{"id":48471,"date":"2025-04-25T04:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48471\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T04:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:45:09","slug":"awapunis-comeback-meeting-abandoned-after-one-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48471\/","title":{"rendered":"Awapuni\u2019s comeback meeting abandoned after one race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The refurbished Awapuni track passed recent trial tests but was shut down after the first race at the Anzac Day meeting today. Photo \/ Race Images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Awapuni\u2019s long-awaited return to racing on its newly renovated grass track has ended in disappointment, with their Anzac Day meeting abandoned after a slip in the opening race. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cA horse slipped on the outside,\u201d RACE\u2019s general manager of racing Brad Taylor said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cWalking the track, there is no visual slip, but we have got to have jockeys\u2019 safety first. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThey are the ones going out there and riding on it and it\u2019s on us that this has happened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s really unfortunate, but we will learn from it and put the plans and processes in place to make amends for it and hopefully be back here in three weeks.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The refurbished Awapuni track passed recent trial tests but was shut down after the first race at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[4869,14120,26342,26332,26333,26341,26340,26338,26334,7743,26336,3120,18880,20362,1071,26337,26335,26343,79,17289,26339,16,15,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-48471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-abandoned","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-anzac","11":"tag-awapunis","12":"tag-comeback","13":"tag-disappointment","14":"tag-ended","15":"tag-grass","16":"tag-longawaited","17":"tag-meeting","18":"tag-newly","19":"tag-one","20":"tag-opening","21":"tag-race","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-renovated","24":"tag-return","25":"tag-slip","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-their","28":"tag-track","29":"tag-uk","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114396786069103197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48471","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=48471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}