{"id":209136,"date":"2025-10-18T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209136\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:56:07","slug":"british-champions-day-calandagan-claims-champion-stakes-crown-in-style-for-graffard-and-barzalona-racing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209136\/","title":{"rendered":"British Champions Day: Calandagan claims Champion Stakes crown in style for Graffard and Barzalona | Racing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calandagan was all class to stride to a smart success in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-8 French raider, trained by Francis-Henri Graffard and owned by the Aga Khan Studs, was ridden by Mickael Barzalona in a quality field of 11.<\/p>\n<p>John and Thady Gosden&#8217;s Ombudsman was the 13-8 favourite and the two horses were at the fore in the home straight, but it was Calandagan who held the upper hand to prevail by two and a quarter lengths, upgrading last year&#8217;s second place behind Anmaat.<\/p>\n<p>Ombudsman was second with 28-1 shot Almaqam a further length and three-quarters back in third.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calandagan was all class to stride to a smart success in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-209136","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\/209136","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=209136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}