{"id":78497,"date":"2025-10-14T20:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78497\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:18:07","slug":"new-zealands-chances-of-scaling-racings-everest-improve-after-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78497\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s chances of scaling racing\u2019s Everest improve after draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Superstar Kiwi jockey James McDonald has been confirmed to partner her, choosing the daughter of Zoustar over stablemate Lady Shenandoah.<\/p>\n

Former New Zealand-trained sprinter Jimmysstar, who is still part-owned here, is the $9 third favourite even after drawing barrier 11, which may not be a disaster as he tends to get back in his races.<\/p>\n

The field for the A$20million Everest to be run at Randwick on Saturday is:-<\/p>\n

1: Ka Ying Rising (barrier 7)<\/p>\n

2: Briasa (10)<\/p>\n

3: Overpass (9)<\/p>\n

4: Jimmysstar (11)<\/p>\n

\u20285: War Machine (4)<\/p>\n

6: Mazu (2)\u2028<\/p>\n

7: Jedibeel (8)<\/p>\n

8: Angel Capital (3)<\/p>\n

9: Joliestar (5)<\/p>\n

10: Lady Shenandoah (6)<\/p>\n

11: Magic Time (12)<\/p>\n

12: Tempted (1)<\/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":"Superstar Kiwi jockey James McDonald has been confirmed to partner her, choosing the daughter of Zoustar over stablemate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60878,74,20497,31578,33658,40671,12813,106,41557,15221,225,1132,117,111,139,69,1118,36061,1534,1110,213,18835,1734,1529,102,80,2963],"class_list":["post-78497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a20","tag-after","tag-barrier","tag-chances","tag-connections","tag-draw","tag-everest","tag-head","tag-horses","tag-improve","tag-market","tag-million","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-racings","tag-saturday","tag-scaling","tag-sports","tag-strong","tag-sydney","tag-three","tag-with","tag-zealand","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78497","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=78497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}