{"id":159603,"date":"2025-09-25T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159603\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:37:09","slug":"apple-away-heading-to-the-betfair-chase-sports-news-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159603\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Away heading to the Betfair Chase \u2014 Sports News Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lucinda Russell has told <a href=\"https:\/\/oldgoldracing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Old Gold Racing<\/a> that her star mare, Apple Away, is set to reappear in the Grade One Betfair Chase in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Grade One winner has been a flagbearer for her many Old Gold Racing owners and will afford them another top-level runner en route to some enticing mares\u2019 prizes this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Speaking to Old Gold Racing, Russell said: \u201cApple Away has done really well over the summer and we\u2019re excited to get her back racing. We haven\u2019t seen her since that strange day of the Midlands National, where the ground left a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cShe\u2019s in fine form at home and we\u2019re readying her for what we hope will be another really good season. While she always gave her best, she didn\u2019t manage to get her head in front last term, so we\u2019ll be looking to change that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe plan for the season will be to aim her at a similar set of mares\u2019 races, with a few other targets thrown in across the campaign. We\u2019re considering starting her off in the Betfair Chase at Haydock in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWhile it\u2019s an open Grade One, we think the track ought to suit her and it should be a nice starting point. There\u2019s a nice Listed mares\u2019 chase at Market Rasen at the end of November which we were second in last year. We\u2019d like to think we could go one better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnewsblitz.com\/news\/horse-racing-news-hong-kongs-ka-ying-rising-primed-for-everest-mission-after-sha-tin-send-off\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horse racing news: Hong Kong\u2019s Ka Ying Rising primed for Everest mission after Sha Tin send-off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucinda Russell has told Old Gold Racing that her star mare, Apple Away, is set to reappear in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-159603","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\/159603","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=159603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}