{"id":487470,"date":"2025-10-10T04:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487470\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:57:17","slug":"la-crique-saved-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487470\/","title":{"rendered":"La Crique saved for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trainers Simon and Katrina Alexander have set their sights towards summer targets with their star mare La Crique following yet another runner-up result in last month\u2019s Gr.1 Howden Insurance Mile (1600m) at Te Rapa.<\/p>\n

La Crique has two Group One victories to her name but has earned the perennial bridesmaid tag after finishing runner-up at elite-level on eight occasions, including her last six starts, and her trainers are hoping a freshen-up can help give her that extra edge to claim another Group One scalp.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have decided to take a sit and put her away,\u201d Katrina Alexander said. \u201cShe is just having 10 days out at the moment, we won\u2019t press onto the next leg (Gr.1 Livamol Classic, 2040m).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe opted not to go to Australia, she just takes a bit when she pulls up, other than Ellerslie, she comes off Ellerslie in super form.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe know we probably haven\u2019t got her quite as good as what we want. We know we have got room for improvement, and we just want to get that extra 10 percent and see if we can nail it (Group One win) for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are happy to be patient. At her age (seven), we sort of target two races and then take a breather with her. Currently she is having a wee break away from the stable and we will bring her back and focus on something a little later in the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trainers Simon and Katrina Alexander have set their sights towards summer targets with their star mare La Crique…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-487470","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\/115348101592500222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487470","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=487470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}