{"id":844373,"date":"2026-03-23T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/844373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:45:15","slug":"horse-racing-winston-peters-labels-james-mcdonald-global-superstar-after-group-1-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/844373\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse racing: Winston Peters labels James McDonald \u2018global superstar\u2019 after Group 1 record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cJames McDonald\u2019s achievement is nothing short of remarkable,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo reach 130 Australasian Group 1 victories, and to do so at just 34 years of age, reflects not only his exceptional natural talent, but also his professionalism, discipline, and deep commitment to the sport,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hail F1 drivers, All Blacks and Black Caps, but in James McDonald, we have a true global superstar and he deserves all the accolades he receives.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames has become a defining figure in our racing community. His connection with the public, his strong partnerships with leading trainers such as Chris Waller, and his consistently world\u2011class performances have made him a true ambassador for Australasian racing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the <\/b>Herald<\/b> as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the <\/b>Herald\u2019s<\/b> Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJames McDonald\u2019s achievement is nothing short of remarkable,\u201d Peters said. \u201cTo reach 130 Australasian Group 1 victories, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[14120,15978,45232,21003,2848,14117,73918,9348,288,13627,43061,13685,14790,29528,241493,35529,241492,241494,1071,63156,138330,79,34854,16,15,18323,241491],"class_list":["post-844373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-after","tag-champion","tag-drawing","tag-from","tag-global","tag-group","tag-highest","tag-horse","tag-horse-racing","tag-james","tag-jockey","tag-kiwi","tag-labels","tag-levels","tag-mcdonald","tag-mcdonalds","tag-peters","tag-praise","tag-racing","tag-record","tag-recordbreaking","tag-sports","tag-superstar","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-weekend","tag-winston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116277144915453694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844373","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=844373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}