{"id":105867,"date":"2019-08-14T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/14\/five-day-cheltenham-is-inevitable-warns-gold-cup-winner-kim-bailey\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T23:51:00","slug":"five-day-cheltenham-is-inevitable-warns-gold-cup-winner-kim-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=105867","title":{"rendered":"Five-day Cheltenham is \u2018inevitable\u2019, warns Gold Cup winner Kim Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Cup-winning trainer predicts Festival extension from four days, but Oliver Sherwood says it would be \u2018absolute disaster\u2019Kim Bailey, who achieved the feat of saddling Champion Hurdle winner Alderbrook and Gold Cup winner Master Oats in 1995, said on Monday he believes it is \u201cinevitable\u201d the Cheltenham Festival will be stretched to a fifth day from its current four days.The trainer\u2019s comments came despite the British Horseracing Authority stating on Monday that the Festival\u2019s four-day format will continue. The BHA had announced a new race, the Mares\u2019 Chase, for 2021 but said that it would replace an existing contest not yet selected. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2019\/aug\/14\/talking-horses-five-day-cheltenham-festival-inevitable-horse-racing-tips\" target=\"_blank\">Five-day Cheltenham is \u2018inevitable\u2019, warns Gold Cup winner Kim Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Cup-winning trainer predicts Festival extension from four days, but Oliver Sherwood says it would be \u2018absolute disaster\u2019Kim Bailey, who achieved the feat of saddling Champion Hurdle winner Alderbrook and Gold Cup winner Master Oats in 1995, said on Monday he believes it is \u201cinevitable\u201d the Cheltenham Festival will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}