{"id":242374,"date":"2025-07-06T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T09:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242374\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T09:47:24","slug":"donegal-bay-can-pay-back-loyal-punters-at-last-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242374\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal Bay can pay back loyal punters at last"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old saying of punters needing patience will be put to the ultimate test when a talented yet costly local three-year-old tries to break through at Monday\u2019s Wagga meeting.<\/p>\n

Donegal Bay, a son of all conditions sprint sire Star Witness, has been nothing as much as the bookmaker\u2019s best friend on both sides of the NSW-Victoria border since resuming in mid-April.<\/p>\n

\"Racing<\/p>\n

Racing returns to Wagga on Monday.Credit: Fairfax<\/p>\n

Twice he ran home from well back into a place as a short-priced favourite when in the Grahame Begg stable in Victoria.<\/p>\n

Yet a relocation to Wagga and the Danny Beasley yard still hasn\u2019t brought that maiden success, despite having a couple of tough runs.<\/p>\n

Twice in heavy going at Albury and from a long way off the speed, clear favourite Donegal Bay again surged home late into a place, the latest as a red-hot $1.40 fancy.<\/p>\n

Connections and punters alike were left scratching their heads, but significantly over a furlong further this time in a maiden handicap (1200m), Donegal Bay can finally start mending relations.<\/p>\n

From a draw where he can settle a bit closer in the run, Donegal Bay opened around $2.90 in early betting, but a three-way home track betting battle looms.<\/p>\n

Ex-Victorian mare Belnera ($3.40) having her first run for the new Peter Morgan stable was hot on his market heels ahead of another local Bonnie Murringo ($4.00) who resumes for just her second start for the Darrell Burnet yard.<\/p>\n

Earlier the Beasley stable will attract plenty of attention when it debuts lone two-year-old filly Serenading against the older gallopers in the opening Maiden Plate over 1000m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The old saying of punters needing patience will be put to the ultimate test when a talented yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-242374","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\/114805659641122127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242374","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=242374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}