{"id":21442,"date":"2013-07-26T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/astro-news-looks-good-for-champions-cup\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:17:31","slug":"astro-news-looks-good-for-champions-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/astro-news-looks-good-for-champions-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro News looks good for Champions Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=10894\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10894\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10894\" alt=\"Newsmaker! Astro News powers home under Kevin Shea to win the Gr3 Cup Trial. Photo: Sporting Post\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7fa5e_Astro-News-wins-the-Gr3-Cup-Trial-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newsmaker! Astro News powers home under Kevin Shea to win the Gr3 Cup Trial. Photo: Sporting Post<\/p>\n<p>Charles Laird will run Astro News in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/all-star-horseracing-takes-place-at-champions-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grade 1 Champions Cup<\/a> over 1800m at the Super Saturday racemeeting at Greyville on Saturday and Kevin Shea has retained the ride.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year-old Silvano gelding ended up one from <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/astro-news-more-of-a-contender-for-durban-july\/\" target=\"_blank\">last in the running<\/a> in the Vodacom Durban July after being interfered with in the early stages and that effectively cost him any chance, so he did well to run on for a 4,75 length ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Laird said that he was \u201cvery well\u201d and had come out of the race \u201c100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he doesn\u2019t have the easiest of draws, barrier eleven, and on official merit ratings is 2,5kg under sufferance with the two best weighted horses in the conditions event, Run For It and Bravura.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/astro-news-more-of-a-contender-for-durban-july\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astro News<\/a> appears to have improved since joining Laird\u2019s yard early this year and can\u2019t be written off, although he doesn\u2019t have a great record at this track.<\/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\/astro-news-more-of-a-contender-for-durban-july\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7fa5e_182041355_80_804.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/astro-news-more-of-a-contender-for-durban-july\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astro News more of a contender for Durban July<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/de-kock-holds-on-to-his-grip-for-gold-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7fa5e_187735821_80_804.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/de-kock-holds-on-to-his-grip-for-gold-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">De Kock holds on to his grip for Gold Cup<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/lafferty-runs-two-fillies-in-thekwini-stakes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7fa5e_187735830_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/lafferty-runs-two-fillies-in-thekwini-stakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lafferty runs two fillies in Thekwini Stakes<\/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\/dcbde_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsmaker! Astro News powers home under Kevin Shea to win the Gr3 Cup Trial. Photo: Sporting Post Charles Laird will run Astro News in the Grade 1 Champions Cup over 1800m at the Super Saturday racemeeting at Greyville on Saturday and Kevin Shea has retained the ride. The four-year-old Silvano gelding ended up one from [&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-21442","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\/21442","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=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}