{"id":10215,"date":"2025-07-20T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10215\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:17:15","slug":"irish-oaks-minnie-hauk-wins-at-the-curragh-to-complete-classic-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10215\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Oaks: Minnie Hauk wins at the Curragh to complete Classic double"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnie Hauk finished strongly to get the better of Wemightakedlongway in the closing stages and take victory in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh.<\/p>\n

The success completed a Classic double for the Aidan O’Brien-trained horse, with the Frankel filly having also triumphed in the Oaks<\/a> at Epsom in early June.<\/p>\n

Minnie Hauk started as a firm 2-11 favourite against six rivals for the mile-and-a-half Group One contest on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jockey Ryan Moore had the eventual winner settled in third for much of the race with fellow O’Brien-trained runner Island Hopping deployed in a pacemaking role and Joseph O’Brien’s Wemightakedlongway (7-2) splitting the pair in second.<\/p>\n

Minnie Hauk had ground to make up with two furlongs to go but ultimately pulled away to win by a length and a quarter, with Island Hopping (20-1) third.<\/p>\n

The win was an eighth in the Irish Oaks for O’Brien.<\/p>\n

“She’s a good filly and she’s going to go on to better things as well,” Moore told RTE after the race.<\/p>\n

“We’re learning about her and she’ll be better than this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnie Hauk finished strongly to get the better of Wemightakedlongway in the closing stages and take victory in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-10215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}