{"id":119739,"date":"2019-11-20T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/20\/talking-horses-henderson-questions-whether-altior-can-go-the-distance\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:01:11","slug":"talking-horses-henderson-questions-whether-altior-can-go-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=119739","title":{"rendered":"Talking Horses: Henderson questions whether Altior can go the distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer also accepts that \u2018media pressure\u2019 has helped persuade Altior\u2019s connections to step him up in trip at AscotCyrname has edged closer to Altior in the betting for Saturday\u2019s head-to-head in the Christy 1965 Chase at Ascot, as Nicky Henderson admitted the step up to 21 furlongs is \u201ca big question\u201d for his unbeaten chaser. Altior\u2019s trainer added that \u201che doesn\u2019t look like a horse that is going to stay [on the gallops] as he has got such a ridiculous amount of speed\u201d.On Tuesday morning, several major firms were offering 11-8 about Cyrname, who is officially rated 1lb ahead of Altior, but that had dried up to a general 5-4 by midday. Altior remains top-priced at 8-11 with BetVictor, while the odds suggest that Top Notch, who will get 2lb from the market leaders, is their only credible rival among three possible opponents. Altior\u2019s stable companion is a 16-1 shot. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2019\/nov\/20\/talking-horses-henderson-questions-whether-altior-can-go-the-distance\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Horses: Henderson questions whether Altior can go the distance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer also accepts that \u2018media pressure\u2019 has helped persuade Altior\u2019s connections to step him up in trip at AscotCyrname has edged closer to Altior in the betting for Saturday\u2019s head-to-head in the Christy 1965 Chase at Ascot, as Nicky Henderson admitted the step up to 21 furlongs is \u201ca big [&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-119739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119739","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=119739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}