{"id":21461,"date":"2013-07-27T00:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/east-cape-racing-season-comes-to-an-end\/"},"modified":"2013-07-27T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T22:20:25","slug":"east-cape-racing-season-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/east-cape-racing-season-comes-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"East Cape Racing season comes to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=10973\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10973\" alt=\"Champion Older Filly\/Mare: The Snaith\u2019s Hurricane Katrina. Photo: Sporting Post\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/61e30_R7-HURRICANE-KATRINA-FIN-300x267.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champion Older Filly\/Mare: The Snaith\u2019s Hurricane Katrina. Photo: Sporting Post<\/p>\n<p>The East Cape Racing season comes to an end <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/todays-fairview-racing-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">today at Fairview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And what a season it has been! It was an exciting one, but there is no doubt that most of the role-players will tell you it has also been the hardest in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Champion trainer Gavin Smith warned us a few seasons ago that it takes a good horse to win a race in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Port Elizabeth\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-33.9580555556,25.6spn=0.1,0.1q=-33.9580555556,25.6 (Port%20Elizabeth)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Port Elizabeth<\/a> these days. That is certainly the case, with the competition getting increasingly tough.<\/p>\n<p>Smith will be crowned champion again but with far fewer winners than usual. With the satellite yards getting stronger and big-time owners more involved in PE racing, the so-called smaller stables are under huge pressure to survive.<\/p>\n<p>We know the PE trainers will not lie down and we will see more and more miracles on the track. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peherald.com\/news\/article\/17397\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald<\/a><\/p>\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\/caa33_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champion Older Filly\/Mare: The Snaith\u2019s Hurricane Katrina. Photo: Sporting Post The East Cape Racing season comes to an end today at Fairview. And what a season it has been! It was an exciting one, but there is no doubt that most of the role-players will tell you it has also been the hardest in a [&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-21461","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\/21461","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=21461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}