{"id":11224,"date":"2017-10-17T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/17\/richard-hannon-ready-to-lead-charge-for-champions-day-with-barney-roy\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:40:51","slug":"richard-hannon-ready-to-lead-charge-for-champions-day-with-barney-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11224","title":{"rendered":"Richard Hannon ready to lead charge for Champions Day with Barney Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Royal Ascot winner lines up as third favourite for the Champion Stakes\u2022 \u2018He goes to Ascot in great nick. He\u2019s fresh, he\u2019s a very exciting horse\u2019If there were any doubt about how much the souped-up Ascot version of Champions Day has come to mean to racing professionals, Richard Hannon killed it stone dead here by raising the memory of last year, when he didn\u2019t have a runner on the card. \u201cI went racing anyway and walked round like this with my head down for the whole day. I thought: \u2018I hope no one sees me here and asks me what I\u2019m running.\u2019\u201cI basically just went for lunch and it was a little bit embarrassing. But it\u2019s the way it should be; runners on that day should be very special and it should be about the top, top-class horses. If I didn\u2019t have a runner, I\u2019d still be there to watch the race, it will be fantastic. Even more fantastic if we win it.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/oct\/17\/richard-hannon-ready-champions-day-ascot-barney-roy-horse-racing\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hannon ready to lead charge for Champions Day with Barney Roy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Royal Ascot winner lines up as third favourite for the Champion Stakes\u2022 \u2018He goes to Ascot in great nick. He\u2019s fresh, he\u2019s a very exciting horse\u2019If there were any doubt about how much the souped-up Ascot version of Champions Day has come to mean to racing professionals, Richard Hannon [&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-11224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224","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=11224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}