{"id":652,"date":"2021-06-24T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:35:46","slug":"sharp-riposte-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/2021\/06\/sharp-riposte-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Riposte Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSharp Riposte showed us what we all believed he had, when he dead heated in the Smooth Radio North East Novice Stakes at Newcastle today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The good looking son of Bated Breath had run two encouraging races, finishing third on both occasions, the last time on sticky ground that didn&#8217;t suit.<\/p>\n<p>Ridden by Luke Morris in the 6 furlong race, he was slow to jump, and ducked to the right a little, Luke had to make up ground in the early stages, he sat on the outside, just tracking the leaders where he travelled really well.<\/p>\n<p>Two furlongs from home, Luke started to wind him up and ask for an effort, the horse responded well, showing a good turn of foot to hit the front a furlong out. The Mark Johnston horse, Boondoggle, came upsides him and headed him, but he battled back with the two horses eyeballing each other and fought out the finish.<\/p>\n<p>The judge decided on a dead heat, with the two of them finishing 3 and a half lengths from the rest of the field.<\/p>\n<p>This was a great result for trainer Marco Botti and\u00a0 owners, The Prestige Five.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp Riposte showed us what we all believed he had, when he dead heated in the Smooth Radio North East Novice Stakes at Newcastle today. &nbsp; The good looking son of Bated Breath had run two encouraging races, finishing third on both occasions, the last time on sticky ground that didn&#8217;t suit. Ridden by Luke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-racing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalequinegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}