{"id":164378,"date":"2025-12-02T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164378\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:50:14","slug":"capacity-field-for-group-1-northerly-stakes-at-ascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164378\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacity field for Group 1 Northerly Stakes at Ascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A field of 16 plus one emergency have declared for Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/form-guide\/horse-racing\/ascot-20251206\/northerly-stakes-race-2\/overview\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Group 1 Northerly Stakes<\/a> (1800m) at Ascot.<\/p>\n<p>Last start Railway Stakes winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/watch-me-rock-aus\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch Me Rock<\/a> is one of three gallopers from the Grant and Alana Williams stable with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/jockey\/nash-rawiller\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nash Rawiller<\/a> taking over for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/jockey\/william-pike\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">William Pike<\/a> committed to ride three-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/king-of-light-aus\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">King Of Light<\/a> for trainer Daniel Morton, who also has three in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Ciaron Maher has sent Vivy Air over for the Group 1 feature with Ethan Brown in the saddle.<\/p>\n<p>See below the full field for Saturday&#8217;s Group 1 feature.<\/p>\n<p>NORTHERLY STAKES FINAL FIELD<\/p>\n<p>No \u2013 Horse \u2013 Trainer \u2013 Jockey \u2013 Barrier \u2013 Weight<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 WESTERN EMPIRE (NZ) \u2013 Grant &amp; Alana Williams \u2013 Billy Egan \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>2 \u2013 OSIPENKO \u2013 Chris Waller \u2013 Fred Kersley \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>3 \u2013 WATCH ME ROCK \u2013 Grant &amp; Alana Williams \u2013 Nash Rawiller \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>4 \u2013 APULIA \u2013 Ben, Will &amp; JD Hayes \u2013 Michael Dee \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>5 \u2013 HEMLOCK STONE \u2013 Grant &amp; Alana Williams \u2013 Austin Galati \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>6 \u2013 DIAMOND SCENE \u2013 Michael Grantham \u2013 Brad Parnham \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>7 \u2013 SENTIMENTAL HERO \u2013 Peter Fernie \u2013 Craig Newitt \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>8 \u2013 ZIPAWAY \u2013 Neville Parnham \u2013 TBD \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>9 \u2013 GINGER BAKER \u2013 Daniel &amp; Ben Pearce \u2013 Joey Azzopardi \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>10 \u2013 IN GOOD ORDER \u2013 Daniel Morton \u2013 Shaun O&#8217;Donnell \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>11 \u2013 COSMIC CRUSADER \u2013 Michael Grantham \u2013 Clint Johnston-Porter \u2013 TBD \u2013 59kg <\/p>\n<p>12 \u2013 DEPTH OF CHARACTER \u2013 Annabel &amp; Rob Archibald \u2013 Chris Parnham \u2013 TBD \u2013 58.5kg <\/p>\n<p>13 \u2013 VIVY AIR \u2013 Ciaron Maher \u2013 Ethan Brown \u2013 TBD \u2013 57kg <\/p>\n<p>14 \u2013 ADMIRATION EXPRESS \u2013 Jason Miller \u2013 Brad Rawiller \u2013 TBD \u2013 57kg <\/p>\n<p>15 \u2013 KING OF LIGHT \u2013 Daniel Morton \u2013 William Pike \u2013 TBD \u2013 52kg <\/p>\n<p>16 \u2013 PURE EXCESS \u2013 Daniel Morton \u2013 Steven Parnham \u2013 TBD \u2013 50kg <\/p>\n<p>17e \u2013 BONJOY \u2013 Jason Miller \u2013 TBD \u2013 TBD \u2013 57kg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A field of 16 plus one emergency have declared for Saturday&#8217;s Group 1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) at Ascot.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-164378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164378","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=164378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}