{"id":224524,"date":"2025-06-29T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224524\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:26:13","slug":"horse-racing-emotional-ruakaka-win-for-beetlegeuse-in-jimmy-schicks-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224524\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse racing: Emotional Ruak\u0101k\u0101 win for Beetlegeuse in Jimmy Schick\u2019s memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI was pretty happy with the way he was going, I was just praying for a semi-decent track to give him a go on, which we got up there on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI left it up to Triston, but I wanted to be nearer to the front. Whether we led or not was up to him. It worked out well and he gave him a beautiful ride \u2013 he made all the right decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">Mynott shared that much of Beetlegeuse\u2019s race preparation had come at the Windsor Park property in Cambridge, making it very much a team effort.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was very special, the horse wore Jimmy\u2019s cap which was pretty cool and it was super to get this win for Gina,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHis last three gallops were on the beautiful grass track out at Windsor Park and there has been a lot of people involved with him, so it was a fitting result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe came to me towards the end of last year, he had a few little issues that we were able to iron out. He had to have surgery to get an infected tooth pulled out, which set us back a couple of months, so we\u2019ve been patient with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFair play to Gina for giving him that time, and for trusting me that he was worth carrying on for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discover more<\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\">Out of an unraced Niagara mare Rose Grace, Beetlegeuse was Mynott\u2019s 16th winner of the season from just 92 starters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flFFoTWv\" style=\"display:none\"><b>\u2013 LOVERACING.NZ News Desk<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI was pretty happy with the way he was going, I was just praying for a semi-decent track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[87652,51765,88598,51,21736,62814,3576,9348,256,47634,2761,88602,38991,1071,87647,21029,88599,88603,79,88604,27870,88600,88601,16,15,32479,9356],"class_list":{"0":"post-224524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-1600m","9":"tag-angel","10":"tag-beetlegeuse","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-emotional","13":"tag-felt","14":"tag-for","15":"tag-horse","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-jimmy","18":"tag-memory","19":"tag-moodley","20":"tag-northland","21":"tag-racing","22":"tag-ruakk","23":"tag-saturday","24":"tag-schicks","25":"tag-shoulder","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-steered","28":"tag-systems","29":"tag-though","30":"tag-triston","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-united-kingdom","33":"tag-victory","34":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114767828340217073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224524","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=224524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}