{"id":68075,"date":"2018-11-21T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/21\/talking-horses-samcro-and-buveur-dair-on-course-for-newcastle-clash\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:12:09","slug":"talking-horses-samcro-and-buveur-dair-on-course-for-newcastle-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68075","title":{"rendered":"Talking Horses: Samcro and Buveur D&#039;Air on course for Newcastle clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland\u2019s jump racing flag-bearer hope Samcro will face dual Champion Hurdle winner Buveur D\u2019Air in the Fighting Fifth next monthRain arrived in the north-east on Tuesday afternoon and the timing could not have been better, as Newcastle remains on course to stage one of the best jump races in its long history. Samcro, Buveur D\u2019Air and Summerville Boy, who were all Grade One winners at Cheltenham in March, are among the potential runners in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle on 1 December and with the ground starting to ease after one of the driest summers for years, all three could now line up at Gosforth Park next month.A first meeting between Buveur D\u2019Air, the dual Champion Hurdle winner, and Samcro, who took last season\u2019s Ballymore Novice Hurdle, certainly seems more likely after Nicky Henderson, Buveur D\u2019Air\u2019s trainer, said on Tuesday that the possibility of \u201cgood or good-to-firm\u201d was his main concern ahead of the Fighting Fifth. \u201cThere is a problem looming,\u201d Henderson said, \u201cand while this wind is in the east, you aren\u2019t going to see much rain.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2018\/nov\/21\/talking-horses-samcro-and-buveur-dair-on-course-for-fighting-fifth-clash-horse-racing\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Horses: Samcro and Buveur D&#039;Air on course for Newcastle clash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland\u2019s jump racing flag-bearer hope Samcro will face dual Champion Hurdle winner Buveur D\u2019Air in the Fighting Fifth next monthRain arrived in the north-east on Tuesday afternoon and the timing could not have been better, as Newcastle remains on course to stage one of the best jump races in its [&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-68075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68075","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=68075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}