{"id":57606,"date":"2025-08-10T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57606\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:27:15","slug":"promising-son-of-starcraft-ready-to-hit-jackpot-at-goulburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57606\/","title":{"rendered":"Promising son of Starcraft ready to hit Jackpot at Goulburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lightly raced and promising home four-year-old will be set for a bigger sprint target if he claims a second win at Monday\u2019s Goulburn meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Jackpot Star, a progressive son of all-conditions sire Starcraft, is part of a big team on show for the local Matthew Dale stable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trainer Matthew Dale.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f28527d7bdbd403a20d0a9e050ac5b6ee18439a2.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trainer Matthew Dale.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The gelding lines up in a very winnable Benchmark 58 Handicap over 1100m for just his fourth start since an all-the-way win on debut at Wagga in January, and opened around $2.60 across early betting.<\/p>\n<p>Jackpot Star disappointed into a well beaten third placing here next start before being spelled.<br \/>But he returned in strong fashion, missing narrowly in a Class 1 at Albury behind the well-performed galloper Magic Leprechaun.<\/p>\n<p>Given 24 days since that run, and plenty of work on the track, Jackpot Star is primed to take the next step on a likely soft surface, despite drawing the outside barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that in a Maiden Plate over 1200m, Dale saddles up another progressive four-year-old treading a similar pathway.<\/p>\n<p>Brannum, a gelded son of Everest winner Yes Yes Yes, is also second-up ahead of his fourth start and having not missed a place so far.<\/p>\n<p>He was placed twice at home and Nowra before spelling, then resumed with a narrow and fast-finishing second in a Maiden over 1310m at Moruya.<\/p>\n<p>Brannum opened around $2.40 favourite for Monday\u2019s race ahead of rival home tracker Manwari ($4.00) who also looks well-placed third-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lightly raced and promising home four-year-old will be set for a bigger sprint target if he claims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-57606","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\/57606","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=57606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}