{"id":587131,"date":"2026-09-01T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587131\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:16:14","slug":"horse-racing-sad-passing-of-female-trainer-who-left-her-mark-on-track-and-future-riding-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587131\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse racing: Sad passing of female trainer who left her mark on track and future riding star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe was so tough and even rode in rodeos herself when she was young and could ride anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going to her farm and riding horses when I was 12, up hills flat out with only a sack on their back, no saddle.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had a huge influence on my career and taught me so much and I\u2019m sad to hear of her passing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belsham has spent the last 12 years living in Victoria to be closer to her daughter Sarah Moody, the wife of training great Peter Moody.<\/p>\n

\u201cMum loved her horses and loved being part of Moody Racing, she would ask me for a list of what horses we had racing for every meeting,\u201d Sarah Moody said. \u201cShe also loved country music and playing her guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Moody says her mother, who had reverted to her maiden name years earlier, passed away peacefully in her sleep.<\/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 tough and even rode in rodeos herself when she was young and could ride anything.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95,289076,2046,6179,2245,9787,107825,3273,1364,14568,11946,2176,101,3223,26158,32573,111,139,69,1118,90,45641,168635,3512,31124,81396,213,2737,45142,22974,8489,8812,1299,80],"class_list":["post-587131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-and","tag-belsham","tag-career","tag-died","tag-early","tag-female","tag-females","tag-future","tag-her","tag-horse","tag-influence","tag-jones","tag-left","tag-legend","tag-linda","tag-mark","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-passing","tag-pioneering","tag-racing","tag-riding","tag-sad","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-thoroughbred","tag-track","tag-trainer","tag-training","tag-who","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587131","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=587131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}