{"id":323948,"date":"2025-08-07T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323948\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:21:12","slug":"lifes-a-beach-for-kenning-in-townsville-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323948\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s a beach for Kenning in Townsville :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jordan Gerrans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is nearly three decades since Bill Kenning tasted Townsville Cup glory as a rider and all these years on, he is sticking to the same methods as a trainer as he aims to finally nab the feature prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was Kiwi bred galloper Only Chance who delivered him the major Cluden Park prize as a jockey back in\u00a01997 with his partner Julie Bell doing the training.<\/p>\n<p>Only Chance also won the Listed Rockhampton Cup and Tatt&#8217;s Cup at Callaghan Park in that season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of water has gone under the bridge since then approaching the 2025 Cup, with Kenning listed as the trainer these days with Bell his trusted offsider still.<\/p>\n<p>Kenning has long been shooting to add a training Townsville Cup prize to his resume alongside his crown as a jockey. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In those days, Kenning and Bell were regulars at the beach in Central and North Queensland with Only Chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They present to the $150,000 feature this Saturday with the in-form Beau Rain.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to compare Beau Rain with Cup champion Only Chance, Kenning can see two similarities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the two gallopers are not bred to run a staying trip but as the top horseman says, horses do not know who their parents are.<\/p>\n<p>And, secondly, they both love the beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jordan Gerrans It is nearly three decades since Bill Kenning tasted Townsville Cup glory as a rider&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323948","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\/114984863946448487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323948","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=323948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}