{"id":411445,"date":"2025-09-09T21:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411445\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:31:13","slug":"tonys-trio-for-ascot-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411445\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony\u2019s trio for Ascot Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The talented Leithan Louie <strong>(Sweet Lou)<\/strong> leads Gore trainer Tony Stratford\u2019s trio for tomorrow\u2019s Invercargill Harness Racing Club meeting at Ascot Park.<\/p>\n<p>The three year old gelding was made second favourite on debut at the Kurow meeting after very good trials form.<\/p>\n<p>He burnt a lot of gas early and finished fourth. From a good draw and with Blair Orange onboard he\u2019s expected to go close to winning in Race Four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harnesslink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tony-Stratford-Ascot.mp3-Leithen-Lou.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/harnesslink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tony-Stratford-Ascot.mp3-Leithen-Lou.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stratford has two other runners at the IHRC meeting \u2013 Lydah Valley <strong>(Sweet Lou)<\/strong> in Race Two and Sky Patrol <strong>(Sky Major)<\/strong> in Race Eight.<\/p>\n<p>Lydah Valley last started at the Riverton grass meeting in January and hasn\u2019t been sighted at any workouts or trials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2232013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lydah-Valley-1200-x-000-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"759\" title=\"Tony\u2019s trio for Ascot Park 1\"  \/>Lydah Valley (Bruce Stewart Photo)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/harnesslink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tony-Stratford-Ascot.mp3Lyda-Valley.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/harnesslink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tony-Stratford-Ascot.mp3Lyda-Valley.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last start winner Sky Patrol jumps up a grade and draws wide at seven in the last race.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2232012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sky-Patrol-1200-x-000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"682\" title=\"Tony\u2019s trio for Ascot Park 2\"  \/>Sky Patrol (Bruce Stewart Photo)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/harnesslink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tony-Stratford-Ascot.mp3-Sky-Patrol.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/harnesslink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tony-Stratford-Ascot.mp3-Sky-Patrol.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>by <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/harnesslink.com\/tag\/bruce-stewart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bruce Stewart<\/strong><\/a><strong>, for Harnesslink<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The talented Leithan Louie (Sweet Lou) leads Gore trainer Tony Stratford\u2019s trio for tomorrow\u2019s Invercargill Harness Racing Club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-411445","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\/115176478158020284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411445","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=411445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}