{"id":33473,"date":"2025-04-19T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33473\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:20:18","slug":"wayne-bailey-whistleinthedark-can-hit-the-right-notes-in-haydock-at-a-nice-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33473\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Bailey: Whistleinthedark can hit the right notes in Haydock at a nice price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Numitor, a horse I tipped a year ago at 100\/30, is trying to win the Unibet Middle Distance Veterans\u2019 Handicap Chase at Haydock (3.15) again but I can't side with him again at odds of 7\/1 off a rating of 142.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages_2207127355.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Numitor, a horse I tipped a year ago at 100\/30, is trying to win the Unibet Middle Distance Veterans\u2019 Handicap Chase at Haydock (3.15) again but I can&#8217;t side with him again at odds of 7\/1 off a rating of 142.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I won\u2019t pretend to be an expert on ancient Greece, but I read somewhere that the phrase \u201cleave no stone unturned\u201d comes from a legend involving the Oracle of Delphi. She supposedly advised a general named Polycrates to search under every stone for treasure left by a defeated enemy \u2013 advice that came to symbolise thoroughness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are some horse races where we\u2019ve got very little to go on when studying the form, but in veteran handicap chases there\u2019s no excuse for cutting corners. The form of these old warriors is well known, and it\u2019s exactly the kind of race where we should be leaving no stone unturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Numitor, a horse I tipped a year ago at 100\/30, is trying to win the Unibet Middle Distance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15,19579],"class_list":{"0":"post-33473","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","12":"tag-wayne-bailey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114365780756328674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473","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=33473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}