{"id":148736,"date":"2020-06-18T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/18\/royal-ascot-2020-gold-cup-day-live\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:53:07","slug":"royal-ascot-2020-gold-cup-day-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148736","title":{"rendered":"Royal Ascot 2020: Gold Cup day \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from day three of the Royal meeting at AscotTalking Horses: Chris Cook\u2019s top tips for today\u2019s actionAnd you can email Tony, tweet @tonypaley or post BTL 2.50pm BST 2.44pm BST Eight juveniles have been found who are prepared to attempt seven furlongs within a fortnight of their debuts in this Covid-affected season. It would be no surprise if an Aidan O\u2019Brien-trained runner were best placed to cope with the unusual circumstances and Battleground is interestingly bred, as the first foal out of Found. He stayed on well in a big field to be fifth at Naas 10 days ago and the extra furlong plus that bit of experience could make a big difference. First Prophet, the only runner to have won at this distance already, stayed on well against a more fancied rival at Chelmsford and was sold within two days. He is one to fear. Modern News was well ridden to score at Newmarket but the runner-up looked the one to take out of that race. Bright Devil made all at Newmarket on a day when such tactics appeared to be favoured. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2020\/jun\/18\/royal-ascot-2020-gold-cup-day-live-horse-racing\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Ascot 2020: Gold Cup day \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from day three of the Royal meeting at AscotTalking Horses: Chris Cook\u2019s top tips for today\u2019s actionAnd you can email Tony, tweet @tonypaley or post BTL 2.50pm BST 2.44pm BST Eight juveniles have been found who are prepared to attempt seven furlongs within a fortnight of their debuts in [&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-148736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148736","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=148736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}