{"id":51518,"date":"2018-07-28T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/28\/talking-horses-poets-word-can-break-king-george-record-for-stoute\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T01:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T23:01:13","slug":"talking-horses-poets-word-can-break-king-george-record-for-stoute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=51518","title":{"rendered":"Talking Horses: Poet\u2019s Word can break King George record for Stoute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unexpected star of this Flat season has blossomed in his last two races, turning over Saturday\u2019s potential rival Cracksman at the Royal meeting last monthSir Michael Stoute can set a new trainer\u2019s record by landing Ascot\u2019s King George on Saturday for the sixth time, thanks to Poet\u2019s Word (3.40), the unexpected star of this Flat season. Beaten in his first four Group Ones, he has blossomed in his last two outings, turning over Cracksman in the Prince of Wales\u2019s Stakes at the Royal meeting last month.He has already proved he can stay the extra quarter-mile of this race but the turn of foot he has shown at 10 furlongs could stand him in excellent stead, assuming the ground remains fast. While there are front-runners in opposition, a really strong gallop from the outset does not seem likely, which makes him more appealing than his stablemate Crystal Ocean, a stouter stayer. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2018\/jul\/27\/talking-horses-poets-word-break-king-george-record-sir-michael-stoute-horse-racing-tips\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Horses: Poet\u2019s Word can break King George record for Stoute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unexpected star of this Flat season has blossomed in his last two races, turning over Saturday\u2019s potential rival Cracksman at the Royal meeting last monthSir Michael Stoute can set a new trainer\u2019s record by landing Ascot\u2019s King George on Saturday for the sixth time, thanks to Poet\u2019s Word (3.40), [&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-51518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51518","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=51518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}