By Adam Hamilton\u00a0<\/p>\n
New Zealand Cup hero Kingman is out of the $1m The Race at Cambridge next month.<\/p>\n
The one-time favourite for NZ\u2019s equal richest race ran well below his best when sixth in Saturday’s Miracle Mile at Menangle.<\/p>\n
It followed a below par run when a tiring ninth after leading in his Miracle Mile qualifier a week earlier.<\/p>\n
Owner-breeder Mick Harvey confirmed Kingman would have a break.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat (huge) Hunter Cup run took its toll on him,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen Swayzee was losing ground (in the Miracle Mile), he (Kingman) would normally go straight past him, but he is a tired boy,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s going for a break or freshen-up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kingman, who beat Leap To Fame in the Victoria and NZ Cups late last year, had a busy and at times dramatic January\/February.<\/p>\n
It started on the way to the Cranbourne Cup when the float Kingman was in caught fire, forcing his evacuation and a stint standing on the side of the highway before getting to Cranbourne and running second to Leap To Fame.<\/p>\n
Two weeks later he was badly checked soon after the start and lost all chance in the Hunter Cup.<\/p>\n
His performance to recover and finish a close sixth to Swayzee and Leap To Fame was monstrous.<\/p>\n
Kingman enjoyed a lovely run behind the leader, Swayzee, but didn\u2019t respond when driver Jack Callaghan asked rounding the home bend.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just a horse, he can have a good spell now,\u201d trainer Luke McCarthy confirmed.<\/p>\n
The Brisbane Inter Dominion in July looks like Kingman’s next logical target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Adam Hamilton\u00a0 New Zealand Cup hero Kingman is out of the $1m The Race at Cambridge next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-332432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332432","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=332432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}