{"id":606904,"date":"2026-09-05T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606904\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:24:10","slug":"morris-dancer-maho-bay-hoping-to-scale-g3-winter-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606904\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Dancer &#038; Maho Bay hoping to scale G3 Winter Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.godolphin.com\/horses\/morris-dancer-ire\" class=\"glossify-tooltip-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morris Dancer<\/a> (pictured) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godolphin.com\/horses\/maho-bay-gb\" class=\"glossify-tooltip-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maho Bay<\/a> aim for a first Group-race victory in the Winter Hill Stakes at Windsor, UK, on Monday, 7 September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darleyeurope.com\/stallions\/our-stallions\/palace-pier\" class=\"glossify-darley-stallion glossify-tooltip-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palace Pier<\/a> colt Morris Dancer went down by a short-head to subsequent G1 winner Zavateri in the G2 Vintage Stakes at Glorious Goodwood last year before posting an easy four-length success in Salisbury\u2019s Stonehenge Stakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Third on his seasonal return in the G3 Jersey Stakes, the John &amp; Thady Gosden-trained three-year-old failed to give his running when backing up quickly in the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes at Newmarket\u2019s July Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maho Bay also ran well at this year\u2019s Royal Ascot as he finished a close fifth after meeting trouble in running in the G3 Hampton Court Stakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trained by Charlie Appleby, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godolphin.com\/horses\/dubawi-ire\" class=\"glossify-tooltip-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dubawi<\/a> colt posted decisive wins at Kempton Park and Newmarket on his first two starts prior to coming home fourth in the Listed Lingfield Derby Trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Appleby said: \u201cMaho Bay has done well for a nice break and conditions at Windsor should be fine as he coped with quick ground at Royal Ascot. He has a bit to find with a couple on ratings but I think he can be a big player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morris Dancer (pictured) and Maho Bay aim for a first Group-race victory in the Winter Hill Stakes at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-606904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606904","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=606904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}