{"id":61182,"date":"2025-08-12T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61182\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:15:09","slug":"change-of-scenery-to-get-most-out-of-fast-starter-passeggiata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61182\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of scenery to get most out of fast starter Passeggiata"},"content":{"rendered":"

There won\u2019t be any reinventing the wheel with speedy mare Passeggiata when she makes her debut for Richard and Will Freedman at Kensington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

With only 18 starts under her belt she\u2019s still lightly raced and Will Freedman said if the change of routine and scenery does the trick she\u2019ll be a bargain at the $60,000 he paid for her.<\/p>\n

\"Randwick<\/p>\n

Randwick hosts an eight-race card on the Kensington track on Wednesday.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

So she\u2019ll step out in new colours in the PKF Sydney Handicap (1000m), with Hollymount Stud\u2019s Matthew Sandblom in the ownership, and Freedman said they will go into her first-up run with an open mind as to where her future lies.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a six-year-old mare, you\u2019re not going to change her style,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a fast horse, we\u2019re just putting her in a different system and sometimes that changes their psyche a bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey form a relationship with new people. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re doing anything revolutionary by any means.\u201d<\/p>\n

Passeggiata was formerly trained by Bjorn Baker and, as she does in her races, hit the ground running, winning three of her first four starts.<\/p>\n

In her subsequent 14 attempts she recorded five second placings with the latest of those back in April when she was run down by Miss Icelandic at Randwick.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s won both barrier trials \u2013 taking her barrier trial form to 11 wins and a second from 12 trials \u2013 and Freedman said feedback from jockey Ashley Morgan has been encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There won\u2019t be any reinventing the wheel with speedy mare Passeggiata when she makes her debut for Richard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-61182","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\/61182","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=61182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}