{"id":198655,"date":"2025-06-20T01:57:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T01:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198655\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T01:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T01:57:32","slug":"oisin-murphy-royal-ascot-thoughts-thursday-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198655\/","title":{"rendered":"Oisin Murphy Royal Ascot thoughts: Thursday double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a day to remember for Oisin Murphy with a double on Gold Cup day at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n<p>He teamed up with Saeed bin Suroor to win the Royal Hunt Cup with Wild Tiger last year and the pair scooped another big Royal Ascot handicap with <strong>Arabian Story<\/strong> getting up by a neck in the Britannia Stakes, a race which had been the plan for a while.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the horse won at Chelmsford, I asked him (Saeed) to go to the Britannia and I asked if I could ride him\u201d, the champion jockey told Sporting Life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s rare these things happen but we did it last year in the Hunt Cup and it\u2019s great. He\u2019s a really nice horse \u2013 a mile-and-a-quarter horse in the making.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a day to remember for Oisin Murphy with a double on Gold Cup day at Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-198655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114713214585606923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198655","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=198655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}