{"id":155471,"date":"2025-09-23T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155471\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:26:08","slug":"george-scott-eager-to-unleash-isle-of-jura-at-newmarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155471\/","title":{"rendered":"George Scott eager to unleash Isle Of Jura at Newmarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The globetrotting five-year-old took his winning streak to five when emphatically beating Goliath in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot last year, but injury derailed his progress and he has been on the sidelines ever since.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a painstaking wait for connections to see their star middle-distance performer back on track, but their patience and hard work could be rewarded on the Rowley Mile for the Listed Boylesports Smart Race Card Godolphin Stakes.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A HUGE moment for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CallumSheppy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CallumSheppy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GScottracing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GScottracing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isle of Jura hands them both a MASSIVE win in the Hardwicke Stakes<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ITVRacing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ITVRacing<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoyalAscot?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RoyalAscot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zuIHtNUKKO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zuIHtNUKKO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ITV Racing (@itvracing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvracing\/status\/1804517994711675116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott said: \u201cWe\u2019ve had a great preparation and we feel he is a fit, happy horse who is absolutely ready to get started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were always slightly worried what ground we might end up on at this time of year, but the ground is going to be perfect and there will be no issue with that for him at all, it will be really nice ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of work and a lot of love gone into getting him back, but he\u2019s a horse who loves being a racehorse and it\u2019s been quite straightforward getting him back into training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s never the most exuberant work horse, he can be quite workmanlike, but we have been seeing the right signs to get him back started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.76613605.jpg\" alt=\"Isle Of Jura surging to victory at Royal Ascot last year \" data-title=\"Royal Ascot 2024 \u2013 Day Five \u2013 Ascot Racecourse\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"David Davies\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Isle Of Jura surging to victory at Royal Ascot last year (David Davies\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Already a winner of Bahrain\u2019s Triple Crown, returning to his owners Shaikh Nasser Al Khalifa and Shaikh Khalid Al Khalifa\u2019s homeland \u2013 and the country in which Isle Of Jura made his name \u2013 would be on the cards if coming through his return unscathed, with Scott targeting the valuable Bahrain International Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to see him run a respectable race and come back sound and then we can build a programme around that,\u201d added Scott.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan is to go for the Bahrain International but he very much has to get through this race first. I\u2019m confident he will, I\u2019m very happy with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The globetrotting five-year-old took his winning streak to five when emphatically beating Goliath in the Hardwicke Stakes at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-155471","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\/155471","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=155471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}