{"id":120135,"date":"2025-09-07T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120135\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:16:08","slug":"henry-dwyer-looking-to-break-new-ground-with-curragh-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120135\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Dwyer looking to break new ground with Curragh raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAsfoora is peaking at the right time and can become the first Australian-trained horse to score on Irish soil\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Asfoora, ridden by Ois\u00edn Murphy, on their way to winning the Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes the Sky Bet Ebor Festival 2025 at York Racecourse. Photo: Richard Sellers\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/13fbab42-eab5-4ea2-a4c1-8a02e93780d6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Asfoora, ridden by Ois\u00edn Murphy, on their way to winning the Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes the Sky Bet Ebor Festival 2025 at York Racecourse. Photo: Richard Sellers\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It seems apposite that a descendant of an 18th century Irish guerrilla fighter is planning a smash-and-grab raid on the Irish Champions Festival\u2019s second leg at Curragh Racecourse next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Thanks to the sporting nature of owner Akram El-Fahkri, whose Lebanese mother was the first female taxi driver in Australia, Henry Dwyer saddles Asfoora in the Bar One Racing Flying Five Stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asfoora is peaking at the right time and can become the first Australian-trained horse to score on Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-120135","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\/120135","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=120135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}