{"id":526754,"date":"2026-07-05T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:00:16","slug":"cualificar-puts-it-up-to-calandagan-in-g1-grand-prix-de-saint-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526754\/","title":{"rendered":"Cualificar puts it up to Calandagan in G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.godolphin.com\/horses\/cualificar-gb\" class=\"glossify-tooltip-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cualificar<\/a> produced another strong effort in G1 company as he finished second to world champion Calandagan in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on Sunday, 5 July.<\/p>\n<p>Runner-up in last season&#8217;s G1 Prix du Jockey Club, Cualificar lined up for Andre &amp; Lavinia Fabre on the back of third-place finishes in the G2 Prix d&#8217;Harcourt and G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cualificar raced in midfield under Pierre-Charles Boudot as dual Derby winner Lambourn and Eydon contested the lead in the early stages of the 12-furlong contest. Lambourn steadied the pace soon after, with the eight runners well bunched turning out of the backstraight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aventure made a strong move along the rail with two and a half furlongs to race, while Sunly, Cualificar and Calandagan switched out to launch their challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closing trio were virtually abreast as they reeled in Aventure passing the furlong pole, with Calandagan digging deep to beat Cualificar by a neck. Sunly finished third as the front three pulled four lengths clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cualificar produced another strong effort in G1 company as he finished second to world champion Calandagan in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-526754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}