{"id":158988,"date":"2020-09-03T01:39:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/03\/talking-horses-celebrations-for-first-jockey-with-one-eye-to-win-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T01:39:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T23:39:17","slug":"talking-horses-celebrations-for-first-jockey-with-one-eye-to-win-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158988","title":{"rendered":"Talking Horses: celebrations for first jockey with one eye to win in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Mitchell, who had his right eye removed at the age of five, rode a winner 30 years after first applying for a jockey\u2019s licence\u201cI was feeling a bit better by Tuesday,\u201d admits Guy Mitchell, reflecting on the Sunday night celebrations that followed his earlier success at Goodwood. The overindulgence was well earned, a party 30 years in the making, to mark the moment he became the first jockey with only one eye to ride a winner in Britain. Related: Talking Horses: French giving up on hopes of 20,000 crowd for Arc Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2020\/sep\/03\/talking-horses-celebrations-for-first-jockey-with-one-eye-to-win-in-britain\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Horses: celebrations for first jockey with one eye to win in Britain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Mitchell, who had his right eye removed at the age of five, rode a winner 30 years after first applying for a jockey\u2019s licence\u201cI was feeling a bit better by Tuesday,\u201d admits Guy Mitchell, reflecting on the Sunday night celebrations that followed his earlier success at Goodwood. The overindulgence [&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-158988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158988","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=158988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}