{"id":159738,"date":"2025-09-25T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:12:08","slug":"racecourse-gallop-in-the-pipeline-for-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159738\/","title":{"rendered":"Racecourse gallop in the pipeline for Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four-year-old has not been seen since finishing sixth in the Ascot showpiece 12 months ago, having previously won the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.<\/p>\n<p>A setback has kept him off the track all season, but Haggas is more positive about him returning to action soon, with the Bahrain International on the agenda should he not make Ascot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying very hard. He had an injury in the summer which completely set us back, but he\u2019s back in work now and he looks great,\u201d said Haggas on Racing TV.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.77456564.jpg\" alt=\"William Haggas and Tom Marquand with Economics after winning the Irish Champion Stakes\" data-title=\"Leopardstown Races \u2013 Saturday September 14th\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Healy Racing\" data-usage-terms=\"RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>William Haggas and Tom Marquand with Economics after winning the Irish Champion Stakes (Healy Racing)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying very hard to get him to the Champion Stakes. If we fail I think he\u2019s very likely to go to Bahrain for His Highness\u2019 (Sheikh Isa) race which would be a big occasion for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of work to do now, he\u2019s missed all of the summer of his prime time so we\u2019ll be keeping him going through the winter, I suspect, but I\u2019d love to get him to the Champion Stakes if I can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see why he wouldn\u2019t retain his ability. There\u2019s a chance, I haven\u2019t done anything about it yet, that he could go to Newmarket before racing next Saturday, but I haven\u2019t spoken to anyone about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019ll need a racecourse gallop somewhere and he may as well do it in front of a few people to get his blood up. He\u2019s coming along very nicely and we hope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four-year-old has not been seen since finishing sixth in the Ascot showpiece 12 months ago, having previously&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-159738","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\/159738","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=159738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}