Nominations for Pepsi Cola Handicap and Irish Day Handicap | Emerald Downs

Showme Yourfriends and Winter Warlock, first and second in the May 30 Auburn Handicap at 6-½ furlongs, are among 11 colts and geldings nominated to the Pepsi Cola. Class Included, three-length winner of the May 29 Seattle Handicap at 6-½ furlongs, headlines seven fillies nominated to the Irish Day Handicap.

Registering the second biggest stakes upset in the track’s 16-season history, Showme Yourfriends came from slightly off the pace for a half-length victory over Winter Warlock in 1:15.05. Only No Giveaway at $122 in the 2005 Longacres Mile exceeds the $102.40 payoff on a $2 win ticket.

Doris Harwood could win the Pepsi Cola for the fourth straight year overall and the third straight year with a “Beach.” It would take a form reversal, but Avalon Beach, could follow in the hoof prints of Noosa Beach (2009) and Koala Beach (2010). Harwood also nominated Gdanz Xpress, a Liberty Gold gelding stakes-placed twice as a juvenile in 2010.

In the Irish Day, trainer Jim Penney and owners Michael and Amy Feuerborn could win the race for the second straight year. Sis’s Sis scored by a half-length last year en route to honors as Top 3-Year-Old Filly. Class Included carries their colors this year and is the horse to beat after her dominant victory in the Seattle.

Seventyprcentcocoa is the lone Washington-bred nominated to the Irish Day and comes off consecutive head defeats on the turf at Golden Gate Fields.

Nominations for the 16th Pepsi Cola Handicap-Sunday, June 26

 

Nominee                    Owner                   Trainer

Avalon Beach (3-WA) Stogie Stable & Jeff Harwood — Doris Harwood

Big Bad Brown (3-WA) R & R Warren LLC  —  Jim Penney

Come Away Home (3-WA) Rick Beal — Larry Ross

Gdanz Xpress (3-WA) Vital Signs Stable  — Doris Harwood

Landed On the Moon (3-KY)J. Stoddard & G. Lamay  — John A. Holmes

Madoff With It All (3-WA)One Horse Will Do & Brewer Tbreds — Chris Stenslie

Rainier Ice (3-KY) Northwest Farms & C & M Racing — Tom Wenzel

Seattle Sniper (3-KY) Northwest Farms & C & M Racing — Tom Wenzel

Showme Yourfriends (3-WA)One Horse Will Do & T & S Saxwold — Chris Stenslie

Winter Warlock (3-WA) Warlock Stbls/Horseplayers/Broussard — Tim McCanna

Zayda (3-KY)  Nelson Family Racing  — Blaine Wright

 

Nominee                    Owner                   Trainer

Class Included (3-KY) Michael & Amy Feuerborn —   Jim Penney

Debbie’s Striker (3-KY) Crystal Ridge Farm  — Vann Belvoir

Elusive Noise (3-KY) D. Paxton & Northwest — Farms Tom Wenzel

For You My Heart (3-KY) Coal Creek Farm  — Vann Belvoir

Seventyprcentcocoa (3-WA)John & Janene Maryansk  –i Blaine Wright

Versailles Song (3-KY) SF Racing LLC  — John A. Holmes

Wings of Pegasus (3-KY) Oak Crest Farms LLC  —  Vann Belvoir

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