{"id":208998,"date":"2025-10-18T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208998\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:26:07","slug":"kalpana-returns-to-form-to-retain-ascot-title-ascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208998\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalpana returns to form to retain Ascot title | Ascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalpana successfully defended her Qipco British Champions Fillies &amp; Mares Stakes title with a neat victory at Ascot for Andrew Balding.<\/p>\n<p>A two-length winner last year, she was the 11-8 favourite to retain the trophy under Colin Keane in a field of 10 despite finishing only seventh in the Prix de l\u2019Arc de Triomphe last time out.<\/p>\n<p>She raced prominently and was always handily placed on an inside line, eventually pushing clear on the turn for home and prevailing comfortably by two and a half lengths from Estrange, with Quisisana a further three-quarters of a length back in third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kalpana successfully defended her Qipco British Champions Fillies &amp; Mares Stakes title with a neat victory at Ascot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-208998","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\/208998","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=208998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}