{"id":189245,"date":"2025-10-09T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:58:08","slug":"nikau-spur-set-for-back-to-back-queensland-cups-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189245\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikau Spur set for back-to-back Queensland Cups :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Glenn Davis<\/p>\n<p>Co-trainer Corey Geran will always have a soft spot for Nikau Spur who chases back-to-back wins in the Listed Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Corey, who trains in partnership with his mother Kylie, claimed his first stakes race with Nikau Spur in last year\u2019s Listed Queensland Cup triumph.<\/p>\n<p>It was the start of bigger things to come for Nikau Spur who gave the Geran stable their biggest thrill in racing when he beat a strong field in the Listed Beauford over 2300 metres at Newcastle in November of last year.<\/p>\n<p>He then stamped himself as a quality stayer finishing third in the Listed Christmas Cup at Randwick in December.<\/p>\n<p>He also finished third in the Magic Millions Shoot Out at Eagle Farm in December which put him on a path to the winter carnival in Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Glenn Davis Co-trainer Corey Geran will always have a soft spot for Nikau Spur who chases back-to-back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-189245","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\/189245","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=189245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}