{"id":307895,"date":"2026-03-01T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:30:10","slug":"horse-racing-savaglee-set-for-stud-career-as-offers-come-in-for-star-galloper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307895\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse racing: Savaglee set for stud career as offers come in for star galloper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe has been a wonderful horse with an amazing pedigree page and even before we have made this announcement, we have had people making inquiries about him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cObviously if we were retaining the stud, he could have stood here [The Oaks] but as people know The Oaks is under offer and we want to give the new purchasers a shot at buying an exciting young stallion prospect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut we are still taking offers and fielding other calls because he is a son of Savabeel from a hot family so he is a very commercial horse so we don\u2019t know where he will stand yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Savaglee raced 17 times for seven wins, including that Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas and three Group 2 victories, and was trained by Pam Gerard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" 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":"\u201cHe has been a wonderful horse with an amazing pedigree page and even before we have made this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[806,9218,6326,2046,8615,6097,8500,2082,69366,14568,78,63004,5829,21409,111,139,1536,69,8617,45642,3512,36061,105580,1534,136303,1551,213,2737,120077,8492,6123,1533,379,80],"class_list":["post-307895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-as","tag-before","tag-biggest","tag-career","tag-come","tag-down","tag-ellerslie","tag-for","tag-galloper","tag-horse","tag-in","tag-letting","tag-many","tag-names","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-offers","tag-phase","tag-racing","tag-racings","tag-reigning","tag-saturday","tag-savaglee","tag-set","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-stud","tag-threeyearold","tag-while","tag-will","tag-year","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307895","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=307895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}