{"id":676432,"date":"2026-01-05T23:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676432\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:17:14","slug":"irish-panthers-long-term-goal-set-for-arkle-bid-at-cheltenham-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676432\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Panther\u2019s long-term goal set for Arkle bid at Cheltenham Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish Panther, with Kieren Buckley up, finishes second to Romeo Coolio at Leopardstown. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e02466b4-e36b-4bd7-9c4c-4a2357ff7b9f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Irish Panther, with Kieren Buckley up, finishes second to Romeo Coolio at Leopardstown. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">All roads appear to lead to the Arkle for Irish Panther after his gallant effort in the Racing Post Novice Chase at Leopardstown on St Stephen\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The nine-year-old began his season with a runaway hurdles victory, after which he transitioned to steeplechasing with an eight-length win on debut in a beginners\u2019 event at Naas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Panther, with Kieren Buckley up, finishes second to Romeo Coolio at Leopardstown. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile All roads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[51246,288,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-676432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-cheltenham-festival","9":"tag-horse-racing","10":"tag-racing","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115845047923582727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676432","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=676432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}