{"id":137671,"date":"2025-09-14T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137671\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:19:07","slug":"tom-button-takes-aims-at-country-stampede-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137671\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Button takes aims at Country Stampede :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s racing in good form but it was a level up for him last time and he drew badly,\u201d Button said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe couldn\u2019t get to the front when he wanted to but he still tried hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Button plans to target the Country Stampede qualifying races with Under The Limit who finished second in the Battle of the Bush Final at Eagle Farm in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never sent one down for the Country Stampede Final but I\u2019ve had plenty in the Country Championships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stampede might be a fraction short but his run was good in the Battle of the Bush Final so he\u2019ll be given his chance to qualify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Button has given his preference to Under The Limit over stablemates Northern Pride and Dillinger.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Pride finished a brave fourth in the Cleveland Bay in Townsville and Newmarket Handicap in Cairns before his lates Townsville placing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll be hard to beat but he\u2019s got a big weight, so at the weights I have to favour Under The Limit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDillinger is a stayer just starting off his preparation and all my horses only has to walk across the road to have a start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s racing in good form but it was a level up for him last time and he drew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-137671","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\/137671","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=137671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}