{"id":364893,"date":"2025-12-22T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364893\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:02:12","slug":"mcdonald-to-head-home-for-one-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364893\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald to head home for one ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James McDonald will start the new year with an intriguing booking back home in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The champion jockey will ride Tomodachi in the $550,000 TAB Telegraph at Trentham on Saturday, January 3.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Mick Guerin, Tomodachi is owned by McDonald\u2019s friend, Sir Peter Vela.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the mare was the $3.50 favourite with TAB to win the Group 1 sprint.<\/p>\n<p>It will be McDonald\u2019s only ride at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been almost two years since he last rode in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The gun hoop enjoyed one of the biggest years of his impressive career in 2025, winning a fourth successive Cox Plate, as well as claiming multiple Group 1 races overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McDonald will start the new year with an intriguing booking back home in New Zealand. The champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-364893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}