{"id":23671,"date":"2008-06-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/margos-gift-puts-a-bow-on-pepsi-handicap-at-emerald\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T08:00:00","slug":"margos-gift-puts-a-bow-on-pepsi-handicap-at-emerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/margos-gift-puts-a-bow-on-pepsi-handicap-at-emerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Margo\u2019s Gift puts a bow on Pepsi Handicap at Emerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margo\u2019s Gift finished with a late surge inside and posted a neck victory over Easy Going Cecil in the $60,000 Pepsi-Cola Handicap for 3-year-olds on Sunday at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n<p>Gallon, the 6-to-5 favorite, was a head back in third place in the closest three-way finish in the 13-year history of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Ridden by Ricky Frazier, Margo\u2019s Gift \u2013 the only Washington-Bred in the race \u2013 ran 6\u00bd furlongs in 1:16 1\/5 and paid $6.40, $3.80 and $2.40. Doris Harwood is the trainer for owner Ken Alhadeff of Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Easy Going Cecil, with Gallyn Mitchell riding, returned $5.20 and $2.80. Gallon, with Juan Gutierrez, paid $2.20 for show.<\/p>\n<p><b>Federal Way Handicap<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Startjumpin Marnie capped a sensational Saturday for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer with a neck victory over previously undefeated Enumclaw Girl in the $60,000 Federal Way Handicap for 3-year-old fillies.<\/p>\n<p>With Leslie Mawing aboard, Startjumpin Marnie ran 6\u00bd furlongs in 1:14 3\/5 and paid $5.20, $2.80 and $2.20. Hollendorfer was at Hollywood Park  where he saddled Heatseeker to a victory in the $250,000 Californian<\/p>\n<p>Enumclaw Girl with Gallyn Mitchell, was easily second best and paid $3.20 and $2.60. It was 8\u00bd lengths back to Rain Shadow, who was worth a $3 show payoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margo\u2019s Gift finished with a late surge inside and posted a neck victory over Easy Going Cecil in the $60,000 Pepsi-Cola Handicap for 3-year-olds on Sunday at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23671"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}