{"id":373950,"date":"2025-08-26T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373950\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:36:11","slug":"vandyke-to-take-it-slow-with-acapulco-girl-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373950\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandyke to take it slow with Acapulco Girl :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Glenn Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trainer David Vandyke has scrapped a spring campaign for his star mare Philia and is no rush to test her promising stablemate Acapulco Girl on the interstate stage.<\/p>\n<p>Philia was a star of the Queensland Racing Carnival winning four straight including the Listed Princess Stakes and Group 2 The Roses before falling short as favourite in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm in June.<\/p>\n<p>Vandyke then spelled her and hoped to chase spring riches in either Sydney or Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>However, Vandyke, who has just returned from a short holiday in Thailand, has extended her spell which rules her out of the spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had been in work for a year and I just thought she needed a longer break,\u201d Vandyke said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to rush her so I\u2019ve chosen to miss the spring and she\u2019ll come back in time for the autumn next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Vandyke believes Acapulco Girl has a bright future but also won\u2019t rush her after she contests the Class 3 Plate over 1350 metres at Doomben on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Her stablemate Antonito also was an acceptor for the Class 3 but was scratched after drawing wide while Lucifer\u2019s Way also drew a wide gate but will start in the Benchmark 65 Handicap over 1110 metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Glenn Davis Trainer David Vandyke has scrapped a spring campaign for his star mare Philia and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-373950","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\/115092978625527157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373950","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=373950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}