{"id":266618,"date":"2026-01-04T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266618\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:39:09","slug":"eamonn-sweeney-gordon-elliott-is-a-remarkable-renaissance-man-who-embodies-sporting-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266618\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Sweeney: Gordon Elliott is a remarkable renaissance man who embodies sporting resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trainer Gordon Elliott. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/89e4723d-df21-4c81-bb00-6c94a4dfb883.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Trainer Gordon Elliott. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gordon Elliott is the man they couldn\u2019t hang. His extraordinary haul of 13 winners over the four days of the Leopardstown Festival represented a remarkable renaissance for a man who embodies sporting resilience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Elliott\u2019s \u20ac922,275 lead over Willie Mullins in the trainers\u2019 championship is his largest ever at this time of the year, \u20ac365,143 greater than the lead he held at New Year in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trainer Gordon Elliott. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile Gordon Elliott is the man they couldn\u2019t hang. His extraordinary haul of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2052,136419,18,136418,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-266618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chelsea","9":"tag-eamon-sweeney","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-gordon-elliott","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115836404618847064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}