{"id":388818,"date":"2025-09-01T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388818\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:51:12","slug":"trainers-jockey-and-a-hollywood-superstar-combine-at-scone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388818\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainers, jockey and a Hollywood superstar combine at Scone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful home track stable of Paul Messara and Leah Gavranich will combine with jockey Braith<br \/>Nock at Scone on Tuesday when three leading contenders are in action.<\/p>\n<p>Messara and Gavranich will have Autumn King in the Mitty\u2019s CG&amp;E Maiden Plate (1100m), Social Circle in the Scone RSL Benchmark 58 Handicap (1000m) and Dale in the Select Events Benchmark 66 Handicap (1600m).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Braith Nock has four good rides at Scone on Tuesday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/66ec57a8c3f502518a66bc3823bbf5702fc86ce6.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Braith Nock has four good rides at Scone on Tuesday.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are heading to the races with three nice horses, and they all look set to run well,\u201d Messara said.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn King is a first-starter by The Autumn Sun and has had two trials in preparation for his debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a talented colt that has won both of his trials,\u201d Messara said. \u201cHe\u2019s pleased us at home as well, and it looks like a good race for him to kick off his career in at Scone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Social Circle is a filly by Maurice and is first up from a spell having had two recent trials, finishing third in the latest of them at Scone behind Compelling Truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial Circle debuted at Quirindi earlier in the year and won impressively by a good margin as a short-priced favourite,\u201d Messara said. \u201cShe\u2019s come back in good order and is ready to run well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dale lines up in his event having scored a last-start win at Muswellbrook, the son of Castelvecchio\u2019s third victory from nine starts.<\/p>\n<p>Dale is part-owned by Hollywood actor Matt Damon, and Messara said he should be difficult to hold out again in the Scone event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The powerful home track stable of Paul Messara and Leah Gavranich will combine with jockey BraithNock at Scone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-388818","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\/115127955203788597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388818","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=388818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}