{"id":150893,"date":"2025-09-21T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150893\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:26:10","slug":"queensland-raider-amalgamation-set-to-strike-gold-at-grafton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150893\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland raider Amalgamation set to strike gold at Grafton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A border-hopping gelding who has only one victory since the autumn of 2023 is primed to produce his best at Monday\u2019s Grafton meeting.<\/p>\n<p>On what is a very open and testing program on a track likely to improve from heavy range into soft, six-year-old Amalgamation can land just his third career win from 31 starts in a wide open Benchmark 58 Hcp over 2220m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Racing heads to Grafton on Monday with an seven-race card.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20404f1d57ddffd74f9b3977ce44417ca7ce763f.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Racing heads to Grafton on Monday with an seven-race card.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>An underrated son of prolific NZ sire Dundeel in the Gold Coast stable of Marcus Wilson, Amalgamation last tasted victory in a BM 62 at home back in mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>Since then he\u2019s been sparingly raced, although often going around in much tougher company than what he meets at Grafton on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Amalgamation was well beaten in two tougher assignments up to BM 85 level through autumn before spelling.<\/p>\n<p>But after three quiet trials through winter, he\u2019s shown steady progress in three runs back, culminating in a fast-finishing effort just behind the place-getters in a BM 66 Hcp over 2120m at Lismore 10 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>And the stable has shown its hand, staying on the NSW North Coast in an encouraging 10-day back-up, and dropping down a level.<\/p>\n<p>Jockey Damien Thornton retains the ride from a softer barrier for the gelding\u2019s long list of owners.<\/p>\n<p>His only prior success came with a Class 2 win at Ipswich in early May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A border-hopping gelding who has only one victory since the autumn of 2023 is primed to produce his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-150893","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\/150893","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=150893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}