{"id":556633,"date":"2026-07-18T22:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556633\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:28:15","slug":"irish-oaks-johanna-walsh-romps-to-classic-success-at-curragh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556633\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Oaks: Johanna Walsh romps to classic success at Curragh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johanna Walsh romped to an emphatic win in the Irish Oaks at The Curragh after stablemate Thundering On was declared a non-runner on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thundering On had been fancied to complete a classic double for trainer Joseph O&#8217;Brien after blowing away the opposition in the Oaks at Epsom in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johanna Walsh was a well-backed 7-2 shot under jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle and pulled clear of a previously closely bunched pack from two furlongs out to win by four lengths from Inis Mor (11\/2), with Sparan Nua (8\/1) third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was straightforward from the get-go. She is a very straightforward horse and is improving with every run,&#8221; said Browne McMonagle on RTE after the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She got herself into a very good position and it was a lovely race to ride, without any setbacks and she was comfortable going into the straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She has taken another big step forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winning jockey had rode Thundering On from last place to first to win the Epsom Oaks in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johanna Walsh romped to an emphatic win in the Irish Oaks at The Curragh after stablemate Thundering On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-556633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}