn will be looking for a winner’s circle picture with their 4-year-old gelding, Gallon.

The son of Victory Gallop ran third in the one-mile Budweiser-Emerald Handicap June 21.

Leading rider Ricky Frazier will be in the irons and the gelding is conditioned by Jim Penney.

Wasserman, the 2008 Longacres Mile champion, will be another horse to watch. The gelding lost the 2008 edition of the Mt. Rainier by a head to Chhaya Dance.

It has been a tough meet for the 7-year-old son of Cahill Road, who stands in Enumclaw.

Trained and owned by Howard Belvoir from Kent, Wasserman, has been competitive this season, but has come up short in five tries at the meet.

His stablemate, Assessment, drew the highest weight at 120 pounds and could be the one to beat in Sunday’s race. Owned by Lou and Diane Tice of Seattle, Assessment has finished first or second in all five of his races this season including a victory in the one-mile Budweiser Emerald Handicap.

“Both of them are coming up real good,” Belvoir said of Assessment and Wasserman. “It’s hard to pick which one of them is training the best.”

Wasserman worked six furlongs in a solid 1 minute, 11 4/5 seconds July 19 and Assessment put in a bullet work of :58 flat in five furlongs Monday.

Texas Wildcatter comes out of trainer Terry Gillihan’s barn. The 4-year-old colt has a 3-4-3 record in 17 starts with earnings of $267,901 and hit the board in three graded-stakes races in 2008. He looks to be in top form after missing by a half-length in the Lieutenant Governors’ Handicap on July 1 at Hastings Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Two out of the last three Mt. Rainier Handicap victors went on to win the Longacres Mile, Flamethrowintexan in 2006 and The Great Face in 2007.

Wasserman just missed winning the Mt. Rainier, but went on to win the Longacres Mile.

The card also includes $50,000 Boeing Handicap for older fillies and mares.

The 1-1/16 mile distance sets up nicely for Elusive Horizon who is 3-for-3 in her career around two turns. The 4-year-old daughter of Elusive Quality went wire-to-wire, with Juan Gutierrez aboard, in the King County Handicap on July 4.

Gadget Queen won the Washington State Legislators Stakes in June and ran second to Elusive Horizon in the King County Handicap.

The Canadian intruder, Holy Nova, hopes to make an impression with her first trip to Emerald Downs. The 5-year-old chestnut captured the Vancouver Sun Handicap by a neck July 1 at Hastings. She is two-for-four at the distance and has won five out of her last nine stakes races.

The field by post positions for the 14th running of the Mt. Rainier Handicap follows with jockeys and weights:

1 Elusive Schemes, Kyle Kaenel, 114;

2 Robbos Courage, Saul Arias, 114;

3 Assessment, Gallyn Mitchell, 120;

4 Wasserman, Jennifer Whitaker, 118;

5 Way too Much, Seth Martinez, 116;

6 Gallon, Ricky Frazier, 116 and

7 Texas Wildcatter, Mario Gutierrez, 117.

The post positions for the 14th running of the Boeing Handicapfollows with jockeys and weights:

1 Holy Nova, Mario Gutierrez, 117;

2 Screaminleapofaith, Javier Matias, 117;

3 Enumclaw Girl, Jose Zunino, 113;

4 Gadget Queen, Ricky Frazier, 120,

5 Elusive Horizon, Juan Gutierrez, 120;

6 Judicature, Seth Martinez, 116;

7 Blue Sky Holiday, Chad Hoverson, 117;

8 Lady Raj, Gallyn Mitchell, 116.