{"id":59561,"date":"2025-08-11T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59561\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:27:08","slug":"wilde-but-fun-day-at-coleraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59561\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilde, but fun day at Coleraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETER MORGANTI \u2013 RACING\u2029<\/p>\n<p>PATRONS at Coleraine\u2019s annual Jumps, Blues &amp; Brews Great Western Steeplechase meeting enjoyed a vibrant day, lapping up great racing with plenty of food, drinks and music in beautiful sunny conditions.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Coleraine\u2019s racing manager, Elle Guthrie was very pleased with the day.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a big crowd for a Sunday jump\u2019s meeting, and the weather was absolutely perfect.\u201d\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Warrnambool trainer, Symon Wilde, dominated the meeting with four winners including taking out the Ecycle Solutions Great Western Steeplechase by 14 lengths with Fabalot.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Three of Wilde\u2019s four wins resulted in the jumps races.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Fabalot gave his rivals a jumping lesson, leading from start to finish for an impressive win in the $60,000 feature.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>The son of Camelot enjoyed the drop back in class after placings behind Stern Idol and The Mighty Spar, to record his second chase win for the season.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>It was the middle pin of a riding treble for Will Gordon, previously winning on Wilde\u2019s impressive jumping mare, Enchanted Elle, before a flat win on Shogun Express for trainers Patrick and Michelle Payne.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Wilde\u2019s other wins were with Hit The Road Jack in the Adam Lindsay Gordon 0-114 Hurdle and finally Triomphe in the Coleraine Hotel 0-58 Highweight Handicap.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>The win of Enchanted Elle in the Hammonds Paint Coleraine Hurdle was very impressive, winning by 19 lengths in very fast time.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>After one hurdle start in New Zealand last season, the daughter of Jakkalberry found its way to Warrnambool to embark on what has been a promising start to her jumping career in Australia.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Three wins and two placings from six hurdle starts, signals plenty of good times ahead for the owners of the dashing mare.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also provided the first jump\u2019s win for Warrnambool trainer, Joanne Mugavin.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>After three placings from his first five hurdle starts, Topspin made it a day to remember for Mugavin, winning the Bartons Waste Maiden Hurdle.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>With apprentice Jordan Hart claiming 3kgs, it was significant in defeating race favourite Teewaters by two-and-three-quarter lengths.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out a great day of racing, The Southern Grampians Livestock &amp; Real Estate 0-58 Highweight Handicap was won by Digari ridden by Tom Ryan for trainer Andrew Bobbin, defeating local runner State Of Maine trained by Charlotte Parker.\u2029<\/p>\n<p>Racing returns to Coleraine on 26 September for its cup meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PETER MORGANTI \u2013 RACING\u2029 PATRONS at Coleraine\u2019s annual Jumps, Blues &amp; Brews Great Western Steeplechase meeting enjoyed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[32237,32238,1373,8029,3004,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-59561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-casterton-news","tag-gallops","tag-hamilton","tag-horse-racing","tag-racing","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59561","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=59561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}