{"id":503329,"date":"2025-10-16T05:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503329\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:15:19","slug":"warwick-farm-trainer-joe-pride-flies-under-radar-with-mazu-ceolwulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503329\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwick Farm trainer Joe Pride flies under radar with Mazu, Ceolwulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Pride has experienced just about every emotion possible on Everest day.<\/p>\n

The Warwick Farm trainer has ridden the rollercoaster of placings with Private Eye and Eduardo to the pressure of expectation, then relief and joy in 2023 when Think About It won the $20 million showpiece. He then had fear \u2013 and ultimately relief, when Think About It collapsed the following year in the consolation race, the Sydney Stakes, only to recover and walk away to retirement.<\/p>\n

\"Trainer<\/p>\n

Trainer Joe Pride after winning The Everest in 2023 with Think About It.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Pride is relishing the chance to fly under the radar with a team of underdogs in the main races. Mazu, the last horse picked, was a $126 (Sportsbet) chance for The Everest (1200m), Ceolwulf was $10 for his title defence in the $5 million King Charles III Stakes (1600m), while Golden Mile ($8), Coal Crusher ($31) and Dragonstone ($34) were in the $2 million Sydney Stakes (1200m).<\/p>\n

\u201cLovely. Yeah, it\u2019s nowhere near the same level of pressure,\u201d Pride said of this year\u2019s Everest compared to 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat year, obviously, I had Think About It and [third-placed] Private Eye, and honestly, I couldn\u2019t split them. And I think if the race had been run differently, I could even make a case for Private Eye winning. So I went in there with a double-barrel assault, and you should never do this, but I fully expected to win the race \u2013 which is foolish.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year it\u2019s much easier. And I think this is a sixth year running that we\u2019ve had runners in the race, so it\u2019s a good achievement for a stable the size we are. I\u2019m not going to say we\u2019re a hot chance in the race, but I think he\u2019ll beat more home than beat him home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Eduardo<\/p>\n

Eduardo (green silks) takes third behind Nature Strip in the 2021 Everest.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

Pride expected Mazu, with gate two, to repeat his runs in the Shorts and Premiere Stakes, where he was fourth and third respectively, and lead the field. He hoped for a soft track to help Mazu produce his best.<\/p>\n

He admitted an Everest call-up was in his thoughts for Mazu, which was picked this week as Yulong\u2019s replacement for the injured Private Harry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Pride has experienced just about every emotion possible on Everest day. The Warwick Farm trainer has ridden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-503329","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\/115382146363619304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503329","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=503329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}