{"id":21077,"date":"2013-07-11T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mercury-sprint-at-mercy-of-what-a-winter\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:40:26","slug":"mercury-sprint-at-mercy-of-what-a-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mercury-sprint-at-mercy-of-what-a-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Sprint at mercy of What A Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=8714\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8714\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8714\" alt=\"What A Winter justifies favouritism in the Cape Flying Championship. Photo: Liesl King \/ ThoroughbredNEWS.com.au\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/76992_56469.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">What A Winter justifies favouritism in the Cape Flying Championship. Photo: Liesl King \/ ThoroughbredNEWS.com.au<\/p>\n<p>The weight for age <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/contador-may-have-a-chance-for-mercury-sprint\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grade 1 Mercury Sprint<\/a> over 1 200 m at <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/contador-may-have-a-chance-for-mercury-sprint\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clairwood on Saturday<\/a>, July 13, looks to be at the mercy of the world class <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/what-a-winter-in-action-at-clairwood\/\" target=\"_blank\">What A Winter<\/a> and the real race could more than likely be for second place.<\/p>\n<p>The Mike de Kock-trained British-bred Oasis Dream mare Welwitschia finished just three lengths behind What A Winter in the Grade 1 Computaform Sprint over 1 000 m at weight for age conditions in April.<\/p>\n<p>She will prefer this trip, but so will What A Winter.<\/p>\n<p>She is drawn fairly well in eight and could get a tow from the horses on the standside, which is usually the favourable side, as she is often slowly away.<\/p>\n<p>Her devastating turn of foot will then be effective.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/what-a-winter-in-action-at-clairwood\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/76992_184195677_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/what-a-winter-in-action-at-clairwood\/\" target=\"_blank\">What A Winter in action at Clairwood<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/76992_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What A Winter justifies favouritism in the Cape Flying Championship. Photo: Liesl King \/ ThoroughbredNEWS.com.au The weight for age Grade 1 Mercury Sprint over 1 200 m at Clairwood on Saturday, July 13, looks to be at the mercy of the world class What A Winter and the real race could more than likely be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}