{"id":513508,"date":"2025-10-20T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513508\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:19:11","slug":"hobby-trainer-melissa-birts-day-in-the-sun-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513508\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby trainer Melissa Birt&#8217;s day in the sun :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jordan Gerrans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Darling Downs hobby trainer Melissa Birt is optimistic there is more to come after nabbing the maiden victory of her training tenure at Mitchell on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birt\u2019s Hoffman was able to win by almost a length following a smart ride from up-and-coming apprentice Brea Harrison at the country track.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman is only a recent acquisition for the small Birt team after previously being prepared by Billy Healey at Caloundra and he was able to prevail in a Benchmark 55 Handicap over 1000 metres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Birt was full of praise for the condition Healey presented Hoffman in when he lobbed at her Oakey stable following her $2,250 purchase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The son of Spirit Of Boom had his first run at Clifford Park for Birt earlier this month where he was well beaten.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jordan Gerrans Darling Downs hobby trainer Melissa Birt is optimistic there is more to come after nabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-513508","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\/115404574774613556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513508","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=513508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}