{"id":178783,"date":"2025-10-04T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178783\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:31:10","slug":"michael-verney-western-fold-to-continue-upward-curve-for-gordon-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178783\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Verney: Western Fold to continue upward curve for Gordon Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Western Fold, with jockey Danny Gilligan up, winning  the Tote Galway Plate in July. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7b20cde5-66fb-4dce-aad8-0e29b79bc6ff.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Western Fold, with jockey Danny Gilligan up, winning  the Tote Galway Plate in July. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is still officially Flat season but a drastic weather change highlights the gradual switch to a jumping focus and that is reflected across a busy weekend of Irish racing action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Five tackle the Grade Two PWC Champion Chase (4.15) at Gowran Park today (Saturday) and it looks like a duel between Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Fold, with jockey Danny Gilligan up, winning the Tote Galway Plate in July. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[15366,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-178783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-michael-verney","9":"tag-racing","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178783","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=178783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}