{"id":89993,"date":"2025-10-20T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89993\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:34:09","slug":"williams-snares-18th-cox-plate-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89993\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams snares 18th Cox Plate ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Two-time Cox Plate winner Craig Williams is poised for an 18th ride in Australia\u2019s weight-for-age championship this Saturday after being confirmed for roughie Attrition.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 48, will take his first ride aboard the 2023 Toorak Handicap winner in Saturday\u2019s $6 million race in what is shaping as being an eight-horse field when final acceptances are taken at 8.30am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Beau Mertens, who finished second in Saturday\u2019s Caulfield Cup aboard River Of Stars, had ridden Attrition in most of his Victorian starts of late and was aboard the horse for his G1 win in the Toorak as well as his victory last year in the 2024 $2 million Hill Stakes at Randwick.<\/p>\n<p>Attrition is rated around a $51 chance for Saturday\u2019s race ahead of Tuesday morning\u2019s final acceptances.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Williams\u2019 Cox Plate winning rides:<\/p>\n<p>2006 \u2013 Fields Of Omagh ($19)<\/p>\n<p>2011 \u2013 Pinker Pinker ($26)<\/p>\n<p>Craig Williams\u2019 Cox Plate runner-up rides:<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u2013 Diatribe ($16)<\/p>\n<p>2009 \u2013 Manhattan Rain ($19)<\/p>\n<p>2019 \u2013 Castelvecchio ($8.50)<\/p>\n<p>2021 \u2013 Anamoe ($3.60)<\/p>\n<p>2023 \u2013 Mr Brightside ($9)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Two-time Cox Plate winner Craig Williams is poised for an 18th ride in Australia\u2019s weight-for-age championship this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14423,67827,59255,67826,67828,111,139,69,4579,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-89993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andrew-eddy","9":"tag-attrition","10":"tag-cox-plate","11":"tag-craig-williams","12":"tag-mitch-freedman","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-racing-com","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89993","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=89993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}