{"id":112135,"date":"2025-11-01T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112135\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:09:08","slug":"swayzee-unlikely-for-third-new-zealand-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112135\/","title":{"rendered":"Swayzee unlikely for third New Zealand Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        1 November 2025<\/p>\n<p>                                , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnz.co.nz\/news\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnz.co.nz\/news\/category\/irt-nz-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IRT NZ Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Adam Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>Champion stayer Swayzee\u2019s quest for a slice of IRT NZ Cup history looks over.<\/p>\n<p>The mighty seven-year-old was scratched from a vital lead-up race at Menangle tonight (Saturday) with a suspected cold.<\/p>\n<p>Given Swayzee hasn\u2019t raced since October 4 and the NZ Cup is just 10 days way, it\u2019s hard to see any way he\u2019s on the scheduled flight tomorrow (Sunday) week to Christchurch via Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Jason Grimson told Melbourne\u2019s SENTrack radio the trip was now unlikely and plans would be finalised after he spoke with owner Mick Boots.<\/p>\n<p>Swayzee was trying to become just the third pacer to win three successive NZ Cups.<\/p>\n<p>But the latest setback continues a frustrating campaign for Swayzee, who has only raced twice and been beaten both times.<\/p>\n<p>The rising eight-year-old has been beaten at his past four starts, something we have not seen before since he joined Grimson\u2019s stable.<\/p>\n<p>Swayzee missed last month\u2019s Group 1 Victoria Cup with a bowel infection.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will still have two IRT NZ Cup runners with Leap To Fame booked to fly over Monday and Kingman six days later.<\/p>\n<p>Swayzee\u2019s setback also raises doubts when Grimson will take stablemate Hi Manameisjeff across for the Group 1 NZ Free-For-All on Show Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 November 2025 , News , IRT NZ Cup By Adam Hamilton Champion stayer Swayzee\u2019s quest for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-112135","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}