{"id":108623,"date":"2025-09-02T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/108623\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:34:11","slug":"via-sistina-or-sydney-james-mcdonald-has-early-spring-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/108623\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Sistina or Sydney? James McDonald has early spring dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champion jockey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/jockey\/james-mcdonald\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James McDonald<\/a>, who tests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/lady-shenandoah-aus\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Shenandoah<\/a> as a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/the-everest\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$20m The TAB Everest<\/a> ride at Royal Randwick on Saturday, is grappling with one of the toughest decisions of his celebrated riding career.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald has to choose where he will ride on September 13 \u2013 does he go to Melbourne to ride Horse of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/via-sistina-ire\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via Sistina<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/group-one-races\/makybe-diva-stakes\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes<\/a> at Flemington or stay in Sydney for the Rosehill Gardens meeting where he could be riding outstanding mare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/joliestar-aus\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joliestar<\/a>, top three-year-old colt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/wodeton-aus\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wodeton<\/a>, and unbeaten duo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/autumn-glow-aus\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn Glow<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racenet.com.au\/profiles\/horse\/autumn-boy-aus\" title=\"www.racenet.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn Boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough one,&#8221; McDonald said when pressed on where he will ride next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champion jockey James McDonald, who tests Lady Shenandoah as a potential $20m The TAB Everest ride at Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-108623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108623","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=108623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}