David Hayes has put Ka Ying Rising\u2019s shock Everest defeat down to a wide run from barrier 11, rather than the Randwick surface, after the Hong Kong champion\u2019s 21-race winning streak came to an end.<\/p>\n
Ka Ying Rising started a dominant $1.35 favourite but was forced to race much further back than expected and covered significant ground without cover before charging late to finish a half-neck behind Tempted.<\/p>\n
Hayes said the race simply did not unfold as anticipated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t expect him to be there, but it was the barrier,\u201d Hayes said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes eleven can be a bonus, but he got caught wide. He settled a bit further back than we thought he would, and if we have to take a positive out of it, he was in front one stride after the post.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the defeat, Hayes was pleased with the way Ka Ying Rising fought to the line after a difficult passage.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo very brave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first and third horse cut the corner and really had dream runs, and we had a horror run being six-wide, no cover.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he was brave, and I love the way he finished, but I hate the result.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Hayes has put Ka Ying Rising\u2019s shock Everest defeat down to a wide run from barrier 11,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[183709,310390,86989,310394,80441,36757,310386,310403,310389,310393,310402,166893,310395,13829,58108,36755,310387,310388,310399,310392,111,139,69,310396,65037,310401,213,310397,195659,310400,36756,310391,310398,81808],"class_list":["post-633328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australian-racing","tag-barrier-11","tag-chad-schofield","tag-champions-day","tag-ciaron-maher","tag-david-hayes","tag-everest-2026","tag-everest-result","tag-everest-upset","tag-hkir","tag-hong-kong-champion","tag-hong-kong-racing","tag-horse-racing-news","tag-james-mcdonald","tag-joliestar","tag-ka-ying-rising","tag-ka-ying-rising-defeat","tag-ka-ying-rising-everest","tag-ka-ying-rising-winning-streak","tag-longines-hong-kong-international-races","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing-com-news","tag-randwick","tag-randwick-racing","tag-sports","tag-sprint-racing","tag-tempted","tag-tempted-everest","tag-the-everest","tag-wide-run","tag-worlds-best-horse","tag-zac-purton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633328","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=633328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}