{"id":2959,"date":"2022-07-25T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2022-07-25T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T09:37:08","slug":"tap-the-gavel-race-recap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/tap-the-gavel-race-recap-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap the Gavel Race Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-body-content mb-3 mt-2\">\n<div class=\"home-page-blk-content typo-body-desktop\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content-container links-container ng-binding ng-scope\">\n<p>Tap the Gavel ran a bit flat-footed today at Monmouth Park while finishing 8th in his first start against winners, which is always a tough assignment. He was defeated 4 3\/4 lengths by the winner, Starting Over.<\/p>\n<p>With veteran rider Jose Ferrer in the irons, Tap the Gavel raced off the pace in the 1 1\/16-mile turf race. Ferrer told trainer Kent Sweezey he had a ton of horse under him down the backstretch, but the colt didn\u2019t follow through when asked to get into gear.<\/p>\n<p>Sweezey remarked to our East Coast Racing Manager, Harry Rice, he was not discouraged by the effort and said he was happy to see the 3-year-old try today, even if didn\u2019t come through with an impactful punch at the finish.<\/p>\n<p>We will check in with Kent in the coming days and will report back with how Tappy exited his race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-blk-footer relative card-like-fav-section ng-scope\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tap the Gavel ran a bit flat-footed today at Monmouth Park while finishing 8th in his first start against winners, which is always a tough assignment. He was defeated 4 3\/4 lengths by the winner, Starting Over. With veteran rider Jose Ferrer in the irons, Tap the Gavel raced off the pace in the 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tap-the-gavel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.236.35.81\/fincalarosina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}