{"id":490352,"date":"2025-10-11T06:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490352\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:48:16","slug":"baker-costin-combine-for-two-top-coonamble-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490352\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker, Costin combine for two top Coonamble contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The powerhouse stable of Bjorn Baker will be in action at Coonamble on Sunday with the Warwick Farm trainer having two leading contenders in action.<\/p>\n<p>Baker will start form galloper Mawjood in the $75,000 Qube Agri Coonamble Gold Showcase Cup (1600m), with the event carrying eligibility for the Big Dance at Randwick on November 4.<\/p>\n<p>The trainer will also start Alabama Charm in the Dad N Dave Turf\/Southern Cross Turf\/Elite Sand &amp; Soil\/Evergreen Turf Super Maiden Showcase Handicap (1300m).<\/p>\n<p>Jockey Winona Costin will partner both gallopers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jockey Winona Constin.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0a0f476f5ff70d5aec226c8c054604ea43c6353d.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jockey Winona Constin.Credit: Joe Armao<\/p>\n<p>Mawjood is a three-time winner from 13 starts with a further five placings. Previously trained by Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes, Mawjood has had two starts since joining the Baker stable for a resuming third at Canterbury and a last start Rosehill victory in midweek company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been a handy horse for the stable to pick up,\u201d Baker said of Mawjood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a good record with the Hawkes team and then trialled well for us leading into his first-up run at Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ran well in that event when beaten less than a length in a small field. Then he went right on with the job to score easily at Rosehill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s on the up and the step-up to the mile in the Coonamble Cup looks ideal for him now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The powerhouse stable of Bjorn Baker will be in action at Coonamble on Sunday with the Warwick Farm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-490352","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\/115354200886835250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490352","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=490352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}