{"id":106274,"date":"2019-08-17T00:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/17\/talking-horses-soft-ground-specialists-to-come-to-the-fore-tony-paley\/"},"modified":"2019-08-17T00:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:58:29","slug":"talking-horses-soft-ground-specialists-to-come-to-the-fore-tony-paley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106274","title":{"rendered":"Talking Horses: Soft-ground specialists to come to the fore | Tony Paley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Lahore can shine in the Great St Wilfrid Handicap\u2022 Alaadel in good form ahead of outing at RiponThe state of the going is often the single most important variable in racing, and the heavy rain across the country on Friday that has fallen on already sodden tracks has underlined how important it will be for punters to seek out proven soft-ground horses this weekend.Gunmetal, last year\u2019s winner of Saturday\u2019s betting highlight, the Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon, would have been a strong fancy before the deluge. He may not have had the luck of the draw either, starting from stall three when the confirmed front-runners in the field are drawn high. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/aug\/16\/st-wilfrid-handicap-ripon\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Horses: Soft-ground specialists to come to the fore | Tony Paley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Lahore can shine in the Great St Wilfrid Handicap\u2022 Alaadel in good form ahead of outing at RiponThe state of the going is often the single most important variable in racing, and the heavy rain across the country on Friday that has fallen on already sodden tracks has underlined [&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-106274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106274","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=106274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}