{"id":212295,"date":"2025-10-20T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:23:08","slug":"hobby-trainer-melissa-birts-day-in-the-sun-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212295\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby trainer Melissa Birt&#8217;s day in the sun :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jordan Gerrans<\/p>\n<p>Darling Downs hobby trainer Melissa Birt is optimistic there is more to come after nabbing the maiden victory of her training tenure at Mitchell on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Birt\u2019s Hoffman was able to win by almost a length following a smart ride from up-and-coming apprentice Brea Harrison at the country track.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman is only a recent acquisition for the small Birt team after previously being prepared by Billy Healey at Caloundra and he was able to prevail in a Benchmark 55 Handicap over 1000 metres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Birt was full of praise for the condition Healey presented Hoffman in when he lobbed at her Oakey stable following her $2,250 purchase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The son of Spirit Of Boom had his first run at Clifford Park for Birt earlier this month where he was well beaten.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jordan Gerrans Darling Downs hobby trainer Melissa Birt is optimistic there is more to come after nabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-212295","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\/212295","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=212295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}