{"id":110864,"date":"2025-09-03T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110864\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:22:18","slug":"mill-reef-beckons-for-into-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110864\/","title":{"rendered":"Mill Reef beckons for Into The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Starman colt made a serious impression when taking to the racecourse for the first time last week, cruising to a seven-and-a-half-length victory at 80-1.<\/p>\n<p>With plenty of well-bred, costly purchases behind him, the 25,000 guinea buy very much caught the eye and is pencilled in for a step up in grade back at Newbury later this season, for which he would need supplementing at a cost of \u00a36250.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most likely race for him now would be the Mill Reef at Newbury on the 20th of September,\u201d said Boyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s come out of his race grand, we\u2019re very happy with him. Visually it was extremely impressive and that was backed up by the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t fail to be pleased with that, we\u2019re just looking forward to his next run and hoping he can back it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never had a two-year-old of the sort of quality that we\u2019d be looking to go to the Mill Reef with any degree of expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Into The Sky\u2019s early promise is another feather in the cap of the sire Starman, whose earlier progeny have been excelling on the racecourse.<\/p>\n<p>Boyle said: \u201cI have another Starman in the yard, he\u2019s a lot more backward and may not see the track this year but he\u2019ll be a smashing horse for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Starman colt made a serious impression when taking to the racecourse for the first time last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-110864","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\/110864","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=110864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}