{"id":438175,"date":"2025-09-20T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438175\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:05:12","slug":"trainer-keith-dryden-looks-to-the-future-with-sweet-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438175\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainer Keith Dryden looks to the future with Sweet Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all about the future for handy debut winner Sweet Warrior with Canberra trainer Keith Dryden keen to have her learn something at Nowra on Sunday before heading for a break.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year-old kicked off her career with a strong win on her home track, and it was a long time coming after what unfolded in her first barrier trial over six months earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"They\u2019re racing at Nowra on Sunday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e6d8bcd0f7690c6cc6d67159d0cd950a5b4920b4.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re racing at Nowra on Sunday.Credit: Jenny Evans<\/p>\n<p>Dryden, who co-trains with Libby Snowden, wants to send the filly around one more time this campaign in the Jim\u2019s Blinds, Shutters &amp; Awnings Handicap (1100m).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s probably a bit new at the moment, we\u2019re going to give her this one more run and put her back in the paddock,\u201d Dryden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe indicates that later on she might be OK, but she\u2019s been a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go back and look at her first barrier trial, she took control of the rider and went to the outside fence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of trying to persevere, I started afresh with her and this time in she\u2019s going along quite OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Warrior led most of the way to her debut win, racing on the inside of a line of three, and rallied when headed.<\/p>\n<p>She came through the run bouncing but the lesson Dryden wants to teach her is to not rush in her races as he feels she\u2019ll be most effective over more than the 1000m scamper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all about the future for handy debut winner Sweet Warrior with Canberra trainer Keith Dryden keen to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-438175","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\/115235830582163583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438175","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=438175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}