{"id":212637,"date":"2025-10-20T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212637\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:22:08","slug":"firbeck-sculpture-proposed-for-home-of-st-leger-race-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212637\/","title":{"rendered":"Firbeck sculpture proposed for home of St Leger race founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sculpture garden has been proposed to help mark a village&#8217;s importance in the history of a prestigious horse race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The St Leger Stakes was established in Doncaster in 1776 and is one of the UK&#8217;s oldest and most famous races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was founded by Lt Col Anthony St Leger, who lived in Firbeck, Rotherham, with the sculpture garden in the village set to feature two steel racehorses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plans, submitted by Firbeck Parish Council to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, would see the tribute installed on a grass verge off Kidd Lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculpture garden has been proposed to help mark a village&#8217;s importance in the history of a prestigious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-212637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212637","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=212637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}