{"id":311034,"date":"2026-03-03T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:58:11","slug":"barrier-draw-falls-in-well-writtens-favour-for-nzb-kiwi-at-ellerslie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311034\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrier draw falls in Well Written\u2019s favour for NZB Kiwi at Ellerslie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MichaelMichael Guerin<\/a><\/p>\n

Racing Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n

3 Mar, 2026 07:14 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n

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Well Written has the ideal barrier to remain unbeaten when she races in the NZB Kiwi at Ellerslie on Saturday. Photo \/ Kenton Wright<\/p>\n

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Hot favourite Well Written has secured the perfect barrier draw for Saturday\u2019s $4 million NZB Kiwi at Ellerslie.<\/p>\n

The unbeaten filly drew barrier two for the 1500m slot race during Tuesday night\u2019s barrier draw function at the Karaka Sales complex.<\/p>\n

\n It is ideal for her as she has the early
\n speed to use barrier two without jockey Matt Cartwright\u2019s hand being forced, which it could have been had she drawn barrier one.\n <\/p>\n

Plus, it wasn\u2019t just Well Written\u2019s draw that may aid her chances. Two of her key rivals and the potential pace influences in the race, He Who Dares and Asakura, drew the outside two barriers, 13 and 14.<\/p>\n

The remaining fields for Saturday\u2019s $8.5m Champions Day meeting will be finalised about 10.30am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Guerin Racing Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 3 Mar, 2026 07:14 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1975,20497,40671,8500,15248,68923,22397,2082,78,194,1132,111,139,69,152667,29392,17893,34742,213,6436,13632,169359],"class_list":{"0":"post-311034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-barrier","10":"tag-draw","11":"tag-ellerslie","12":"tag-falls","13":"tag-favour","14":"tag-favourite","15":"tag-for","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-kiwi","18":"tag-million","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-nzb","23":"tag-perfect","24":"tag-saturdays","25":"tag-secured","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-well","28":"tag-written","29":"tag-writtens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311034","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=311034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}