{"id":169560,"date":"2025-09-30T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169560\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:34:07","slug":"return-of-the-veteran-mac-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169560\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the veteran Mac :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd, he beat them by eight lengths. Chloe went via the cape to keep out of the dust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Saturday\u2019s result, Quick Ketch was Macrae\u2019s last winner at Gatton in September of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran horseman races Krumac alongside Lyndhurst Stud.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff and Griff Kruger from Lyndhurst Stud on the Darling Downs played a big role in the trainer\u2019s permanent return to the industry.<\/p>\n<p>He had owned shares in horses with his son-in-law Stephen Kirkwood\u2019s stable in his decade away from training to keep an interest in the game.<\/p>\n<p>But, it was the Krugers who twisted his arm recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told me that I had been out of the game for a while and they wanted me to get back in it,\u201d Macrae recalls.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd, he beat them by eight lengths. Chloe went via the cape to keep out of the dust.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-169560","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\/169560","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=169560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}