{"id":169488,"date":"2025-09-30T02:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169488\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:49:13","slug":"kay-oneill-finds-her-avenue-to-success-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169488\/","title":{"rendered":"Kay O&#8217;Neill finds her avenue to success :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jordan Gerrans<\/p>\n<p>Racing has been a labour of love for Kay O&#8217;Neill since she was riding horses as a teenager at Morven in regional Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>The long-term trackwork rider, owner and breeder ticked over a couple of significant milestones in her life in the month of September in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>She turned 50 years of age while also preparing her first winner as a trainer.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill did so when Denman Avenue won the opening event at Gladstone, a Maiden Plate over 850 metres, earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>After starting her maiden runner in a race in November of 2022 at Mount Perry, O&#8217;Neill and her husband Michael, who she trains alongside, have been desperately searching for their breakthrough winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jordan Gerrans Racing has been a labour of love for Kay O&#8217;Neill since she was riding horses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-169488","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\/169488","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=169488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}