\u201cShe was so, so brave but the race didn\u2019t pan out for her,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey went too slow early and she got quite keen and then being left in front a bit earlier than I wanted.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut she went great, she is a wonderful mare.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joliestar is owned by Cambridge Stud owners Sir Brendan and Lady Jo Lindsay, who were both beaming with pride but wondering what could have been.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat much,\u201d Sir Brendan Lindsay said, holding his hands a foot apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we love her and this has been a remarkable experience.\u2019<\/p>\n
Then came the most regal of compensations as the Lindsays and Joliestar\u2019s expat trainer Chris Waller had a personal meeting with the King and Queen, who had presented the trophy to the winning connections but had asked to meet the Kiwis personally.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be standing here at Royal Ascot, have a horse race so bravely in a massive race and then for Jo and I to meet the King and Queen, these are things you can only dream of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sometimes you don\u2019t have to win for the dream to come true.<\/p>\n
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":"\u201cShe was so, so brave but the race didn\u2019t pan out for her,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cThey went too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,1975,682,92821,2082,115835,14568,58108,1619,5494,111,139,69,9769,226441,3117,3512,72322,213,223],"class_list":["post-487776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-at","tag-being","tag-consolation","tag-for","tag-guerin","tag-horse","tag-joliestar","tag-london","tag-michael","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owners","tag-pipped","tag-post","tag-racing","tag-regal","tag-sports","tag-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487776","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=487776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}