{"id":135829,"date":"2020-03-12T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/12\/cheltenham-festival-2020-samcro-pips-melon-in-photo-to-opener-live\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:01:22","slug":"cheltenham-festival-2020-samcro-pips-melon-in-photo-to-opener-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=135829","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham Festival 2020: Samcro pips Melon in photo to opener \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Island can pull off surprise win in Stayers\u2019 HurdleMcManus rues one that got away on a remarkable day And feel free to email Barry or post BTL 2.01pm GMT 1.56pm GMT Samcro edged out Melon &#8211; and Faugheen &#8211; in a thrilling race for the Marsh Novices\u2019 Chase at Cheltenham. The 2018 Ballymore Novices\u2019 Hurdle winner has had a chequered career since that Festival highlight &#8211; but returned to his best in a finish that had just about everything.The pair battled it out up the famous hill and it could have gone either way, but in the end it was the Gordon Elliott-trained Samcro (4-1) who snatched the verdict on the line under Davy Russell. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2020\/mar\/12\/cheltenham-festival-2020-all-the-latest-news-from-day-three-live\" target=\"_blank\">Cheltenham Festival 2020: Samcro pips Melon in photo to opener \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Island can pull off surprise win in Stayers\u2019 HurdleMcManus rues one that got away on a remarkable day And feel free to email Barry or post BTL 2.01pm GMT 1.56pm GMT Samcro edged out Melon &#8211; and Faugheen &#8211; in a thrilling race for the Marsh Novices\u2019 Chase at [&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-135829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135829","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=135829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}