{"id":282512,"date":"2026-02-13T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282512\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:07:13","slug":"superstar-sprinter-first-five-to-miss-600000-group-1-race-at-ellerslie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282512\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstar sprinter First Five to miss $600,000 Group 1 race at Ellerslie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are lucky to have owners who are patient, so we can do that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">First Five was the $3.20 favourite for next Saturday\u2019s weight-for-age feature, but when news of his absence broke, he was withdrawn from the market, leaving Pier as the $3 favourite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">First Five follows Herbie Dyke Stakes winner Legarto as a Group 1 winner at Te Rapa last Saturday who will also miss the \u014ctaki-M\u0101ori Classic market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">However, next Saturday\u2019s meeting will still be one of the highlights of the summer, with the $1 million New Zealand Oaks a new addition to the programme that also hosts the Avondale Cup, the Avondale Guineas and Uncle Remus Stakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are lucky to have owners who are patient, so we can do that.\u201d First Five was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18559,1975,76546,4915,6284,55604,8500,1888,1342,130149,209,14574,111,139,1536,69,7798,213,87908,14625,49519,157868,8225,1361,61,8489,4518,1533,102,2963],"class_list":["post-282512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-18559","tag-at","tag-bypass","tag-classic","tag-david","tag-deciding","tag-ellerslie","tag-first","tag-five","tag-greene","tag-group","tag-miss","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-race","tag-sports","tag-sprinter","tag-summer","tag-superstar","tag-takimori","tag-target","tag-that","tag-to","tag-trainer","tag-weeks","tag-will","tag-with","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282512","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=282512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}