{"id":452196,"date":"2025-09-26T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:42:10","slug":"country-cups-challenge-qualifiers-kick-off-across-the-state-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452196\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Cups Challenge qualifiers kick off across the state :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Glenn Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mareeba trainer Alex Malliff begins his quest to gain two spots in the $200,000 Country Cups Challenge Final in December with a two-pronged attack at Atherton on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Malliff will launch his bold bid for the 1600-metre final at Doomben with Love On Sunday and Devil Kick in the Atherton Cup which is a qualifying leg for the Country Cups Challenge Final on December 6.<\/p>\n<p>Malliff can\u2019t separate his pair but is confident one of them can give him his first Atherton Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t separate them and I\u2019ll be scratching my head right up to start time trying to choose between them,\u201d Malliff said.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-year-old Love On Sunday has been a goldmine for the former plumber winning more than $156,000 in prizemoney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been a great buy after I got him for $5,000 at an Inglis online auction and he\u2019s now won 10 races for us,\u201d Malliff said.<\/p>\n<p>Love On Sunday almost gave Malliff his first Atherton Cup three years ago when he finished second to the Janel Ryan-trained Fast Train.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was his first time over 2000 metres that year,\u201d Malliff said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s older and a lot stronger now and he\u2019s more of a Cups horse these days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Glenn Davis Mareeba trainer Alex Malliff begins his quest to gain two spots in the $200,000 Country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-452196","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\/115269241699655198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452196","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=452196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}