{"id":243150,"date":"2026-01-20T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:15:18","slug":"lane-lands-key-lightning-stakes-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243150\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane lands key Lightning Stakes ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Lane has picked up the key ride on Tentyris in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes next month.<\/p>\n<p>With Mark Zahra set for a stint on the sidelines, Sam Freedman said Lane would reunite with their star colt on February 14.<\/p>\n<p>Lane rode Tentyris when he finished second in the Blue Diamond Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark has been really transparent \u2013 he\u2019s obviously still waiting on scans (on a leg fracture) \u2013 but Damian Lane has been booked to ride him,\u201d Freedman told Racing.com on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll have a sit on him in the next week, or so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he is pretty excited to get on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freedman also confirmed Jamie Melham would ride the exciting Point Barrow in the G1 Oakleigh Plate (1100 metres) on February 21.<\/p>\n<p>Point Barrow will target that race first-up and is expected to carry just 50 kilograms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damian Lane has picked up the key ride on Tentyris in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes next month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[81870,142649,65375,142651,111,139,69,142650,85807,79013,213,142648],"class_list":{"0":"post-243150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-damian-lane","9":"tag-godolphin","10":"tag-jamie-melham","11":"tag-lightning-stakes","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-oakleigh-plate","16":"tag-point-barrow","17":"tag-sam-freedman","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tentyris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243150","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=243150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}