{"id":90603,"date":"2025-10-20T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:12:18","slug":"zahra-lands-key-cup-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90603\/","title":{"rendered":"Zahra lands key Cup ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zahra will ride Al Riffa in the Melbourne Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Felgate broke the news on The Verdict podcast on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The star jockey, who won the race in 2022 and 2023, has secured the ride on the Joseph O\u2019Brien-trained stayer, who\u2019ll carry the top weight of 59kg.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY below to listen to The Verdict podcast<\/p>\n<p>Felgate was joined by Mick Sharkie and Carl Di Iorio to review a massive weekend of racing, headlined in Victoria by Half Yours taking out the Caulfield Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Calvin McEvoy joined the podcast, as did Racing Victoria CEO Aaron Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>Rory Hunter also joined The Verdict after Autumn Mystery shot right to the top of Derby markets with his weekend win.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mark Zahra will ride Al Riffa in the Melbourne Cup. Michael Felgate broke the news on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[68155,111,139,69,68157,4579,68158,213,68156],"class_list":{"0":"post-90603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-michael-felgate","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-racing-pulse","13":"tag-racing-com","14":"tag-rsn","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-the-verdict"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90603","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=90603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}