Koko Story was also crowned the highest-placed Queensland-bred thoroughbred by the Thoroughbred Breeders Queensland Association for the second year running.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the 105cm class of the QOTT Showjumping Showcase had been taken out by Hugh Buchanan and It\u2019s Bandito, who claimed the $4,000 top prize.<\/p>\n
Monday also saw the Main Arena play host to the prestigious Thoroughbred and Standardbred Day.<\/p>\n
Over $25,000 was on offer across 18 \u2018Led\u2019 and \u2018Under Saddle\u2019 classes.<\/p>\n
The race day-style event saw the two versatile racing breeds compete for the sought-after Champion of their Breed, with horse handlers presenting their horses to the judges in formal race day attire.<\/p>\n
Harness trainer\/driver Felicity Reinke swapped the track for the showring to compete with mare Pretty Good Reason and gelding Parcellaires in the Standardbred Led Classes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic – these horses definitely deserve a chance after racing and it shows their versatility,\u201d Reinke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been predominantly in the show world, but I\u2019ve also taken some horses jumping, had some in the harness, had some campdrafting and they\u2019ve gone very well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe competition today, the horses were presented immaculately, so a credit to everyone that\u2019s come today, and it just shows they\u2019re not just for racing and can have a very good life after.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was raining last year, and the weather is beautiful today, so I very much encourage people to bring their horses out and just have fun next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Koko Story was also crowned the highest-placed Queensland-bred thoroughbred by the Thoroughbred Breeders Queensland Association for the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337623","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\/115014115299999526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337623","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=337623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}