{"id":712661,"date":"2026-01-22T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/712661\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:30:35","slug":"better-times-ahead-beckon-for-robert-tyner-and-mark-walsh-in-gowran-parks-landmark-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/712661\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Times Ahead beckon for Robert Tyner and Mark Walsh in Gowran Park\u2019s landmark race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Better Times Ahead, with Mark Walsh up, clears the last on their way to winning the Porterstown Chase at Fairyhouse in November and the pair can strike again in the Thyestes Chase. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/171d70bb-3eba-4591-9d3e-53a88b90c0db.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)\">Better Times Ahead, with Mark Walsh up, clears the last on their way to winning the Porterstown Chase at Fairyhouse in November and the pair can strike again in the Thyestes Chase. Photo: Seb Daly\/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)\">Punters were treated to the subsequent winner of the Aintree Grand National 12 months ago in the Goffs Thyestes Chase (3.30) so it will be fascinating to see what &#8216;the race that stops a county&#8217; throws up today in Gowran Park.<\/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)\">Nick Rockett landed the \u20ac100,000 prize before taking the 2025 Liverpool showpiece \u2013 the third Thyestes winner since 2004 to do so \u2013 and heavy going amid a deluge of recent rain will make this even more of a slog than normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Better Times Ahead, with Mark Walsh up, clears the last on their way to winning the Porterstown Chase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[163863,288,103729,1071,79,16,15,2805],"class_list":["post-712661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-gordon-elliott","tag-horse-racing","tag-michael-verney","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-willie-mullins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115937819222852288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712661","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=712661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}