{"id":200878,"date":"2025-12-25T06:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200878\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:24:16","slug":"clear-margin-or-dead-heat-stewards-probe-bizarre-result-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200878\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear margin or dead heat? Stewards probe bizarre result reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racing NSW Stewards have launched an investigation into the bizarre turn of events in the aftermath of the fifth event at Tamworth on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>What should have been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/results\/horse-racing\/tamworth-20251222\/shay-brennan-construction-maiden-handicap-race-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nondescript maiden<\/a> was plunged into chaos when the judge declared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/lady-billie-aus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Billie<\/a> the winner over race favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/oakfield-utah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakfield Utah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The result had punters scratching their heads, with the deceptive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/tracks\/nsw\/tamworth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tamworth<\/a> angle giving the impression that the favourite had done enough on the line to secure victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing NSW Stewards have launched an investigation into the bizarre turn of events in the aftermath of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-200878","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\/200878","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=200878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}