{"id":1184552,"date":"2026-09-03T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1184552\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:06:12","slug":"horse-racing-karaka-millions-winner-still-on-the-improve-for-sunline-vase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1184552\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse racing: Karaka Millions winner still on the improve for Sunline Vase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe is very laid-back without them on and she wasn\u2019t wearing them last week when she worked at Ellerslie but she was better with them on this week,\u201d Birchley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe wore them when she won the Karaka Millions and will wear them on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is hard for me to line up the form but the horse drawn next to us [She\u2019s No Saint] looks hard to beat and our filly will definitely improve with this race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The TAB bookies couldn\u2019t split She\u2019s No Saint and Dream Roca as $3 equal-favourites last night but with the local filly race fit and drawn on the rail, she looks likely to start as the favourite \u2013 even though Dream Roca is more proven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">But there are plenty of fillies still on the way up who can challenge the pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\"><b>Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the <\/b><b>Herald <\/b><b>as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the <\/b><b>Herald\u2019s <\/b><b>Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe is very laid-back without them on and she wasn\u2019t wearing them last week when she worked at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1184553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[19778,13695,298481,321006,47806,147889,13688,19781,321007,3576,51543,102739,9348,288,14336,6697,212175,27710,35631,254,1071,321005,79,48025,148542,5598,44975,32568,285155,16,15,148543,14118],"class_list":["post-1184552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-19778","tag-back","tag-basti","tag-birchley","tag-button","tag-cautious","tag-dream","tag-ellerslie","tag-equiworld","tag-for","tag-goes","tag-heading","tag-horse","tag-horse-racing","tag-improve","tag-into","tag-karaka","tag-liam","tag-millions","tag-on","tag-racing","tag-roca","tag-sports","tag-still","tag-sunline","tag-the","tag-tomorrow","tag-trainer","tag-turbo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vase","tag-winner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117208441658104975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}