{"id":89722,"date":"2025-10-20T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89722\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:34:10","slug":"smoothie-to-defend-geelong-cup-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89722\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoothie to defend Geelong Cup crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ten horses will square-off for a Melbourne Cup ticket in Wednesday\u2019s Group 3 Geelong Cup, including last year\u2019s winner, UK-raider Onesmoothoperator.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Ellison\u2019s galloper, who won the 2024 edition impressively prior to a midfield finish in the Melbourne Cup, will once again be ridden by Craig Williams and has drawn the second outside gate in nine.<\/p>\n<p>Whisky On The Hill, luckless in the Herbert Power last start, is alongside him in eight, with Tassie visitor Distrustful Award copping the very outside gate.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley Square (gate six) and Changingoftheguard (gate seven) have drawn well, as has the King\u2019s horse Gilded Water in four, to be steered by Declan Bates.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Pierro (one), Fernao (two) and Ferago (five) round out the field.<\/p>\n<p>The day\u2019s other feature, the 2200 metre Listed Geelong Classic, has a full field of 16 three-year-olds and an emergency, with Highvol, Matsuda, Azazel and Crown Of Russia some acceptors of note.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Ten horses will square-off for a Melbourne Cup ticket in Wednesday\u2019s Group 3 Geelong Cup, including last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67637,67635,67638,67632,67639,67633,37008,111,139,69,67634,4579,213,67636],"class_list":{"0":"post-89722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-berkeley-square","9":"tag-brian-ellison","10":"tag-changingoftheguard","11":"tag-darcy-cosgriff","12":"tag-distrustful-award","13":"tag-geelong-cup","14":"tag-melbourne-cup","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-onesmoothoperator","19":"tag-racing-com","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-whisky-on-the-hill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89722","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=89722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}