{"id":253940,"date":"2025-07-10T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253940\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:38:10","slug":"ghostwriter-taken-for-observation-after-freak-pre-race-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253940\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostwriter taken for observation after \u2018freak\u2019 pre-race accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought by Kia Joorabchian\u2019s Amo Racing operation for \u00a32million on the eve of Royal Ascot, Clive Cox\u2019s stable star made a promising start for his new connections when third in the Hardwicke Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year-old was set to go off the hot favourite for the Group Two feature on day one of the July meeting, but had to be withdrawn after a \u2018freak\u2019 pre-race spill.<\/p>\n<p>Cox said: \u201cIt was a freak accident, we hadn\u2019t even done the girths up, we\u2019d just put the pads on him and I\u2019m not even sure what startled him really.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe reared up and lost his footing and sat right on his rump behind. He was definitely lame as a consequence, so he was taken back to the stable yard and immediately shipped to the NEH (Newmarket Equine Hospital) for further observation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully it\u2019s nothing more than bruising, that would be the first opinion of the vets, but we\u2019re going to keep him at the vets overnight just to be absolutely sure. He\u2019s got the right people around him just in case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t make it up and it was nobody\u2019s fault \u2013 it was just freaky. I think he just lost his balance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bought by Kia Joorabchian\u2019s Amo Racing operation for \u00a32million on the eve of Royal Ascot, Clive Cox\u2019s stable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-253940","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\/114829925128218505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253940","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=253940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}