{"id":89489,"date":"2025-10-20T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89489\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:45:06","slug":"firbeck-sculpture-proposed-for-home-of-st-leger-race-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89489\/","title":{"rendered":"Firbeck sculpture proposed for home of St Leger race founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sculpture garden has been proposed to help mark a village&#8217;s importance in the history of a prestigious horse race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The St Leger Stakes was established in Doncaster in 1776 and is one of the UK&#8217;s oldest and most famous races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was founded by Lt Col Anthony St Leger, who lived in Firbeck, Rotherham, with the sculpture garden in the village set to feature two steel racehorses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plans, submitted by Firbeck Parish Council to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, would see the tribute installed on a grass verge off Kidd Lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculpture garden has been proposed to help mark a village&#8217;s importance in the history of a prestigious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-89489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89489","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=89489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}